The Magnificent Goldberg

Always loved that sleeve! MG

Johnny B Goode Chuck Berry Chuck Nessa

Dorothy Squires Dorothy Lamour Louis Lamour

Lonnie Smith Lonnie Liston Smith Sonny Liston

I thought Campbell played guitar with the Champs. MG

Pity they're not issuing Fats Theus "Black out". I might spring for the Weston. That's my favourite Weston by a long margin (oh, except for the one with Frank Haynes). MG

I think there's room for all types of criticism. When I started getting really interested in jazz, in 1960, I bought a book called "Jazz on record", which I've still got, its pages now a delicate brown. This concentrated on music on LPs released in Britain and was extremely superficial and limited. There was NO soul jazz mentioned: no Jimmy Smith, not even listings of Horace Silver albums. Not much hard bop either - no Mobley or McLean. I soon found out what was missing. But nonetheless, it was useful to me in its time, if only for placing musicians covered in their context. And now it's useful as a record of what established critics thought in those days. I think one of the big problems with the Web is that it's only NOW - nothing's necessarily permanent to form a historical record of what people thought in a particular era (a much bigger issue than jazz, of course). MG

Pharoah Sanders made an album for Trip with the Latin Jazz Quintet - called "Oh Pharoah speak". I didn't keep it long (more's the pity). You might also try an album I got a week ago - "Harlem River Drive" by "Harlem River Drive" a band with Eddie & Charlie Palmieri, Ronnie Cuber (who plays some very interesting solos on soprano sax, as well as proiding a great bottom on baritone at other times), Cornell Dupree, Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Purdie, Burt Collins. Vocals are very political. I love it! MG PS - got it on Rod's recommendation. 100% satisfied.

I always preferred the B side, "Train to nowhere". I have a nice bilingual 12" of it by a British Latin/Jazz/Rock group No Way Jose, which included Don Rendell on sax. It was released in 1995 and was used in the soundtrack of the film "Supergrass". MG

Amazon UK had a cheap copy. Worth a try for a fiver. MG

Thanks very much folks - I'll look into these. MG

Grrrr - still waiting for mine. Hopefully it will arrive next week.. Strange - mine turned up on the 14th. DO let us know if yours has a number and an invoice enclosed... MG

Cleon I Hari Seldon Dors Venabili

Seger Ellis Ellis Horne Zoot Horn Rollo John Clellon Holmes Charlie Holmes Greeley Walton Isaac Walton Sir William Walton Cedar Walton

No - he was a Viking, and played double bass in his off moments. MG

I've never heard of him. Is there other stuff by him that I should be interested in? MG

Mazeltov MG

Wow! Thanks Jim. MG

Is this still available? Dunno, but there were 9 copies available from different sellers at amazon.de, starting at € 10,41 ..... well, now it's 8 copies. Mainieri going back to his Italian roots? Wow! Thanks Mike Luca - is that track typical of the whole album or an oddball? MG

What a document! Is this something DG have only one copy of, which you've bought? MG

Some (or one) of her sleeve notes mention that she normally played live without a bass player but one was included for recording sessions. No explanation. Her bass seems fine on "Dearly beloved". MG

Shit that made me homesick! MG

Red Holloway Harold Ashby Carlson Oliver (They all played tenor on Otis Rush Cobra singles 1956-1958)

Wish I could. One of the few albums she made on which she didn't have a bass player. MG

Ah, I thought I had some of this guy in my collection. But it's mostly with Erskine Hawkins' Orchestra. And this is from one of the few honkers and screamers compiltions I haven't got. Something to rectify. Is this still available, I wonder. MG