The Magnificent Goldberg

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Not exactly... He's hard to miss on this one: And has a sparse but interesting recorded resume: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...s9kebt7q7z~T40D Thanks - he's done quite a bit, hasn't he? I've even got one of those but didn't realise he was on it. MG

Les McCann - Bucket O'Grease (that gritty Irish tenor) - Limelight original (is anything else possible?) MG

Very educational, Lon. MG

Actually, I don't know - I've only got it on LP. You can't tell from the BN site what kind of thing it is. MG

Lester left town When my left eye jumps Lefty Frizzell

Agreed. Earl Turbinton (alto) is a very underrated New Orleans musician. He made a great album for Rounder (produced by Ron Levy, I see) in 1987. And that's about it. He played at Professor Longhair's funeral - in the film "Piano players rarely ever play toether" - one of the most moving sax solos I've ever heard. And Reuben is Reuben, Eddie Diehl is Eddie Diehl and Harold White is completely unknown to me but very much there. MG

"From C to shining C" turned up today. Very, very pleased with it. Mucho good playing; the sort that grows on you and turns your head round after you've heard it umpteen times already. MG

Levy made a good album for his own Cannonball label, which died the death, regrettably. Since then, he has been recording for his own label, Levtron. These are available from CDBaby. I have "Finding my way" with Mel Sparks and Karl Denson, and I think it's damn good! I mean to get the others, when I can get round to it. I think there are about 5 others by now. People may be put off by the fact that he uses a drum machine on these albums. He also double tracks a lot of the instruments himself. I don't care; I like the results. MG

Is Herbie Hancock's "Takin' off" likely to be RVGed in the foreseeable future? The McMaster(?) CD has been out for over 10 years, now. MG

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Charles Mingus - Ah um - CBS Holland pressing Charles Mingus - Mingus dynasty - CBS Holland pressing Notwithstanding the fine performances of the musicians, in particular Booker's solo on "Farewell", I think that the sound, the density of the orchestrations, is not nearly as gutrending as on "Blues & roots". Rev Isaac Douglas & The Charles Fold Singers - Live in concert - AVI reissue Larry "Wild" Wrice - Wild - PJ stereo original MG

That's fabulously skillful! Brilliant! Now if Paris Hilton could learn something useful like that... MG

I assume one does vinyl, the other shellac. I yank the needle out when I want to play a 78 (and take the platter off and wind the belt around a different gear thing and then put the platter back and change the speed to 45). Note how good I am at technical terms (the temperature today has been precisely jolly nice F - oh, and surprisingly, it's also been jolly nice C). MG

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Ahem . . . . there is someone else in your house, is there not? Strangely, not when either package arrived... MG Aaaah, so she's intercepting them at the post office. Aha! Rich chuckles! MG

Proper stuff. That was either Ponder's first recording or the first time I'd heard him. Well, it WAS the first time I'd heard him. He made a bigger impact than the first time I heard Eric Gale - on "The burner" by Red Holloway - and that was quite an album. MG

That's wild Michael! Cool to know that some of the material from this LP made the 'rounds at the clubs. Mike LeDonne told me he used to play "Oh Baby" as well with Joe Dukes since it was a real favorite of Joe's. Great songs on this LP. I know I've said it before on the forum, but....John Patton told me "Oh Baby!" and "Along Came John" were his two favorite LPs he made. As far as I know, "Fat Judy" is the only Soul Jazz tune mentioned in Science Fiction. It's in a Michael Moorcock book - I think "The entropy tango" (1981). This was very slightly before Acid Jazz took off. MG

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Ahem . . . . there is someone else in your house, is there not? Strangely, not when either package arrived... MG

Hi Horny! Welcome. (Think carefully about your avatar. ) MG

Yes - but it was in the 10% off sale and they ran out before the end of August. So I reckon everything was done in a hurry when they got a new supply. MG Are you sure that in your frenzied excitement to open the box immediately and start playing the music that very instant, you didn't perhaps throw away the invoice? I'm sure that if you email them, they'll send you another copy of the invoice with the number, and your set will finally be complete! (How could you even begin to think about listening to the music without knowing the set number? ) I keep all my invoices for Internet goods. Funnily enough, I didn't get an invoice in my latest delivery this morning from CDBaby. Perhaps there's a sneaky invoice thief who's secretly opening my packages to see what I'm buying and how much I'm spending.... MG

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Just as I was about to do a runner for the bus to Pontypridd, the postman brought these, but I had to zoom off without even opening the packet! Rhoda, with Plas Johnson and Red Holloway on tenors. Just starting on this - a mighty groove! (Is anything else possible?) Crash, with Dr Lonnie Smith. I wouldn't have known about this but CDBaby advertised it on the page with the Rhoda Scott. And in Ponty, Terry had managed to get this for me, after it being out of stock for a couple of weeks This is great! Thanks to Rod for introducing it to me (or me to it). Wow! MG

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