The Magnificent Goldberg

Randy Wood Ernie Young Don Robey

John Major (MP for Huntingdonshire) Margaret Thatcher Tony Blehhhh

Dr Doolittle Do-boy Diamond (great name for a blues singer) Sekou Bembeya Diabate "Diamond Fingers"

Is that this, Chuck? MG So, is that preachin' or singin' or some of both? Some of both. Gates is great! The best selling black artist of 1930! Ellington, Armstrong, Smith - nowhere! (I'm in the process of buying all 9 of his CD complete works compilations on Document. Got 5 so far.) MG

You're right, my bad. These two are the same but the one on the Blakey album is a different tune. Glad to know I'm not quite ready for the old folks home. MG

Amos Brearley Den Watts Annie Walker

Rev Jesse Jackson Rev J M Gates Rev Jasper Williams

Well, Spillers wasn't out of this today! Now listening. Within a few bars I was glad I'd bought this. Thanks to all for the many recommendations! MG

He had already recorded it at his first Blue Note session in 1952 and recorded it again in 1959 ( for the "The Time Is Right" album) and once more in 1984 for a live album on Timeless Records. I think these are different tunes. (Unless I noted the track number wrong!) MG

very deep groove Yeah, all groove, no wax in between. MG

Duh? MG

There CAN'T be someone with a name like Jim Ridl! In Cockney rhyming slang, Jimmy Riddle means piddle. MG

I listened to this the other day - glad to be reminded to do so, since it's a while since I played it. What got me this time - it's often something different - was the short, boppy, "Lou's blues". I wonder why he never recorded it again as a leader. MG

Is that this, Chuck? MG

Otis Spann Otis Redding Otis Elevator

One-der-ful Mar-V-Lus Halo

Arthur English Sir Walter Scott John Ireland

Danny Overbea Danny Moss Danny Kaye

I've seen quite a few of the series in which he was mainly doing that and I agree entirely. He was a character and very able to be a great populariser of the important work he was doing with wildlife. Sorry, but it's a bit like Michael Cuscuna describing Grant Green as a great populariser and then complaining about his "commercial" recordings. MG

I think baritone saxophonists have a great advantage over players of other instruments. If you can play it, you've got this effin' HUGE sound, which has just got to impress any audience! And music is, before anything else, sound. MG

Joseph Heller Rare Earth Heaven 17

I have the Cookbooks and most of what Scott/Davis did for Prestige, but that stuff is from 1958 (and onwards), as are also their Roost recordings, which I have. They recorded together for King; I think from 1955-57. Have you heard any of those? Also agree about Doggett. Don't see why there couldn't be a nice big Mosaic box of his King material. If Mosaic can do Milburn and T-Bone, why not Doggett? MG

It's Buddy Bolden's birthday today. Still don't remember what I did with that damn cylinder, so I'm playing Sydney Bechet - Jazz classics vols 1 & 2: vol 1 with ear, vol 2 a Pathe Marconi job MG

Nat Simpkins Geoff Simkins Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra

Yeah, I can hear that plainly. Seemed to me that was just the continuation of the tradition being developed after the war by the likes of Ammons, Jacquet, Cobb, Quebec and many other Soul Jazz musicians. WBD was part of that tradition. In other words, it wasn't a specific organ thing. Which is what I thought I was looking for. But it implies that Smith, on the other hand, wasn't originally part of the Soul Jazz tradition but part of the Bebop tradition, though he later moved solidly into Soul Jazz, which was changing anyway under pressure from Scott/Davis and McDuff/Jackson. And if that's right, it means that the real question isn't pre- or post-Smith, but pre-Scott, as chewy suggested. Chewy, what do you reckon are the key Scott/Davis recordings? MG