The Magnificent Goldberg

Bennie Green discs 1 & 2 MG

Hary Lime Jack Lemmon Oran "Juice" Jones

Good point - Houston & Etta? MG

A-one, a-two. MG

Just listening to Idris Muhammad singing about Tiger Woods, on this album Any other golfers who've had a song written about them by a jazz musician? MG

John Le Mesurier Arnold Ridley Don't tell them your name, Pike

Thanks Soul Stream So it isn't, as I thought it might be, simply a matter of using different stops and using chords more (and after all, Don Patterson and Jimmy Smith both used chords a lot on ballads). What you seem to be saying is that these guys had a different concept of how you played the organ. Not, I suspect, a different concept of how you played jazz, because they were all of the same generation as the beboppers. And if you listen to Wild Bill playing "Jive samba", you know he was capable of doing the Hard Bop thing when he wanted to. Am I following you right? MG

That's very good to hear. Thanks Jim. MG

I’ve been listening to Tyrone Parsons this evening and he has provoked a few thoughts. Tyrone only made two recordings; his own album “Organ-eyes” for Imperial in 1963 and he provided the backing on a few tracks of “This is Ernie Andrews” for Dot in 1966. That’s it. So there’s this new organist who emerges in the mid-sixties and he doesn’t want anything to do with all this “new-fangled” Jimmy Smith stuff; his vision is from Wild Bill Davis. You gotta admire the guy’s guts! OK, I’ve a lot of records by pre-Jimmy-Smith-style organists, not just Tyrone: Wild Bill; Bill Doggett; Milt Buckner; Hank Marr; Sir Charles Thompson; and so on. These guys don’t often get mentioned, but they’re good; great even, some of them. You can pick out a pre-Smith style easy enough. But what I’d like to know, from some of you organists out there is, what were these guys doing that Jimmy Smith didn’t? In other words, I’m not asking what was unique about Smith but what was unique about his predecessors. Can someone help me on this? MG

Walter Benton (ha, you forgot all about him, didn't you?) - Out of this world - Jazzland original Bill Saxton - Beneath the surface - Nilva original Johnny Lytle - Good vibes - Muse orginal Greg Hatza -The wizardry of Greg Hatza - Coral home tape Tyrone Parsons - Organ-eyes - Imperial home tape MG

I never thought about the impact of prohibition on a firm with those products. So they went into music as an alternative. MG

Flame Braithwaite Earth, Wind & Fire Flaming Embers

Happy Birthday; keep spinning. MG

Hospitals are the worst! Get well soon. MG

George Butler was a record producer for UA. He produced Ferrante & Teicher, amongst others. When Francis Woolf died, Butler was drafted in to run BN. He was frank that a) he didn't know anything about jazz and b) he got the job because he was black. In terms of BN, once George Butler hits the scene, you get a very quick descent into rubbish. Not to say there weren't good albums made after he took over, but there was also a big pile of shit. (I've got quite a bit of it in my collection - you can easily see how people like Lou D, Reuben Wilson and GG were affected.) MG

Percy France Jools Holland Mike German (Lib/Dem leader in Wales)

As I said I have suggested doing something like this to Mosaic. They now told me they won't do it for the simple reason that Verve themselves have plans for something like that next year. How extremely nace! But I'll believe it when I see it. MG

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Whenever I think of Butler, after I've stopped fulminating, I think of that tune from an unreleased Lou Donaldson session - "Don't worry about it George". I not only want that session released, I want to know the story, too. MG

Sly Dunbar Robbie Shakespeare Shake Keane

He's playing tenor on some of those Bob Belden videos too. Perhaps he has got a bit of a health problem, then. I hope not. Just remembered he played a sensational solo on Slide Hampton's "Sister Salvation". MG

Decided to stay up late and finish it tonight. MG

Fred Jackson, Leroy Cooper and Leo Parker for me in 2, 3 & 4 place; but most of all Ronnie Cuber. I saw him at the Brecon Jazz Festival in 2000, with Dr Lonnie, David Bernstein and a drummer whose name I didn't catch subbing for Idris. I could have died happy at that gig. It was the best I've ever been to. MG (He wasn't as good with Cornell Dupree and Les McCann last year - but he was playing tenor. Has he got a problem with his lungs? Or was it that Ronnie's wouldn't let him play loud music?)

Astounding! When you look at the product description on the link, here's what you see: WTF? MG

John Handy - "Hard work" Gil Scott-Heron - "Three miles down" And the greatest ever Smiley Lewis - "Blue Monday" - which says it all. MG