The Magnificent Goldberg

Grumpy Dopey Sneezy

Here's the other scan MG

The 2005 date is not correct, Toshiba released the first batches of TOCJ24s (as they were coined on this board) in 2004.

What's this, what's this? Follow-up to "Soul eyes"? Please post more details. MG Mance, John Webber (bass), Joe Farnsworth (drums M&I MYCJ 30380 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You Single Petal Of A Rose Deep Purple Stella By Starlight When I Fall In Love A Child Is Born Stormy Weather Laura Miss Otis Regrets Thanks very much - another for the list. MG

Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Dave Grusin

I might have known you wouldn't be fooled by this one, Jim. MG

What's this, what's this? Follow-up to "Soul eyes"? Please post more details. MG

Atilla the Hun Atilla Zoller Clifford Solomon

John Stubblefield Clyde Stubblefield Jabo Starks

Very cool indeed! But or or MG

Kenny G Boney M Chuck D

I LOVE buying records when I go on holiday!!! MG

Dunno what this 1500 is - Yen? I got a JRVG version of this (TOCJ-9198) in March 2001 - some kind of a special offer my importer had from some Japanese exporter, so I didn't fall over when he told me the price. Is the new 1500 a reissue of that? I don't have any problem with the sound of my copy - but if you trust my ears, you'll buy anything. MG

I don't put salt on or in anything - not even bread. (Course, if we very occasionally have to buy bread, there's salt in that, but not in my own.) MG

BFT 39 Disc 1 Final version I’ve just finished my second listen to this disc, this time on the walkman in the garden, rather than on the hifi indoors. It’s amazing how much more easily one can concentrate on a walkman! This is a very interesting disc – thanks Dan! 1 OK, this title and artist came up as soon as I put the disc into the hifi, so I know it’s Aretha’s “Chain of fools” (I’d have known that anyway) by a pianist I wouldn’t have expected doing a very good impression of Ram C Lewis – actually, somewhat better than Lewis. I wondered if the pianist double tracked the organ. 2 This is an R&B tune I can’t identify – some Motown hit and the arrangement even includes imitation Motown chains. I suspect the alto player of being Sonny Stitt. He made a few albums for Cadet in the ‘70s of which I have none (though I wish I had, particularly if this comes from one of them). 3 Well, here’s a C&W tune with a definite Hank Williams flavour played by a pianist, accompanied by a big band, which includes a steel guitar. This is the sort of thing Ray Bryant might have done in the early sixties, but I don’t think he’d have had the steel guitar in there. 4 And here’s another C&W style thing. Steel and ordinary guitars, with a piano solo, and organ in the backing. I think this might be a swing band number played by some funny kind of C&W band. It swings nicely. 5 And here’s another strange cut. Five really rather odd things on the trot. “What a difference a day makes” by a tenor sax soloist with a really NAFF vocal chorus. Oh, and a NAFF organ in the band. The thing is, I think I should know this guy. Two names spring to mind: Boots Randolph and Eddie Chamblee, but the vocal group keeps putting me off. So now we seem to be back into the plain old simple world of jazz. 6 Here’s a well-known bop tune that I can’t place. I think it’s Hamp. (I should buy some Hamp one day – haven’t got any.) 7 “The preacher” by trombones & rhythm. This appears to be by Kai, Wayne and Carl. The rhythm section is great behind the soloists! I very much like the two soloists on this track. 8 I used to have this recording of “Love lifted me”, by Ron Jefferson, but sold it in 1970. So I haven’t heard it for a very long time. I’m pretty sure that’s what it is, though. 9 Gospel song played very churchily by piano & rhythm. I should know this pianist; feel very annoyed that I can’t place him. So perhaps it’s Gene Harris, who I don’t have a lot of. I like the idea of putting these three gospelly numbers together. 10 “In a mellow tone” played by tenor & rhythm. Two nice solos from the sax, split by a piano solo. The pianist comes out with a very Phineas Newborn trick halfway through, but I doubt that it’s him. I get a Stitt feeling about the way the saxman’s ideas flow but there’s some stuff in there that I don’t think Sonny would do 11 Big band with very high pitched trumpet in there – Maynard Ferguson I guess. I seem to remember that MF made an album in the mid sixties for Mainstream with a Stan Turrentine style shuffle in there. I’ve never gone much for MF, so I don’t know. 12 Tenor player on an original ballad. While this is very good, it sounds very deliberate to me. And it goes on way too long for what he’s got to say. Maybe the title of the tune would convey something to the audience but I really can’t see the point of doing ballads like this. 13 NOW, THIS is the way to play a MFing ballad! “Angel eyes” played absolutely convincingly by one of my most favourite musicians – a track from his first album. True soul! A true story! Thank you Dan! 14 “Fly me to the moon” – and another real way to play a ballad. I was confused initially about whether this was Sonny Stitt or James Moody. In the end, I’m going for Moody. I think this is from one of those albums he made for Argo and which Verve, the buggers, aren’t reissuing. (Actually, a Moody Argo set would be a good thing for Mosaic to issue.) 15 “Blue and sentimental” by the Basie band. The announcement at he end gives away that the tenor soloist is the very underrated Billy Mitchell. This must have been recorded shortly before he and Al Grey left to form their own band, so that makes it early ‘60s. 16 “One o’clock jump” but who’s playing it. It really sounds quite a lot like Basie but I don’t think it is. I think it’s someone doing some kind of tribute. 17 “Almost like being in love” Another one I’ve got. I bet this one fools a lot of people! Actually, I’m really surprised anyone but me bought this. But I wish they’d issued his early fifties stuff for the same square label. 18 “Mr Lucky”. Aha! There’s an album called “Brazilian Mancini” that I’ve wanted to buy for decades, but never got around to, by Jack Wilson. I would very much like this to be from that album. However, I note that disc 2 starts and finishes with the same guy and I suspect that, since the instrumentation of both recordings is identical, this is actually the man we started off with. (Course, it could be Mancini himself. Oh, I don’t know, it’s too hard for me.) This is a pretty fun, entertaining disc, Dan. I don’t like it all, but it’s good to listen to. Thanks once more. OK, time to post this, then I can read what everyone else has said over lunch. MG

Many happy returns Soul Stream. I really appreciate reading your stuff. MG

The 32Jazz CD is my third copy of this album. I have found balance problems with the two LPs I had before - and it's pretty unusual for me to worry about hifi stuff like that. The Cobblestone version seemed to me to be tilted too far towards the organ, the Muse version too far towards guitar. The 32Jazz seems OK, however. So I'm not thinking of changing, unless someone points out big advantages in any other version. MG

Bill Cosby Dick Gregory Jimmy Pelham

John Wayne Bobbitt (connected to Little Willie John at both ends, eh? ) John Wayne Gacy John David Stutts Whispering Jack Smith Willie "The Lion" Smith Leo Parker

Alvin Robinson Peggy Lee Little Willie John (Now why should a song like Fever be written by someone called Cooley?)

Bonsoir, then. MG

Mike Berry Chuck Berry Berry Gordy

Are you in Australia? MG Judging by his handle I'd say he's Dutch, though the use of the word "footy" does indeed suggest he's from Australia. I wish members would fill in their profile. What seemed to me to be the giveaway was the time he joined 2.35 AM my time. Of course, he COULD have stayed up late to unwrap his Mosaics. MG

Are you in Australia? MG

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