The Magnificent Goldberg

Rufus Thomas Rufus Perryman Dr Feelgood

There was at least one vinyl reissue of the Rollins/Edwards in Japan. Yep. That's where my copy came from. No CD then. MG

What's not to like about it? MG

Tony Williams Tony Hancock Snatch & the Poontangs

Wow! I never HEARD of that! Live. Never reissued, I suppose. MG

From what I can remember from various threads, someone keeps badgering Cuscuna and he keeps saying "effoff". I wouldn't say that's been his answer. Last time it was implied that the answer to the problem of having too many albums to go on a big Mosaic set is to do perhaps three Selects. I am betting that will be the result sometime in the future. Thanks Dan. MUCH more convincing. MG

Joe Castro - Groove Funk Soul (with Edwards, Vinnegar, Higgins) - Atlantic (now Collectables) Teddy Edwards - Teddy's ready (same band) Contemporary (now OJC) If I think of any more, I'll post. MG

From what I can remember from various threads, someone keeps badgering Cuscuna and he keeps saying "effoff". I'd like a Three Sounds Mosaic - I have only their albums with Lou and Stanley. MG

There's Philip Harper (Winard's brother) but I don't know what he's been doing lately. I like Patrick Rickman, Winard's current trumpeter. He's on all Winard's Savant albums. Hugh Ragin has a very wide variety of music under his belt, from free to Fred (Wesleeeeee). I don't know much about his work away from Frfed (naturally) but he sure plays with Fred. MG

Knut Brian K Nutter Thomas Crapper

Thanks Chuck and Jack. What I've never really GOT is, granted the licensee bears the risk, but there seems to be money in it. So why don't the majors go for themselves rather than allow these small firms to issue the material? Or am I wrong? Perhaps these little firms are all owned by eccentric millionaires who don't mind losing money on their hobby (and taking a tax loss). MG

Well, I got 2 in Cardiff on Tuesday. I would have got the Griffin, but they sold out of it on Monday. MG

Thanks,I'll try and follow that through. Seems a bit like Koch reissues of Columbia material, which say Sony Music Special Products, though. MG

Norman Pride Dickie Pride Biggus Dickus

On the AAJ board, we've had two recent, more or less parallel, discussions about: jazz composers, trying to tease out the distinction between a tune and a composition; and Duke Ellington General thread http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=16088 Duke thread http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=16116 MG

Bill Doggett Billy Butler Clifford Scott And I can't stop watching your avatar... MG

Never heard of Mighty Quinn records. Do they have a website? Googling for a name like this is likely to be unprofitable. MG

Stagger Lee The signifyin' monkey Two-time Slim

Are you thinking of "American classic", in which Grover Washington plays soprano? MG

Damn! MG

My mate has, buried somewhere in his house, a great 45 on Aura (a PJ subsidiary) by the Sonny Knight Combo () - "Let's get it on" pts 1 & 2. This was recorded many years before Marvin Gaye wrote an entirely different tune by the same name. It's a rocking, surging, jazz organ instrumental, rather along the lines of Billy Larkin & the Delegates, who also recorded for Aura. MG

Private Eye - a satirical British magazine that's been around since about 1962, and now concentrates on exposing corruption - used to issue Christmas and other occasional records on those flexi discs, featuring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, William Rushton (then editor), John Cleese and a swathe of British comedians. I had one or two - "Dear Sir, is this a record" and a rather rude Christmas thing. I wish they'd bring those back on CD. MG

No politics, but otherwise it's good. MG

Derek Trucks Sherman Tank John Coltrane

Ivy Benson & her Burners Charles Earland Bernard McKinney