The Magnificent Goldberg

Good grief, seems like you’ve raided my collection and found stuff I don’t play all that much. I’ve been really embarrassed several times! 2 Oh, Duke Ellington’s big bands are one of my many weak points in jazz. Geniuses aren’t really very interesting to me; I find the ordinary working chap more interesting. Well, there we are. 3 Never heard any Cumbia before. Is this from Colombia? Is it typical of cumbias, or an oddity? 5 “Red clay” – a tune I ALWAYS fail to recognise even though I have loads of versions of it. Not this one, though. 7 Sample is a guy whose own records I haven’t explored at all. My mistake. Thanks for this. 9 This is one I’ve got. Oops! “I definitely know that I don’t know who or what this is.” 10 I don’t have this one – I don’t have any Klemmer albums. On this showing, another mistake. 13 Oh, never heard the Mitchell-Ruff trio before. Must correct that. 14 So who WAS the sax player? – you didn’t list him in the personnel. 15 Never heard of this tenor player before. Another nice intro, thanks. 17 I kept wanting to buy this LP – it was in the Cardiff 2nd hand shop for years – but I always thought, well, I’d like it but it’s probably like a jazz album… 20 Another I’ve got, but the original, which isn’t anything like this. Sorry, but when I listened again, after finding out what it was I thought, ‘Colonial mentality’. 21 Got this one, too, and REALLY should have picked up that it was Maceo. Bloomin’ ‘eck, Tucker! 23 Well, I’ve got this, too. I never picked up that ‘Blues to be there’ was the same tune as ‘After supper’ so, when I got the tune, I didn’t look or listen any farther. 24 This is interesting. I looked this up on the web just now. Apparently this track is 23:40. I guess you faded it out after five and a bit. Is the rest kinda boring? Discogs have this to say about it. So, does the bit that you included feature Azar or David? 28 And ANOTHER I’ve got! This is actually from the album ‘Musical bones’ by Lee Perry and the Upsetters on DIP. It was reissued as part of the 3 LP set ‘Dubstrumentals’ on Trojan, which is where we both got it My excuse for not getting this is simply because I really didn’t expect it. 29 If I’m not much mistaken, ‘Suite 16’ was a Joel Dorn production. A good guy, Dorn, but he did occasionally have daft ideas. Well, that was pretty interesting and has pointed me in the direction of several people I ought to know more about. Thanks Jon. MG

Yes - a very good question. Even when the music's not really up my street, it's something I always want to know about indie labels. MG

Sonny Hopson Sonny Rollins Harold 'Pop Pop' Rollins

Bea Booze Henry Boozier Adolf & the Piss Artists

That's the only one I have, too. I was quite excited when I saw the thread title, but looking at the list that Soulpope put on earlier, I see the only other one I'm interested in is the Arnett Cobb. Oh well. Better start looking on e-bay. MG

Noj, I got that Demon Fuzz album the summer of '71, the same time I got the first Osibisa album. I think you're the first person I've known who is familiar with it! (Probably MG knows it well too.) No - but I got the Osibisa LP when it came out in 71. Took my wife to a gig of theirs then, when we were courting. We danced in the aisles! MG

Johnny Lytle Lem Winchester Cal Tjader

This is the best thread ever! MG

DJ Spooky DJ Fontana Wayne Fontana

Lord Nibbler The Supreme Fuzzler Nudist Alien Scammers

EMI Decca Pye

Good luck to you and your lady! I'm afraid I've no room for new CDs left myself, though. MG

One for me please. MG

Paul Raymond Raymonde Mr Teasy Weasy

Balam's Ass Aslaug Boewulf

I've got the Houston Person albums on LP. Can't say I'd recommend them to anyone who wasn't a raving fan like me. But his one hit single - 'Disco sax' is included in 'Get outa my way'. So there. The Blue Mitchell is one of his very best albums - Jimmy Forrest and Walter Bishop are on it. Nuff sed? MG

The Deele Brother John Sellers Don Byas

Jim - I'll go for one! But what sizes are they available in - and what do those sizes mean in inches? MG

Randy Crawford - Knockin' on heaven's door, from 'Rich and poor', WB. Not much of an album, but the first track.... MG

Rosemary June July Andrews Augustus Caesar

John Knott Scaffold Madame Guillotine

It seems to me that there are quite a few examples between John Lewis and Milt Jackson among the MJQ's recordings. So often, one slides in under the other and, for a minute or two, there's no determining who's got the lead there. MG

Wild Bill Davis Wild Bill Davison Wild Bill Hickock

Whatever you do decide, Laurie, please let us know - so I can show my wife, for when I die. MG

Kofi Annan Boutros-Boutros Ghali Ban Ki-Moon