The Magnificent Goldberg

There's nowt like being an iggerent furriner. MG Hey, we Texans can be as iggerent as anyone! If you insist. MG

There's nowt like being an iggerent furriner. MG

What's that Diz album - can't read the little writing. MG

Really pleased you've got Amazon UK up. I have bought a bit from them - books and bargains mainly. Amazon.fr would encourage me to buy West African albums, too, which I've neglected. Still, CDU is my main source. MG

WOW!!! I GUESSED ONE CORRECTLY!!! AFTER 39-1/2 BFT'S, I FINALLY NAILED ONE THAT I ONLY GUESSED AT!!! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!! WOO HOO!!! That's it! I'm taking the rest of the day off!!! Congratulations, Al, but I also have to tell you that the "Wayne Shorter" connection was entirely in your head. There, that ought to deflate you a bit. Ha! I don't need your deflating! I'm a Rangers fan, remember? Glasgow? MG Texas! Is that an American football team or a law enforcement bunch? MG

Is the running order of tracks 1-7 on the McMaster version, which is the one I've got, the same as the original LP? MG

WOW!!! I GUESSED ONE CORRECTLY!!! AFTER 39-1/2 BFT'S, I FINALLY NAILED ONE THAT I ONLY GUESSED AT!!! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!! WOO HOO!!! That's it! I'm taking the rest of the day off!!! Congratulations, Al, but I also have to tell you that the "Wayne Shorter" connection was entirely in your head. There, that ought to deflate you a bit. Ha! I don't need your deflating! I'm a Rangers fan, remember? Glasgow? MG

Moses Davis Miles Davis Millicent Martin

How do you arrange for e-mail notfications if you forget when you first post to a thread? (Other than by appending a useless post, that is.) MG

Carnegie Hall, which I bought in '64, the first of five that I bought, none of which I have any more. MG

Lauren Bacall Humphrey Bogart Hubert Humphrey

Davy Graham Alexis Korner Eric "Slow hand" Clapton

Jazz Crusaders box MG

Homo sapiens Alice Alice Coltrane

Well, I'm most gratified (I think) MG

Bobby Bland Harold Land Ayn Rand

I loved this disc. My wife was using the computer this morning, so I took the disc out into the garden and listened on my walkman. After she had vacated the record room, I wanted to compare "Please send me someone to love" with my version on LP and, when I put the disc in the CD player, found that nearly every track title and artist was coming up on the display. So I know that some of my guesses were way off. Nonetheless, I'm just going to type out what I wrote out while I was listening to the disc anyway. 1 Basie style big band featuring 2 tenor players. Very Ammons/Stitt oriented. Guitarist sounds West Coast. I think this is the same band as #13 [so, although this track title didn't come up, I'm pretty sure who it is]. 2 Another big band. Piano lead off. Trumpet solo - YAY! Tenor sax. Feel I know the drummer - there's a characteristic use of the cymbals coming in quite often. Trombone solo, piano solo. Very hip tune. Like this a lot. 3 Don Wilkerson tune but not Don Wilkerson playing it. Wild trumpet player! Very good imitation of Don Wilkerson. Really like the trumpet player. 4 Know this tune. "Prince Albert". Tenor & alto solos good but not special. 5 Know the riff played by bass. Alto player is a bit familiar. Is this Anthony Ortega? I think so. Quote from Clifford Brown tune that Charles Kynard recorded [song of Delilah]. Is this the tune? Sounds like Jack Wilson on piano. Overall sound reminds me of Curtis Amy's "Native land". What about Vic Gaskin on bass and Doug Sides on drum? 6 Live recording of "Moanin'". Only alto sax and piano. Very funky indeed. Touches of Les McCann in intro, not him though. VG left hand. Wonder if this is Jack Wilson again. 7 This one fooled me to start off with, even though I actually have it. But when the and came in, it was clearly B B King. Recorded at Newport in New York in '72 with JOS on organ. 8 Alto sax, piano rhythm. Ballad. Don't know the tune. Don't know the players. Short. 9 Watch that gravy fly man! Tenor sax, tpt, tbn solos. Love the trombonist. Alto sax reminds me of Clifford Scott. Another trumpet solo. Reminds me of Johnny Otis' CD "Spirit of the black territory bands". Not that band but similar approach. 10 Trumpet & rhythm. Wah wah. Nice blues. Piano solo reminds me of Jr Mance a bit, but not that good.Tpt solo off wahwah. Guitar solo made me think of Phil Upchurch. Tpt back to wahwah at end. Dunno who this is. 11 Piano & rhythm, big band. Swing time again. Trombone solo.All a bit amateurish and disorganised, like a rehearsal band. Tenor solo. Don't know the tune. Back to trombone and probably different player; this solo's a bit more interesting. Track too long at 7:48. 12 Piano & rhythm. "Since I fell for you". Who's the singer. Trumpet & tenor sax backing. Very much a late '40s feeling to this. Lula Reed? 13 Very familiar tune from Ammons/Stitt book. Same band as #1. Wonderful revival! MG

Cootie Williams - Original Hit recordings 1944 - Phoenix LP1 MG

Pluskat!! Norman Dee Bunker, Larry Jim R - I really don't follow that one (though I did). MG

Bunker Hill Jesse Hill Grahame Hill

Bill Graham Graham Nash Frazer-Nash

I couldn't say for sure if Jimmy played the basslines on the organ, but there was no bass player or other organist in the group as far as I could tell sitting up front on the left side. Sounds like he was kicking bass. Good news! A few years back I saw Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Jimmy McGriff all play a show together. McGriff wasn't in great shape back then even....I never would have guessed he would have outlived the others at the time. Long live McGriff....

Wasn't the original (with different cover art) on David Axelrod's 'HiFi Jazz' label ? Yes - my mate had a British edition of the HiFiJazz record. It has a very nice painting of a rather ruddy fox on it. I didn't know Axelrod owned HiFiJazz. I thought it was all part of Gene Norman's outfit. MG

Nathan Page Lawrence Page (my grandson) James Page (grandson #2)

Is that because you just go ahead and buy anything you are tempted by? Yes, or it goes into the endless list. Basically, the time I get tempted and nearly buy things is when I'm in a physical shop. Lately, there hasn't actually been much that tempts me in those places. MG