The Magnificent Goldberg

That's right. Dunno about that. Could be - with Sonny Lester you never know. Just listened to the two LPs. Only fault with "Groove Grease" is the electric bass. Jimmy never needed a bass player when he was swinging in four, which is a lot of this LP. It's a very good LP, but not up to his best. MG

Polk Salad Annie Billie Joe Joe Goldberg (norelation )

"Woga" is OK. I much prefer his PJ & PR material to his Mainstream stuff. As far as Mainstream material is concerned, I like "Your mama don't dance" quite a lot more than "Woga". I don't like Richard Fritz' arrangements much ("Afrodisiac" onwards) - a bit rigid, I feel. MG

Charles Kynard’s album appearances, as far as I know, have been: Marvin Jenkins – Big city – Palomar 24001 (1962) Les McCann – The gospel truth – PJ69 (1963) Sonny Stitt – My mother’s eyes – PJ71 (5/1963) - a total BMF album! Charles Kynard – Where it’s at –PJ72 (1963) BMF! Charles Kynard & Buddy Collette – Warm winds – WP1823 (1964) Clifford Scott – Lavender sax – WP1825 (1964) Howard Roberts – Somethin’s cookin’ – Capitol T2214 (7&8/1964) Howard Roberts – Goodies – Capitol T2400 (6/1965) Charles Kynard – Professor soul – PR7599 (8/1968) (Cal Green was on this) BMF! Cal Green – Trippin with Cal Green – Mutt & Jeff MJ001 (1969) Charles Kynard – Soul brotherhood – PR7630 (3/1969) BMF! Johnny Almond – Johnny Almond’s music machine – Deram (UK) 1057 (6/1969) Charles Kynard – Reelin’ with the feelin’ – PR7688 (8/1969) Charles Kynard – Afro-disiac – PR7796 (4/1970) Charles Kynard – Wa-tu-wah-zui – PR10008 (12/1970) Charles Kynard - Charles Kynard – Mainstream 331 (1971) Various artists – Get it together – Mainstream 350 (prob 1972) (CK leader on 2 tracks) Charles Kynard – Woga – Mainstream 366 (1973) Charles Kynard – Your mama don’t dance – Mainstream 389 (1973) Blue Mitchell – Last tango = blues – Mainstream 392 (1973) Afrique – Soul Makossa – Mainstream 394 (1973) Paul Jeffrey – Paul Jeffrey – Mainstream 406 (1974) Tom Waits – Blue Valentine – Asylum 53088 (1978) Charles died in 1979. The Cal Green is one I DEFINITELY want. MG

I like "Groove grease" a LOT more than "Electric funk". The latter album is much too heavily regimented for my taste. "Groove grease" is exactly what it says. MG

Well, if you NEED a new t-shirt, I often find that CDs aren't a sufficient substitute. MG

Oh well, that looks like 2 for Stitt... MG

Harper's Vogue Viz

Just like Mosaic to derail me. All set to go for some Japanese CDs and what do they bloody do? Now, should I get the Stitt for the sake of one LP? MG

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Sbin like March today. Plants blown over. Cold. Typical summer weather, in fact. MG

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I like Marvin Cabell's sound. It's not the usual sort of tenor sound I like - nothing like Illinois, Jug or Gator Tail. It's what I think of - probably inaccurately - as a Chicago sound. A somewhat thin, very penetrating sound. Sonny Cox (admittedly an altoist) had this kind of sound (but a bit more strangled), and listening to Marvin also brings thoughts of Von Freeman and Rahsaan to mind. George Freeman has this kind of sound, too. The guy made hardly any recordings and there's very little said about him in the sleeve notes to those he did make; sleeve notes were "out" in the late '60s/early '70s. And by the time "Memphis to New York spirit" came out in '96, probably no one knew anything about him. As far as I know, he only made five recordings: John Patton's "Accent" (Aug '69) and "Memphis" (Oct '70)(plus the June '69 session split between those CDs); Lonnie Smith's "Mama Wailer" (Jul '71); and Johnny Lytle's "People and love" ( Aug '72). Plus, he wrote "Captain Nasty" - a fabulously fun burner - and "Village Lee" - one of the greeeeaazziiieesttt. MG

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Tone? You mean the sound he makes? MG

Is this another round of emails between us then? Give me a shout when you are free

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Ahmet Ertegun is 83 today. Happy birthday Ahmet! To list the achievements of Atlantic records is impossible and silly. Ahmet was my first hero. In 1959, at 15, I decided, as much by intuition as evidence, that I could rely on finding great records if I bought ones licensed from Atlantic, whether I knew anything else about them or not. So I started pre-release ordering Atlantic singles and discovered early soul music and Ray Charles. I thought it was very counter-intuitive that a business should be capable of making records to suit me. I’d been anti-authoritarian since the age of seven and associated big business with that authority. I guessed that the proprietors of Atlantic were people like me - fans and record collectors. If I’d lived in New York, I’d have sat outside Atlantic’s front door until they gave me a job. As it was, I let Ahmet, Nesuhi and Jerry Wexler educate me. Happy birthday Ahmet! And many more of them. MG

Yes indeedio! MG

Thanks Allen. Soon as I'm fixed up with Paypal, I'll be in touch. MG

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