The Magnificent Goldberg

Kent Modern Crown

Oh my - a great Texas Tenor player I had (almost) forgotten about. Has this one been issued on CD? MG

Arnie Jan Dean (One for the old rock & rollers)

I first heard this album when it was reissued on LP on Blue Note in about 1986. When I got it home, it was one of those things I simply couldn't believe. "I could have been listening to this for twenty odd years!" Duke, for me, has always been much more a pianner player than a bandleader. So it's been his albums with small groups that I've mainly collected. Seeing it in the racks when it came out, it obviously fitted in with that sort of approach. So I took it home with me. But when you listen to it! When you hear the title track, it just grabs you by the balls. I've seldom heard such dramatic urgency in music coupled with utter funkiness of groove. And it's not a one-track album. "Switch blade" is another that severely gets to me; uncut funk, as George used to say. And that's true of "REM blues" and "Backward country boy blues". These gentlemen were so goddam funky! I like most of the tracks on this, but it is when Duke gets funky that he really bowls me over. I don't think there has ever been a pianist who could drive six inch nails into your forehead with the blues like Duke could. He seems to reach into the uttermost parts of the galaxy and pull down ideas that rush at you with the force of a meteor. You get this sort of feeling on "Weary Blues" from "Back to back", where Duke consciously imitates Avery Parish, but in an astounding way, and "Summertime", from "Piano in the foreground". But this album is a summation of and concentration on that side of Duke's vision. The only track I'm not so keen on is the treatment of "Warm valley". I have Duke's original version on a 78 and I so much associate it with Johnny Hodges that I can't really concentrate on this version. My fault really. MG

George Harrison???? (in the bangledesh days) Cop out. YOU should be able to explain thes things. MG

That's interesting. My 2nd copy of "A love supreme" is a UK MCA pressing. It has the master number MCL1648 A/B. But it also has, crossed out, IMPL8001. I think that was the master number given by Anchor, who distributed ABC/Impulse here between EMI and MCA. So it looks like Anchor didn't get the EMI stampers when they took over. Funny... MG

Private Keepout General Nuisance Corporal Punishment

The only HMV Impulse record I've still got is "Genius + Soul = Jazz". Looking at the runoff on that, there's what appear to be Impulse master numbers - A 2A and A 2B. So I assumed that HMV got stampers from ABC. Bill Doggett's "Wow", Della Reese's "Live" and Percy Mayfield's "My jug & I" all appear to have ABC or Tangerine master numbers. MG

Charlie Parker Leo Parker Maynard Parker

Missed this thread yesterday. Happy birthday for yesterday, Lon. MG

Greta Garbo Donald Gabor Ronald McDonald

Jaws Steven Spielberg Ingmar Bergman

Yes, it's UA Music and Records Group, from the label. So that was after the management buy-out. If they were flogging off Horace Silvers dirt cheap to the cutout merchants, rather than keeping them as a steady seller, they must have been in REAL trouble. I always assumed EMI bought the company as a decently going concern. This suggests otherwise. MG Between the late '60s and late '80s the "company" changed hands at least 2 times (probably 3). EMI took over after the previous owner defaulted on loans for manufacturing and distribution. EMI got the whole bunch "for a song". Distressed merchandise is what we call it over here. Thanks Chuck. Unless you catch Billboard every week, it's pretty hard over here to get to know what's going on in the industry. MG

Perry Robinson Carla Bley Captain Bly (It's Bligh) Fletcher Christian Chris Foreman Boss Hogg

Pam Grier Lear Jets Lee "Scratch" Perry

Yes, it's UA Music and Records Group, from the label. So that was after the management buy-out. If they were flogging off Horace Silvers dirt cheap to the cutout merchants, rather than keeping them as a steady seller, they must have been in REAL trouble. I always assumed EMI bought the company as a decently going concern. This suggests otherwise. MG

Esther Williams Esther Rantzen Run DMC

When you come to think of it, that album shouldn't have been a cutout. Definitely signifies some trouble. Is it United Artists Music and Records Group, or UA (Transamerica)? In other words, was it made before or after the management buy-out? MG

Patti Duke Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters The Red Baron

Mungo Jerry Gerry & the Pacemakers Pastor Murphy Pace III

I knew they were shits in 1962. MG

CD Universe has the OutKast album on pre-release order at $13.29. Release of album 22 August. Thanks for posting this BM; been waiting longo for its issue. MG

I got James "Blood" Ullmer's "Blue blood" album a few months ago. I like it very much indeed - he is taking Blues to somewhat other places, as he took his jazz. I expect to get some more of his Blues material. MG

Best half dozen McGriffs, in my view, are I've got a woman - Collectables - available At the Apollo - Collectables - available The main squeeze - Groove Merchant - deleted The starting five - Milestone - available Blue to the 'bone - Milestone - available The dream team - - Milestone - available (Order is date of recording, not preference) But there are quite a few nearly as good as this lot. MG

Well it's sunny but cold again today; stiff chilly wind. Good drying day, though. Unless it rains. MG Just heard they're having big snowfalls and floods in South Africa. Quite odd weather for that country.