The Magnificent Goldberg

Tal Farlow? Must listen again soon. I just played "The Return of Tal Farlow" for the first time last night... love him! But Matt has mentioned that the guitarist had been id-d correctly, and Farlow wasn't mentioned so far... Oh yes - I think Jim Hall's name was mentioned. But I didn't cheat and look before I leaped into print MG

Remember it well... The first glimmer of Blue Note light on the horizon after that (and it seemed like a very bright beacon at the time, at least in the UK) was the first batch of DMMs from Pathe Marconi in France. Yeah - what was unusual about those early PM releases is that they brought out Don Wilkerson's "Preach brother" very early. That became the record that started the Brighton DJs going for "Acid jazz". Kurt Mohr worked for PM in those days; perhaps he had something to do with the selection of BNs. I used to hate those PM sleeves that were a little bigger than regular size. I've got shelves they won't quite fit in vertically. MG

Yeah, that's right. Gambling's a mug's game. My dad was a bookie; a very successful bookie. In the thirties, when my mother and he married, he was so rich he didn't have a house; they lived in top whack hotels. In the thirties! He was Hon Sec of the Victoria Club, a club in London where all the bookies hung out. Every night, except Saturdays, he would hold what was known as a "callover". In his obit in "The Sporting Life", he was called "The King of the Callovers". The callover was a bit of business that involved my dad working out, on the basis of what bets the bookies had already taken, what the odds on each horse in the following day's racing should be in order to ensure that, whichever horses won, the bookies didn't lose. It was a cartel. My dad had a trick brain and could do big sums in his head like anything. Then he'd give the results to the papers for the edification of their readers the following day. Of course, the callover didn't prevent an individual bookie from losing, if he didn't manage his liabilities well; nor did it prevent an individual gambler from winning. But overall, the system was that the bookies would win and the punters would lose. And my old man started gambling. Effectively, he was betting against his own professional best judgement. And he lost all his fucking money. MG

Just arrived in the post. Thanks to Hot Ptah for his little review of this! MG

I'll get my disc 2 comments written later today. I think the value of the BFT concept is demonstrated by whatever the tango at #3 on disc 1 is. There's no way in the world I would ever have picked up a trio of piano, clarinet and tenor from, I guess, somewhere like Khazakstan! Thanks again! MG

Good grief - I just converted that into pounds! Where do you get them for that price please? MG

Er, I seriously doubt that anyone would have air conditioning in a British home. MG

Rev Isaac Dougls & the Charles Fold Singers - Live in concert MG

I actually haven't got Pee Wee's Modern recordings - just his Imperial and Blues Spectrum ones. You've inspired me to get the two CDs of Modern material issued here on Ace. I'll order them from my blues man in the market tomorrow. Here's a link to vol 2, which gives you a bit of background on Pee Wee. No personnel, however, Ace is pretty good about listing personnel on its sleeve notes so, when I get the CDs, I'll post the personnel. http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?pa...=59&release=723 MG PS Mostly, Modern used Maxwell Davis to do arrangements and play sax. Maxwell is one of the great under-rated sax players.

$289 to hold 600 CDs is adding half a dollar to the price of each CD. Get yourself some wood, some good fixings, and some screw dowells and nuts from the DIY. (They're not bowing upwards - it's something technical to do with the focus and lens.) I have room for aditional shelves above those that are there (though I'm not sure I could reach them - I'm not as tall as NOJ). MG PS The farting Margaret Thatcher has been banished now - I needed the space

Thanks for posting this. My favourite Sansu artist was Betty Harris. I have "Nearer to you", which is one of only two of hers I managed to keep. I did a Google search on Sansu records and came up with this on Harris. Astoundingly, she as managed to retrieve the rights to her Sansu recordings and is proposing to reissue them. Wow! I'm forming a queue NOW! http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/Musi...?oid=oid:157132 MG

I thought I remembered making a mistake and passing over that one. MG

some might beg to duffer. er... Mrs Golden Arm? MG

I think you're being a bit unfair. Here's a ist of BNs that I've bought in the last few years that I think hadn't been available on CD before (except in Japan, maybe, or deleted Mosaic boxes). Ike Quebec - 45 sessions Bob Hutcherson - Now Lonnie Smith - Turning point Stan Turrentine - That's where it's at Sounds of Jimmy Smith Larry Young - Of love & peace Jimmy Smith - Rockin' the boat Stan Turrentine - Never let me go Grant Green - Goin' west Hank Mobley - Flip Horace Silver trio Larry Young - Mother ship Lee Morgan - Sonic boom/Procrastinator Donald Byrd - Slow drag Grant Green - Final comedown Hank Mobley - Thinking of home Jack McDuff - Moon rappin' Stan Turrentine - Hustlin' That's not a bad list. And it's from a fairly biased sample (my taste ) MG

Considering his resume, I'd have to qualify that statement by saying that it depends on who's making the list, and for what reasons. I think it's safe to say that as a 50s-60s LA session player for pop & R&B sessions, he was on the A-list. And the B+/A- list for jazz sessions. The guy could play, and I wish I could see Plas and Houston tear it up together. So I was reading these posts and thinking; "Well, you'd have people like Hawk and Ben and Prez and Trane and Rollins and Joe H in the tenor A list. And people like Hank and Jug and Illinois and Benny Golson..." and I thought "WTF? what's all this A and B and C and D list business? Aloadabolox. Some people get to you, and that is what it's about. Plas gets to me. MG

i may be there as well. i'm supposed to be meeting dick berk there around 11pm. let's try to say hello! That's nice MG

Yes - I know he did the arrangements for an album by Syl Johnson. MG

Count me in, please, Dan. I'd prefer discs because I'm too useless at anything else. No rush for me, however, my wife's having the holiday this year. PM on the way. MG

Actually (thanks HP) Ken Vandermark can do the same sort of grinding stuff Willis Jackson used to do; so he'd be a good one to do "Another brick in the wall". Don't suppose he would, though. MG

'Course, it doesn't have to be commercial HERE and NOW; just SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME. MG

Happy birthday! 52 is good! 52 is young. You can make your second album when you're 52! Go it! MG

I always wanted to hear Willis Jackson play Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall". It has the right kind of GRIND for Gator. And Grant Green play the Carpenters' "Goodbye to love" - the tune just sounds perfect for him. But neither ever did. Some popular West African material would be good jazz vehicles: Dorobe - Omar Pene & Super Diamono Diop le Maire - Ismael Lo Mami wata - Bembeya Jazz National Teranga Senegal - Ismael Lo Other than that, J J Cale's "Cajun moon" Curtis Mayfield's "Good times" Wyclef Jean's "My love is your love" MG

All this talk about needle drops made me go back to Jim's original link. They're CDs!?!?!?! Didn't BN bring out "Lush life" on a CD? MG

Have a good time! MG

didn't Ornette Coleman have one of his first professional jobs with Crayton? Yep. I've never heard Crayton's music, either. It's easy to think of Crayton as a poor man's T-Bone Walker, but he was a bit different - even more laid back and, on occasion, inclined to do a C&W song or two. Very nice guitarist. He made a very good album with Johnny Otis' band in the mid '70s for Blues Spectrum. Much better sound than on his 78s And he was really cool. "Now you're leavin' me baby, Oh yes, Don't forget to close the door." Now that is MF COOL! MG