The Magnificent Goldberg

Just arrived in the post: a bunch of albums ordered from the Collectables sale. Some I already had on LP, but couldn’t resist the price to convert to CD. The new sound of Ernestine Anderson Chris Kenner – I like it like that Ray Bryant – Soul Ray Bryant – Cold Turkey Jimmy McGriff – I got a woman Jimmy McGriff – One of mine Jimmy McGriff – Topkapi Joe Carroll – Man with a happy sound Continued on next post

Thanks a lot, Mike. MG

Thank you Steven - I haven't graduated to being able to do that sort of thing yet. MG

I think Dance's taste, or at least his understanding, was a hell of a lot broader than he's given credit for. I just reread his sleeve notes for Grant Green's "Alive". Dance understood perfectly what was going on there, and conveyed it in words that are as effective and meaningful now as they were in 1970. He also produced some fine albums, including one of my favourites; Ram Ramirez' "Live in Harlem". This was another organ group (duo) recorded in another organ room, 10 years earlier. I definitely have no complaints about Dance. MG

Have a good one, Jim. MG And a happy birthday, as well.

New version of pt 1 posted - I forgot the single he did with Jimmy McGriff! MG

Well, that seems to have worked. Here's part 2, which covers the period from 1975 (when he started recording for Mercury) to 1999. MG

Charles was born on 24 May 1941. So I thought I'd try putting his discography on the forum, as a tribute. It's a bit big, so it has to go on in two parts. Part 1 covers the period from 1959 to 1974 (the last of his recordings for Prestige). (Yes, I do mean 1959.) MG New version posted 25 May 06

Alright, as long as we're on that subject, something I've always wondered: is this Benny Green who wrote those liners the same Benny Green the piano player who put out an album called "These Are Soulful Days?" Or are there three different Benny Greens: one the trombone player, one the liner note writer, and one the piano player? These are three different Benny Greens. The Benny Green who wrote sleeve notes was a British jazz trombonist. He wasn't Bennie Green, the American jazz trombonist. Nor was he Benny Green, the American jazz pianist. MG

It's also almost her only recording without a bass player. Shows she could do it. MG

Just found those notes - they're on "Bacalao", which I only got a few weeks ago and hadn't got around to reading the notes. I don't think that it's insulting. Time and again one reads notes in which the musicians are praised for breathing new life into warhorses. That's all Amiri did in this case. It's perfectly legit comment, in my view. MG

I really love his sleeve notes. Particularly the ones in which he reminisces about the 40s in Newark. I'll have to look out the Jaws notes; I can't remember that. MG

I read many of his liner notes on the 1970s Pablo records and would always wonder afterwards about what it was that I had read. There were a lot of words, but it was like cotton candy for the mind. A big "ME TOO" on this. A friend of mine always defends Green's notes on the grounds that he's a musician and therefore thinks in those terms. Huh! MG

A quick trip into Cardiff to buy Amazing price - £4.99 each! MG

What was Ali Farka Toure doing in Ghana? MG

I'm not an expert, but I tried out a B3000 once and it looked like that. MG

Yes, Blakey and Sam Jones were a great combination. It's too bad that they didn't play together more often. Grant Green - Nigeria - fabuloso combination MG

Maybe, but I'm not in London. There used to be cheap flights from Cardiff to Paris when BMI Baby started up. Ideally, I want to do the trip in a day, just to visit the African quarter for K7s and a jazz shop for Rhoda Scott (and now Eddie Louiss) albums. If I have to stay overnight, it becomes too expensive for a record buying spree. MG

Dead right. I'm really surprised that Kenny doesn't sell well, particularly compared to Grant Green. Back in the 60s, no one would have envisaged a scenario in which almost all of Green's own albums would be available and so few of Kenny's. If anyone had given thought to the future in that way, I'm sure they (and I) would have expected quite the reverse to be true. Part of the problem, I suspect, is that Kenny made lots of records for companies like Cadet/Argo, CTI, Verve, Muse, Concord, which are not in very "reissue-friendly" hands. Could one imagine that, now Concord's owner has acquired Fantasy, some Concord releases will be issued on OJC? MG

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Thanks for those posts, Sidewinder. I don't think I've watched Eurovision since the late 60s. Now I remember why. MG

Ooooo, they match! MG

Excuse me for horning in, when I'm not in the BFT recipient group, but if anyone wants to pursue Joe temperley's recordings, he made two very good ones with Junior Mance in Floating Jazz festivals of 1996 and 2000. They are The music of Duke Ellington - Chiaroscuro 352 The Music of Thelonious Monk - Chiaroscuro 370 Very nice stuff indeed. MG

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. For example, one evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me." I said "WHAT????!!! What was that?!" She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" What every boyfriend/husband on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to complement her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went on to the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, Let's go to the cashier". I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled "WHAT???!!!" I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?" Apparently I'm not getting any tonight either.

This isn't the correct sleeve - it's the reissue on 32 Jazz. I got one on Muse, but there isn't a picture of that on the web. K7 only, I'm afraid, but there you are. MG