The Magnificent Goldberg

This match was like a soccer revival meeting to renew the faith in the religion of Football! Argentina looks like the strongest team so far. I was sorry to see Ivory Coast defeated. They have enthusiasm indeed but their defense seemed a bit confused! Great game! Yeah, I thought Cote d'Ivoire played well. Argentina were better at marking and, therefore, finding space. But Dindin (sp?) did some splendid stuff when he came on. Be good to see them in action again. I must confess, I hoped they'd pull off another stunt like Senegal did last time. Too much to hope for. Angola tomorrow against Portugal. A needle match I suspect. MG

Elvis Jones Rockabilly jazz singer/drummer. Well known in concentric circles. MG

Superb Spoon, with Clifford Scott, T-Bone Walker & Bert Kendricks on organ. MG

Yes - that was the stuff he made under the magnificent name of Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungrians! MG

Gawd blesher Guv! MG

The info is in the discography you yourself posted earlier in the thread. http://www.jazzdisco.org/green/dis/c/ To my knowledge one tune has been issued on CD. It wasn't on the original LP but was put out on a comp. "Crazy legs" is also on the compilation "Together", as well as another previously unissued track (New blowtop blues", featuring Etta Jones, on which GG probably doesn't play. I doubt if you'll get sound samples anywhere - "Lester leaps in" is 15 minutes long and "Crazy legs" runs 6:44 and the CD was issued in UK in 1993; a long time before people thought of putting samples on the web. MG

I may have time tomorrow. MG

Depends on their techical expertise, about which we know nothing. MG

"Stitt's bits" was originaly issued as a single LP on PR7133 - material from sessions in Feb, Jun, Oct & Dec 1950 was included. A reissue in the late 60s came out as two LPs: PR7585 & 7612. The pair included material from the same sessions as 7133 plus material from Jan, Feb and Aug 1951. Tracks on 7133 were 1 Avalon 2 Mean to Me 3 Stairway to the Stars 4 Count Every Star 5 Nice Work If You Can Get It 6 There Will Never Be Another You 7 Blazin' 8 After You've Gone 9 Our Very Own 10 'S Wonderful 11 Jeepers Creepers 12 Nevertheless On 7585 1 Mean to Me 2 Later 3 Ain't Misbehavin' 4 Avalon 5 Stairway to the Stars 6 Count Every Star 7 Nice Work If You Can Get It 8 There Will Never Be Another You 9 Blazin' 10 After You've Gone 11 Our Very Own 12 To Think You've Chosen Me 13 'S Wonderful 14 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) 15 Can't We Be Friends? On 7612 1 Nevertheless 2 Jeepers Creepers 3 Imagination 4 Cherokee 5 The Thrill of Your Kiss 6 If the Moon Turns Green 7 I Love You 8 This Can't Be Love 9 Down With It 10 For the Fat Man 11 Splinter 12 Confessin' 13 Cool Mambo 14 Sonny Sounds 15 Blue Mambo 16 Stitt's It All the material from 7133 was included in the two volume set. Some of this material is available on CD already. I'm not sure if the double LP represents the entirety of the sessions from which it was drawn. MG

Putting a piece of paper over the window is a dead giveaway. If thay hadn't, probably no one would have noticed. MG

Thanks - I'll look into that. MG

DAMN! But thanks very much Chas. MG

And many more of them MG

OK, you're wrong. I have only a couple of tracks on the Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 box. Every time I see some Fess I think about buying it, then wonder if there's ever going to be a "perfect" compilation to get. Is there? MG

I thought this album was due to come out on 6 June. I just went into CDUniverse to buy it and the only copy that's there is a Japanese one. I can't find any ref to the album on this forum through the search facility, but I know it's been mentioned recently in some thread or other. HELP! MG

1986 Hi I am new to the board, just wanting to see if someone might be able to provide some info...In the liner notes to Live at the Lighthouse, Bob Belden mentions a session with Houston Person that does not appear in any Grant discographies...if this session is all that BB says it is then it must be a very special and important recording.. especially in light of when it was made...does anyone have any knowledge of this By the way thanks for all the wonderful things I've been able to read here on Grant, John Patton and George Braith etc al... On pages 245 and 246 of the 1986 Ruppli BN discography, there's a listing of a few sets (some 33 songs) recorded at the Club Mozambique in Detroit on Jan. 6 & 7, 1971. Clarence Thomas (ts,ss), Houston Person (ts), Ronnie Foster (org), Green, and Idris Muhammad (d). All tracks are listed as "rejected". I don't own the Lighthouse recording and am not that keen on this era of GG's career, so I don't know if any of this material has since been released. I suspect at least some of it has... I'm getting a deja vu as if we've been over this before... No guys the session Beldon seems to be talking about sounds seperate to these live recordings. He gives the information that it was recorded for Eastbound or Westbound and seems to be suggesting that it was a session of standards or chord changes material.. which would make it very special. He mentions the tune Dearly Beloved which does not appear in the discographies of these other sessions and would not be in context with the setlists from these performances I think. I can't wait to hear the Mozambique sets but would love to know more about this other session Rereading the Lighthouse sleeve notes by Bob Belden, I am of the view that he's talking about Houston Person's Eastbound album "The real thing", recorded at Club Mozambique. This is a double LP; when you have the album closed, all you can see on the front cover is "Houston Person"; the title is on the reverse. When you open it out and hold it upright, you can see the title is "The real thing". But if you just look at the front, it looks like a self-titled album. What's odd about Belden's notes is the ref to "Dearly beloved". That track isn't on the album, but Grant DOES play on a lot of the straight ahead material included (and on "Lester leaps in", which was issued on CD in the UK a few years ago). It's possible that Belden has heard "Dearly beloved" from the session, but it hasn't been released as far as I know. In fact, his statement on that sleeve note is the only evidence there is for the existence of that performance. MG

Wow! to have actualy SEEN Bobby Buster! MG

When I saw Charles Earland - from about 18 inches away from his right hand - he seemed to have a technique for doing this that brought the heel of his hand into play. It was sort of like his hand was crawling (very fast) up and down the keyboard. MG

Religion has always just been another way of carrying on politics, so you do what you have to do to get your message over. And sometimes your message has a few holes in it. But it doesn't matter if it isn't immediately obvious that it's leaky. MG

Glad Matthew upped this thread. "Coast to coast" is a great album BUT It seems to have been the last. The only Fantasy artist who seems to have recorded since Concord took over is Sonny Rollins. What's happened? My guess is that Concord has sacked everyone who worked for Fantasy, which is now simply going to be mined for its catalogue. (I hate Concord - but you knew that, didn't you?) MG

I thought the bonus disc was very interesting. But I can't say I LIKED very much of it. Here we go. 1 I am not at all well up in classical music, but I thought of Mussorgsky. 2 I started off writing down "marimba", then added an "s", then wrote "3", then wrote "lots". Then I decided it must be a Gamelan orchestra. 3 More classical piano. This one felt like Satie. 4 More classical music. I thought this was very interesting because this is, I think, what classical players think an alto sax SHOULD sound like, if you could stop those jazz musicians from playing them. 5 There's a very familiar feel to this. I got a definite impression of Abdullah Ibrahim here, particularly in the beginning. 6 Vibes and bass - couldn't work out if there were two vibes or one. Gary Burton's name occurred to me, but I've heard almost nothing of his work, so that's as big a shot in the dark as everything else. 7 18th Century harpsichord. Not rhythmic enough to be French, so I guess it's German. 8 I wondered on this if there were two keyboard players or only one, double tracking. I couldn't recognise the language. I liked the bass solo (or was it a cello, as on the theme outro?) 9 This one sounded as if it was based on folk music. I liked the Chrstmas music at the end. 10 I think this was some more classical music. 11 Dunno. I haven't any reactions at all to this one. 12 I liked this. It has a vaguely African feel to it; perhaps Middle East or North Africa. 13 A German version of Spike Jones. Most enjoyable. Or is it Spike Jones pretending to be German? 14 Back again to the harpsichord. Very familiar tune but I couldn't name it in 37. Thanks for some interesting hours, Mike. MG

1986 Hi I am new to the board, just wanting to see if someone might be able to provide some info...In the liner notes to Live at the Lighthouse, Bob Belden mentions a session with Houston Person that does not appear in any Grant discographies...if this session is all that BB says it is then it must be a very special and important recording.. especially in light of when it was made...does anyone have any knowledge of this By the way thanks for all the wonderful things I've been able to read here on Grant, John Patton and George Braith etc al... Post 10 in this thread gives what is known about unreleased Grant Green led dates (plus a few others). Post 11 gives a link to another thread about the specific session you're interested in. Mosaic say Blue Note will issue it. MG

Billy was one of the jazz organists whose singles I bought in the early '60s. His versions of "The masquerade is over", "Drown in my own tears" and "Don't let the sun catch you crying" are still as wonderful as anything done in those days. Sorry to hear he's gone. MG

The third of Ursula Rucker's albums turned up in the post today, just before we went out. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet (been listening to too much Grant Green and Al Grey). MG

Thanks Jim - it's super whizzo now. MG