The Magnificent Goldberg

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

Both of those Ike Quebec albums are wonderful. And not just for Freddie. MG

Is THAT what she looks like! Phew! Does it matter what she sings like? MG

The sense I'm getting from this and the earlier related thread is that on both LP and CD, the tunes had the same titles attached to them, but that these titles MAY have been wrong (I can see the force of Shawn's argument above). In other words, if errors were made, they were made consistently, as earlier errors were repeated. I do like the idea of being able to listen to this material as albums or sessions, depending on how I feel. I'm most grateful for all this; thanks folks. MG

Blimey! Well done Andy! It's almost certain that it's him, but if anyone's in contact with Amiri Baraka, I'm sure he's one to know. MG

Me too; that wasn't the only one in the last week or so. Thanks. MG

Who is this reviewer? "the tight harmonies of all-girl groups from the ‘30s and ‘40s,” reads the press release, again misplacing an early 1960s phenomenon." Hasn't he heard of the Boswell Sisters or the Andrews Sisters? Come on... MG

Me too; pity Rhoda couldn't remember. MG

Me too. Freddie's last BN session remains unissued. It features Kahlil Rahman on vibes. And there are 6 unissued tracks from the sessions at which "The soul book" was recorded. MG

Phew! Well, thanks very much Daniel. MG