The Magnificent Goldberg

Cor! MG (I should have practiced harder when I was young. I think I might have done, had I known there was a tax fiddle.)

"Hipty hop" was also in Lou's album "Musty Rusty". By the way, I hope that your Patton/Green compilation doesn't exclude Art Blakey's album "Hold on, I'm coming", in which John Patton appears as Malcolm Bass. MG

MG - Do you know what the story is with Delmark 443 - Jimmy Coe: After Hours Joint? I've looked for it - love the 2 Coe tracks on Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol. 1 - but have never come across it. Did it go in and out of print very quickly? I don't know. I got my copy in '97, but it was only available on K7 at the time. I've subsequently seen that a CD version was available, but didn't get around to getting it. I seem to remember there were extra tracks). I downloaded the Delmark catalogue in 2003 and it wasn't listed. Delmark also distributed Jimmy Coe's recent (1994) big band album, "Say what?" which has a couple of live cuts from 1987 featuring Melvin Rhyne. I think that may still be available, 'cos I got mine in 2004. It isn't bad; mostly Indianapolis musicians; Coe playing alto except on the live trax. I think you can get the album off Coe's website (sorry, don't have the address any more). He's still playing (well, he was in 2004); a great survivor. MG PS - trivia point: Jimmy Mumford, drummer with Funk Inc, was Coe's drummer until he died, I assume, shortly before "Say What?" was recorded. Funk Inc was an Indianapolis band. Jazz Record Mart still has After Hours Joint on cassette - perhaps that's the only format it was released on. I definitely have a feeling I've seen it listed as a CD, but it could be my memory playing tricks. MG Just checked with a friend who's in the know about such things, and he believes that it was only issued on LP & cassette, not on CD. The LP had 12 cuts, and perhaps Bob Koester thought that was not enough material for a CD. Too bad. I'd have bought a short timed CD to hear the rest of Jimmy Coe's sides - he was real good. Ah well - guess I can buy the cassette. Can't remember the last time I bought one of those. I like the album a lot. In addition to "Lady be good", there's a follow up to "After hour joint" called "Raid on the after hour joint", which is very amusing. Jimmy Coe was one of the last of the big honking R&B horns to emerge, just before Ray Charles put them out of work. In a sense, he is a very minor figure. But for me, he exemplifies that era in a way no other tenor man quite does. Every kind of music that was covered by the honkers is in this album. Blues, with male & female vocalists, near-Bop material, jump numbers, sentimental ballads, standards and, of course, the two "After hours joint" raps; there's a little bit of everything in here. I hope you'll like it. MG

MG - Do you know what the story is with Delmark 443 - Jimmy Coe: After Hours Joint? I've looked for it - love the 2 Coe tracks on Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol. 1 - but have never come across it. Did it go in and out of print very quickly? I don't know. I got my copy in '97, but it was only available on K7 at the time. I've subsequently seen that a CD version was available, but didn't get around to getting it. I seem to remember there were extra tracks). I downloaded the Delmark catalogue in 2003 and it wasn't listed. Delmark also distributed Jimmy Coe's recent (1994) big band album, "Say what?" which has a couple of live cuts from 1987 featuring Melvin Rhyne. I think that may still be available, 'cos I got mine in 2004. It isn't bad; mostly Indianapolis musicians; Coe playing alto except on the live trax. I think you can get the album off Coe's website (sorry, don't have the address any more). He's still playing (well, he was in 2004); a great survivor. MG PS - trivia point: Jimmy Mumford, drummer with Funk Inc, was Coe's drummer until he died, I assume, shortly before "Say What?" was recorded. Funk Inc was an Indianapolis band. Jazz Record Mart still has After Hours Joint on cassette - perhaps that's the only format it was released on. I definitely have a feeling I've seen it listed as a CD, but it could be my memory playing tricks. MG

Can I ask a real stupid question? Why do you add up your CD purchases for tax purposes? MG

Fabulous. I read in the '60s that it was Eric Clapton's all time favourite record. Perhaps he's changed his mind since then... Thanks for that info, Paul. Another one to add to the endless list. MG

MG - Do you know what the story is with Delmark 443 - Jimmy Coe: After Hours Joint? I've looked for it - love the 2 Coe tracks on Honkers & Bar Walkers Vol. 1 - but have never come across it. Did it go in and out of print very quickly? I don't know. I got my copy in '97, but it was only available on K7 at the time. I've subsequently seen that a CD version was available, but didn't get around to getting it. I seem to remember there were extra tracks). I downloaded the Delmark catalogue in 2003 and it wasn't listed. Delmark also distributed Jimmy Coe's recent (1994) big band album, "Say what?" which has a couple of live cuts from 1987 featuring Melvin Rhyne. I think that may still be available, 'cos I got mine in 2004. It isn't bad; mostly Indianapolis musicians; Coe playing alto except on the live trax. I think you can get the album off Coe's website (sorry, don't have the address any more). He's still playing (well, he was in 2004); a great survivor. MG PS - trivia point: Jimmy Mumford, drummer with Funk Inc, was Coe's drummer until he died, I assume, shortly before "Say What?" was recorded. Funk Inc was an Indianapolis band.

Trivia point: I think "Fat Judy" is the only organ jazz recording to be mentioned in Science fiction literature (by Michael Moorcock). MG

After getting on for 50 years, my tastes are pretty well defined and confined within what I can afford. But there are a number of people whose music I haven't explored and things I've read on this board (and AAJ) have persuaded me to give them a go. This includes Ahmad Jamal, George Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton and Red Garland. It also includes some specific records I would otherwise have missed but for SS1 and Jim Sangrey: Oliver Nelson's "Takin' care of business" and George Clinton's "How late do UF2BB4UR absent". Thanks mucho folks. I also find, like Jim R, that discussions on the board send me to play records that I otherwise might not have for a while. Today so far, for example, it's been Herbie Mann's "Memphis underground". One problem with that is that my 800 odd West African albums, which don't get discussed, are played rather less than they otherwise might be. Anyone know a Senegalese music forum? MG

Possibly Albert Collins, Master of the Telecaster. I'm extremely into Collins at present. A KILLAH! (Which is not to say that I don't appreciate Albert King.) MG

I love Teddy Edwards' "Blue saxophone", which features Mike White on violin. Very nice stuff. Mike was with John Handy in the '60s and I recollect him playing very well on a live album Handy made for Columbia. Other violin stuff I like is Don & Dewey - Soul Motion/Stretchin' out, a violin/organ duo 45 produced by Sonny Bono in 1965. Don & Dewey were a Doowop duo who decided to learn instruments. Don is "Sugarcane" Harris. Remo Biondi played violin and guitar in the early '50s with Jimmy Coe. The band's version of "Lady be good" (Delmark443) has the only violin solo I've ever heard that comes close to a honking tenor sax in the hands of a Willis Jackson. MG

Sonny was on Herbie's "Memphis underground" album. I don't recall his solos on that being particularly "far out"; time I threw this on the CD player, I think. Also time I put Fela's "Perambulator" on the turntable; Lester Bowie's on that. Trouble is, my copy is a Nigerian original and side 2 is pressed seriously off-centre, so I hardly ever play that side, which I think may have more Bowie on it. MG Listened to "Memphis underground" earlier. Yes, Sonny does play a rather rock-inspired, perhaps free jazz inspired, solo on "Hold on I'm comin'". I always thought of this as being more the sort of thing that a rock guitarist might play, but I can see how it could be heard as free jazz, too. MG

I think Belden was mixed up. None of the originals on "Grant's first stand sounds anything like "Grant's first stand" on "First session". And, according to the 1988 edition of the Blue Note discography, there were no unissued tracks from the 28 Jan 1961 session. To my ear, "Grant's first stand" sounds a lot like "He's a real gone guy"! MG

Sonny was on Herbie's "Memphis underground" album. I don't recall his solos on that being particularly "far out"; time I threw this on the CD player, I think. Also time I put Fela's "Perambulator" on the turntable; Lester Bowie's on that. Trouble is, my copy is a Nigerian original and side 2 is pressed seriously off-centre, so I hardly ever play that side, which I think may have more Bowie on it. MG

OK, fixed. Somehow I must have changed my Internet Explorer view options. Thanks for trying to help, Brownie. MG

Nope - just the same when I access through .com. It must be something I've done. But what? MG

I'm using Yahoo.co.uk. I'll try changing to .com MG

Does anyone know how I can get the font back to normal size in Yahoo? I think I've tried every option on the screen. MG

Good sale; I ordered 11, some of which I already have on LP but, at these prices... New Sound Of Ernestine Anderson I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner Soul - Ray Bryant Cold Turkey - Ray Bryant I've Got A Woman - Jimmy McGriff One of Mine - Jimmy McGriff Topkapi - Jimmy McGriff Man With A Happy Sound - Joe Carroll Do The Bossa Nova / My Kinda Groove - Herbie Mann Plug Me In / High Voltage - Eddie Harris Live At Newport / Instant Death - Eddie Harris Can I suggest that people take advantage of Herman Foster - The Explosive Piano/Have you heard These are two sensational albums at any price! And the sound's good. MG

What a wonderful article! Thanks for sharing that 7/4. MG

Hell, the whole thing is sleazy! I noticed the day that I went to the link. I tried to see the contract a couple of times and everytime the numbers increased. Hang on, it went up 8 million in less than 24 hours. That's NOT because people have been messing around on the site trying to access the contract. If the number is real (and how do we know that?) the thing has taken OFF! MG

He's up to 12 million and something now! But still no pic of lady #2... MG

Essex! Sez it orl. MG

In Pontypridd market this morning, found that my man Terry had got me these two: They're a bit small. What they are is Rev F W McGee complete recorded works 1927-1929 (vol 1) Rev F W McGee complete recorded works 1929-1930 (vol 2) MG

And this morning, the postman brought me I actually ordered these in December and, after a series of misadventures, including going back to Japan, they've turned up! MG