The Magnificent Goldberg

I can't trace it now, but I've seen something on a BB about it, or maybe had an e-mail from Mosaic that I didn't keep (unlikely). Apparently, it's only going to include records Les made as a sole leader, so the ones he made with Groove Holmes, Jazz Crusaders, Teddy Edwards & Clifford Scott won't be included. MG Edit - It's not in the Mosaic upcoming projects list yet. Man, I would love to get all those Pacific Jazz trio sessions on one collection. Me too. Anxiously awaited, is the phrase, I think. MG

I can't trace it now, but I've seen something on a BB about it, or maybe had an e-mail from Mosaic that I didn't keep (unlikely). Apparently, it's only going to include records Les made as a sole leader, so the ones he made with Groove Holmes, Jazz Crusaders, Teddy Edwards & Clifford Scott won't be included. MG Edit - It's not in the Mosaic upcoming projects list yet.

I've been deaf to this stuff for ages--regardless of 'genre' qualifications, are they any good? If so, I may have to make a run to the shop... As per Spaceways, etc... a lot of Vandermark's stuff is pretty groove heavy. Not just swinging--a lot of his material likes to ride on the beat. William Parker, too, for that matter. I listened to them out in the garden earlier today - very loudly. Actually, I liked them better today than I ever have before. (I'm not really very keen on either Hendrix or Abercrombie.) For the first time in 11 years, I noticed that the one original, "Jimi meets Miles" (though what Miles has to do with it, I don't know), is yet another version of Lonnie's car chase number, which he's recorded four (three other) times under different titles. I might give them another go in a couple of months, to see if the effect was just the weather... MG

Yes it does, seven LPs and one track released only on a 45 rpm single. The music is inluded in LP issue order - tracks from each session were spread over several LPs. Thanks very much , Mike MG

Youssou N'dour says that white people can't dance to Mbalax because it's rhythmically too sophisticated for them; like 4/4 and 6/8 simultaneously with an accent on the 7th beat of each alternate bar! He's wrong, but you really need to feel like it! MG

I had two of her LPs - "I put a spell on you" and "Wild is the wind"- and a 45 or two in the '60s. I, too, found that, although it was superb stuff, there were times I didn't want to know. Which, I suppose, is why I flogged them and never replaced them. The one cut I always regretted not keeping was "Please don't let me be misunderstood". But I might get this box now. Does the set contain EVERYTHING she recorded for Philips? MG Edit - didn't realise this thread was so old, 'til I read the other one.

Just pulled out the two perfect albums for this. Lonnie Smith's "Foxy lady" and "Purple haze", both with John Abercrombie and Smitty Smith. I suppose his "Afro blue" would qualify as well, but perhaps not so well. MG

On the album "ESPM the reunion: Live at Akhbar Hall" Idris Muhammad congratulated the dancers and said that he had structured his solo around them. I think that was one of the nicest things a musician has ever said to his audience. MG

YESSSSS! (Well, there are a few others...) MG

Since the forthcoming Les McCann Mosaic apparently isn't going to include the albums Les made with Teddy Edwards and Clifford Scott, I'd quite like to see them come out in future releases of Mosaic singles. MG

Glad you upped this Red. John Fourie, who was mentioned in a few posts on page 2, apparently did go to the US. If it's the same musician, he played "fuzz guitar" on Charles Earland's first "Intensity" session (16 Feb 1972). I don't have any other recordings with him on them, (AFAIK ). The Kaz albums are great. MG

Yikes, what a creep. Guy Communism's respectable over here. My grandfather was a Bolshevik; deported back to Russia after the Revolution for refusing to give up starting trade unions in the sweatshops of the East End. That sort of thing was necessary and the Communists were the only ones trying to do anything about it. MG

Jimmy McGriff - "The last minute". Don't know for sure whether it was overdubbed, though. He might have been playing piano and organ at the same time. MG

It sez 'ere - "Blue Note 24 bit by RVG" then there's some Japanese writing. TOCJ9248, came out in November 2000, along with "Oh Baby", "Am I blue", "Chicken shack", "The right touch", "Crazy baby", "Natural soul", "Grantstand", "New perspective" and "Lightfoot". Altogether a bunch of worthy Soul Jazz material, many of them classics; few (only one or two?) issued in US. As I've frequently said, I think Mr Cuscuna has a "down" on Soul Jazz. MG

I don't think it sucks. True, the material is mostly dunggggg! True, the tracks are too short for real digging in solos. But an old swing musician once told me, "if you can't say something in four bars, you can't say anything in 17 choruses". And Grant, John (I'm sure it IS him, but don't positively KNOW) and Frank Mitchell do say something in their short solos. Particularly Frank who, on "Walkin' my cat named dog" (I think), produces a solo that any of the big honking saxmen would be proud of; that solo is worth the entrance fee. MG

No - I haven't read every science fiction book ever written. Just a lot. 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 And side 1 is also seriously off-centre, too. I love Fela's own productions; they're full of faults. The original version of "Authority stealing" jumps but, charmingly, has an apology printed on the sleeve. And a free copy of Fela's anti-Government newspaper is enclosed. MG

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