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I've just been listening to "Soul connection" and paid particular attention to Grant Reed, the tenor player on the date. Apart from this, Reed has, to my knowledge, only appeared on 2 Mongo Santamaria albums - "Mongo '70" and "Mongo's way". But he's a great tenor player; rather reminiscent of Booker Ervin and John Manning. Does anyone know anything about him? Is he from Texas? Has he appeared on any other albums? MG
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Any new guitarist on the scene worth listen to.
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Artists
Randy is far and away my favourite among the post '70s players. I have all nine of his own CDs, and probably most of his sideman stuff so far. To me, he embodies the SPIRIT of Grant Green, while sounding very different - though as Chrome says, v funky. He has that same enthusiasm for playing that you could always feel with GG. Bobby Broom, as lots of people have said, is pretty good - I like him with the Deep Blue Organ Trio as much as on "Modern Man". Rodney Jones is good, too, when he's on, which seems to be about half the time. Check out "Right now" and "Soul Manifesto Live" (much more enjoyable then "Soul Manifesto" (dead)). Peter Bernstein sounds too much like GG. So does Grant Green Jr (Greg Green), but in a sense he's entitled to. After all, if your Dad was GG, and gave you LESSONS, who else are you gonna sound like? But I do like "Back to the groove" (PaddleWheel) and "Jungle Soul" (Venus). MG -
I gotta find a copy of that. The auction ended at $21.00. Any board member the lucky winner? That's pretty cheap! And here I thought I had a valuable original! MG
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What music did you buy today?
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to tonym's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Thanks to Jim for posting this a while back. First instalment of the clear up outstanding OJCs before Concord slashes them MG -
I was playing David Newman's "Under a Woodstock moon" yesterday. Some nice Spring things in that one. MG
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boxes for moving LPs - options
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to slide_advantage_redoux's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Our removal firm brought along a lot of sturdy cardboard boxes (though they underestimated the number needed). It nearly killed the guys getting them up the stairs (my collection is upstairs in the new house), but they did it. It nearly killed me organising the boxes, once upstairs, so I could get the stuff out in approximately the right order, too. If you're doing the move yourself, why not contact some removers and ask to buy a quantity of the type of boxes they use? Best of luck. MG -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Nice one! MG -
Lee Morgan's 9-13-1968 Blue Note session
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Discography
I do agree it's a thankless job, whether you get it right or wrong. The idea of putting the somewhat duff cuts out as downloads sounds pretty sensible, to me. Perhaps someone would put Grant Green's first five tracks from 1956 out that way. MG -
I started off seriously listening to jazz with the MJQ but Milt didn't really make that much of an impression on me - except occasionally on the title track of "Pyramid". I think that band didn't give him enough blues. Recently, I've got much more into him. Over the years, I bought a few of the albums he made with Soul Jazz musicians like Cannonball, Ray Charles, Wes and Stanley Turrentine; then his own "Plenty plenty soul". That convinced me that Milt was another guy like Stitt - a first rate bopper OF COURSE, but one who was actually very, very much at home in a soul jazz context, in which he got a lot of opportunity to play really very funky stuff, and enjoyed it greatly. But the album of his I really like best is "Soul Believer", which is his vocal album. God! Could that man sing! So beautiful. Such a wonderful feeling to it. I also like Johnny Lytle a very great deal, who's been mentioned here, and have most of his albums. But the guy I really love is the great Freddie McCoy. Freddie was the first jazz musician to pick up on the work of James Brown in the mid-sixties. No one seems to recognise the importance of this. His Prestige recordings are totally greeeassssy. And totally lyrical at the same time. And none are available on CD. MG
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Lee Morgan's 9-13-1968 Blue Note session
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Discography
How do you get a job like that, David? MG -
It's a good sleeve note, but I wish there had been some discographical information (aside from which company liscensed which cut). I would like to have dates and personnel for each selection. I have a Gospel music discography on my shelf, from which I can get those details, or whatever is known about them. Many of these songs have been recorded more than once by the artists concerned; can you let me have the details of which companies each track was licensed from? (By the way, Joel has less than 20/20 hindsight. Harold Vick's album "After the dance", which came out on Dorn's first label, Wolf, had no sleeve note.) MG
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I forgot Hoagy. You reminded me; the bridge on "Skylark" is just incredible, especially the way Hoagy sang it on his Pacific Jazz album. Better get that out and play it later. MG
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What cool things does your pet do?
The Magnificent Goldberg replied to Free For All's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
At present, we don't have any pets, though one of the reasons we moved last year was to get a garden and have a dog again. We haven't got around to it yet. We used to have a cat (well two, but the thick one got run over when she was about a year old) and two dogs; a Pug and, later, a Peke. The Pug, Toby, was a total nutter. The cat, Golly, was 7 when we got him. He started out by thinking he was a cat and couldn't understand why he couldn't get up on the back of the settee as easily as she did. She tolerated him for the rest of her life - she was 18 when she died - but used to get an evil pleasure out of baiting him. She'd dart at him, then dart away and he'd give chase around the flat (apartment). She'd leap onto the hall table and, as Toby would rush around, passing benneath her, she'd lean over and bop him one; it didn't slow him down a bit. She had a number of tricks. One was knocking on the front door when she wanted to come in - lifting the letter-box flap. But when we were in bed, she'd leap onto the 1" window ledge, hanging on by her claws, and scrabble loudly with her hind legs. We used to take her on holiday to my in-laws, who lived in the country. Because we were worried about her getting lost, we put her on a lead. And she didn't mind at all! Later, she used to go on her own holidays, too. During the summer, she went to stay with the neighbours over the back fence. That was how we got friendly with them. Pugs, however, are THE dogs for funny things. Toby couldn't be punished. He enjoyed all kinds of punishment, including anything our daughter fancied doing to him (she was 7 years older than him). He used to love showing us how naughty he'd been. He'd slip into our daughter's room and find a soft toy, spend a short while chewing it lovingly, then bring it in to show us. Very apologetic when punished, then go and do it again. He used to sleep in the kitchen and there was a street light outside that room. In the late afternoon, he'd sit in the kitchen, looking at the light, and barking to make it come on. When it did, he'd go mad barking like crazy, then put himself to bed. He also loved chasing trains and, regrettably, cars. He ALWAYS had to be on a lead on the road but, down on the cricket pitch by the railway, we could let him go. And could he go when a southbound train went past! Then he'd come back saying, "sent that one off, didn't I?" The only trouble with Pugs is the folds in their face, which trap snot. Toby used to clean his face by rubbing it on our white leather suite. YUKKKKK! The Peke, Blossom, didn't do anything much, but she was nice. MG -
Good sleeve note. MG
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I understand what you're saying but, in terms of looking after the heritage of its recordings, there's no company I know of except Delmark and ECM that doesn't or hasn't deleted some of its material. That doesn't mean that, at some point or other, the company won't reissue it. They'd be somewhat more likely to, I feel, if people were to tell them they'd rather like to buy the stuff than if they were to remain silent. For my part, I still haven't finished getting all the James Cleveland, Bishop Jeff Banks, Dr Charles G Hayes and Donald Vails Choraleers CDs I want yet (but there are 85 OJCs on my "to buy before Concord slash them" list). MG
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Frank Rosolino and that trombonist who played a lot with Louis Armstrong who I always think is Frank Rosolino. (but probably isn't) MG
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I don't think Stan Kenton did - Chris seems to have been the only one of his singers he didn't marry. MG
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Nor have I; though I do have 2 by Urban Knights. (Hur hur) MG
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I said that, as far as CDs are concerned, the Peacock catalogue was almost dead in the water and the Savoy catalog is not in much better shape. I would say that your link is a testimony to that. Almost everything available from the golden age is cassette tape only. Actually, I do stand corrected, however. The Japanese have released a good share of golden age gospel Savoy recordings on CD. On the other hand, other than a few nice "Best of" collections for the Davis Sisters and Roberta Martin Singers, Malaco has done next to nothing for getting the Savoy catalog on CD. That's just looking at one style of Gospel music. On choirs, Savoy (and Malaco) are wonderful. For example, Savoy traces the whole development of the modern choir movement from its early beginnings with Rev James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir in the early 1960s right up to modern choirs like the wonderful Georgia Mass Choir. And a lot of that material is available and on CD. Malaco/Savoy is not a company that exists to preserve a heritage, like Document; the company is in the business of making records NOW for its own niche market, which it used to describe as middle-aged African Americans in the South, whose needs weren't being addressed by any other company. In the 1990s, the company usually accounted for about a third of all the albums on the Gospel charts. At present, they seem to have about a third of the cuts on the most played Gospel radio chart. With the company's focus so clearly on today's musical needs, the fact that such a large proportion of that heritage is still available (albeit on K7) can only be regarded as a plus. MG
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It seems to me that we're prime candidates as victims of this type of scam, as we nervously wonder when our next bunch of CDs is going to arrive. MG
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I wouldn't say Savoy's catalogue is dead in the water. A huge amount of the material is still available. After over 60 years, Savoy is still THE major Gospel label. http://www.malaco.com/Catalog/Gospel/list.php MG
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This album comes from a few sessions, it seems to me. Some of the tracks have Earland on organ, while others have Jimmy McGriff's band; you can definitely hear Fats Theus and O'Donel Levy in there as well as McGriff on "Something" and "3 AM blues". MG PS the album has also been issued on the Rare Bird label under Charles Earland's name. PS and Trip, I think.
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After Grant Green, George Freeman and Calvin Newborn are my second favourite guitarists. Some Freeman to look out for, in addition to what's been posted above: Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - You talk that talk - George's intro to "The sun died" is absolutely a killer! So simple, so effective. Gene Ammons - The black cat - This and the one above are on one CD Legends of Acid Jazz PR24188 Jimmy McGriff - Fly dude - Groove Merchant Jimmy McGriff - Friday the 13th, live at Cook County Jail - Groove Merchant (the B side of this is by Lucky Thompson and is only OK) I guess you can get tracks from Fly Dude on one of those horrid LRC compilations; I've never bothered to look. Groove Holmes & Les McCann - Groove - Pacific Jazz Mickey Fields - The astonishing Mickey Fields - Edmar. This is a bit difficult to find I think. Fields was the local Baltimore tenor hero and dangerous man to have sitting in on your gigs. This one was recorded live at a Left Bank Jazz Society gig with Fields sitting in with Groove Holmes band - the same personnel as on "The Groover". Groove Holmes and Jimmy McGriff - Come together - Groove Merchant (not the live set) MG
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I do like the Supreme Angels - the material they did at Nashboro was very good indeed, though their mostly live album was the best of the lot. Like you, I've been listening to gospel music for decades and have about 300 albums. The field is as wide as jazz but under-explored. I have little pre-war stuff; am just getting into Document records; in the past few weeks have bought both of their Rev J C Burnett CDs and the first 4 vols of Rev J M Gates complete recordings. Prime recommendations for people who want to look a little deeper: Best of the Pilgrim Travelers - Specialty The Soul Stirrers - Shine on me - Specialty (pre-Sam Cooke material) Best of Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes - Specialty (Bet this stuff is the first to go when Concord get fed up with maintaining the huge Fantasy catalogue.) Rev James Moore - Live in Detroit - Malaco The Georgia Mass Choir - They that wait - Savoy Rev James Cleveland & the Angelic Choir - Peace be still - Savoy And for Detroit fans, as well as Moore, there's Donald Vails' Choraleers - a good bit of material on Savoy. MG