The Magnificent Goldberg

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Gotta say, I don't agree with Smith/Burrell. I think together they were pretty much the same as apart. And Smith couldn't have made an album like 'Up the street, round the corner, down the block', which is about my favourite Burrell. But they DID go together very well. Also Jaws and Griff... I have a marked preference for the two of them together over Griff alone, in general, but I think it's because Jaws is there There's a lot of Griff I like a lot, like 'Grab this', 'Big soul band', 'Soul groove' and 'Bush dance', but I think it may be who's with him, too. Often, he sounds a bit too much like a jazz musician for me. (A distinctly one-sided view, of course ) MG

Oh, I think I have most of the Kent/Modern material. Didn't know the story about 'Tramp'. MG

When were Lowell and Maxwell working together? Late 40s/early 50s? That's a hole in my collection that I've been meaning to close since the sixties - big mistake, eh? MG

Now Florida Mass Choir - Be encouraged - Savoy next Sonny Stitt - In style - Muse (WEA France) MG

I don't quite agree that Stanley sounds better than ever on those, but they're both super albums. Sometimes it's just on the day. Les McCann and Eddie Harris, to me, sound better than ever on 'Swiss movement' but not on 'Second movement', which is just the regular thing. I think Bill Doggett, Billy Butler and Clifford Scott sounded better together than any of them ever did without the others - but perhaps not always; I think there may have been some pretty ordinary sides I can't remember. Sometimes there's a perfect team and it doesn't really matter if not everything's up to the same mark. Same goes for Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Also Leon Spencer, Mel Sparks and Idris Muhammad. And McDuff, Benson, Dukes. But is this moving away from what you intended? MG

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Yay! I was playing the Junior Walker a few days ago. now Milt Buckner, Arnett Cobb & Eddie Chamblee - Midnight slows vol 6 - Black & Blue next, all three volumes of Sonny Clark Trio - BN (Toshiba) MG

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I got several, then decided that, if I filled in the boxes, I'd probably do better, so I spent an age trying to do it in Paint. Bloomin' 'opeless! So I gave up. Should perhaps have printed it out and filled it in in pencil MG

Now Melvin Sparks - Sparkling - Muse Very different from his usual style of albums - I wish he'd recorded more with a piano quartet. MG

Just started Bill Hardman - Home - Muse I LURVE the sleeve, too! MG

Bloomin' 'eck! I never knew that! Now that was a nice band. Imperfectly competent I think, but with plenty of enthusiasm and good taste to make it up. MG

Just started Kenny Burrell - Ellington is forever vol1 - Fantasy (promo) Had to get vol 2 on CD - never saw an LP over here. Played that the other day. MG

Africando does it on their latest album How do you get it to come out like a screen? MG

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You know, when I discovered the BNBB I first thought that moniker was some weird reference to tomatoes. I thought so just now MG Were you there back then, or did you join "the community" here at O? I joined here, after finding out (not easily) about this place at AAJ. MG

So there's stuff of you with Red knocking about? Whoa!!!! MG

Is he allowed to be re-elected? MG

You'd be hard pressed to find a better example of music that 'evolves' and varies than Wagner (OK, there are long passages where the storyline gets repeated like one of those Channel Four documentaries) across 'The Ring'. Not that my parents would have know - it was very much greatest hits! Ride of the Valkyries, Lohengrin Wedding March etc. R + H is rich in the sort of harmonic variation (unusual shifts to distant keys) that you don't get in the rawer forms of Afro-American music (I'm not criticising the latter - I've come to appreciate the very different richness of blues music subsequently; completely different approaches to harmony). Danger - Typoman strikes again! I thought I'd typed 'not' MG

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You know, when I discovered the BNBB I first thought that moniker was some weird reference to tomatoes. I thought so just now MG

Funny, all your parents' music was of the repetitive kind... Well, now Wagner. MG

What next? Batman? Holy smoke!!! Organissimo is a WONDERFUL place!!!!! MG

Very equable post, Bev. I don't know what I'm conditioned to but maybe it goes way back - my earliest memory is singing along with my mother to 'Open the door, Richard', when I was three. Would that make any difference? Who could say? But I know that in the early fifties I thought that most of the pop music on the radio was crap - and I haven't changed my mind about all those Guy Mitchell etc records. Only thought that Johnnie Ray was great and later found out he was doing an Amos Milburn thing. And working in a black club in Detroit. Then Fats Domino came along in '56 and I found proper music MG