The Magnificent Goldberg

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

Boy Marone Childe Harold Kid Jensen

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

Adrian Zuckermann Gene Barry Burke

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

Charles Rolls Henry Royce Ferruccio Lamborghini

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

Well, I gave up listening to rock in '64, so I'm the LAST person to look for any sense on it. (Selling records next door to an art college in 1969 was kinda purgatory, you can guess.) MG

Oh well, I'm listening to Felix del Rosario now, so I'll have a listen tomorrow Now Felix.... MG

Rogue Warrior Sir Warrior War

Very nice rhythm section. Vocals a waste of time in my view. 'Song of the wind' was very good but for the rock guitar sound - I'd far rather hear Big Jay McNeely honking and screaming for an hour. Well, perhaps not precisely an hour, but I've never like the sound of rock guitars, whereas I do like the sound of a screaming tenor, even it it's not played as articulately as Santa's playing his guitar. Thanks very much Jim. It's not the sort of thing I could stand to listen to over and over, and certainly not desirable enough for me to want to dig through dozens of cuts to find but, at least, I can see what people are on about. Chalk one up for the Ministry of Education (Bev as well). MG

Thought I'd also try out Joe Baatan's 'Afrofilipino'. Nothing much going on here, either. MG