The Magnificent Goldberg

I didn't know about the Storyville reissue, either. Thanks again. The Storyville blurb on their website contains the following gem: Giuffre may COME from Texas, but represent the Texas tenor sound? Har har. (OK, I HAVE got the 45 of 'Big boy'. Even so...) MG

That's a must have for me! Thanks for the plug. MG

Seydina Ndiaye Assane Ndiaye Demba Ndiaye

Cavaliers Roundheads Jefferson Airplane

Ozzie Ouza The Ouzettes

One of Mosaic's REAL downfalls is not including album sleeves in the notes (and those two are really nice). MG

Same way as I did MG

Felix Pussy Galore Scatman Crothers

The Rebel Tony Hancock Syd James

Ah, it's really neat including a well known tune under another title - makes it virtually impossible to identify the recording from researching the tune. I do that a time or two MG Struth! I got four!! MG

Candy Floss Long John

Ah! Got #12. It's probably the bonus track on the CD version of 'This is Criss, with Walter Davis, Alan Dawson and Paul Chambers. I've only got the LP, which is why I didn't know it. MG

I eat all that stuff except yoghurt & raw onions - no good at all if you roll your fags in liquorice paper MG

Always hoped CDBaby worked for the musicians. Had quite a bit of stuff from them over the years. MF

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Edgar Codd IBM

This is Parlophone material. All Parlophone recordings, except for The Beatles, went to Warner as part of the sale of EMI to Universal. Other labels that went to Warner include Colpix and Roulette. MJZ, I don't think that these were Parlophone. I think they were on His Master's Voice. Maybe Warner got all of the HMV recordings as well. Discogs says His Master's Voice as well: http://www.discogs.com/artist/180634-Manfred-Mann I didn't see anything about HMV going to WB on that page. But the band was called 'Mann-Hugg Blues Menn' in '62, when they played a regular gig at the Green Man, Southall, West London. So Discogs info isn't always top notch. MG

James Henry Leeke James Henry Henry James

Country music has a lot of parodies. One I always liked better than the original was Ferlin Husky's parody of Johnny Tillotson's 'Poetry in motion': 'Enormity in motion' under the name of Simon Crum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qOosualt8 MG

I've looked at 'The quest' scores (probably not hundreds) of times over the years, always thinking - 'that looks like an album I ought to buy'. So now I know I was right. And I still ought to buy it. MG

BFT125 Wotcher cock! 1 This is South African or I’m a Dutchman! Very Dollar Brand-ish piano but might not be him, as he was pretty influential there. Could be Lionel Pillay, who also plays a nice organ. This is really nice. (I wouldn’t rule out Abdullah Ibrahim as a sideman, because the piano playing is a lot like him, but the piece as a whole doesn’t match what I’ve heard of him.) I reckon a lot of people would get bored with this, at almost seventeen minutes, because there’s not the kind of variety we expect of a western piece of music, but I’m not finding it boring (well, I don’t usually find material like this boring). A really nice start to a BFT. 2 Cor! Ravishing start to this. It’s a fairly modern clarinet player, I’d guess, and so are the rest of the group. But there’s no trying to outdo Lee Morgan here; just a bunch of people getting it on quietly and with a certain authority. But something familiar about the pianist. 3 Another kind of unassuming track that makes me think of John Lewis – a somewhat later Lewis than I’m used to, I suspect. 4 ‘Stardust’ by gad! The trumpet player was playing too loud when he came in. And the sax player – well, I just don’t like his sound. Extraneous noises abound but the vibes player could be Hamp. 5 This reminds me of a Jimmy Giuffre piece I heard fifty-something years ago – I think it was ‘The train and the river’. I didn’t think much of it then, as I recall. Now (assuming it IS the came record) I think the players are trying too hard to be clever and different. 6 I feel I know this but I know I don’t. 7 A very compelling piece of music this. I recently got an Alex Harding album and this seems to be a lot like him. Sudden stop? Was there an announcement? 8 This one seems like any old bunch of studio musicians put together to play someone’s arrangements. Can’t honestly say there’s anything there to hold my interest long enough to make a stab at identification. 9 Attractive little riff, done quite nicely. 10 Oh, it’s ‘That old feeling’. Something’s familiar about the pianist, so I expect he’s quite well known. But I don’t like or recognise the jangly sound he was getting early on, before the band came in. As it’s live, I guess that’s something piano players have to put up with. 11 Don’t like this one at all. Is that Dave Holland on bass? 12 ‘Love for sale’ – a rather off-centred rhythmic approach to this, but bloody ‘ell, does it swing! Sounds like Sonny Criss. Yes, I’m sure it’s Sonny Criss. No one plays like Sonny! I don’t think I’ve got this recording and wonder why, because I thought I had all his own albums. It’s not from his Imperial album of Coal Porter songs. I’m really looking forward to hear which album this comes from. 13 ‘All the things you are’ with a horrid synthesised bass underpinning a kind of artificial white funk groove that grew out of rock-jazz fusion and epitomises all I dislike about that kind of music. Really bleedin’ awful – sorry. 14 Oh, this nearly sounds like someone imitating Blue Mitchell to start off with. But Blue wouldn’t play as loudly as this. And, as it goes along, it sounds less and less like Blue Mitchell and more and more like someone who hasn’t got his own voice. Not that it’s not quite nice – it is quite nice, though the dog is grumbling fiercely about it (poor taste on his part). 15 ‘Summertime’ by a singer I’ve never heard before. Oh, It’s Sam Cooke! Well, I have heard him before, then. Or maybe it’s Johnny Taylor. I’ve heard him before, too. But I think I’m sure it’s Sam. Very nice ending for the programme, whichever it is. On to Admiral Dele Abiodun and his Top Hitters Band A very interesting BFT, Adam - thanks. Now to look at the replies and find out a thing or two. MG

Yeah, it's very enjoyable and is well worth having. I know - I bought the LP when it came out, but flogged it when hard times hit. MG

Steve Race David Jacobs Humphrey Lyttleton

I never got the Duke Pearson Mosaic Select, so I'm glad 'Merry ole soul' is coming out. MG

Earl Silas Tupper (inventor of Tupperware) Silas Hogg Boss Hogg

It's the keystroke you do that send the whole screen sideways on - can't remember what it was, so I'm always afraid of doing it again. You have to do it in reverse or something to put it right, and you've still got to adjust the size of your windows. Ugh! MG