The Magnificent Goldberg

Finally Perez Prado - Mambo - Soldore no image on web (this CD is apparently recordings made in Cuba 1947-49) Tito Puente Now - GNP Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Leapin on Lenox - B&B Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Jaws strikes again - B&B Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Light & lovely - B&B Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Modern jazz - King Fred Anderson - On the run - Delmark Fred Anderson was an impulse buy, in a bunch of today's newies the patron pointed out to me when I'd decided what to get MG

Then, a first visit to Paris Jazz Corner Milt Buckner & his alumni - B&B Milt Buckner & Andre Persiani - Pianistically yours - B&B Lionel Hampton - Mostly ballads - Music Masters Lionel Hampton live at the Blue Note - Telarc Jazz Lionel Hampton & his jazz giants - B&B Illinois Jacquet the New York sessions - JSP Tiny Bradshaw 1949-1951 - B&R Classics Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson 1947-1949 - B&R Classics Second visit, because I couldn't resist the 20% off deal Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis 1953-55 - Classics Tito Puente - Puente goes jazz - RCA Victor MG

Dunno why those won't come out, but the links are OK. To continue with the K7s Sayon Camara - Taramakhe vol 2 - TAT Audio Video no usable image on web UCAS Band - Studio 2000 Various artists - Discotheque 73 - Syliphone And some more CDs Alphadio Dara - Kalifou - DFT Lasso Doumbouya - Den den den - Gris Gris (Syllart) Sayon Camara - Saramaya - Gris Gris (Syllart) Kemo Conde - Soumankoi - Syllart - never heard of this guy before - the lad in the shop recommended the album, which is his first. MOST unusual voice. Finally three bunches of Soninke stuff Ganda Fadiga 2008 vol 1 - CK7 Diaby Doua - Faba n'dambe - CK7 Soninkara - Dado - CK7 continued ... MG

Well, after a pig of a week - the week before last - when I had to reload my operating system (Internet Explorer stopped working) and put everything back together again, THEN found I couldn't get Access because Microsoft had voided the product key they gave me and corresponded with a Microsoft guy in Russia (and still haven't got it sorted, but looks like I'll have to buy another copy, as Microsoft are a load of thieving gypsy bastards), went off to Paris. A little trip to Paris always makes me feel good Of course, I hit the record shops in the Goutte d'Or and Paris Jazz Corner and was pleased to see prices coming down - PJC had 20% off everything until 25 July! So I bought enough to nearly cripple myself lugging my bag up and down the stairs at St Pancras and Paddington (I went by Eurostar as there are no longer flights from Cardiff to Paris (!!!). So, from in the Goutte d'Or, I got some CDs Kaniba Oule Kouyate - Democratie - AMC - replacement for an old muddy K7 Youssou Ndour - Bercy 2003 vol 1 - Jololi (volume 2 never issued on CD, must look for a K7) http://www.sternsmusic.com/cdi/fixedSize350x350/yndgb03cd.jpg Thione Seck - Ddiaga - TBS no image on web Ndeye marie Ndiaye Gawlo - Gawlo senegal - Jololi http://www.natari.com/graphics/gawlo-f.jpg Fallou dieng - Maana - 6C - produced by Pape Cisse - 6C is a pun Wally Ballago Seck - Voglio - TBS (Thione Seck's son, on Thione's own label) some K7s Yacouba Kante - Messager du Manding - Sonia Store Alioune Kasse - Kara - PCS http://www.geocities.ws/lydia_gaertner/Diskographien/Alioune_Kasse_Bilder/AliouneKasseKaraVol1.jpg Above 2 are replacements for duff K7s Pathe Moloko - Menminilan - Gris gris no image on web Assane Mboup - Ay beuguente la - Prince arts http://www.dakarmusique.com/images/stories/sorties_album/assanemboup-beugeunte.jpg Toure Kunda - Live - Celluloid http://home.comcast.net/~toure-kunda/images-tk/toure-kunda-live-paris-ziguinchor-cs-france-64602-4.jpg Coumba Gawlo - Accident - Audio Video no image on web - very glad to at last get an original of this - have been making do with a pirate copy for a good many years. Ibro Diabate - M'maloloe - TAT Audio Video - no usable image on web Continued in next 3 posts MG

on the spine of this lp, does it really say Bossa Nova Soul Samba. i think there has been some confusion over this The spine has all four words. It's a reissue by Classic Records, so I don't know if the original LP is the same. on the spine of this lp, does it really say Bossa Nova Soul Samba. i think there has been some confusion over this Looking at the stereo NY USA spine it says Bossa Nova at the top of the spine, and a little further down it reads Soul Samba, then Ike Quebec, and then Blue Note Stereo 84114 near the bottom. I have a transitional copy - a Liberty/UA label, a liberty back sleeve and a NY USA front () - and that's the same - about 3/4" between 'Bossa nova' and 'soul samba'. (I didn't get my tape measure out.

A nice Caravans compilation wouldn't go amiss. And some Rev Maceo Woods, too. But, I kind of agree with Paul. Some hopes. MG

Just had a look at Squatty Roo records but couldn't find any Wild Bill Davis. Could you provide a link to where you saw them, Jim? MG

The long distance runner (who was lonely) Tom Courtney Alan Sillitoe

Bob Stewart is also on Arthur Blythe's 2002 Savant album 'Exhale'. I should have thought a bit more about who plays with tuba players MG

Eric Sykes Tony Hancock Hattie Jacques

So, not Clare Fischer then on #2? Well, yet another bad guess MG

A nice cup of Twinings Assam tea. MG

Gaslamp Quarter Association William Murdoch Dickie Murdoch

How does Freemasonry differ from all those black societies like the Pythians that are constantly being mentioned in bios of musicians of the twenties-forties? MG

We had two or three days of rain, but the forecast's sunny now until Wednesday. I thought summer was over. MG

The Hawks Ronnie Hawkins The Band

Maynard Parker Maynard Keynes Milton Keynes

What an interesting BFT! 1 Trumpet, bells, piano and harp! Then soprano sax and cymbals. A very atmospheric piece; funereal. 2 Brubeck-ish tune. The bass player sounds like the leader, with a long solo, but then it becomes clear as the pianist’s support gradually turns into a solo, rather in the way some MJQ cuts developed. I’m getting a bit of a Clare Fischer feeling about this. I never pursued his work after ‘Great white hope’; maybe a mistake. I like this a lot. Definitely music to live with. 3 A piano trio, but not behaving much like a piano trio. I don’t like the sound of the piano much – it’s rather clangy. But otherwise, this is more music to live with. 4 Alto sax and piano. I should really like to say the sax player is Earl Turbinton – he played very much like this (but unaccompanied) at Professor Longhair’s funeral - but I’m afraid it ain’t. Very interested to see who this is. 5 Piano with strings! Don’t hear too many strings on BFTs. I can see why someone would like this – there’s a lot of interest in the way the tune goes, the way it’s arranged and the solos. But I can’t say it’s for me; too clever. 6 Guitar and bass, with a quiet assist from a drummer. As in 2, the bass player gets the first bite. But seems to me the drummer’s the real star of the guitar solo. That’s not to say the guitarist is bad – he’s damn good. But it’s like he doesn’t really mean it, flitting from one melodic mood to the next. At four minutes, I could really do with a sax solo, straight and from the heart, but I get a load of applause and a bass solo. OK, more applause at 6 minutes and more guitar, then the drummer takes the lead. He must have drowned the audience in sweat! But they liked it. 7 A tuba! And a bass! Is it an alto sax and violin? Can’t say I find the tune very attractive. In fact, the more of this I hear, the more I think that the only one who’s got a real thing together is the tuba player. No that’s not true; he’s the only one whose thing I like. 8 Starts off as if it’s going to be a Bobby Timmons piece. Then it turns into something else a bit like Duke Pearson might play/write. Another one I like. More music to live with. This BFT is looking expensive. 9 After a slow intro that had me thinking about the sound of Freddie Hubbard, this jumps into a Latin-ish groove in which even the improvised passages sound (competently) arranged. Definitely not for me. 10 Nice players; nice ideas, but it just doesn’t seem to flow as much as I feel the musicians really want it to. When the backing vocalists come in it gets a lot more flow into it. I like the last minute and a quarter much more than the first three. 11 That pianist is ALL over that piano. Oh and there’s a familiar lick to the tune that I can’t quite put a handle to. Smashing use of the sustain pedal you seldom hear in jazz. Most pianists so much want to make each note count that they’re very light on sustain. Junior Mance uses it occasionally at climactic points; so (and more frequently) does Les McCann. Here, it produces something like a Phil Spector effect. Cor! This cut is something I admire greatly rather than like very much. 12 You really like textural effects, don’t you? This one’s even more textural than some of the others. So much so that it seems as if it’s done for its own sake. 13 “A child is born’ by a guitar, vibes, bass, drums band. Plus a trumpet  Very nice. I’m not familiar with any of these players but I’m going to guess at a Gary Burton group. 14 “Song for my father’ sung. I heard Leon Thomas sing this on his first album and thought that, like so many Horace Silver tunes, the words left so much to be desired. They should have got Teddy Edwards to write them – now there was a poet! I don’t know who this singer is but he’s heard Leon Thomas’ version. Well, a great deal of interest in this BFT. And a few things I’m feeling I’ve got to get into and spend some money. Oh well, that’s life, I guess. Thanks a lot for the ride, Guv; it was good. MG

Black Sabbath Black Rod Big Black

Wisecrack of the week!!!! MG

Kids... I wonder how old these kids are. I hit the upgrade button on Spotify, to find out how much the premium service is. Amazingly, I found it's 99KR a month. I assume that's Norwegian Krone and is £9.28 (GBP). That's a hell of a slice out of a kid's pocket money (it's a quarter of my own pocket money ) Somehow, I doubt it's kids who are taking these decisions. It's people with jobs - maybe a few well heeled students. But they'll mostly be twenty-somethings. The days when teenagers controlled sales are almost certainly gone. MG

Bang Bros Yaya Bangoura El Bango

Tyrone Shoelaces Tyrone Power Tyrone

Instant Sunshine Marvin Rainwater The Mighty Clouds of Joy

I always wondered what Porter Wagoner looked like. Stone me! MG