Rabshakeh

Lonnie Smith – Live At Club Mozambique

Eddie Harris - For You, For Me, Forever More

Grant Green - Alive

Martin Carthy With Dave Swarbrick – Byker Hill I never enjoyed Carthy's records but have caught the bug recently.

It just gives it an Ornetteish edge.

ERIC DOLPHY - AT THE FIVE SPOT - COMPLETE EDITION Just so good.

I'm really enjoying the fact that there is cricket chat here. Would not have seen that one coming.

I should add that my dad did exactly this. He dipped from pre diabetic to diabetic, but brought it back through careful work and is not currently either (let's hope it remains that way).

In answer to the original question though, all versions point to the diabetes as being undiagnosed and to Dolphy not only not managing it but also making it much worse with a sugar heavy diet (the article has him eating tubs of ice cream but the honey in the coffee is a common report). Some versions have the doctors recognising Dolphy as suffering the effects of diabetes and trying to treat it, either too late (because he had already suffered the "circulatory attack" which killed him) or killing him through insulin shock. Other versions have the doctor negligently failing to identify the symptoms of a diabetic coma (assuming it was that, as opposed to the attack) on the assumption that it was a drug overdose.

I've always thought that the story of the doctor not treating Dolphy because he assumed he was a drug user who was just overdosing was a bit weird. Doctors don't usually just let drug users sleep off an overdose. The article makes it sound like Dolphy refused to see a doctor, and later died in hospital where he had been taken after suffering a "circulatory collapse" two days earlier, caused by the undiagnosed diabetes. As opposed to hypoglycemia or something of that sort that the doctors had failed to treat, as the story usually goes. Worth adding that Wikipedia presents two versions, one that he fell into a diabetic coma, was diagnosed in hospital, had insulin administered, but died of insulin shock; and then another which matches the often-told story about doctors leaving him to sleep off the overdose. No very impressive citations for either version, though.

Really enjoyed it. It is in roughly the same emotional camp as stuff like Bobby Bland. Nice sound to it too. Now onto something a bit different:

Geater Davis – Sweet Woman's Love

George Lewis – In Hi-Fi Nice work there.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica Haven’t listened to this one in over a decade.

It isn't part of the series. It is the preceding album. I rate it really highly. It's one of his best.

John Carter Quintet - Night Fire

It's my favourite of their records.

Arizona Dranes – Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order - 1926-1929

J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers – Classic Sides 1937-1941 Listening to an MP3 rip I made a while back of this CD box set. A missing link to Bluegrass and a network of musicians that I think have been unjustly obscured.

Stan Levey - Gran Stan

Black Flag – My War

Albert Collins - Ice Pickin' Another spin for this.

Various – Really The Blues? A Blues History 1893-1959 Volume 1 (of 4) (1893-1929)

Leon Rosselson – Songs For Sceptical Circles

Thanks!