Good Diggin'
- Place of Publication: Portland, OR
- Language: English
- Date of Publication: 1947-1949
- Periodicity: Irregular to December 1948, then monthly
- Editors: Bill Blackburn, Alan Dare, Harry Fosbury, Harold Hollis, Jack Howard, Howard Penny, Bill Peterson, Stan Pintarich, Lee Stafford, Tiny Straughn, John Sweet & John Tillson
- Publishers: Portland Record Collectors’ Club
- Numeration Irregularities: Vol. 3 (1949) skips no. 2.
- Type: Full Text
The organ of the Portland Record Collector’s Club, Good Diggin’ was edited by a rotating group named above, most consistently by Howard Penny. A typescript publication, the first issue opens with a defense of traditional, hot jazz: “Jazz is Still Around” by Claude C. Hamlett. With reference to the arguments over traditional versus progressive jazz occurring elsewhere in the jazz press, writers in Good Diggin’ clearly preferred the former, professed in editorials titled “Spores from a Mouldy Fig.” Much content focuses on discography and information for record collectors. Penny contributes a serialized discography of Muggsy Spanier; other club members provide discographies of specific works (e.g. “Saint Louis Blues” or “Stardust”).