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Face to Face has long been my personal favourite soul jazz album with Swingin' at Sugar Ray's being my favourite song on the album. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Whap! from The Honeydripper is basically the same song. As I was listening to the head it struck me as quite similar, but boy was I unprepared for Grant's solo. He almost note for note replayed his solo from S.A.S.R. But hey I don't blame him, it's a legendary solo imo and the McDuff session was just 4 days after the Willette session so I'll give him a pass. I'm interested to hear about other examples of duplicated solos, I'm sure this is not an isolated incident.

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TALKIN ABOUT GREEEEAZZZEE!!!  Larry Young's comping and solo on Dexter's Deck from Forrest Fire is a master class in greasy funky subtle wonderful brilliant intelligent musical awesomeness. The way he constructs the solo off of a simple theme and slowly builds up to such a high energy, foot stompin' groove is just fascinating. And all that at age 19! Talkin' about LARRY YOUNG! What about that Jimmy Forrest too eh?  A pairing made for wax!

FWIW, this session is also listed in the Bruyninckx discography (the version released in instalments as PDF files - but which certainly predates any publications in the Lord discography). So rumors about the existence of this release must have been around for a while.

I came to using Discogs regularly (and even buying there) relatively late (only a couple of years ago) but do appreciate the outline of an artist's output this site provides. The "crumbhunters" ' input to indicate even minor differences in releases, pressings, etc., is useful to me and has helped me in identifying pressings (at least approximately, as I realize you never know where an uncorrected mistake or omission might hide). I dont expect session details there but am glad when they ARE there (they sometimes are). So I take it above all as a database of the physical items that the music was released on to the public. Not as a discography in the stricter sense. One thing I find annoying is the huge amount of multiple entries. When you look for a particular record there you often find one and the same item (not different pressing runs or reissues) has been entered several times - by different people at differnt times - but never consolidated into ONE entry. They really ought to work on that ...