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Big Thief: Double Infinity

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Happy new year! 1 - Old school style on the tenor sax. Great tone and playing. Is it the Stitt/Gonsalves duo on Impulse? Was thinking someone like Hank Jones on keys so this kind of makes sense but it's a wild guess.  2 - Average White Band? It's not Pick Up the Pieces but damn, sounds a whole lot like it. If it's not them, then I'm guessing Eddie Harris.  3 - Jam session? The sax honks in the intro are entertaining. Off time and totally random sounding, like someone's fucking around and having fun. Bluesy as hell. Is Earl Bostic involved? 4 - No idea. The recording has the rhythm section a bit buried - there's drums back there somewhere but I can barely make them out.  5 - Coming up with no ideas here. The sax has some Webster-ish style, but I think this was recorded way later than Ben's day. tough one for me.  6 - Dipping way into the blues well again, and I'm loving the slow tempo. Roland Hanna? No idea on sax or elsewhere. At this point I'm realizing that whatever the obvious song is I'm going to miss the hell out of it.  7 - Oh, this must be it. Of course I can't name it but it's really familiar. At the risk of embarrassment, is it Johnny Griffin and Jaws? Whoever it is, it's my favorite track so far of this BFT.  8 - Here we go with some B3. Nice. Love the guitar as well. Well done by whoever's playing. Reverb is present. I can't tell who this is. Wild Bill on organ?  9 - All right, some clarinet. Art Pepper? Having a hard time making a judgement of when this was recorded.  10 - Going out with a bang here. Ronnie Laws maybe?  Thanks for putting this together. Enjoyable listen. 

Quick search, what does the Debut cover lool like?

The book is a very engaging and quick read. I haven't leafed through it in some time, but still have it on the shelf. a classic! Have the LP in the racks (mine's a Dutch Fontana, as pictured, though I probably couldn't turn down the Danish Debut if I ran into it).