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Hello April O'Neil! TRACK ONE - Ra, "Fall Off The Log". from the Transition sessions. Unmistakable. TRACK TWO - No idea, but it's locked in solid. I like it. TRACK THREE - Pretty specific alto vocabulary, spoken with confidence and command. No idea who it is. Jarman/Moye? TRACK FOUR - Good continuity, if not particularly creative TRACK FIVE - Sonny Simmons? Good directed energy. Direction gives shape, shape gives form. This quite coherent within itself, very nice. TRACK SIX - Gain, great focus, direction. No idea who it is, but I like it. TRACK SEVEN - Sure sounds like Sonny Fortune, his voice. Nice tune, and very vocally played. Sonny Fortune has kinda stayed further under the radar than maybe he deserves. This got that spling! TRACK EIGHT - That's gotta be that comb guy - Red McKenzie, right? Oh, Hawk! Mound City Blue Blowers. Definitely a keeper, if only for Hawk, who is (hopefully) eternal. TRACK NINE - That one flute sounds no unlike the comb on the previous cut. Was that intentional sequencing on your part? No idea who this is, not really my hunker down bag, but it's welcoming nevertheless. TRACK TEN - Oh, the long shadow of The Meters, "Cissy Strut" in particular. That sounds like Grant, and that's definitely a Van Gelder joint. But not Grant's record. Oooh, nice tenor. I don't know this record, at least not off the top of my head, but I should probably get there sooner rather than later. Good stuff! TRACK ELEVEN - "By Myself" at a very fleet tempo! Johnny Hartman, Frank Wess, probably from a Beehive record? Faster than I like my Heartman, but oh well about that. Cats be dealin anyway! Very nice collection for April. Kudos 2tha Kompiler  

Bingo. And if you're talking the Mosaic set, that's exactly where this was pulled from.    🤔     @randyhersom you are right about Darktown Strutter's Ball being the song on # 8, as well as it not being Armstrong.      Not Bellerose or Jeff Parker. Definitely contemporary drumming though. 

2. Contemporary drumming, Jay Bellerose? It sounds to me like the Jeff Parker circle without guitar.

Looks like some good local talent throughout April at The Rex and Hirut.  I see that Rez Abbasi will be at the Rex April 29-May 2, and I'll try to make at least one of those dates.  I have listened to a lot of his work when he teamed up with Vijay Iyer.  I don't think I've seen him live, but maybe he was there at one of the Chicago Jazz Fest concerts featuring Iyer.  I can't recall now though.

Would have been hard to find me in that crowd.  I was standing about 6 feet from Roscoe.  I started a bit further back but as people left I could inch up.