1. Maybe Kenny Burrell.
2. Teddy Wilson?
3. I don't think Basie bands featured the clarinet this much. Maybe Benny Goodman?
4. New Orleans style is the term always favored by those in the know over the more offensive southern associated term. Can't rule out Louis Armstrong.
5. I'll try Sidney Bechet
6. I wondered about Grachan Moncur.
7. This could be actual classical, maybe Grieg or Mussorgsky, if not the influence is very strong. But wait, an electric guitar. I think there's a Burrell on Verve with Forms in the title that this might fit.
8. Bass and tabla! I think I would know it if it were Oregon. Nana Vasconcelos?
9. All about the piano, and gorgeous
10. Feels like Duke Ellington
11. Rosemary Clooney?
12. It's probably a later band, but this has a real Charles Mingus feel. Well, not that one sinceit's live
13. Charles Earland?
14. This is so Coltrane Classic Quartet! Maybe one of the 21st century releases like Both Directions at Once.
Here is a complete set list, including the quartet set preceding the octet:
St. Louis Blues
The Crossing
All My Love
Porque No?
Travelin' Blues
Dave discusses the octet
Curtain Music
Dave talks
The Way You Look Tonight
Dave talks
You Go To My Head
Laura
Love Walked In
Take Five
CJF Commentary
Take the A Train
Dave Brubeck - piano
Bobby Militello - alto sax
Michael Moore - bass
Randy Jones - drums
Bill Smith - clarinet (7-15)
Eric Schneider - tenor sax (7-15)
Audrey Morrison - trombone (7-15)
Art Hoyle - trumpet (7-15)
Russell Gloyd - conductor (7-15)
Taylor Eigsti - piano (11-15)
Jeff Lindberg - octet transcriptions