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General house keeping comment I've got the archive complete through 2017. With the new site setup, I've changed the instructions for naming files for the BFT. In short, if you follow the new instructions, uploading becomes a breeze and very little time is wasted (as opposed to what I'm going through building the archive). Please and thanks, take a look at the instructions here: https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/83336-how-to-setting-up-a-blindfold-test/

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 & No.5

Along with one of my personal favourites:

Taik Givens - The Nature Of Life (Vol. 2)

Dexter Gordon “Night Ballads - Montreal 1977” Uptown cd This one cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it. Recorded live at The Rising Sun in Montreal, November 9-12, 1977. Featuring the great saxophonist Dexter Gordon, pianist George Cables, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Eddie Gladden.

Tatum must have been frustrated dealing with noisy club audiences. Too bad he didn't live to do the international solo tour in concert halls that Norman Gran had scheduled for him. European audiences would have gone nuts over him. I get a kick out of his remarks after playing "Kerry Dance," a signature sign off piece, to "Go home."

Yep .... btw we should mention Günter Lenz in the "Underrated Bassists" thread ....

Good call ....

Tommy Flanagan - Positive Intensity (Sony/Japan). Tommy with Ron Cater & Roy Haynes from 1977. Nicely done if a bit too brightly presented on the Japanese CD I found in a used bin yesterday.

The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-1947, disc II Revisiting this set with enjoyment. That studio at that time had such a rich sound for their releases.

Oh goody, I like this series very much! Sound is good, consistent approach. We were just getting to a lot of the best stuff in the mid and late 30's and then the monthly releases stopped.

It is just very dense. And those quotations often need a couple of reads to be understood. Also intense. There's a lot there.

I think it is rape ideation because it substitutes a male fantasy of women's submissiveness, as though they want it whether they know it or not.

Clara Haskil performs with Henry Swoboda & the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra: - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K.459 - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

Another thumbs up for Swing to Bop from me also. I read it early on in my jazz explorations, and it was massively helpful.

I’d say that some of these posts are getting strange but then most of this thread is.

In what way?

I got that one and Baritone Monk. I got a few dls from Screwgun: 5 by Bloodcount, Sanctified Dreams by Tim Berne and No Tamales on Wednesday by Science Friction (also featuring Berne). and a couple of things from British Progressive Jazz. I'm strongly leaning towards the deal on Greenleaf Music where you can get all their back catalogue (as dls) for $775 - $75. Will ponder a bit longer before, most likely, pulling the trigger.

La Forme De L'esprit Est Un Papillon * Couleurs Inventées * Univers Nerveux (Inédit) (In Memoriam K. Stockhausen)

It's still faster than real time.

The Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet - Never Let It End (MPS, 1971) with Heinz Sauer (ts, as), Günter Lenz (b), and Ralf Hübner (d) Brilliant band. Brilliant album. If MPS ever reissued this on vinyl, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.