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George Barrow Mound City Blue Blowers Milton Graves

Diggory Venn Digby Jones Sam Spade

The tune on #6 is "Priestess" by Billy Harper. Thanks for helping me track this down, Sp. Your info suggests the tenor soloist is Billy Harper, rather than George Adams, as I'd thought. Diggin' the Jo Jones while writing on Organissimo. My idea of multitasking! Diggin' the Jo Jones while writing on Organissimo. My idea of multitasking! P.S. Schaap has now driven me back to my record collection!

Ira Gitler's notes of May 2009 (Moving Out Revisited) say, "'Silk 'n' Satin', coming out of the repertoire of the chanteuse Hildegarde, the 'Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup' lady, is Sonny's transformation of another song strongly associated with her, '(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings', no doubt something he heard in his early years." (Thanks, papsrus )

Jo Jones Centennial Festival on WKCR

Eddie Locke The Doors Diana Dors

Thanks for the identification, Sp. Which track is it on the album?

Harry Edison Fast Eddy Hurricane Higgins

Yusef Lateef Keef Keefer Sutherland

Shouldn't that be "Jonze"?

Naima Syeeda Cousin Mary

Glad you liked the BFT. Some of the critics have got it right!

Golden Gate Quartet Robert Bridges The Georgians

Raymond Carver Cutty Cutshall Pepper "The Knife" Adams

That's a nice one! Recently acquired it on a Collectables two-in-one CD:

Once again my ignorance has been displayed! Only able to identify one track, #6, and it's driving me mad! This is the Gil Evans Orchestra and somewhere in my collection of 7 vinyl discs and one audiotape of relevant Gil Evans material I have a different version of this number, but I can't find it! It bears a strong resemblance to "There Comes a Time", but I don't think that's it. That's probably George Adams on tenor. General comment: There are an awful lot of sopranos in your BFT! My recent BFT was dubbed a "bop fest", but I think yours is something of a soprano summit, not that yours resemble sopranos in the band of that name - they're more Coltrane than Bechet derived. Will listen further and try to make some intelligent comments.

Rex T Rex Dinah Shore

Details now available: Dexter with a Dutch rhythm section at the Paradisio, Amsterdam in 1969, "tearin' it up", as the WKCR presenter said.

You don't have to go that far. Overcast here this morning - after a spooky red sunrise.

Listening on WKCR to what sounds like Dexter on a club date playing "Scrabble from the Apple". Great stuff! No further details as yet.

A bit off the theme, but yours reminded me of this one:

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now listening to Bird, Fats and Bud playing Sir Charkes Thompson's "Street Beat" at Birdland in 1950. Seem to recall a thread on this session this week.