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Jimmy Mundy Montag Tuesday Weld

Professor Longhair and His Shuffling Hungarians Lynn Barber Bela Bartok

"Portrait of Little Jazz: A Centennial Tribute to Roy Eldridge" on Night Lights from WFIU

Ariel Guglielmo Marconi John Logie Baird

Allen Lowe Trudy Pitts Timothy Bottoms

This is my first BFT and I'd better say at the outset that it's been as much an exercise in searching for information as of musical knowledge. Particularly helpful have been Amazon's lists of albums and tracks, as well as Cook and Morton's guide. That said, I'm still left with little more than guesswork for about half of the tracks. So, here goes: 1. I think this is Marion Brown playing Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy". I started by recognizing the tune and that it was played by an avant-garde altoist and then found from Ubu's blog that Marion Brown had recorded "B&TF". Hope this won't be seen as cheating of the worst sort! Nice to hear a tune from the 1920s played by someone from the other end of jazz! 2. Piano, guitar, muted trumpet and bass, recorded in the 1940s. All very boppish, with possible influence from the Nat King Cole Trio and Fats Navarro. Can't say any more than that. 3. I think this is Tony Fruscella playing "Blue Lester". I know the tune and Fruscella's sound and found this track on one of his albums. 4. This is Lee Wiley singing "Street of Dreams". First of all I thought it might be Mildred Bailey. Google did the rest, taking me to a YouTube clip of this track. 5. This is Jack Teagarden playing and singing "In a Litte Waterfront Café" with a string orchestra from his album Think Well of Me (1962). This is the only artist I recognized straight away. Cook and Morton did the rest. 6. "I Cover the Waterfront" recorded live by a big-toned, bop-influenced tenor whose sound reminds me a little of Roland Kirk. Can't say any more. 7. Tenor, bass, drums recorded fairly recently, judging by the quality of the sound. Very high level of instrumental proficiency from bassist. No idea who they are. 8. Trumpet or flugelhorn, alto, piano, bass, drums. Recent. A lot collective improvisation. No idea who it is. 9. Avant-garde influenced tenor (reminds me of Shepp or George Adams) and similar trumpet in a big band setting which is surprisingly conventional as regards arrangement and voicings. 10. Guessed this might be Albert Ayler and Amazon samples suggest it is. When Ayler first emerged in the mid-sixties, I decided his music wasn't for me and haven't listened to it until this BFT. I now recognize it as amazingly powerful and I think exposure over the years to the many tenormen who have taken aspects of his sound has made it easier for me to get his message now. (Hope after all that, this isn't someone else!) 11. Trio of alto, bass and drums. Free form? Well, I can't detect any chord sequence! 12. Sounds like the early beginnings of big band jazz. I'd say this was Fletcher Henderson around 1928. Some great "hot" soloists! Trumpet swings like mad! 13. Piano/guitar duo playing "Poinciana". Boppish: perhaps recorded 1950s. 14. Solo soulful piano, recorded fairly recently. Gospel-ish melody. Gently swinging - nice! Of the usual suspects (Ray Bryant, Ramsey Lewis, etc), I'll plump for Junior Mance. 15. This is a fairly recent recording of what I call "comic" dixieland, of the sort popularized by the Firehouse Five and heard on the soundtrack of Woody Allen's The Sleeper. As this is Ubu's BFT, could this be a Swiss band?

Lady Windermere Mr Chad Chad Varah

Red Admiral

Wow!

Billy Bang

Spiggy Topes and the Turds Squatty Roo Kanga

Charles Cornwallis Devon Malcolm Clark Kent

A bad case of poster's droop!

The Terriers The Old Contemptibles The Poison Dwarves

Jazz Library: Sonny Stitt Although I have most of the discs played, Alan Barnes's perceptive comments reveals them anew!

Wasn't that good? I know the tune from Bobby Hutcherson's 'Patterns' which shares Cowell on piano. Enjoyed the Sonny Stitt Jazz Library too. Missed the Barnes/Stitt show. Must catch it on i-player. Too busy this afternoon joining University and Colleges Union members (NATFHE in my day) at the big Manchester anti-cuts rally. Approve, Bev?

Dionne quintuplets

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Max Roach Quintet, "Effi" (1968) from Members, Don't Git Weary Never heard this disc before, tho' I saw almost the same quintet (Odean Pope instead of Gary Bartz) here in Manchester in about 1968.

Nimrod Apollo Zeus Jim Godbolt Rumbelows Thunderclap

Leon Trotsky Eddie Cantor Sir Jock Stirrup

Not her again! The Beatles Adolf Hitler The Golden Striker

Johnny Hodges Earl Warren John Bunny

Sven Ulrika Scarlett

Stuck out like a sore thumb, didn't it? They were obviously able to remove it from the online edition, but it remains there in all its glaring awfulness in the newspaper!

Rebecca Mark Alfred Marks Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Engelbert Humperdinck Humphrey Lyttelton