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It's a buncha girls! So, you could have given a bunch more hints, including the names of the band members, and I wouldn't have guessed who this was. However, through the magic of google I found them. I've apparently had some free time on my hands today and just wanted to know. Have you seen these folks in person? I bet it is a really fun show. No, I haven't heard them in person, but I have several of their albums and like them a lot. Feel free to go ahead and spill the beans if you want to. For some reason, Amy and the Burners didn't make too much of an impact on this side of the pond.

It's a buncha girls!

I just want someone to tell me how often I should change the needle of my CD player.

Victoria Spivey - The Blues is Life (Folkways)

Another one of today's finds: Art Hodes - Mostly Blues (Audiophile) I'm quite taken with this one, musically and sonically. This is a very early stereo record (recorded in December, 1957), and it sounds fabulous. Ewing Nunn, who owned Audiophile Records, was a recording genius. I've got a few of his records, and they all sound amazing. I suspect that if he had been interested in modern jazz, rather than traditional jazz/dixieland, he would be as famous as Rudy Van Gelder. The Audiophile catalog is now owned by George Buck and Jazzology.

Stopped by one of my local record stores today and picked up some nice vinyl. The first three spins: Chick Corea - The Song of Singing (Blue Note Liberty) Al Grey with Billy Mitchell - Night Song (Argo mono) Bill Jennings with Jack McDuff - Glide On (Prestige mono yellow/black label in a Status sleeve) Liner notes by Christiern. If The Magnificent Goldberg reads this - this was the record store where we spent an hour two years ago; I thought about you when I found this Bill Jennings record. If you don't have this one, I'll consider this payback for you snatching a gospel record I wanted from under my nose.

Not me. Back to the original question - I have both of these CDs, and neither is my favorite work by these artists. But they are not quite like anything else these two guys have done, and they've really grown on me. Every time I play one I like it better than the last time I heard it. Neither one is "obvious" music, and they take some time to digest, at least for me.

Give the piano man a cigar - that's the artist, album, and track. I'll reveal the complete personnel on Monday, but I'll go ahead and name the soloists, since they're not exactly big names: Dick Hurwitz on trumpet and Bill Robinson on baritone. There are a few relatively well-known names in the band. More about this fine album on Monday.

As was the case with the Panorama Jazz Band, this artist wasn't chosen for this BFT in order to stump folks by picking someone hopelessly obscure. I picked this track because I think that this album is a minor masterpiece, and nobody seems to know it. Hopefully, at least a few people might check out the Panorama and this guy's Pacific Jazz album after this BFT. I do plan on buying Panorama Jazz Band's CD(s). I really liked what I heard from their website. I think that the most recent one, Come Out Swinging, is their best. Ben has continually grown as a player since their first album, and Come Out Swinging was recorded after Aurora joined the band - she's not on their first two.

No, no, and no. Time for some hints on this one, but I don't know if they'll help. Max Harrison has praised this writer on a couple of occasions. His output is small - this record on Pacific Jazz might be his only album as leader. He was probably better known for his work as an educator; among other things he wrote a book on arranging for jazz orchestra. As was the case with the Panorama Jazz Band, this artist wasn't chosen for this BFT in order to stump folks by picking someone hopelessly obscure. I picked this track because I think that this album is a minor masterpiece, and nobody seems to know it. Hopefully, at least a few people might check out the Panorama and this guy's Pacific Jazz album after this BFT.

Ah, Aurora! That gave it away: it's the the Panorama Jazz Band. Ben Schenck is the clarinet player and Aurora Nealand the alto sax player. (She plays great soprano, too.) Now I can easily find the recording, too: it's Romski Chocheck. I'd never heard this particular track before, and Panorama sort of slipped my mind. Good stuff! Bingo! I should have known that if anybody would know about this band, it would be you. I'll go into more detail in the "reveal" thread, but in the meantime everyone who likes this track should check out the Panorama Jazz Band.

Thanks for the link. That Woody Herman tenor section with Marsh, Dick Hafer, and Bill Perkins on tenors was pretty great.

Paul Motian - Tribute (ECM)

Sure - it's pretty late in the month, so I'll drop hints on any tracks when requested. It's a New Orleans band, one I try to hear every time I visit my favorite city. They play traditional jazz, klezmer and Balkan music, and have three albums out - all self-produced, I think. The clarinetist is the bandleader; I spotted him briefly in the first season of Treme (which is the only one I've seen). The female alto sax player had a more extensive role that season, including several spoken lines. I've got a crush on her, as does every heterosexual male who has seen her play. I've expressed my enthusiasm for this band a few times here, but most folks are not likely to have heard of them.

John Carter - Echoes From Rudolph's (Ibedon) Hadn't listened to this for awhile - I was prompted by colinmce's thread to spin it tonight. It's really wonderful; the unaccompanied clarinet solo "Angles" is one of the best things I've ever heard from Carter, and some of the most impressive clarinet playing I've heard, period. It's not for the faint of heart in terms of the avant-garde, though. My copy still has the folded insert sheet with Bobby Bradford's touching liner notes.

I walked into an antique store in an Atlanta suburb yesterday and walked out with ten 78s. They had other good ones, but the condition of some was so bad that I couldn't bring myself to buy them. Cleaned and played the first seven today: Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul/Fine Dinner (RCA Victor) Not the original Bluebird issue, but an early-50's reissue. I have this on CD and LP, of course, but this record sounds pretty glorious. Duke Ellington - Main Stem/Johnny Come Lately (Victor) Two of my all-time favorite Ellington tracks. Eddie Jefferson - The Birdland Story/Honeysuckle Rose (Hi-Lo) Eddie Jefferson - Body and Soul/I Got the Blues (Hi-Lo) James Moody - Keepin' Up With Jonesy/Workshop (Prestige) Somebody liked Eddie Jefferson; he's on "Workshop." Lynn Hope - September Song/Blues for Anna Bacoa (Aladdin) Rusty Bryant - Castle Rock/All Nite Long (Dot) Hank Marr is on piano.

I found it years ago in a surplus store that had a stack of records.

I just picked up Water's 2004 reissue of A Groovy Situation by Reuben Wilson a week or so ago.

I've got it, and it's very good.

Of course, I like Togashi's albums with Steve Lacy, but in some ways, this record (without Lacy) is the ultimate Togashi album.

Just a reminder that BFT 94 only has one more week to go, so get your comments in soon.

Rev. O. L. Holliday - If you Dance to the Music - You've Got to Pay the Piper (Jewel)

Sorry to make you do twice the work - I usually notice if I've posted just after someone else, but that one slipped by me.

South (Bennie Moten) It's the Same Old South (Count Basie) (Check this wonderfully sarcastic song out if you don't know it.) South To a Warmer Place (Frank Sinatra; one of Alec Wilder's very last songs) Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South) (Coleman Hawkins/Red Allen Orch.) South of the Border (Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Kid Sheik) Next up: CLEAR