mikeweil

20+ here too. Must have been around 1966/67 when I was growing tired of listening to the Beatles and discovered some jazz 45's in the otherwise R&R-heavy collection of my elder brother .... But I really dug in around 1968 when I bought my first jazz LPs.

Couldn't disagree more: This CD neatly collects all studio performances of the Coltrane quartet with Roy Haynes subbing for Elvin Jones - no other issue to get them, and very important to hear how the individual players shaped the music. The live counterpart is the Newport 63 disc.

David Wild's Coltrane Discography is the better one, includes references to CD issues and is updated regularly. If you want to dig in, no way without it. My recommendation for late period Coltrane would be Stellar Regions.

I have some time to spend during the reats of the week and will use it to compile the most important track information on the pieces use in all previous Blindfold Tests. I intend to include the following info: Test # Disc # and track # Leading artist or group name track title original album title original laberl and number cd reissue name cd reissue number I'm afraid a complete personnel listing will be too much. Would you like an AMG link? Does anyone have some webspace where we could make it permanently available for download - I would then do updates from time to time. About the data format: I think an Excel table will be the easiest and most common to handle, and you could sort the data any way you want for quick reference. Any opinions?

Of course I should have recognized the drummer - this track is the bummer for me in this test! Very interesting to hear this out of conext, as the pianist's characteristics and influences show so clear here! # 13 keeps bugging me - still no clue! The Cuban percussion is used here like an Indian spice added to a dish otherwise cooked in a totally different tradition - too low in the mix, and not connected to the others. The conga drummer tries to interact but is bashed down by the drummer. The players obviously dig the Cuban rhtyhm but play on top of it just like they would have in any other piece. Still curious who it is, the trumpet player is very nice.

The many tentative guesses on track # 1 are a clear indication that we need a Mosaic Select of the leader's output for that label - I was lucky to get an LP at an auction at a reasonable price many years ago, otherwise my reaction would be just the same. The long time we had to listen to the disc before the discussion thread was started shows in the guesses: So far 9 out of the 15 tracks have been nailed down: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11. A great disc to remind us of and point out some great music: Some lesser known great tracks by known artists, some by underrated artists. Maybe that's part of the theme here?

I thought I was over that kind of stuff at my age, but this seems a tempting idea ....

Not such a bad thought, 'cause the tenor was from the West Coast, even if he isn't your prototypical example .... I, too, got him before I checked the trumpet, which not that typical to me on this one.

A very interesting and personal test disc! Enjoyed this very much, lots of thanks, Daniel. I feel privileged to be part of this club and find it thrilling to pick discs from all kinds of places from my mailbox ... # 1 Knew this tune and the version right away, I have this LP, it is the first track. (AMG link) # 2 One of the nicest solo piano albums ever recorded, and one of the few instances where I like Rudy Van Gelder's piano sound. It's a shame the label hasn't yet included this in its CD reissue program. (AMG link, quasi title tune) # 3 First I got the drummer, then the tenor sax, and then it dawned on me .... track 2 from (this album). # 4 Very interesting pianist, but I have no idea .... that applause at the end sounds overdubbed to me. # 5 That beautiful trumpet sound gave it away: track 5 from (this album). Sounds like that still rather young pianist, who wrote the tune, was heavily under the spell of Cedar Walton and McCoy Tyner at the time. # 6 "This could be the start of something new". No idea who plays it. # 7 Trombone and tenor sax .... hmm ... if this is the Jazz Crusaders, it is one more reason to get me more of this band. Tenor is a little coltraneish - all are very competent players. Like it. # 8 Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage", but not played by the composer. On the long run, a little too sloppy for my taste, rhythmically, especially when the pianist plucks the strings by hand. There is more of a tone poem in this tune than they make out of it. This ship does not quite know its course. # 9 The trumpet player has a nice lyrical sound, but the soprano sax is of the kind that makes me go up the wall. No idea, and not to my liking - without the soprano it would have been okay for me. # 10 Knew the tune right away, and the flutist. He and the composer of that tune - he wrote some other very nice melodies and never really got credit for it - were bandmates for several years. Title track from ( this album.) I hate the bass and drums sound of this label .... # 11 Again a soprano sax player I would fire .... # 12 "I cover the waterfront". Is that Björk? If so, it's the jazziest I have heard her sing. Nice arrangement. Björk always leaves me with mixed feelings, as I find that she enacts the tunes to get an idea of the feelings that inspired them, than having lived the feeling and singing the tune out of that experience. A thin voice reminding me of Bev Kelly. # 13 Hmm ... nice groove, but still leaves me a little dissatisfied. Nice trumpeter in a Woody Shaw vibe - or is it him? I don't know too much of his work. # 14 "Here's that rainy day". Sounds like Stan Getz playing alto ... # 15 Very nice and funny closer!!! No idea who this is, however. Except for those two terrible soprano saxists, a very nice disc - thanks a lot!

That Lenny McBrowne band made another LP for Pacific Jazz that is just as rare. Sleet plays very well on all of them, but the whole band was fine. Sleet looked as smart as Baker - maybe Baker did him in to avoid competition?

Excellent player! I cherish his Savoy dates - and the Ernie Wilkins All-Star trumpet spectacular he's on.

Couw turned me on to this recording a little while back. It is most defintely a cd we should all have. You know, we've all had that one for a loooong time - you were the last to notice! One more vote for the two CDs with Coltrane, and the ones with Monk and Andrew Hill. He did so many sessions, and always played at the top of his game.

I's like to be in, of course, for a double. Looking very much forward to this. PM sent.

Very nice compilation, Daniel, got mine today and could post guesses on the first half of the disc.

Thanks again - perhaps I should specify that I'm more interested in R&B from the 1940's and 1950's until the rise od Rock'n'Roll.

Thanks y'all! As it turns out after dusting off my Blues/Soul/R&B bookshelf, I have the Broven (R&B in New Orleans) and Gillett (Sound of the City) books as well ....

His recordings 1943 - 1950 have been covered in an excellent discography by Dieter Salemann, available online from Norbert Ruecker's mailorder shop: (link) - go to catalog, name discographies and scroll down the page to the Roots of Modern jazz series. There is an excellent discography of Lucky's works after 1950 on Noal Cohen's website.

The box distributed by ZYX is manufactured in Germany, but seems to identical in sound etc. with the US box set. I couldn't find any hint on the mastering technique applied. Sound of the Prestige recordings is better than any previous edition I had, didn't have the Pablos before, so I cannot comment on these. Joe Tarrantino did the remastering.

What book can you recommend on R &B? I have Arnold Shaw's Honkers & Shouters and wonder if there's more. As always, many thanks.

No problem at all, 'cause those who do not know will not get it, and those who know will post

Irreplaceable one, may you play in the peace in the band of angels you are now part of. 69 may seem too young, yes, but he has played and recorded enough music for three lives!

You're welcome. I think Bley's merging of acoustic (Baldwin) piano, RMI electric piano and tasteful synthesizer is one of the musically most satisfying I ever encountered. And it's all done live without overdubs. Holland and Altshul are great on this one, too , although the bass sound is very thin, typical for the time.

Sorry if anybody already mentioned it, but it is simply too much too read all of this thread .... Has anybody seen the video clip? I think it is downright silly - sort of fairy tale scenery with the band strumming fake intruments, the two singers in front of a pond ... that clip alone can keep me from buying the CD.