mikeweil

Who in all the world are you talking about??? I like his mid-1950's Prestige dates the best, they are very much fun to listen to. For Blue Note it was just two sessions with four tracks each. I was able to fix the link in my original post.

Good idea! Could be from that four-track big band session, with some Tadd Dameron arrangements and Fats in the band. Don't have the Mosaic at hand, but maybe someone can find out? Oh happy guesses! I thought you knew your early Blue Note modern jazz sessions better! Those hearing a connection to Dizzy's late 1940's big band are closer than they think. Click here! Again link does not lead anywhere! Sorry! I do not know early BN particularly well, but I DID hear similarities to Dizzy's big band, at least ubu Try this link - I don't get the AMG adress I want with the other, what you see is just the sidebar. Strange things ... The link here is a compilation, it's track 7 here.

and one more I have (and love) - but hey, the last track's 17 minutes! And where the f%&@ is the man with the saxophone? Was he edited out?!? He not laying out on that track, isn't he? The man on the piano is DA SHIT! One of my favorite musicians (I still have to save some $$ for the Select) - I discovered him through getting all his nineties stuff on Verve/Gitanes, some marvellous records! Buy this one as long as it's around! ubu re tenor sax: he plays some nice flute on this track ...... re: pianist: I LOVE him, have 80% of his records.

Good idea! Could be from that four-track big band session, with some Tadd Dameron arrangements and Fats in the band. Don't have the Mosaic at hand, but maybe someone can find out? Oh happy guesses! I thought you knew your early Blue Note modern jazz sessions better! Those hearing a connection to Dizzy's late 1940's big band are closer than they think. AMG link p.s. link fixed!

No, I didn't. You have it? Would be nice if you could enclose a photocopy at some occasion. I spend so much money on special music magazines (down beat, Jazz Times, Jazz Podium, Fono Forum, World of Music, Drums & Percussion, Sticks, Concerto, to name only the subscriptions) that I hesitate to spend on a newspaper - and I hardly have the time to read it. And reading all the bad news in the political section turns me off.

See my blindfold test rule # 2: There's always a track from a disc you have or an artist you know but that you will not recognize!

Actually, mine's later this month - and there's some live music involved, though it's not jazz in the strict sense of the word. There's good beer and vineyards-a-plenty too, although we're doing a non-alcoholic party - but you could bring your favourite drug .... seriously, you're welcome, just let me now and I'll find out if there's a bed for you.

I haven't been laughing as much in the last six months as when I read through all these comments after posting my guesses!!! This is real fun, especially when you know a track and the others don't - now I know how you felt in previous discussions. This is getting more fun by the test! What a great idea! Thankx y'all!

Had three rounds of Disc # 2 on Monday, wanted to post but couldn't get on the board (???) - the second disc was a string of recognition and reminiscing for me. Randy, we do seem to have similar tastes and collections ..... # 1 Sounded familiar to me from the first notes of the piano introduction, it is the desert city latin dance from this album. Let me just say at this point that I think this album is underrated compared to his collaborations with some famous tooter, and unjustly so. # 2 Recognized the singer during the first phrase, I used to listen to her records quite a lot when her career really took off, but grew a little tired of her. Very typical treatment of the song for her. I have this album, it's track 3 on disc 2. One of the road universities of jazz she was, like Blakey. # 3 This grows more and more on me with every listen. At first the intonation of the vocal group turned me off a little, but they deliver that song with so much intensity and definite expressiveness, they do exactly what they want to do, they conquered my heart and mind. I have considered to purchase this ever since it appeared on CD a few years ago (AMG link). The guitar player was the first I recognized, unmistakably Kenny Burrell, and Osie Johnson's drum sound and conception for this kind of thing. The accompaniment is the epitome of good taste, all real pros. I will get me this for sure, and soon! # 4 From what I have of him, this might be Walt Dickerson on vibes. Some of his familiar figures, the dynamics: no other cat can play so soft and subtle on them doorbells. I like the spaciness, how they pace the song, building up tension without overplaying, they listen really well to each other. Is this Rashid Ali on drums/percussion? Some snare/bass/high-hat licks sound like him. Another one for the wish list. I have too little of this man's music. # 5 What a surprise - what a shock after the previous track! But a positive one: I like this very very much, another example for cooking up the intensity without overplaying, what most of the fusion cats do. A well delivered melody, sincerely expressive, really moving, I love this and will buy it too! These tests will eat up what's left of my CD budget. Who in the world is this? My tastes are diverse as you see, but I don't know much of this type of music. Chad Wackerman on drums? # 6 OH YEAH!!!!! I'D NEVER THOUGHT ANYONE ON THE BOARD WOULD HAVE THAT RECORD!!!! I happen to know the story behind that songtitle. More to come in the answers thread. Happy guessing! This isn't even listed on AMG! I won't give this away. This record was for me what the John Lewis/Bill Perkins Pacific Jazz LP was for Jim Sangrey: I listened to and absorbed this a thousand times. # 7 Another one I have and know in and out, I use this often in dance workshops when I am too lazy to play myself and need a slow piece in African 6/8 rhythm. The last track on this CD. One of my favourite jazz pianists; for a festival pick-up group, they are very well together. # 8 This may sound like I wrote Randy's playlist, because this is another one I know, but sold the scratchy LP when the CD came out, which I never bought. Sounds better now than I thought. Track 3 from this CD. # 9 A very famous piece by a band led by a very famous potbeater, but not from the LP that bears the title of this track, but a later live version. That was a great band. I don't have this version, but know the tune and the band, saw them live, and found two LPs on AMG from the 1980's. # 10 A track from one of the two solo saxophone records of this guy. I love his music and regard him one of the truly individual tenor saxophone voices in jazz. All these Muzak ondulists stole from him, but he made real good music with sincere expression where the others went commercial. Y'all know who this is, don't ya? # 11 Like on Disc One, and amateurish sounding track for closers. The piano is a little out of tune, both horns play over the changes simultaneously with too little regard of what the other is doing. This might be some famous guys boozed up a little playing their fifth set. That's an old well-known tune, but the name escapes me at the moment. Except for the closer, an excellent disc of many great tracks. I will buy at least two of those I don't have, that's for sure. Thanks a lot, Randy, we do seem to have similar tastes. p.s. edited to fix a link

In case you're late from the purchase: Just instruct your wife to put on one of your favourite discs, open the windows, pump up the volume, and then you follow the call!

Is that really a problem? I thought the brewery was round the corner?

You're welcome here too - in fact anybody from the board passing through the Rhein-Main area is!

Since there are no objections so far, I'll put Jim Dye on the list for # 8 and put everybody else down one step - I wonder why he hasn't been on the list. Jim, you ready?

I am asking myself the same question right now! Very sorry Dan, I must have been out of my mind and totally misread your post! Please accept my apologies! Reading the board and posting late at night can yield some weird results ... my only excuse is that it's not my native language.

Since you did # 2, Dan, I'd say we rather let one do # 8 who hasn't already done a BT. What do the other testi.... err test participants say?

Now whose previous incarnation is this?

Same here in Germany. They start charging VAT and stuff at much lower levels than a few years ago. Those were the days ... at least the EURO is high at the time. My next purchase will be the Mobley Blue Notes.

I hesitated so long before buying this one, and it's so much better than I thought!

Keynote was a small label existing from 1940 to 1948, run first by Harry Lim until 1947, then by John Hammond. Almost every important swing musician recorded for this label, making it a treasure of small group swing. It is now owned by Universal. There was a 10-volume series with highlights from its catalogue with discs featuring Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter, musicians from the Ellington and Herman orchestras, Lennie Tristano, you name it. There was a complete edition on a multi-LP box set in Japan in the 1980's.

Of course it hurts, Jim, because his and the AEOC's is music we grew up with, that put an imprint on us in our formative years as young exploring musicians, musically, emotionally, as role models: They lived something we were striving for. And they encouraged us to follow our own path. This applies to Malachi Favors, Joe Henderson, Bill Perkins, John Lewis. It is the generation of our musical fathers that slowly passes, one after another, and leaves us to carry the torch. It moves me just as much when one of these musicians leaves us as if he was a family member - we are a spiritual family, after all. Thanks, Malachi, for holding it up so long, and may you rest in peace. I never saw him nor the AEOC live, just Bowie with Jack deJohnette's Directions, but his bass sound lingers in my memory, although I haven't listened to their music in a long time. Thanks for influential encouragement, this was and is important music.

Thumbs and Heads Up! You're doing a great job teaching your dad - honestly! Best wishes for your mom!

This sounds like a lost opportunity, Jim! Why not let them try it! Or - as I'm not always totally happy about Mehldau on these, myself: how about NO piano and add Attila Zoller on guitar? I know this cannot be done... (funny enough AMG notes him having died IN Vermont, so noone had to move him there...) ubu Having Zoller would have been a repetition or reunion of some earlier date, or at least a similarity. I find it principally very interesting to have players of differing age on such a date. With Bley and Haden there would have been two old buddies from the L.A. free jazz poineering days, but I agree this choice looks intriguing. Did Konitz and Bley ever record together? If so, was it successful? That would be something to buy! Is there any pianist under 35 that plays more sparingly like Bley does? I'm afraid not.

Very interesting thought! And the comparison with romantic painting made me think of works that mirror what I hear in late Coltrane: Prometheus, by Johann Heinrich Fuessli - perhaps a Swiss painter will make it easier for ubu And, of course, for the sublime: Go on an image search "William Blake" and you'll see ...

To listen more closely, and with my collection in mind, that's my lesson, too. I have been cutting down on jazz in recent years because I listened to much classical and latin and ethnic music, but to keep with these tests I have to accept the challenge of changing my listening habits once more. I have been listening to jazz now for as many years as you are on this earth, and this sh.. happens to me! Vibraphonists will be playing doorbells in my ears now until eternity!!! And yes, that double bass bowing technique is from classical music. That's agreat arranger who can make such a small band sound much larger. Right now I marvel at Duke Pearson's writing for Blue Mitchell's Blue Note sessions, where he make 4 or 5 horns sound like a big band!

Jim Dye was not on the Master List so far. But if he can fill the gap, which would be convenient for Daniel A, I have no objections. Any volunteers are welcome. We should keep in mind that things like this can happen any time, so we should have our playlists ready a step or two in advance!