track 1. it took me a (admittedly only short) while to place this correctly, but it is of course from this album. The flute is great here, a very strong performance overall, nice, sweet melody and pretty pretty flute. No one should be fooled by the novelty concept of the album, nor by the silly cover, this one is great.
track 2. the theme does little for me and I don't really like the unisono lines. the solos are more interesting, with that nice mysterious bass vamp underneath. The guitar solo keeps me attentive, the tenor is nice enough but sounds a little at loss with all the space it gets to fill; it does pick up later on though. I could have done without the drum solo. Nice track, but too long.
track 3. Lee Konitz going close to the edge. A little sleuthing brought me to this album (track 4). Latter day Konitz can really move too close to "too pretty" for comfort I find. On other days I like it well enough.
track 4. cool beans! Nice vamp going there and cool "eastern" tinged percussion. This sounds like something by someone from the Istabile conglomerate. the "All Blues" vamp quote is a nice touch.
track 5. very nice, very curious to find out who this is.
track 6. the playing is great, the humming is really obnoxious.
track 7. the bass is great, so are the drums. The trumpet makes it all a bit too Milesian for my tastes. I'd like to tell the players to cheer up.
track 8. o boy, does this alto sound familiar, drats. and great stuff too!
track 9. I'd wager a guess that this is Tjader. a great track, the repetitive rhythms give it a nice flavour. the orchestral blasts are the icing.
track 10. man, this sounds depressed and a bit like bad television series, what with that echo. apart from that, this is neat.
(edited for psellink)