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HP, can you clarify this, please. Decca wasn't started until 1934. MG My mistake. The 1930 recordings were on Brunswick.

It IS by Phillip Johnston. It is not Claire Daly on baritone. Now we need the song and album. seeline, you are a master at this game! I continue to be impressed with your knowledge. Between you and jeffcrom, the two of you have guessed most of the artists! It's the title track from Johnston's Normalology, which is yet another album that I regret selling. His compositions are really fun! You are correct! This album originally had much better cover art, with a collage of famous buildings and animals.

Well, I get just a red X for your second link, but you have nailed it. That's it. Walter Schumann wrote the Dragnet theme, and this Christmas song. My parents had this album and I heard it literally thousands, if not more than 10,000 times, growing up. My mother owned a few albums and played them repeatedly all day and night. Another song on this Schumann Christmas album, "Christmas Gift", sounds to me like one of the earliest soul recordings. It's either "Christmas Gift" or the first Atlantic Ray Charles sides, for the birth of soul.

That's it! The liner notes contain the information that these recordings were made only for radio play.

Happy Birthday, RJ Spangler, who sat in the same hallowed space as I did--Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the 1978 Ann Arbor Jazz Festival, still one of the all time highlights of my concert going life.

I would love to do one in 2010! My first one was just so much fun for me!

I will sign up, and take discs. PM sent.

Thanks for your comments, Jim, which were insightful as always! I thought that you might enjoy some of the more "out-there" cuts, and you did! Did you notice that there is not a single Blue Note or hard bop cut in this Test?

Yes - to my way of thinking, he's a superb flutist. His tenor playing has never done much for me, though - tone and vibrato both are hard to listen to, imo. * HP, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Disc One, tk. 9 is something by Philip Johnston (ss), or at least, that he's playing... It has that vibe, a bit. (Though definitely not one of Forrester's projects, as you said earlier.) That's not Claire Daly on bari, by any chance, is it? (btw, I didn't realize that Johnston was living in Australia now - just checked his MySpace page.) It IS by Phillip Johnston. It is not Claire Daly on baritone. Now we need the song and album. seeline, you are a master at this game! I continue to be impressed with your knowledge. Between you and jeffcrom, the two of you have guessed most of the artists!

It is Elusive Dream. I have it on CD.

Not those songs. So, was it "Summertime"? Or was that just a quote? There's no tracklist on AMG. Oh yes - a wide variety of music under Davis' belt. Some others: Ray Bryant - Slow Freight Shirey Scott - Mystical lady Grover Washington Jr - Soul box Lou Donaldson - Rough house blues; Sophisticated Lou Reuben Wilson - Set us free David Newman - Bigger & Better; Many facets of Jimm Smith & Wes Montgomery - Dynamic duo; Further adventures Eddie Harris - Silver cycles Jimmy Forrest - Soul Street And he was in Willis Jackson's band in the fifties, recording, I think, for Atlantic. But is what you're saying that the track you selected is not representative of the album as a whole? MG Correct. Most of it is pleasant, laid back piano/bass duets, on standards or famous jazz songs. The song I selected is entitled "Summertime" on the CD booklet.

There was no positive, unequivocal guess of Tabackin before. It is on Rites of Pan, with Toshiko on electric piano. Now which song? Thanks for the positive comments, Durium. I will look forward to your BFT! Yes. Now which song?

It is not Sam Most or Charles Lloyd. I notice that you do not deny Tabackin... DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! You got it! Now what is the song title and album, and who is the pianist?

That is the Richard Davis album from which Disc 2, Track 11 is taken. It is on the Japanese King label. It consists of mostly duets with Junior Mance. Each musician gets two solos tracks--including the one in this Blindfold Test. Davis has been on soul jazz albums in his career--his webpage lists them, www.richarddavis.org. They include albums led by Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, Wild Bill Davis, and Junior Mance's Atlantic album, "I Believe To My Soul."

Gotta be Richard Davis. Just gotta be. It's the taste, the tremendous control of the instrument, and the willingness to take more than a few chances. Not to mention the beautiful bow sound. That is correct. Richard Davis was 77 years old when he recorded this solo. Now we need the album.

Are you going to guess the bass solo song on Disc 2, Track 11? After the broad clue I left you last time, I would have thought that someone would have jumped in with the answer by now.

None of the names in your last two posts are correct.

Not McNair, Laws or Spaulding. Ronnie Laws? Come on, now.

Not Bunnett. Not Egues.

It is not Leo Wright. I am learning more about jazz arists who recorded on flute, than I ever knew before.

It is not Pacheco, Smith, D'Rivera, Valle, Fajardo, Brignola, Rampal, Weinstein or Fettig.

Allen, I have sent you a PM on this. I think that you should freely give us your thoughts and information, but perhaps in a slightly more positively stated manner.

seeline, When the right answer is revealed to you, I think that you will fall out of your chair.

I found the instruction to embrace technology earlier, to be an odd instruction. I have a bunch of cassette tapes which I recorded in the 1970s, recording shows off of the radio, such as Sun Ra at the 1978 Ann Arbor Jazz Festival. I too would like to convert that to another format. How was I supposed to have embraced digital technology in 1978?

No, no and no.