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I like this Blindfold Test a lot. The music is both very interesting, with a lot of substance, and enjoyable to listen to. That is more difficult to achieve in a Blindfold Test than one might think. I am still listening to this BFT and checking some of the songs against my collection . But here are a few of my impressions so far. Track 2; The composition sounds a lot like a Bob Dylan song, "Cold Irons Bound." I am not sure if it is a cover of that song, or a composition which is similar. I do not know who the musicians are. Track 4: I love this. The pianist is really good. I wish I knew who it was. At times he or she sounds tantalizingly familiar but I cannot place him or her yet. Track 5: I have this album! Now I just have to find it in my collection! Track 6: That is a really gutbucket trombone sound at the beginning. I do not know who that is though. Track 8: This is not a Monk composition, but it must be a Monk tribute of sorts. The composition and playing have some of Monk's signature sound. I am drawing a blank on who it is. Track 10: This is an early ECM album. I bought most of the ECM albums in the 1970s as they came out and know that I listened to this one back then. Now to find it! Track 13, that sounds like Bill Frisell to me. It also sounds like there could be a second guitarist on this track. I am not familiar with this album.

I have to check out Buddy Johnson more extensively. I should have guessed Harold "Geezil" Minerve. I can't remember if I told you this, but in 1978 I took a jazz history class from bassist Richard Davis, and Minerve's long time girlfriend Jeri was in the class. She sat near me in the lecture hall and a group of us often talked. She said that Minerve told her that he had been equally influenced by Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter. We went to see Dizzy Gillespie at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago and Dizzy came up to our table and told Jeri that he had Minerve's pipe, that Minerve had left it behind when they were playing chess. Red Garland on organ! The Coasters as a jazz standards group! This BFT is full of tricky things. This is one of the most enjoyable BFTs for pleasure listening.

Jason Adasiewicz is one of the younger generation of Chicago musicians who Larry Kart has written about on this board Larry has written about going often to see live performances in Chicago of Jason and others in his generation of Chicago jazz musicians.

Track #10 is interesting as the alto saxophonist plays a phrase that Johnny Hodges often played in his solos. This is not Johnny Hodges though. There is not the extra level of bluesiness and not the broad tone. Track #12 is great. The tenor saxophonist plays with pure soulful power. I would buy this in a second, once I know what it is. Track #14 is also great. It has such energy, and all of the soloists play with such feeling and power. I would also like to buy this one!

I continue to love this BFT and I continue to have no clue who I am listening to. It will be a welcome learning experience when I read the Reveal. I have the impression after many listens that more than one track is by the same artist. (I have no idea who it is). Am I correct?

The tenor sax player on Track 2 is either Houston Person or someone who really likes his playing and is emulating him. This Blindfold Test is like a fun party in my car. I am not identifying much of it at all, but loving it. It lifts my spirits.

I am more familiar with Butler in his New Orleans style music. So that is an oboe! I thought it was not a soprano saxophone. I struck out identifying any of these well known musicians. I need to get this album too! I really like this track a lot. Oh, this is great stuff! I must buy this album! I love this. Now I see that I am quite familiar with all of the musicians and did not identify any of them. I saw Ron Bridgewater live with McCoy Tyner (OK, it was in 1976), Cecil Bridgewater live with Max Roach, Stanley Cowell live with the Heath Brothers, Reggie Workman live with Chico Freeman, and Michael Carvin live when he has played in a club in my city in the last ten years. This is a thoroughly enjoyable, and heavy, track! Somehow I missed it in 1978 when I was in a huge jazz record buying spurt. I love this one, too, as I said in the Discussion. I said in the Discussion that I loved the drumming, and here it is Andrew Cyrille! I have to get this album. This is the Blindfold Test most in my listening area of preference, in some time. I must buy at least seven albums here! Thanks for an incredible Blindfold Test!

We have a September presenter. Milestones will be providing the Blindfold Test.

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We have a 2018 Blindfold Test presenter in every month except September. Would anyone who did not already present a Blindfold Test in 2018, or is not scheduled to present yet in 2018, like to step forward and be our September presenter? Thom Keith will take your playlist and convert it so it can be downloaded and streamed by the other members. It is very easy with Thom helping out. If you prefer, you can burn your BFT to a CD-R and mail it to Thom. He takes it from there. I will help you if you have never presented a Blindfold Test, with the few, easy procedures and some tips for a successful Blindfold Test, if you want them. This is your chance to share some music that you enjoy and would like others to hear.

Frank Lacy released some excellent albums. I have never heard that one. I will have to get it.

It is good to know oneself.

Thom knows!

Actually that description makes it sound like J.J. Johnson.

7. This has been identified as coming from an album I own but have not played in awhile, I really like this a lot, more than I remembered. 8. I identified this one early on as George Adams, from his great "Paradise Space Shuttle" album. 9. That is a sprightly track, with nice flute playing. It reminds me of the time when I saw Dave Valentin live. 10. I love this. Is that George Lewis on trombone? Who plays flute that well? I wondered if it was James Newton, but it doesn't seem to have his unique playing. I want to buy this. I really love it. 11. This is killer stuff, just exactly what I really like. I should be able to identify the musicians but I can't. Each of the solos is first rate. I love the drumming. Here is another one that I want to buy. 12. I love this one too! The trombonist has some of Roswell Rudd's broad tone and growling. Is that James Williams on piano? That is just the kind of jazz I love to listen to. Tracks 10, 11 and 12 could come from a personal playlist which I would make of my favorite listening. 13. It sounds like the artist on Track 1 again, a reprise. I liked the artist on Track 1 and like the artist again. This is a Blindfold Test right in my prime desired listening area, which is going to cause a dent to my wallet.

Kamasi Washington released an EP in 2017, "Harmony of Difference," which is short, with more sparse arrangements. It may be much more to your taste. When a track from "Harmony of Difference" was included on an Organissimo.org Blindfold Test, and no one knew who they were listening to, it received only positive comments. Great comment. I have met a lot of rock, country, Latin music, and hip hop fans in the past five years, as I have moved in new social circles after a divorce. No genre of music other than jazz seems to have such negative, judgmental fans the way that jazz does. It was a real eye opener.

That is amazing to me. This is not what I would have expected from Henry Butler.

You may have a different opinion of the album if you do.

If it was Milwaukee in the 1978-82 period, it was most likely the Jazz Gallery.

Did you play Hubtones from that album?

Good point. Checking the schedule it looks like he is playing in college towns before and after (where the University of Colorado and University of Iowa are located). His touring schedule looks impressive. I wonder if he is the opening act st some of the larger venues? Speaking of in between night bookings, Milwaukee has a jazz club in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Jazz Gallery, which presentsd only “in between” gigs by touring jazz groups. There really wasn’t enough of a jazz audience in the city to support major venue jazz concerts, but artists would play there at this small club on a weeknight, to small and enthusiastic audiences. Some of the artists I saw there on weeknights were Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton (solo alto sax), Muhal Richard Abrams Trio, Joe Pass (solo guitar), McCoy Tyner, Clifford Jordan/Barry Harris, Bobby Hutcherson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

If Kamasi Washington is reaping some shower of great fortune due to unwarranted good critical publicity, you can;'t tell it in Kansas City. I just found out from an email from another Organissimo forum member, that Kamasi Washington is coming to Kansas City for the first time, on Monday night, October 29, at The Truman. The Truman is a 1,400 seat "standing room only" alternative rock club, which usually features rock bands which I have never heard of, the underground rock bands of very limited popularity. . I have never been to The Truman. From the outside, It looks like a run down little building in an old industrial area. Tickets were $32 each. There has been no publicity for the concert that I am aware of. This is hardly a bonanza of good fortune for our man Kamasi.

I am glad that you listened to it and gave it a chance.

Track 2; I love these Coltrane influenced pieces, in which the group, including a good saxophonist, plays with a Coltrane influence. If done well, I really like this style of music. These musicians bring something original to this style. I was thinking for awhile that I was hearing an English horn, which would lead me to Andrew White as just about the only English horn player in the Coltrane style, that I am aware of. But then I decided that it is not an English horn. I used to guess Azar Lawrence as the saxophonist whenever I did not know who was playing in this style. I liked Azar's playing so much on the 1970s McCoy Tyner albums, and on his "Bridge to the New Age" album. But then about twenty times in a row, it was not Azar Lawrence, so I have stopped guessing that it is him. In short, I do not know who is playing, but I love this. Track 3 This is a sort of Carribean island style music, but it does not sound to me like the musicians come from there. It sounds like musicians who usually play in another style tyring to play in this style. Oddly, the drummer sounds to me like a New Orleans drummer trying to play in this style. The drummer's playing reminds me of John Boudreaux, who was incredible when I saw him live with Dr. John in the early 1990s. In any event, this is really good. Track 4 I love this! I need to buy this. I love all of the solos, especially the bass solo. The bassist is a heavy musician. I also love the feeling of this, the dark soulfulness. It sounds like the musicians are bringing heavy life experiences to their sound. I have no idea who it is, but it is one of the better tracks I have heard all year. Track 5 As I was blissing out about Track 4, then the beginning of this Track hit me, loudly. I just about jumped up in my chair. I have a lot of blues and rhythm and blues albums in this style, but I do not know this musician. I like his singing though. The keyboard player is really good too. Track 6 I know that I have this in my collection, but I can't find it. Absent that, I really like it, but have no idea who the musicians are. It could be John Hicks and Ray Drummond, but it does not quite sound like them. The drummer is rather busy, but I like the energy.