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Is the keyboard player on Track 10 primarily known as a rock musician?

Is that Phil Woods on clarinet on Track 8? I hear some of his distinctive sound. I do not know who the guitarist is, or which album this is. I like it and want to find out. I love Track 9. It features very interesting writing and great playing, with soulful feeling. I love the baritone saxophonist's playing. I am trying to count how many instruments--it seems to be either eight, nine or ten. I do not know who this is, but I want to get this album. Sometimes when there is writing this unique and interesting, there is no soulful feeling, but this track has it all. Track 10 is weird. Who would play that combination of keyboards? The organ sounding keyboard has an unusual sound. For a few seconds toward the beginning I thought it could be Sun Ra, because I thought I heard his sound in the left hand on the piano. He would have definitely experimented with unusual sounds on multiple keyboards. But as the track progressed I could tell it was not him. The rhythmic feeling is too stiff to be Sun Ra. I have no idea who this is. It is most intriguing. Track 11 sounds like something I should definitely know, and probably have in my collection. I just can't place it at all.

There is a 2 CD album of the Jack Bruce/Mick Taylor/Carla Bley band in live performance. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Manchester-Free-Trade-Hall/dp/B00008LKHR

I listened to “Untitled Original 11383” and that is enough to interest me in this set. The author is Ben Watson. Purely as a book, it is a very interesting book. It is worth reading.

Thanks for that information on Phillip Johnston. i cannot figure out who the vibes player is on Track 1. He reminds me somewhat of Warren Wolf but I am not sure. Track 2 reminds me of Chick Corea playing outside.

I know Track 7, because I chose a track from the same album for my Blindfold Test 168 in March. It is "Surrey With the Fringe on Top," played by Mary Lou Williams, from her 1976 album on Steeplechase, "Free Spirits". Buster Williams is on bass. Mickey Roker is on drums. This is a bonus track which was not on the original LP, but is on the CD reissue. I love Mary Lou's 1970s playing. I saw her live in 1978 in a duet performance with bassist Ronnie Boykins. It was outstanding. Also, I am pretty sure that Track 12 is Phillip Johnston. I am not sure of the album. I heard his "Normalology" album about 10 years ago and loved it. I bought as many Phillip Johnston albums as I could order, and listened to him often for a period of time. I have not revisited the albums in awhile. This song prompts me to go back and listen to him again. What happened to Phillip Johnston? I never hear about him any more. He put out some very interesting, strong stuff for several years.

I should have known Oscar Aleman on Track 2. I listened to him often at one time, but not for awhile. Similarly, I listened to a lot of Eddie South at one time but not for awhile. I should have known it was him on Track 12. i love how you included James Booker. He is one of those musicians who has the technical ability of a jazz artist but plays a different style. I find those musicians interesting. Thanks for a most enjoyable Blindfold Test! It brightened my month.

It is now time for you to post the Reveal. I can hardly wait to find out more information about a few of these tracks.

I agree. This is an excellent collection of music.

I have noticed that often there is a lull in the BFT discussion in the middle of the month, and then the discussion picks up again toward the end of the month.

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Regarding the James Booker cut, it reminds me of the enlarged photo inside the Jazz Tent at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival of James Booker and a very young Harry Connick, Jr., playing a piano duet. Harry must be under ten years old in the photo. Last year I saw Harry perform at the Festival. When he puts his mind to it, that man can really play some compelling piano. I included a James Booker cut on my first Blindfold Test, almost ten years ago.

I put my responses in color. usually red, or in a different font style and much larger size type. Otherwise if you reply within the post of the member, it does not show up clearly as to what was the original post and which is your reply. It is frustrating. That is where I leaned that the Blind Willie Johnson Track is on the NASA disc, from that episode of the West Wing show!

This has been written about quite extensively. Ihttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/ Track 10 is James Booker playing and singing “On the Sunny Side of the Street”, from the album “New Orleans Piano Wizard Live.” i love James Booker’s music. His touch, his conception, his massive technique harnessed to the creation of soulful works—all great to me. It was a great loss when he passed away so young.

Track 15 is Blind Willie Johnson, “Dark is the Night, Cold is the Ground.” I havs long enjoyed Blind Willie Johnson’s music. This track was included on a special disc sent into deep space by NASA together with other examples of Earth’s culture and sounds.

This was a most enjoyable Blindfold Test. I am surprised by the artists on Tracks 8 and 10 especially. As one who is quite familiar with Bruce Fowler's work with Zappa, I would have thought that I might have been able to identify Fowler on Track 10. As you said, it does not sound much like Zappa at all. I need to do some shopping, especially for the albums from which Tracks 2 and 4 were taken.

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It has been noted in the Kansas City press this week that the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is doing quite well, in the adjacent space from the jazz museum. The exhibits in the Jazz Museum are very hit and miss, with no theme, and no attempt to be comprehensive about anything. No one should be surprised if any particular jazz great is not included. The overall impression I have always had from this Jazz Museum is that the people running it do not know anything about jazz.

It is just those four musicians. . Then someone bought some odds and ends at a big jazz auction once--an Ornette Coleman notebook, Benny Goodman's hat and band logbook, some other individual items from various famous musicians, which were displayed together in a separate small room when they were first purchased. I attended a concert by the Sun Ra Arkestra headed by Marshall Allen in the Gem Theater across the street, in the late 1990s. Marshall Allen presented onstage, to the first director of the museum, one of Sun Ra's colorful robes that he had worn onstage. The first museum director thanked Marshall Allen onstage and took it. I have never seen the Sun Ra stage costume displayed at the museum. I wonder if it is in storage there?

When I visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville in 2016, I was stunned at how it was a universe better than the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. The museum in Kansas City does not try to present the history of Kansas City jazz. Instead, it has a hodge podge of exhibits about a few great jazz figures, and a limited number of interesting single items related to other great jazz figures--most not related to Kansas City jazz. So it fails as a Kansas City jazz presentation, and also fails as any type of comprehensive presentation of jazz generally. It started out with listening stations and interactive audio features, most of which no longer work, and which are severely dated for what is available now with technology. The Blues Museum in St. Louis opened a few years ago. It is not very large but it is much better in every way, than this jazz museum in Kansas City.

I remember that you gave me a copy of the Project H album, yes. Thank you! You could name your pet Samarai Celestial.

Track #8 is so familiar sounding, but I can't quite place it. Is it Gerald Wilson leading a large ensemble?

Thanks for these insightful comments, which I agree with very much. The entire album is excellent.

That happens to me all the time! I think that this recording of "Moon Mist" is one of Ricky Ford's better recorded efforts. I can't really tell if I am listening to a man or a woman play organ. Shirley Scott, for instance. I do not immediately think when I hear her, "oh, a woman!" But you are able to tell? I am a little bit surprised that no one recognized her.