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I have now had time to listen to "Giorgio Gaslini Plays Sun Ra" and have identified #6 as "Saturn" from that album. As others have noted, this performance of "Saturn" is very different from the way it was performed by Sun Ra on his 1950s albums "Sound of Joy" and "Jazz in Silhouette".

Is #6 from "Giorgio Gaslini Plays Sun Ra"?

I have listened to this BFT many times and it is a thoroughly humbling experience. I would have thought that with 25 tracks, I would know at least ONE. But no, all are a complete mystery to me. There is a hint in the discussion that one of them might be Sun Ra, but that is not clear to me either, even though I have listened to a great deal of Sun Ra. I like electric keyboards generally, and there are several electric keyboard tracks here, but all are unfamiliar to me. I will keep listening and if I think of anything to add to the discussion, I will. In the meantime, I have enjoyed listening to this BFT very much.

Do Lee Allen and Red Tyler qualify?

I think that you can get a decent price for out of print Mosaics by listing them on the major music forums, including this one. I agree with other posters that the ebay days of highly competitive auctions, where buyers were fighting each other to the last minute of an auction, driving the price up higher and higher in the final moments, with disappointed bidders shocked that someone else had come in at the last second and snatched the item away with a super high last second bid --that seems to be gone. ebay has seemed to evolve into mostly selling music through set prices listed by the sellers, which are often rather high but without the potential of runaway bidding leading to very high prices.

I think the best way to make a lot of money from out of print Mosaics is to own Half Price Books. Then you can instruct the staffers at your stores to buy them for about $5.00 and put them for sale in the music section for $500.00.

I liked this BFT from start to finish. The Bunky Green is a surprise. I need to check out more Bunky Green! That Mary Lou Williams medley is so beautiful, and interesting. I am not aware of anything she ever released that was less than very good. Very cool to hear the obscure #4, which I never would have been able to hear otherwise. Thanks for that one! I have always liked all of the different kind of songs on #12. I was first introduced to that album on the HBO TV show "Treme". One of the main characters in the post-Katrina time period of the show, is a perpetually struggling local trombone player, Antoine Batiste. In one episode a short flashback is shown, to the time before Katrina. Antoine is in his very nice home of that time, and holds that LP jacket for awhile, before setting it down on top of something. The viewer realizes that Antoine was doing dramatically better before Katrina, and that it was the devastation of Katrina that ruined his life, which he never seems to be able to overcome. Anyway, the "Indian Red" song about the Mardi Gras Indians from that album is played in that episode. Between that song, and the unique LP cover, I had to find the album, and have enjoyed it ever since.

Here's an album cover with a coffee stain:

I saw him for the first time in 1979 at the Earle, a small club in Ann Arbor. He was backing Betty Carter. Betty said his first name very slowly, as if she was unsure how to pronounce it. After one song I knew I would not forget him. He was instantly compelling and memorable. (I was sorting out my old flyers for jazz concerts and noticed that I saw this group the night after a Roscoe Mitchell solo alto saxophone concert in Ann Arbor--there was more of a jazz scene on certain campuses back then). I saw him live several other times over the years. Once he was in a Blakey tribute band, for which Benny Golson was the informal master of ceremonies. Golson stated when each member was in the Blakey band, and guessed Mulgrew's tenure wrong by over ten years, stating that he had been in the band in 1960, when Mulgrew would have been about five years old. I remember Mulgrew's good natured grin as Benny quickly apologized. He stood out in the Contemporary Piano Ensemble, an early 1990s group in which four grand pianos shared the stage, played by Mulgrew, Harold Mabern, Geoff Keezer and James Williams, with Christian McBride on bass and Tony Redus on drums. He was an excellent musician and I will miss his playing.

I don't understand why there has to be all of this extended, dramatic introduction of new people coming to this forum. If you want to post here, why not just do it? If it turns out that you don't like it here, oh well. If it turns out that you like it, great. I think that one difference between Jazzcorner Speakeasy and Organissimo is that the posters on Organissimo do not typically discuss the experience of posting, or make reference to themselves and their posting history. On Organissimo, we just talk about the subject at hand, without all of this self-reference stuff.

Wow, this really shows what can happen with these Blindfold Tests. I purchased "Porto Novo" in the 1970s, but for some reason just did not warm to it. I have not heard it in many years. Then when I heard this cut #11 on this Blindfold Test, I thought, what a great cut, with an Ornette influence but not Ornette, clearly--who IS that? I really liked it immediately upon hearing it. I probably would have never played "Porto Novo" again, but now I am going to give it another chance.

Did Booker Ervin ever release a subpar album as a leader? Literally all of them that I have heard have ranged from very good to great (or close to it).

I have always liked Jodie Christian's "Experience" album a lot. I find his playing to be very appealing,

I hope that the Jazzcorner Speakeasy members come here. They are welcome as far as I am concerned.

Is #5 from A New Hot One by David Krakauer (2001)