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I like #7 a lot. I am not familiar with this version of Afro Blue, and am looking forward to finding out who this is. Afro Blue is such a good song. I really like Cal Tjader's version on Soul Sauce. Now this is another really good recording of the song.

Big Al, you will find some of this BFT delicious and easy to digest!

The discussion for the most excellent BFT #103 is still underway, and I encourage everyone to continue with it. I am presenting BFT #104 in November, and hope you will sign up. Please let me know if you want a download or a disc. In keeping with the season, this BFT is a musical cornucopia, of abundant variety: She endorses this BFT:

I like disjointed, unstructured bursts of noise, with no recognizable rhythmic pulse, which go on for a very long time.

Von and Chico Freeman Kenny Drew and Kenny Drew, Jr.

What is that? Is it a re-issue or new old stock? That is what the original album cover looked like upon its initial release.

Track One sounds like Alice Coltrane to me. I am not familiar with any of her albums with this instrumentation though. The tenor sax player sounds like he really knows his Pharoah Sanders, and the trumpet player sounds like he studied Don Cherry. However, I do not think it is Pharoah and Don. This one has me stumped. On Track Nine, is that George Lewis on trombone and Muhal Richard Abrams on piano?

This was a most enjoyable BFT. Thanks for the care with which you chose the selections.

And most of them were compilations of music first issued on 45. A quick shufti through the Atlantic album list reveals the following R&B LPs that seem to have been recorded as albums. 8002 - La Vern - La Vern Baker [1956] 8015 - Ivory Joe Sings the Old and New - Ivory Joe Hunter [1958] 8019/SD-8019 - Blues From the Gutter - Champion Jack Dupree [4/59] 8035/SD-8035 - The Wildest Guitar - Mickey Baker [1959] 8036/SD-8036 - Precious Memories La Vern Baker Sings Gospel - La Vern Baker [11/59] 8039 - Ray Charles In Person - Ray Charles [1960] MG Another Atlantic R&B album recorded as an album is T Bone Walker--T Bone Blues (great album, too). http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/image.html/WPCR-27524

I just don't understand the anger at Facebook. To me, it's a way to connect with old friends from years ago, which has been quite pleasant for me. We on this board are among the more literate people in the world, or at least among those who like most to type our thoughts on the computer. Some very nice people are different, and do not communicate well by one on one email for whatever reason. They find Facebook to be their way of connecting with the world. It takes all kinds. Like almost everything else in life, Facebook has a set of conventions and institutional oddities which I find either mildly annoying or dumb, and which I ignore. I also ignore such conventions and institutional oddities in many other organizations and settings which I come into contact with, both online and in the real world. I just don't take the side features of Facebook seriously, and they do not bother me. From Facebook I take the pleasure of discussions with my good friends from long ago, and ignore the rest of Facebook.

This is just me, and I know that many Prine fans would vehemently disagree with this. To me, his first album is by far his best. To me, he had his best songs saved up and used them on his first album, and then never reached that level again. I like the first album a lot, but do not like the rest of his career nearly as well.

I will need a disc. Thanks!

I bought The Lodestar at Schoolkids Records in Ann Arbor when it first came out, leaving many other Horos in the bins unpurchased. It is certainly worth hearing, but it is not as focused and intense as some of Max's other albums from the same period. The performances are very long. I'd like to hear the two Hidden Fire albums by Sun Ra. I have never seen copies of them.

I have one if the topic is generally considered all right for this board. At the risk of doing something wrong, here it is:

That seems fine to me.

I agree with Jim R. If the compiler wants to present 2 CDs of material, few people are going to provide detailed comments on every track anyway. If the compiler does not care, what is the harm? I am one that does not comment on every track. I only comment when I think I have something interesting to say. I don't see the point in writing, "Don't have a clue, not even a wild guess. It's an acoustic hard bop quintet. Could be any time period from the 1950s to now." So I don't always comment. I am not upset when members do not comment on all of my tracks. If someone wants to create a buffet with 35 items, and is not concerned if some people only try twelve of them, what is the harm in having a longer buffet? What if someone just loves items 1,2,7,25,28 and 35 from the buffet, and finds item 28 to be a life-changing experience? They would miss out if only the first 16 items could be included. I think back to a BFT that The Magnificent Goldberg prepared. There was one CD of material, and then a bonus disc of three or four vocal cuts. Those vocal cuts were incredible to me. I still think about them and pull out his BFT and listen to the vocal cuts. If The Magnificent Goldberg had thought, oh well, I must exercise discipline and ruthlessly delete these vocal cuts, my life from that day forward would have been a little less rich, a little less enjoyable.

I will need a disc. Or will that be more than one disc? (Just a little BFT inside humor there).

"Hip Dripper"! I could not remember the name of this Blythe composition. That's it. Blythe also recorded it on his "In The Tradition" album.

I think that there should be no limit to the length of the BFTs. I don't think anyone has ever tried to go over 2 CDs worth of time, so that is the upper limit we are realistically talking about. I know that in compiling a BFT, I have certain songs I just HAVE to include, either because they are such historical curiosities, or because I think everyone will enjoy them, or because they will shock everyone, or for a number of other reasons. Sometimes I have confined the BFT to one disc, sometimes I have spilled over a little. What I have found is that often the listeners are the most enthusiastic about the tracks which I would have excluded if I had been forced to cut the BFT to one disc in length. It can be very unpredictable what the listeners will enjoy. I find that on many BFTs, I don't really like to listen to certain songs that much, and often those are the longest songs. I have no desire to hear them more than once or twice, although they may be academically interesting on some level. So with a one disc BFT, I am left as a listener with not that many songs to replay and enjoy. Sometimes I wish there were more songs. To me this is kind of like cutting the Beatles' White Album to one LP. Everyone has a much different idea about what songs should be cut, and the very songs you might love the most, are the ones which I would clearly cut. It can be hard to decide what to leave off of a BFT which is slightly more than one disc long.

I knew it!!! Yes, but this comment was about Track 9, which you said that you liked too!

I think #5 is from the album The Great Jazz Trio at the Village Vanguard, with Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, the first song on Side 2, "Favors".

I really enjoyed George Adams' playing with McCoy Tyner in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He blew the roof off the place during his solo on "Fly With The Wind" in a fall 1978, appearance with Tyner at the Earle, a small Ann Arbor, Michigan, club. It is one of the most memorable live performances I have ever witnessed. I like his "Sound Suggestions" and "Paradise Space Shuttle" albums.

#9 is an Arthur Blythe composition, which he has recorded more than once. Blythe is the alto sax soloist here. This version is with The Leaders--Blythe, Lester Bowie, Chico Freeman, Kirk Lightsey, Cecil McBee, Don Moye. I am going to try to find which album by The Leaders it is on--I don't have the albums with me now. This is just great music!