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It baffles me, too. I have no doubt that if used properly and to one's own advantage, Facebook can be an awesome tool for many things. However, there have been a couple of well-publicized downsides. Off the top of my head: 1. I've heard stories of job offers being rescinded because of behavior witnessed on Facebook accounts. 2. Kids often post pics on Facebooks that have been taken using smartphones. Last year, it was discovered that such pics contain GPS technology embedded in them. Predators have been using this technology to actively stalk children. As a father of two teenagers, this is the one I have the biggest problem with. Hopefully, I've helped you guys to become a little more unbaffled. Those are problems that teenagers have with Facebook. But if you are an old coot like me communicating with other people your age on Facebook, I still don't see the problem with it. What baffles me is the knee jerk hostility to Facebook on this board.

I have also had many positive experiences with Facebook. The negativity about Facebook on this board mystifies me.

I would like a disc, please.

Happy birthday!

I am terrible at identifying musicians but I have thoroughly enjoyed this BFT for its sheer listening pleasure. Track 1. The organist is either Larry Young or someone who has listened to a lot of Larry Young. The organist reminds me of Larry Young on a Joe Chambers Muse album, Double Exposure.

I would like to participate and will need a disc. Thanks.

Happy Birthday, Allen!

This is a great Blindfold Test and had me totally stumped--which is odd because I have the albums from which #1, 4 and 12 were taken from. I need to immerse myself in my collection and rediscover some music again!

I will need a disc.

Chuck, About ten years ago I had cataract surgery on both eyes. The surgeon took out my lenses and implanted artificial lenses. This had the side effect of giving me 20/20 vision, after decades of having to wear very thick glasses. During the cataract surgery, while my lens was removed, I saw the most wonderful colors. It can't really be described, but it was truly amazing. I remember thinking at the time, the special color effects at the end of the film "2001" are nothing compared to this. Seeing those colors was really one of the most memorable moments of my life. Then when I had my other eye done, I saw the colors again. Did you see the colors, Chuck?

Is #5 from a Geri Allen album? This BFT is very enjoyable to listen to, and very intriguing. I can't figure out who anyone is, but it is a compelling set of music.

Is that Wallace Roney on track 5? I don't have the music with me right now and can't find my notes. Drat! Is track 11 the one with trombone and strings? Is that Steve Turre's group, with his wife and other string players?

Disc please. Do you mean Red Ruffing?

A member of another online music board, in response to this same article, made the point that country is the new rock by that standard, as country artists are the ones today who stand and play their instruments and sing into a microphone, without drum machines, DJs, electronic effects, scores of dancers, and other pop production devices of today. I did not get the impression that the writer was trying for satire. I agree that most of it happened 15 years ago and that the points made in the article are old hat. Also, jazz and traditional folk music probably have comparable sized audiences today.

I heard "tough darts" often as a little kid growing up in Wisconsin. I agree with fasstrack on the sensitivity point. I have always found it curious how some members of the Organissimo community, which is made up of genuinely decent people, seem compelled to make very negative comments about a musician who has just died. I have noticed that this is usually done when the musician in question was popular, or had achieved commercial fame or mainstream success. No one ever jumps in and says that some of the albums by a recently deceased avant garde saxophonist were unfocused or had overbusy arrangements. It is always someone with millions of fans who gets the nasty treatment immediately upon their death. I agree with fasstrack that we could wait a short time before launching a no holds barred discussion of the shortcomings of the recently departed.

Yes, in the fall of 1976 he had a front line of Joe Ford and Ron Bridgewater. In the summer and fall of 1978 it was Joe Ford and George Adams. In the fall of 1979 and 1980 it was Joe Ford, George Adams and John Blake. In the summer of 1981 it was Joe Ford and John Blake. Charles Fambrough was his bassist in all of those years until sometime in 1980 or 1981. I saw Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Charles Fambrough in the band in 1981. Art Blakey announced his name and said that "Charles has been with Mc Coy Tyner but has come over to play with us because he wanted to play some JAZZ!" I found that comment to be rather curious.

I realize that this is not politically correct to say on this forum, but I enjoyed the Grammys show this year. I thought that there was more musical artistry presented, in the pop genre, than in many past years. There were several genuinely good singers who performed in a straightforward way. It's a pop music show. It is not a jazz show I think that many members of this forum would have enjoyed the duet by Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt, their tribute to Etta James.

Well, it is no wonder that I could not identify any of this music. This is what I hope the Blindfold Test will do, teach me about some great music that I have never heard--and/or never even heard of! Thanks for a most intriguing Blindfold Test!

Post-Zorn? Somehow I doubt that this was Allen's career ambition, to become known as post-Zorn.

I will need a disc.

Jeff, I have listened to this BFT many times, hoping that some inspiration will come my way. I enjoy every song on this BFT, in all of its styles. I have zero clue who is playing any of it. Usually I can identify some of the musicians on your BFTs, but this one really has me stumped. I am looking forward very much to learning who is playing on every cut, as I do enjoy them all.

I saw Tyner twice in 1979-80 (both years in the fall) with a front line of John Blake, George Adams and Joe Ford. By the summer of 1981, it was just John Blake and Joe Ford.

WELCOME BACK!

I would like December if it is still open. Actually, I already have you in the November spot, based on an earlier request. That's fine, thanks.

There is a studio version of this song on Kirk's album "The 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color."