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Hot Ptah

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  1. Big Al, This may be the wildest, and weirdest, BFT test I have heard. I mean that as a compliment! I am enjoying this BFT a lot in my car. I cannot identify any of the songs or artists, but I am having fun!
  2. Also, a Savoy collection, "Have No Fear, Big Joe Turner Is Here", is excellent. I saw Big Joe Turner live in the late 1970s, in Boston. He sat on a chair throughout the set, but his voice was powerful.
  3. Their duet "Ellen David" from Haden's "Closeness" album is one of the few times when Jarrett has recorded something simple and direct, to my ears.
  4. Happy Birthday!
  5. Did I miss the Reveal on BFT72, or is it coming soon?
  6. Ah Um Dynasty Tijuana Moods
  7. Do piranhas feed on piranhas? Why all the griping, this label is filling a heartfelt collectors' need: We should all be rejoicing that Kind of Blue will finally be available on CD! And with its original cover art!
  8. Too bad that you are not extending your trip just a little bit north of Dallas, to Kansas City. There's a group of us here who would fill you up with Arthur Bryant's barbecue!
  9. Just an inexplicably weird cover, nothing else. I have no idea who he is.
  10. "My Favorite Things" on Sun Ra's "Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue." I loved "Water Babies" when it was first released. Side 1 got very heavy play in our little college apartment of jazz fanatics. Side 2, not so much.
  11. I saw her live with a group of musicians from Mali shortly after this CD was released. It was a very powerful concert. I had not heard any music like it.
  12. I have a CD version of that Pete Johnson album with the speaking parts, and it is a rent party. Most of the speaking parts consist of welcoming the next musician who is joining the group for the next song.
  13. I think both things are true. Much more jazz music from many artists has been generally available since CDs were introduced. I agree that for those elusive titles, the Internet has been the solution. I also had a list of albums I searched for everywhere for years, and within three years of being online, I had them all.
  14. You included Charlie Johnson's "Boy in the Boat", which I used on my Blindfold Test #69. This looks fascinating. I have to get it.
  15. That is fine.
  16. I like the link to the old Siskel and Ebert show. I am sure that Ebert is a fine person. However, his elevation to angelic status strikes me as too limiting, selling him too short. In the heyday of the Siskel and Ebert shows, he was a prickly fighter--the shows often degenerated into nearly abusive shouting matches. Siskel and Ebert were passionate about their beliefs and were quite willing to be not so nice in expressing themselves. To depict Ebert now as a sort of holy man paints too thin a picture of him, in my opinion.
  17. Thanks for that explanation. The entire topic of white people playing the blues is an interesting one. Blindman Blues Forum members would probably have a different take on it than the members on this board. I wonder if this is a universal development--here in Kansas City, we have an active local Blues Society and a nightclub devoted to blues. I have been a member of the Blues Society for about 25 years. I cannot help but notice that over the years, the number of black blues performers written about, booked at the local nightclub, and pictured in the monthly Blues Society magazine, has dramatically decreased. Now the photos of local blues shows look like a late 1960s/early 1970s rock fest to me--nearly all white musicians, many in their 50s, 60s and 70s, playing the blues. Very few black blues musicians are pictured. This was not the case twenty years ago. Also, I read a monthly national blues magazine, and it is obvious that a good many of the new blues releases every month are by white artists. A striking number of the newer black artists are children of the black blues greats, and they are usually nowhere near as good as their parent had been. So how is this debate pertinent with regard to the blues music of today? From what I can tell, by today's scene's standards, Johnny Winter is an authentic grizzled old blues master.
  18. Yes. While I thoroughly enjoy your BFT music, I have no more guesses to make. You have stumped me. I can't wait for the answers.
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