Milestones

Two compositions by Tyner, one by Henderson, one by Ron Carter--plus several standards. Fine record. McCoy was producing a lot of good/great records in this period, in every format from solo to big band.

Actually, Wikipedia says about 6,000 singles and about 35,000 total tracks. That would seem hard to top.

Is he the most-recorded drummer ever? I'e heard it's about 6,000 recordings. I imagine some jazz guys would at least give him a run for money.

Is #2 Wayne Shorter? I'll be quiet after this and let others respond. Great blindfold test!

Track 7 is a nice piano-bass duet on "Blue Monk." I can't really guess on the players. The pianist plays it a lot straighter than would Monk or a Monk disciple, but he/she has a nice touch and is expressive. It's an irresistible tune. Would the baritone player on #5 be James Carter?

Track 5 is soul jazz of another sort. This has more of a 70/s80s feel and has a lot of energy. You seem to be favoring live performances, and you can hear this tune going over big with the audience. The drums make me think of Idris Muhammed, though probably not (with much of that feel, though). Not too sure about anyone else either. The bari player is getting down on the big horn. Bluiett? Track 6 is "St. Thomas" in organ groove mode. Not bad, but no idea who this might be.

The first piece is "Broadway." You might as well call it "tenor madness" as there are, by my count, four tenor soloists. It doesn't sound like this goes too far back, yet I'm thinking it features older players. The second soloist sounds like Johnny Griffin, but I'm not saying I'm confident with that guess. Relatively younger guys like Joe Lovano and Joshua Redman would do stuff like this on occasion, but I'd expect them to put more of a wrinkle on it. This is played very straight. Track #2 is certainly interesting. As I get toward the end, that sounds like soprano work from Wayne Shorter. The tenor sounded familiar too, so that's likely Wayne as well. I don't have the new Shorter record, but I know some of it is orchestral; and I would not be surprised to hear this kind of creative orchestral piece from him. It's a fine track, and I would guess Wayne from his most recent album. Track #3 is grooving soul jazz. Enjoyable stuff, but I usually find it's not very distinctive. This is what you would often from Stanley Turrentine and Albert Ammons, but I doubt it's either of them. The guitar sounds fairly modern; it has some Metheny touches, but there are many possibilities as to who it is. The organist is coming from someplace different--that is, not out of the Jimmy Smith school.

I have not seen the film, but I'm interested. How is it that the guy playing Shirley received the Oscar for Best SUPPORTING Actor?

Maybe I went through too fast, but no Jimmy Giuffre? We have horn, guitar, bass; also Giuffre, Brookmeyer, Hall (two horns and guitar). There is the somewhat similar News for Lulu (Zorn, Lewis Frisell).

Peter Tork died today at age 77. No love for The Monkees? For better or worse, they were part of my youth. I've long felt that music snobs have overly maligned their skills.

It is a changing world. I got really hip to Hank relatively late in the span of my jazz passion, but I have to say there's so much good stuff--and the vast majority is on Blue Note (one should also factor in his work in Blakey's Jazz Messengers). I've been able to collect a lot through libraries, downloading services, and one of those "8 classic albums" sets (4 CDs). I can see where finding deluxe or decent Blue Note editions is valued by a certain core. But how large is such an audience?

Yes, perhaps "Vision" or "Song of Happiness" from Expansions.

I've got maybe half of these. Most of these, including "Verse" and "Footprints," I don't think of as spiritual. They could be; I guess it depends on the story behind the piece. No Grant Green from Feelin' The Spirit? How about Mobley's "A Baptist Beat"?

Looks (sounds) like a rather tough Blindfold Test.

I would guess Kamasi Washington on #9 as well, though so far I have not collected his music.

Track #3 is not bad, with some fusion and latin feeling. I'm sensing a lot of electric piano on the BFT overall. The tenor, sounding pretty intense in the second half, reminds me of George Adams--but mostly likely is not. The number has something of a commercial feel--maybe a CTI release. Track #4--more electric piano and this also sounding 70s--or at least influence by the music of that time. Pretty catchy. But I really can't guess. Track #5 has a fine piano opening. Whoever is playing has a beautiful touch. Otherwise this goes into a pure post-bop mode. It has a Blue Note feel, or at least the feel of those trying to capture 60's Blue Note vibe. Good stuff, but not all that distinctive. No guesses. On #6 the players love Coltrane and Elvin, especially in the opening two minutes. Billy Harper? Pharoah Sanders? Track #7 has some grooving electric piano (and I'm not good at identifying those players), plus some bass clarinet and relaxed trumpet. Nice stuff, but no idea.

Going to say a few words about the first 2 tracks. Track #1 has an early fusion feel--early 1970s? Electric piano, funky bass. I thought maybe Donald Byrd, who was doing something like this around that time (though his work in this period is not well-represented in my collection). Good soprano and tenor solos. It could be anyone's date, and I'd be guessing wildly on the players. Track #2 is bit odd, with a gentle guitar opening, followed by some brawny (though not frantic) tenor work--seems a bit Rollins inspired. The piece is "Stranger in Paradise," the kind of song Sonny would do--though I'm about 100% sure it is not Sonny.

Happy birthday, Mr. Golson. You are a great jazz figure and a class act.

I may not get solutions, but I'm wondering if anyone has had a computer with a partitioning like this. On my new computer, C is the smaller part at about 100 GB. D is huge at 900 GB. Data files are supposed to go into D--pics, Word files, music files. The problem is everything seems to default to C. I made many attempts and managed to get music into D (which is a big chunk), as well as some pictures. But I'm having trouble getting anything else in there. I have Word files going into C and/or D. The whole thing is nonsensical to me. I know there is supposed to be a way to remove the partition, but I don't know if have the confidence to do that. Anyone here ever face this problem?

Bagpipes??? I'm pretty sure I don't have a single jazz record that features bagpipes.

Not an Apple. Anyway, I do find the CD/DVD drive when I go into This PC (formerly My Computer) and look under "devices and "drivers." I

Something is wrong, because the F drive (for CD and DVD) does not show up in the file directory. I have C (Windows), D (data, such as music, Word Files, photos), E (recovery), and G (external hard drive).

On your old vinyl turntables and CD players you would put in the disc flat. With many computers, the loading slot is a 90 degree turn--thus loaded sideways.

So there are actually people who would be totally annoyed and aggravated by the sound of Jane Ira Bloom's soprano sax?

I have a new computer, which seems good overall; but I'm not happy with the burner. It is positioned sideways, which seems to be common anymore (my last computer had this too). But I think it's stupid, and it's a pain to get the CD in. Then the CD either takes forever to appear in the media player of file directory, or never appears. I'm waiting right now for 10 minutes. Plus the whole thing seems so chintzy that a bit too pressure of a figure will wreck it. Can anyone relate to this?