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Same here too but - this deserved to be officially re-issued years ago. Now thankfully it is. No vinyl, but some original used vinyl copies do re-emerge from time to time commanding ridiculous prices. Yes I understand originals are expensive; what I was asking is if there will be a reissue on vinyl in addition to the CD reissue?

No vinyl?

Track 1-1 "chila chila" Oriental Wind "Chila Chila" (Sonet, 1979) Okay Temiz (drums), Lennart Aberg (saxophones), Bobo Stenson (piano), Tuna Otenel (saxophones), Thomas Ostergren (bass) These guys do world jazz right..this is the lead off track from one of their strongest albums and I think it worked well as a lead track on my first ever BFT! Bobo Stenson is a favorite of mine too and he shines on this album... Track 1-2 "Fall Out" Masahiko Sato "Samadhi" (Express, 1972) Masahiko Sato (piano, synthesizer), Gary Peacock (bass), Motohiko Hino (drums) Masahiko Sato is another big favorite here and so is Gary Peacock! It's not Miroslav Vitous Track 1-3 "Rainbow at the five mile road" Stan Tracey "Free An'One" (Columbia/Lansdowne, 1970) Stan Tracey (piano), Peter King (alto sax), Dave Green (bass), Bryan Spring (drums) This one divided folks here..some people loved it and some people hated it! Oh well better then a lukewarm reaction! Check out his earlier "Under Milkwood Suite" if you want something a tad more gentler Tracey is a brilliant and legendary UK pianist..all his early albums are top notch in my book. Track 1-4 "Almost Green" Tomasz Stanko "Almost Green" (Leo, 1979) Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Edward Vesala (drums), Palle Danielsson (bass), Tomasz Szukalski (saxophone) Chosen to highlight two favorites of mine...Stanko and Vesala not to mention the great Palle Danielsson on bass. Track 1-5 "To John Hodjazz" Misja Mengelberg Quartet "s/t" (Artone, 1966) Misja Mengelberg (piano), Han Bennink (drums), Piet Noordijk (alto sax), Rob Langereis (bass) Another room divider...I can understand that Mengelberg's piano isn't everyone's cup of tea. I personally love this track and it's off kilter swinging and fun vibe Chosen to fool people and most people know Mengelberg and Bennink from their free improv stuff although this album often reminds me of what Mengelberg did in the nineties on those wonderful piano trio CDs released on AVANT, etc.... Track 1-6 "Peace Piece" Gordon Beck "Seven Steps to Evans" (MPS, 1980) Gordon Beck (piano), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), Tony Oxley (drums), Ron Mathewson (bass), Stan Sulzmann (saxophones) Chosen to highlight a few more favorites of mine - Kenny Wheeler and Tony Oxley. Both master musicians who were/are comfortable in many different musical settings. A few days after putting this BFT together I found out Wheeler had died..RIP Kenny. Track 1-7 "The Owl" Steve Lacy "The Wire" (Denon, 1977) Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Masahiko Togashi (percussion), Masahiko Sato (piano), Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass), Keiki Midorikawa (cello), Yoshio Ikeda (bass) A duo track off this great but rare album...Lacy and Togashi occupy huge record/cd space here on my shelves...both are master musicians in my book. Track 2-1 "Pryllåten-Ballasong" Spjarnsvallet "s/t" (MNW, 1975) Christer Bothen (saxes, bass clarinet, etc), Kjell Westling (bass clarinet, saxes, etc), Bengt Berger (percussion, etc), Nicke Strom (bass, etc) This one had strong reactions too both positive and negative...this obscure Swedish album is really strong in my opinion and the players are fantastic. Don Cherry played with Bothen and Berger! Dueling bass clarinets - yes!! This is one of the wilder tracks off this album...there's even some gentler and more melodic stuff for folks scared off by this piece Track 2-2 "Lily (lotus)" Sonny Greenwich "Sun Song" (CBC, 1974 Sonny Greenwich (guitar), Don Thompson (piano), Richard Homme (bass), Terry Clarke (drums), Clayton Johnston (percussion) Like the above record from Sweden, I think this is also an unsung and obscure album deserving of more notice. It was only released on the CBC (Canada's national radio station) label? It's a very strong album...I really love it and I think more people should hear it. Sonny and the entire band are firing on all cylinders on this album...since I'm a Canadian I felt obliged to include some Canadian content too Gotta love Sonny's guitar tone! I think somebody mentioned this too on the discussion thread... Track 2-3 "Time" Tchangodei "Sans Chemin" (Volcanic, no date given) Tchangodei (piano), George Lewis (trombone), Steve Potts (saxophone), Jean-Jacques Avenel (bass), Oliver Johnson (drums) Another unsung/obscure album that needs to be heard by more people. Chosen to highlight the monster band this French pianist assembled for this album as well. JJ Avenel and George Lewis in particular play like beasts on this album! Tchangodei did a few nice albums with Steve Lacy as well.... Track 2-4 "B's Blues" Nathan Davis "The Hip Walk" (SABA, 1965) Nathan Davis (saxophones, flute), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Jimmy Woode (bass), Francy Boland (piano), Kenny Clarke (drums) Somebody in the discussion thread guessed "Woody Shaw" which was a nice guess because Woody played on Nathan's *other* album for SABA entitled "Happy Girl"!!! Carmell is no slouch here obviously! Chosen because it's a fantastic album and Nathan never really got his due..also chosen to please people who want some good old straight ahead jazz(and hey I want that too from time to time hence its appearance here!) Track 2-5 "Blues for Bra Dick" Johnny Dyani "Grand Mother's teaching" (Disques Jam, 1982) Johnny Dyani (bass), DouDou Gouirand (alto sax), Butch Morris (cornet), Pierre Dorge (guitar), Makaya Ntshoko (drums) Quite a few listeners did not really like this track which surprised me...I love it myself and what a unique band! Dyani is a giant in my book and I love Dorge's guitar work on this album. Track 2-6 "Bar L'Len" Kosuke Mine "First" (Philips, 1970) Kosuke Mine (saxophones), Masabumi Kikuchi (keyboards), Larry Ridley (bass), Lenny McBrowne (drums) Chosen to highlight the work of Kosuke Mine and Masabumi Kikuchi whose albums are plentiful in my record racks. Larry Ridley! There are even stronger tracks on this album but I chose this one for its shorter length..did not want this BFT to be over 80 minutes... Track 2-7 "Winslow Cavern" Barre Phillips "Call me when you get there" (ECM, 1984) Barre Phillips (bass) A cool ending to this BFT, well, at least I thought so anyways Barre was and is still one of my favorite bass players! I've been lucky to have seen him live numerous times over the course of the 90s and early 2000s and even attended a brilliant workshop that he led. He has big ears and can fit himself in many different musical settings....this solo bass album on ECM is outstanding. A big "thank you" to everyone that took part and listened to this...hope I turned on a few people to a few nice discoveries.. Sorry some album cover jpegs did not want to load up for some reason?

My favorite is the India navigation album even if it is quite unlike a lot of his other albums

"Tauhid" is by far my favorite Impulse album from Pharoah.

It's not Charles Tolliver but good guess!

Glad you liked 1-1, and I wouldn't call it horribly rare and expensive but it's not as plentiful as James Last or Nana Mouskori albums Hope you get time to listen to disc 2!

Well up until now I thought the general reactions to this BFT have been positive :0 ! Anyway thanks for giving it a listen and it was interesting to read your impressions as many of them obviously differ from mine Stay tuned for the reveal on Saturday!

Your welcome! Glad you liked most of the test at least..sounds like a few tracks were not your cup of tea I'll post the reveal on Saturday...

Arman Ratip "Spy from Instanbul" (Regal Zonophone, UK) Great album with Harry Miller, Keith Bailey, and Marc Charig.

Hey thanks for listening!

Count me in!

Steve Lacy/Yuji Takahashi/Takehisa Kosugi "distant voices" (Columbia, Japan). One of my desert island records...incredible album.

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Well when I was putting it together I did make a conscious effort to make it listenable and flow..like a really good mix tape like I used to do in the late 80s/early 90s in the cassette days. I didn't want to make it totally obscure so I threw in a handful of tracks that I figured would be easier to guess and so far those have been the ones identified correctly. So I'll admit I did select some obscure tracks but I made sure they were strong and listenable selections..not just obscure for obscure's sake. I would assume if more people participated then the combined knowledge and experience of other listeners would reveal a few more titles? Anyway I look forward to the reveal in a week or so!

Dharma quintet "end starting" (SFP, France). A recent acquisition; killer electric piano battling acid guitar over a free jazz rhythm section...pretty frikken awesome!

Stockhausen "from the seven days" (DG, Germany 7LP box) I played two records last night, and am just midway through a third. I bought this a few years back but am only now trying to go through the entire thing. There's a ton of great music on here with most members of New Phonic Art present(Michel Portal and JF Jenny Clark being the big "jazz" names). This simply suffers from "box set syndrome"...so much music & so little time!

Yeah I guess I could have too come to think of it but it's not really my favorite session you know? I vastly prefer "the living music" or "nipples"...

My copy is the white issue as well; I guess we all suck

That's very cool...it would be even cooler if it was the original circular FMP logo issue? Or wait..is it rather even nerdier haha? I got Han and Peter to sign my "schwarzwaldfaht"(spelling?) LP years ago...that looks pretty nice. And the entire Monk's Dream 4tet signed my gig flyer for the show..so it's sorta cool to have Lacy, Rudd et al on the same page. As for used Lps I've picked up...I'm probably most proud of finding an archive copy of "the living music" on Quasar with Schlippenbach's signature on it many moons ago.

Nice! Yeah that Cairo free jazz ensemble is pretty so-so...

J.D. Parran! Does he play with a King Crimson vet on this one? We have a winner! And yes, he plays with Mr. Muir on this record. For me this is one of the more compelling Company titles along with the "epiphanies" 2LP.

I'd second the crap motion; I've had 2 noisy copies of "baptized traveller" that both looked perfect visually. I was lucky to find a Japanese pressing on Sony a year back that is dead silent. I have it on CD as well of course along with "4 compositions". "ichnos" is very excellent and is thankfully on RCA so it sounds good...is it his best? Dunno...his two Incus albums from the 70s have got to be up there quality-wise.

1-2 is not Joe Zawinul but that's actually not a bad guess! I love his keyboard work on the first few Weather Report albums and I can see some similarity...

Still need both of the Pittner dates on Angelus. Very rare and almost always trashed when they come up for sale. Yeah I lucked out on both of these records in nice shape for around $50 each just in the last month. They're quite good...