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Hopefully NOT! What could be better than an artist keeping us up on their latest recordings. Based on the tracks available for streaming it seems like the new one, on a few tracks, takes some steps in a direction Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd explored with their three collaborations.

Phil Woods and Richie Cole?

1. drums and unison clarinets yield to a baritone. Jimmy Giuffre? 2. live version of a Miles Davis composition, not Walkin' or So What, but very well known and familiar. Is it Milestones? I would be guessing Miles if that weren't an alto sax. Chet Baker? 3. vocalist, perhaps brazilian. The only CD's I have fitting that description are by Flora Purim. Could this be Luciana Souza? 4, 5. couple of views of the same Bird tune. Is it Birdland Suite? 4. Very low register for a trumpet - could it be Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone? 5. Hampton Hawes? 6. gotta be Bela Fleck 7. modern recording of piano trio. Mulgrew Miller? 8. add some acoustic guitar into the mix. Eric Klugh? 9. modern recording of piano trio this time with bowed bass solo. Bluesy. Cyrus Chestnut? 10. I don't know of any Konitz - Marsh dates that include piano and trombone, but that's what it sounds like to me. 11. Taking our piano downtempo and dropping out the drums. Kenny Drew and NHOP? 12. Gypsy guitar rave-up. Hmm, multiple guitars, live date. The Concord Jazz Great Guitars groups with Herb Ellis? 13. And the piano goes it alone. Barry Harris? 14. two altos bebopping? Sonny Stitt? 15. Back to the trio, midtempo relaxed. Eddie Higgins?

My first Big Ears concert!

Opening set at The Standard with Junius Paul?

#3 - Hank Jones - The Trio (Savoy) Alpha

After Pepper and maybe Hamiet we are left with doublers. No way it's Mulligan or Carney.

Could 11 be Cecil Payne, maybe the Strata-East? How many baritonists are more well known than Charles Davis?

Great, I'll get back in the flow next year. It is a busy time.

In the meantime, the folks in Andorra have brought the Joe Alexander session to CD.

If two don't step up, I'm likely to take one.

Cecile McLorin Salvant on 10?

Appreciate the inclusion of an all-female band and a young female bandleader. I saw Nicole Glover with Dave Holland last year, first encountered Ingrid Jensen on Enja back in the eMusic days.

1. Lotta piano - familiar tune, possibly Bird's tune, Bud or possibly Phineas Newborn. 2. Classic tenor. Not falling strongly into Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon or Ben Webster territory, so I'll say Don Byas. 3. Flute in the bebop era style. Not Rahsaan, and probably not Herbie Mann. Maybe Frank Wess with the New York Jazz Quartet. 4. For some reason I'm thinking McCoy Tyner even though it's miles away from his predominant Milestone style. 5. More rhapsodic tenor. Maybe Stan Getz 6. More Piano trio. John Hicks (wild guess) 7. Having Herbie Nichols thoughts here. but I don't know if there are any Herbie nichols tracks this long. I'm going in an entirely different direction - Ahmad Jamal? 8. Silky smooth larger band - Jones- Lewis? 9. Hello to the Wind. Name sounds familiar, probably a 70's WRTI "hit" Gary Bartz? 10. Female vocalist is Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered convincingly. Maby Karyn Allison? 11. Feels like early Sun Ra in a lot of ways, particularly the way the booting baritones drive the groove and the slightly lo-fi ambiance. But the piano solo is longer and slightly more conventional than I expect from Sunny. Note that it's only conventional compared to Sun Ra - it's pretty damn great. 12. I've been streaming a lot of Ogun lately and this has that feel. The Blue Notes had a fairly small output, so maybe a Louis Moholo-Moholo band? 13. Much more polished sound, when the horns lay out i think of Buster Williams and Kenny Barron. If I had recognized Get Happy, I probably would have guessed Randy Weston