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Mary Lou? Mary Lou!

I have it on LP in the garage, but LPs are not currently part of my lifestyle. Found it on YouTube. It's good of its type, mixing more fusion oriented jazz with pop moves.

From Wikipedia Ben Riley discography, eliminating horn led dates With Kenny Barron Innocence (Wolf, 1978) Golden Lotus (Muse, 1980 [1982]) Imo Live (Whynot, 1982) Green Chimneys (Criss Cross Jazz, 1983) The Only One (Reservoir, 1990) Lemuria-Seascape (Candid, 1991) Live at Bradley's (EmArcy, 1996 [2001]) Live at Bradley's II (Sunnyside, 1996 [2002]) Minor Blues (Venus, 2009) With Ray Bryant Live at Basin Street East (Sue, 1964) Cold Turkey (Sue, 1964) With Red Garland Stepping Out (Galaxy, 1978) So Long Blues (Galaxy, 1979 [1981]) Strike Up the Band (Galaxy, 1979 [1981]) With Andrew Hill Lift Every Voice (Blue Note, 1969) Shades (Soul Note, 1986) With Hank Jones Bop Redux (Muse, 1977) With Sam Jones Down Home (Riverside, 1962) With Junior Mance Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard (Jazzland, 1961) With Jay McShann Some Blues (Chiaroscuro, 1993) With Horace Tapscott Dissent or Descent (Nimbus West, 1984 [1998]) With Roseanna Vitro Listen Here (Texas Rose, 1984) With Larry Willis A Tribute to Someone (AudioQuest, 1994) I happen to know that Shazam and Soundcloud can't identify this track, so the actual recording may have eluded this discog. Tough nut to crack! I haven't been able to find a stream of the Ray Bryant live album to compare. Al the tracks on the two volumes of Kenny Barron Live at Bradley's are too long.

Side one of his debut album Clarity made me into a Michael Gregory Jackson fan, and the next two, Karmonic Suite and Gifts were also highly enjoyable. From there I've kept tabs on his shift into folkis, R&Bish pop music, while hoping he would return to his early jazzier style. A recent batch of Bandcamp releases effectively doubles the number of primarily jazz albums released. Bandcamp is letting me play entire tracks of these albums instead of short samples, and I've been feasting on them. The obvious standout was Frequency Equilibrium Koan because it also featured Julius Hemphill and Abdul Wadud, also longtime favorites of mine. The trio album Spirit Signal Strata was also very strong, as were Liberty and Whenyoufindityouwillknow. There's also a single track, ten minute tribute to Charles Mingus with guitar bass and drums. Looking forward to the next artist Bandcamp Friday.

And naming 10 pianists I haven't ruled out just for the heck of it: Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Hank Jones, George Wallington, Tommy Flanagan, John Hicks, Red Garland, Walter Norris, Mary Lou Williams, Hugh Lawson.

Known drummers oh identified tracks so far 2. Willie Jones 4. Don Moye 5. Sam Woodyard 6. JC Moses 7. Don Moye 8. Edward Vesala 11. Ben Riley 12. Shadow Wilson 13. Billy Drummond 14. Jon Christiensen 15. Luqman Ali

By the way, who jams in grey?

Labelmate Ramsey Lewis?

Wikipedia Says of Ahmad Jamal: His Pittsburgh roots have remained an important part of his identity ("Pittsburgh meant everything to me and it still does," he said in 2001)[4] and it was there that he was immersed in the influence of jazz artists such as Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner. Jamal also studied with pianist James Miller and began playing piano professionally at the age of fourteen,[5] at which point he was recognized as a "coming great" by the pianist Art Tatum. Of those names I think Garner and Strayhorn fit the dramatic elements within #9 best. Not aware of Strayhorn doing a live album with a trio. Of course the connection could be sidemen and not influence.

Ahmad Jamal on 9?

Hampton Hawes on 9?

#8 is Star Flight from Edward Vesala - Satu.

Edward Vesala, Palle Mikkelborg and Tomas Stanko are possible leaders for #8 Enrico Rava on 14?

The hint on 9 suggests Eldar Djangirov.

Very enjoyable, seemed like a bunch of things I should know but don't until now. 1. Brawny tenor, Latin percussion and electric bass. Gato Barbieri is usually more outgoing than this, but I haven't got a better guess. 2. Grooving mainstream piano. Sonny Clark or Bud Powell. 3. Reggae tinge and lyric mentioning the West Indes. Reggae does not usually sound this jazzy, so perhaps calypso. (wild guess) Mighty Sparrow? 4. Freebop! Julius Hemphill? or maybe Tim Berne? 5. There's something familiar and Dukish about that coda. and the whole thing. Duke Ellington. 6. Has a Blue Note feel. Hank Mobley? 7. Nice alto feature. I'm guessing the spoken theater bits in the middle relate to the lyric of the standard that I'm not recognizing. Just based on the recorded sound, I'm believing this is a 90s or later recording, so I'l venture Donald Harrison. 8. Strongly reminiscent of Terje Rypdal. But I don't know any Rypdal dates with enough horns to pull off the intro. I started thinking this was Henry Threadgill with Brandon Ross on guitar, but I've swung back to Rypdal. 9. Could be a later Chick Corea acoustic trio. 10. Latin. I don't have enough knowledge to guess. 11. Feels a bit too brawny in tone in some places to be Stan Getz, but it fits stylistically, and I'm not finding any other guesses I like, so Stan. 12. Wonderfully frantic big band tune, big booting baritone at the beginning. Slide Hampton? 13. I used to say that if it's an alto and sounds like a tenor, it's Jackie McLean. Here I think of Jackie because I really can't tell, the nasal tone and ease with whick it goes into the upper register suggest alto to me, but nowhere near conclusively. The Jackie I'm most familiar doesn't have a guitar, so go ahead and tell me it's a tenor. 14. Could be somethjing on ECM, or Cuong Vu with Pat Metheny. 15. Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath? (after reading other posts) Enrico Rava on 14?

Amazon showing June 5 ship date for Sacred Ceremonies and Trumpet.

The buy button on that site doesn't work. If you want to buy without PayPal, there's this little bit of helpfulness: Please send a check to Store Name, Store Street, Store Town, Store State / County, Store Postcode. It's listed for 40 on Amazon, but that's more than I will go for.

But the tune labeled as Danielle's Waltz on Amazon is actually In a Sentimental Mood from another Mickey Bass album. From the Allmusic.com listing, Danielle's Waltz matches the timing of #2

It's on Amazon Music.

Mickey Bass? http://www.philschaapjazz.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3143240 ??

Someone should talk to the Yang Gang

For some people, just being makes them want to drink beer.

Loved the meaty grooves he laid down on Thomas Chapin's Sky Piece.

For #2, two other names I thought of were Wayne Escoffery (would be with Joe Locke as sideman) or Matthias Lupri.

Internet sleuthing says Chet Atkins may be the other guitar on #3. Yes, Anne Murray not Olivia Newton-John.