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John Young also recorded for Delmark I believe. I played him once or twice on the college radio station at Temple U, WRTI in the 70s.

I own the complete albums of Walt Dickerson, missing only a promo 45.

Presenting Burton Greene on Columbia. Odd that I see it on Amazon Music, but not for sale as MP3s on Amazon.

Buck Hill could be somewhere in the mix.

Wikipedia and other sources are reporting that cellist David Darling passed away Jan 8, 2021. He recorded as a leader for ECM, duetted with Terje Rypdal and was a member of the Paul Winter Consort when it also included two of the founding members of Oregon.

Those guesses were based on the fact you thought JSngry might have gotten it.

Jerry Bergonzi, Ari Ambrose or George Garzone on 2?

Well the WWFL theme. I haven't detected the other theme How about Milt Buckner on #1?

Congratulations, I think you pulled off the theme rather well, I like it more than Felser did. No duds. The tenor trios were more adventurous than expected.

1. Bill Doggett? 2. I hear electric bass, I think. Could be a smooth jazz band at their most mainstream, or not. Good composition. If it's Dan and I don't know it, I can always guess Gene Harris. 3. Funky trumpet quartet. I'm thinking Lee Morgan, although Wynton Marsalis is a possibility. 4. Herbie Hancock? 5. Sonny Stitt? 6. Johnny Griffin? I thought Hank at first, but the rapid fire stuff near the end suggested a sax known for their speed, like Griffin or Golson. 7. Willis Jackson? Doesn't sound like Pat Martino on guitar. 8. Sonny Rollins. If this is here for Felser and me, it's appreciated. 9. I was thinking Miles with Trane, but the sax solos first, and there a trombone solo, not usually found on Miles dates. This must be from Blue Train. 10. Willow Weep for Me. I played the one from Blue Hour to make sure it wasn't that one. It's not. No piano, for one thing. Hard not to think Sonny Rollins, although disciples like Grant Stewart and Eric Alexander are also a possibility. Sonny. 11. Gene Ammons? Melody recalls More. 12. Willow Weep for Me again. The transition between tracks makes it sound like it comes from the same live performance that the last track did, so more Jug. 13. Electric piano. Maybe Joe Henderson? 14. Request for herbal assistance. i choose not to publically conjecture on who Ben or <bleep> might be.

From an interview with Walt Dickerson, Link: http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-full-1-walt-dickerson.html HS: You’ve said that two of your biggest influences were “The Two Johns,” Dennis and Coltrane. Can you tell me about your relationships with them? WD: Well we came up in the same era, the same vicinity. We shared thoughts about life, which cannot be separated from our musical projections. What you hear in the musical projections are really our view and study of life, and we had tremendous interchange. The interchange was heaviest between John Dennis and myself; we were inseparable coming up, like the inseparable twins as such. He was allowed to create when he came to our house; he could not create the music that he desired to create in his house because of the restrictions leveled by his, quote [finger quotes], “religious” parents. My parents were religious also, but they loved music. My mother was a pianist; my father sang in a choir. And my mother always encouraged John and myself, and he would play for her and she enjoyed it tremendously. John also had a photographic mind, very capable of also doing three things simultaneously. As so often happens in America, his genius did not yield the fruits that it should have. Another Walt Dickerson interview mentioning John Dennis http://web.archive.org/web/20030110092757/www.onefinalnote.com/issue9/features/dickerson.html

Now that the name is out there, I can release a bit of additional irony, from my BFT 33 in Feb 2006: 3. Sumi Tonooka - Seriously Speaking from Taking Time (Candid 1990) Sumi piano, Craig Handy tenor sax, Rufus Reid bass, Akira Tana drums. I like this more than many of you did. Sumi is a fine Philly pianist who I got to meet during my time at the college radio station, then a couple years later she played a magical set in a Philly bar on Race Street in duet with a singer who may have been Rachelle Ferrell. I remember reacting to Gary Thomas playing sax with Herbie Hancock much as Jsngry did to Craig Handy here, listening to him hold back more than play. I don't really feel that way about this track. Subsequent listening convinced me that there are lots of tracks that would showcase Sumi's playing better, but I like the Maiden Voyage influenced composition and the way Handy lets go in his solo. Google reveals that she's coming out with two albums soon, one with her own group and one co-led with Erica Lindsay. and a 2004 post: I've spent about a quarter century wondering if Rachelle Ferrell is the amazing singer I saw with Sumi Tonooka in a Philly bar in the early eighties. Any Philly oldtimers that might know for sure?

It turns out that I own the CD of #3 and pretty much everything Felser said about the artist is true for me too - I was very impressed by a live performance in Philadelphia and kept up with the artist over a number of years.

Oh did you select 13 you knew Felser would love? 1. Woody Shaw, possibly from Blackstone Legacy 2. Wes Montgomery, maybe early Verve? 3. Randy Weston or Roland Hanna 4. I think this is a drummer led band, and it sounds more like Max than Art Blakey. Max Roach? 5. Sure sounds like Larry Young with Grant Green, or maybe Larry on Prestige. 6. Leaning toward Gerald Wilson 7. Jackie McLean? 8. Lee Morgan? 9. Billy Harper!!! I'm guessing on Steeplechase with Francesca Tanksley on piano. A whole lot of bass being played, but I haven't figured out who, and don't remember who was playing with him then. It does make me think of Buster Williams. 10. The trombone led intro made me think of Slide Hampton, but no bone solo forthcoming. Thoughts then went to Clarke-Boland and Jones-Lewis big bands. Mel's rep was that of a restrained and tasteful drummer, and the drums thunder here, so I'll guess Clarke-Boland big band. 11. It's hard not to think of Art Farmer when you hear a fluegelhorn played well. The only other though I had was Emily Remler with John Swana, but I think this is the horn's date, so Art Farmer. 12. Sounds a lot like Santana, until the vocal comes in. The original Why Cant We Live Together was by Timmy Thomas. The percussive organ riffs at the end of the intro are straight out of Oye Como Va, but there's no guitar. I believe this is the orginal top-40 hit by Timmy Thomas. 13. Maybe Lloyd McNeil? Either voices or percussion that makes a voice like sound emerge from the background.

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Went back to The Almoravid, and this wasn't that. Which made me realize JSngry was right. Track 2 from the self titled album. I believe it is Joe Chambers on the mallet instrument.

1. Gravity? 2. Oliver Nelson? 3. Joe Locke? 4. Reggae Jazz Piano! maybe Ethan Iverson? 5. Art Farmer? 6. Send in the Clowns. Steve Grossman? 7. Richard Davis? He did a trio album with Joe Beck. 8. Fred Anderson? 9. Lovely, but I'm still stumped after several listens 10. Joe Chambers, from The Almoravid, I believe. Always liked this album. 11. Hints of the Tyner Horizon band, then thoughts it might be Pharaoh. It goes a little out but not very far or for vey long. I think about Billy Bang and Michael White and come back to Pharaoh Sanders.

Relistened to a bit of Vassar Clements Hillbilly Jazz and it's all two-beat early western swing, definitely out. My new left field guess for #4 is Willie Nelson, maybe from Teatro.

And I'm a megafan of Ralph Towner, but never had a clue. I listened to Matchbook a lot, Slide Show not so much. There's time to fix that. Finally got to see Ralph live and solo at the last Big Ears.

I've always liked Joanne Brackeen's Choice quartet date with Michael Brecker, Tring-A-Ling. I like this too.

BFT 199 1. Feels like 90's or later neo-bop. Could have come out on Criss-Cross. I think of Bobby Watson as more of a featured horn than one choosing to fade back into the ensemble ever so elegantly as happens here. But I have no better guess. 2. Fairly clueless again. Maybe Karryn Allison? 3. Guitarist is more aligned with South American forms than jazz here. It could be Bobby Hutcherson on marimba or Dave Samuels. 4. This is quite happy to let the country in. First thought was Hank Garland who played well in both genres, but after a few listens I'm saving him for the next track. Could this be from Hillbilly Jazz by Vassar Clements? 5. Nice vibes and guitar version of All The Things You Are. The opening reminds me of an MJQ track, but that's a guitar, not a piano. So I'm wondering if this could be Hank Garland with Gary Burton as a sideman. 6. Caravan, and I'm leaning toward believing it's Duke's band. 7. Brawny baritone fronting organ and guitar combo. I can't remeber hearing Pepper Adams or Cecil Payne with organ. Since he doesn't come in right away, he may not be the leader, but he sure steals the show. My weird guess is James Carter. 8. I think Kenny Burrell until the other instruments come in, then that thought ends. Maybe Harold Alden and Ken Peplowski, but who would be playing the fiddle? 9. Lots of people can pull off a nice ballad like this here and there. I haven't found any guesses I like better than later Dexter Gordon. 10. Has to be Randy Weston, and I'm pretty sure it's Billy Harper he's duetting with. 11. My guess is McCoy Tyner, sometime from Trident onwards. So many players soarked his influence up like like a sponge that I'm probably wrong. 12. Is this from Lee Morgan's last sideman record date, Intensity by Charles Earland? 13. The first question that hit me was Miles or not Miles. The playing gets close to late seventies miles with a little wah-wah pedal. But the arrangement is much more through-composed than what Miles was doing. I'm going to guess Eddie Henderson. 14. Piano with strings, quite well done. McCoy recorded with strings at least twice, but I don't think this is him. Kenny Barron or Cyrus Chestnut maybe? 15. I knew I knew this but wasn't finding it because I fixated on Max Roach and tried to remember what Mildama sounded like. Then I noticed the absence of sax, and figured out that it was one of my favorite obscure seventies dates, The Trio by Ted Curson. The track is Snake Johnson. Trumpet-bass-drums trios were very rare at that time, I only know of unreleased Don Cherry and Mongezi Feza for sure preceding this one, and the awesome musicianship of Roy Haynes and Ray Drummond are essential to the album's success. 16. Take Five with guitar and alto. Paul Desmond with Jim Hall, maybe? Enjoyable from end to end. Thanks!

That Clemson link is fascinating. Several tracks on a Coleman Hawkins Classics have Sonny as sideman. A lot of the other citations are for Sonny as arranger only, though.

and Wynonie Harris: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html Sun1. Wynonie (Mr. Blues) Harris / Wynonie (Mr. Blues) Harris with Jimmie Jackson and His Orchestra* WSM Studio B, Nashville, March 1946 Dig This Boogie (Harris) -1 Bullet 251A, Krazy Kat KK783, Classics 1013 [CD], Bear Family [Ger] BCD 15864 HL Lightnin' Struck the Poor House* (Harris) Bullet 251-B, Krazy Kat KK783, Classics 1013 [CD], Bear Family [Ger] BCD 15864 HL My Baby's Barrel House (Harris) Bullet 252-A, Route 66 KIX 20, Classics 1013 [CD], Bear Family [Ger] BCD 15864 HL Drinkin' by Myself (Harris) Bullet 252-B, Route 66 KIX 3, Route 66 RBD 3 [CD], Classics 1013 [CD], Bear Family [Ger] BCD 15864 HL Bullet 251 and 252 were 78 rpm singles, both released on April 14, 1946 (thanks to Sam Byrd for the exact release date). They were the second and third releases on the label, immediately following Bullet 250 ("Nashville Jumps" b/w "Loose as a Goose") by R and B pianist Cecil Gant, who at the time was also managed by Harold Oxley. For Bullet 252, we follow the A and B designations on the labels. In the trailoff shellac, "Barrel House" shows 252-B and "Drinkin'" shows 252-A.

There's a musician I befriended in college and have been facebook friends with for a long while. He has also been an anarchist, an anti-vaxxer and a Bill Gates conspiracy theorist for some time. I choose to disagree, but also choose not to cut of the communication line. He's also one of the strongest opponents of racism I have ever known, and it's strange to see him falling into agreement with the creeps that carried guns to the Wisconsin state capitol. He doesn't support Trump. I'll extend the same indulgence to Van, who has provided many musical highlights to my life. I haven't heard the songs in question yet, but are they really more offensive than Under My Thumb or Blurred Lines? Artists are allowed to be wrong. Artists can even have serious flaws and still bring value through their art. No boycott for me.

Joshua Redman has a new album with Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. I've only heard it once, but I'm liking that group for #10 given the other clues.