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Loving what I'm hearing on Amazon Music.

Spoiler on #3 artist based on JSngry clues

Love his playing on this one: https://www.discogs.com/David-Eyges-The-Captain/master/1162649

So does the comment "Quite" confirm Bartok for #7?

1. I like this and want to hear more. Acappella. I read with interest JSngry's comments on Singers Unlimited and the Hi-Lo's and sampled a bit of both groups, but I don't think this is either of them. Likewise not Pentatonix or pure classical. The voices are "more European" than those of the next 4 tracks but the end effect is not constrained as most classical is. 2. JATP was the first impression, abd the tenor is too brawny and no boppish enough to suspect Dexter. When the vocals come in Dizzy Gillespie immediately comes to mind, and on relistening, James Moody certainly seems to be the tenor. 3. Gospel, You Don't Know Me like the Lord Do. Doesn't sound like Mavis Staples, although in the same register, and I'll guess Mahalia Jackson. 4. Down Here On The Ground. I haven't identified a Stax one-hit wonder that could have done this, but that's the feeling I get. 5. Title may well be Run Away, but definitely not the Del Shannon one covered by Bonnie Raitt. Arrangement and certain vocal moments recall Valerie Simpson, but no Nick Ashford in sight (sound?) and Vince isn't quite enough clue to get me to a better guess 6. Concise piano soloist over latter-day big band with congas. Ahmad Jamal? 7. Very short piano solo. Reminiscent of Jarrett's churchy moments, but not him. Frank Kimbrough? 8. Interesting collage with folk art lessons in creativity incorporated, then sampled and altered. I'm way out of my element here, but this recalled some DJ Shadow I have heard, although I'm quite sure I never heard this before.

I dabbled in completing my Mary Lou Williams collection and didn't know of the LP side on Avant Garde. Bet that's never been on CD.

1. Sounds like Fats Waller solo? But the sound might be too good to be pre-1943. 2. Chopsy guitar. Maybe Jimmy Bruno? 3. Sonny Rollins St. Thomas is all over this as an influence, unless it's actually Sonny. 4. Live big band date. I'm thinking the first long solo is Clarinet. Woody Herman? 5. John Abercrombie? 6. Since all the music comes from stringed instruments that are bowed at least some of the time, I'm going to guess this is the string quartet led by Maxine Roach (Max's daughter) 7. Jitterbug Waltz. Flute, alto, trumpet, vibes and rhythm, with frontliners that lay out much of the time. Also guitare and harp. 8. Gerald Wilson band? 9. Bass led group, hold the group. NHOP? 10. What's New. The way the sax player makes the tenor sound like an alto reminds me of Stan Getz. 11. Violin, mainstream sounding. Stephane Grappelli? 12. Trumpet (fluegel?) gets the first solo, so I'll guess that they are the leader. Drummerless, bassless too, just brass and piano. We never seem to get enough Art Farmer, could be him. 13. McCoy-ish piano intro, vibes, tenor sounds seventies or later. Post-Blue Note Bobby Hutcherson? 14. You'd be so nice to come home to with acoustic and electric guitars. Off the top of my head, I'm not familiar with any recordings with this instrumention. Joe Pass overdubbing himself? 15. Striding out! Don Pullen? Jaki Byard? 16. Virtuoso solo piano. Barry Harris? 17. Definitely sounds like multiple acoustic guitars. Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel?

Cool indeed. Also cool that John Young played with Von Freeman - also a local but kind of a cult figure around here, with the excellent Nessa dates.

I kind of think Dan hit on the most progressive sounding John Young track, but I just went for the Delmark and the Fresh Sound issue of the Argo albums.

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.

Volunteering for April

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.