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  1. Phil Kelly - RIP

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    Posted · Edited by randyhersom

    Amazon Music streaming has the two albums pictured above as well as one other one he mentioned here, My Museum.  There's also three by the Hughes Smith quintet with Phil Kelly.  I'm guessing it's our Phil Kelly.  RIP and props.

  5. Zita Carno RIP

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    I hear two pianos so I'm fairly confident Zita plays on this, one of two tracks she is on on Zoning.  The CD Zoning reissue had a different track length (3 seconds longer) than the LP.  I think this is that.

  8. BFT 237 Discussion Thread

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    3 hours ago, felser said:

    Still, credit where credit is due.  I constantly fail to ID BFT cuts I have on my shelves!

    And now it's my turn, lol

    237
    1. R&B organ workout
    2. Woody Shaw circa Blackstone Legacy?  No, there's an organ.  Larry Young's Mothership album?
    3. Pretty sure this is Sam Rivers.  The question is early Blue Note with Bobby Hutcherson or later with Bryan Carrott.  I kinda think the bone is Julian Priester, so later...  But that alto solo screams Dolphy to me.  And there's a Bari too!  Got to drop all the other names but Bobby and say this is from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure.
    4. Later McCoy Tyner? Maybe the album he made with Mike Brecker?, No, no guitar on that one.  Not McCoy then, the pianist basks in the influence but has a lighter touch.  I'll throw out Joe Henderson as a guess, but can't get a handle on who the piano is.  Feel like I should know.
    5. Vocalist that I don't recognize.  Good band.
    6. Has the seventies Blue Note feel.  Herbie Hancock?
    7. Gotta be Pullen-Adams
    8. Composition feels like Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes.  Jackie McLean?  If I'm right about Jackie I may be wrong about Andrew.
    9. You Caught Me Smiling.  Pop styled vocals over a jazz informed R&B groove.
    10. There's a Love Supreme quote in there in the seventh minute.  Billy Harper?  Not as cutting edge as Black Saint.
    11. More vocals, with electric piano and bass and organ.
    12. Woody Shaw circa Blackstone Legacy?  

     

     

  14. BFT 236 (4orda ppl EZPZ Mix)

    in Blindfold Test

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    1. First thought was the Kenny Burrell Ellington Is Forever sides, but it's live, and I don't hear much guitar.  Now I'm thinking JATP, maybe Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Criss and Milt Buckner?
    2. And I'll go with more JATP.  The high note precision at the end makes me think Cat Anderson, and wonder if another trumpet played the lyrical lead solo.  More organ, maybe the same guy, maybe not.
    3. Brawny romanticism on tenor, then Bass Clarinet.  Ben Webster and Harry Carney?

  15. Big Ears Festival

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    And James Brandon Lewis returns, plus David Virelles.  Charles Lloyd I missed this year because of conflict, hope to see him next year.  Likewise Shabaka Hutchings.  Christian McBride's New Jawn was a good show this year and returns.  Rhiannon Giddens, Dave Holland, Kirk Knuffke ...

  20. BFT235 Link & Discussion

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    I am that fool, lol

    Remainder of comments prepared prior to viewing this thread:

    Percolating rhythms are the coin of this realm.
    1. Clarinets in a couple of ranges over the percolating bed, acoustic instruments and Latin-aware drumming.  
    2. Manteca?  I don't think so, but tune definitely familiar.  I'll try Jerry Gonzalez.
    3. Jazz Messengers?
    4. Cool bass and tenor sax unison to start.  Maybe J. D. Allen?
    5. Trombone with a tenor gently comping behind it.  Nice effect reminiscent of what Carter-Bradford did with alto and trumpet.  Dave Holland, maybe with Robin Eubanks?
    6. It sounds like fluegelhorn.  It's pretty.  The composition is bright and cheerful.  How can I not guess Art Farmer (for the dozenth time, mostly wrong)
    7. Sounds like cello to me.  The guitar instead of piano argues against my Pettiford and Sam Jones thoughts.  Ron Carter?
    8. Bone with some gentle fusion elements sneaking in, but not taking over.  Tenor is likeably crude and direct. Guitar and amplified upright bass continue to straddle fusion and straight ahead.  I like it.  Steve Turre?
    9. Feels a lot like Hampton Hawes to me. 
    10. Awesome solo sax.  Almost has to be Sonny Rollins.  
    11. Joe Henderson is in the neighborhood, but didn't make that many records with acoustic piano.
    12. Shows us a backbeat, then makes it percolate too.  Bass Clarinet comping behind the tenor solo feels like Bennie Maupin x 2. Is it Herbie Hancock?
     

  22. Big Ears Festival

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    Things can change, but browsing the blurbs behind the artist list suggest that Kris Davis will be in Julian Lage's band and Mary Halvorson will be in Myra Melford's with Tomeka Reid and Ingrid Laubrock.  Dave Holland New Quartet will feature Kris Davis, Jaleel Shaw, and Arooj Aftab.

  23. Big Ears Festival

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    Posted

    https://bigearsfestival.org/

    Rhiannon Giddens is back.  I'm curious about Tyondai Braxton, will check out some streams on Amazon soon.  I'd add Elliiot Sharp and Kirk Knuffke (with John Medeski) to the jazz highlights list. 

    No Zorn so far.

    Did they hire away a copywriter from Dusty Groove?

    Ringdown is the new project of Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee, who between the two of them have a Pulitzer Prize in Music, a handful of Grammys, and a Best Drum Major Award from high school. An electronic cinematic pop duo from Portland, Oregon, their songs float up from the dusty record bin between Brahms and Brandi Carlile. If you took a microscope to the hammers of a 1924 vintage piano, pixelated the image, rendered it in 3D, covered it in sequins, flung it into space, and then called your first love on a rotary telephone, that’s Ringdown.

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