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I like James Newton more than Ray Anderson for 10, but haven't been able to match the instrumentation to a Newton led recording.

I'll jump in for August

Really enjoyable mix with everything I don't like about it concentrated in the last track. 1. Lyricism recalls Jarrett but no vocal sounds. That description often applies to Frank Kimbrough or Brad Mehldau. Since it's more soulful than showy, I'll go Kimbrough 2. The immediate impression is McCoy Tyner, so is it a staunch admirer or the real thing? I say the real thing. 3. This uses the resources of major label smooth jazz in an organic and swinging way. Nice guitar, congas and bari too. Considering the big band embellshments, I don't know if Larry Coryell ever had this big an album budget. Maybe this is a better (and more to my taste) track than I ever expected an Eric Gale or Larry Carlton to make. 4. So who's waltzing the Jitterbug here? Maybe Arthur Blythe with John Hicks? 5. Fleet fingered guitarist in a bebop/JATP vein. Hard to think of bebop era guitarists not named Kenny Burrell. 6. My guess is Don Patterson, the most bebop oriented of the organists. 7. The voice could pass for Bobby Blue Bland. The backing band is primo, perhaps moreso that Bland usually recorded with. 8. More Blues. I'm not familiar with the voice and presence of harmonica may indicate they are better known in blues or even R&B than jazz. Voice is higher range than most jazz identified blues singers. In my desperate attempt to field a guess, any guess I will say Jay McShann. 9. This feels European or perhaps South African. Louis Moholo? 10. Nice flute. A bit too modern for Jones-Lewis. Akiyoshi-Tabackin, or Maria Schneider, perhaps? 11. Witty trombone and tart alto converse about the tradition in modern tongues Henry Threadgill? 12. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. Fats Waller. 13. The humor is not to my taste. I acknowledge that the targets deserve it, but ugh.

This may contain more stumpers than any BFT in recent memory. I'll guess Hannibal for track 10.

Well done. Not much reason to wait on this:

I came across these credits in an unexpected place, and indeed when I listened to the track there was no real stylistic input from the sidemen and I really never was sure I heard Milt at all. Bass – Red Callender Guitar – Barney Kessel, Glen Campbell Vibraphone [Vibes] – Milt Jackson The front man is well known in rock as both a group member and solo artist. I'll post a you-tube link in a day or two.

As composer and soloist with Elvin and McCoy: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjf49q_qJzSAhUEQCYKHW8XAQkQtwIIGjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKZJzSmVQxdg&usg=AFQjCNEQkGKfEyTZBuz4UYhgC50tNSMlWg&sig2=Iv-Rfk26TyFM3AWSWx0Y9Q&bvm=bv.147448319,d.eWE

Hey I liked 10. Looking forward to finding out who it is.

Floyd Smith might be the other pioneer that Chuck would give props to that would fit the profile for tune # 2.

How about Freddie Green?

1. Is it alto or tenor? Leaning toward tenor. Maybe Zoot Sims? 2. I'll guess Black and Blue for the label, not that helps too much. Maybe Illinois Jacquet. 3. Reminds me a little of the Al Cohn/Jimmy Rowles date on Xanadu, Heavy Love. 4. Jaws and Griff? 5. Definitely Alto. Could be Hodges. The little Hah from the piano player makes me think so even more, even though I don't know of them recording without another horn. Oh, look, another horn, bone. 6. More live Black and Blue vibe. Maybe Sonny Stitt? 7. Stanley Turrentine with the Three Sounds, Willow Weep for me. 8. I'll guess Kenny Burrell without much conviction. 9. I'll guess Barry Harris for the speed and crispness. 10. Electric Bass! Early Woody Shaw? 11. Farmer-Golson Jazztet? Nah, I think they always had a bone, and the the drum fills are shouting Art to me, so Jazz Messengers. 12. Bluesier than #9. Dan Gould would definitely play Gene Harris twice. Three Sounds? 13. This has more of a groove band feel than most Jimmy Smith I have heard. Maybe Milt Buckner?

I'm listening to Voices from 2003 right now. I would describe it as laid back and charmingly experimental through the first two tracks, particularly the first with long held vocal notes and high, gentle violin scrapings.

1. Brassy big band. Wild guess looking for a big tight brass section - maybe Bob Brookmeyer? 2. Nice muted trumpet and tenor quintet. Very familiar opening that goes in a different direction. I kinda like Art Farmer here. 3. That's tuba in that bottom! Arthur Blythe? 4. Killer baritone ballad. Feels like complete mastery of the horn, so I'm not suspecting a doubler. Pepper Adams? 5. Really nice low smoulder groove going here. I was about to guess Joe Locke, but it was a long time before the vibes came in. How about Kenny Barron? 6. Up Above my Head. Jumping boogie beat. No Clue 7. That groove again, this time with some horns in the theme. No real clue but it could be a Criss Cross date, mabye David Hazeltine or Orrin Evans? 8. I thought this was a repeat from a recent BFT but that theory didn't pan out. Thought it was bass guitar at the beginning, but the solos sounds like amplified standup bass. Feelin' the funk. Buster Williams? 9. Bass duet, mainstreamish. Did NHOP ever record bass duets 10. Blues-Rockish beat. Muted trumpet. I'd expect more lead guitar if this was, say, Derek Trucks going jazzy, so I'll say its more like Wallace Roney. 11. Alto flute. Hubert Laws? 12. Alto sax takes it to the edge of out in the coda. Not sure if Lee Konitz took it that far out. 13. Somebody's been studying them some Johnny Hodges. The bass and drums don't seem to be in a Dukish style, but the alto is delightfully so.

I prescribe some Nappy Brown and Drink Small for your ailment

How about Eddie Jefferson on a Frank Wright album.https://www.discogs.com/Frank-Wright-Kevin-My-Dear-Son/release/2218753

The whole BFT was right up my alley. Unlike JSngry, I loved 9 and liked 10 quite a bit. Had to cheat on #5 and I will just say whatta band! Feels great to not be totally clueless on a BFT, Thanks!

1. Short number with a 70s feel. Lizz Wright and Cassandra Wilson have a deeper sound. 2. Definitely Gil Scott-Heron - Peace Go With You Brother from Winter in America. 3. Sounds like something from McCoy Tyner - Horizon, but without McCoy. That should mean that this is John Blake. 4. Feels like Milestone era Sonny Rollins. 5. Spiritual Jazz with electric piano, likely seventies. Gary Bartz is a possibility. 6. Has a Charles Tolliver feel. Can't quite rule out Woody Shaw either. Wait, the sax sounds a lot like Billy Harper. I don't recognize this as being on Love Dance, so I'm going to drop the idea of this being trumpet led and say Billy Harper is the leader. 7. Seems to be a bit of echo on the flute. Reminds me of some things I've heard from Matthias Lupri, but the bass has more of a 60s/70s feel. Like the vibes, more of a Walt Dickerson concept than most vibists, but absolutely not Walt. I Don't think Roy Ayers ever moved this far toward Spiritual Jazz without being overtly commercial. 8. Gil Evans is a possibility. I remember I had three Billy Harper appearances on my first BFT, hmmm ... 9. Very Santana. Almost has to be! Why don't I know this already? Love Devotion Surrender? 10. First thought was the Raybeats, but there have probably been dozens of surf revivalists since then. 11. Nice and loose. Didn't figure anything out from the excellent horns, but the drums have a lot to say too. Maybe this is Elvin Jones. 12. Gil Scott-Heron is back, with the two versions of this track bookending this BFT like they do the original album - Peace Go With You Brother #2 from Winter in America. 13. And a short and lovely piano coda. I'll guess Frank Kimbrough because it's a little reminiscent of Keith Jarrett but there are no vocal sounds. ... So now I've gotta know who's playing Vibes with Nicole Mitchell!

The clue that each track represents creative music from a different country suggests France's Andre Jaume for #2. The Salt Peanuts could possibly be Sweden's Bernt Rosengren. Now for #5 we're looking for a guitarist not from US, UK, Japan or Denmark recording during the LP era. Ireland's Christy Doran would seem to be a possibility.

1. Nice, reminds me of Bobby Bradford and John Carter. It sounds like a bigger group at first but I think it meant to. 2. Makes me think of Tony Scott and Jimmy Giuffre, Tony for the drone effect and Giuffre because not many others sounded this modern on the clarinet. Most later Giuffre I know is pianoless. It could be a tenorman doubling. 3. Instrumental Salt Peanuts that sounds like late 50s to early 60s. Pianoless, perhaps Max Roach? 4. Classic brawny tenor in a small group setting. Ben Webster is my guess. 5. Free, but not particularly "out", guitar with percussion, piano joins eventually. Surface noice leads me away from more modern guesses like Mary Halvorsen. Tisiji Munoz is the only avant guitarist I can think of that recorded as a leader in the period I am thinking of, although I am sure that there are dozens more. 6. Art Ensemble of Chicago is my guess here. 7. The dual basses remind me of Sonny Simmons Burning Spirits album, but maybe not out enough to be that. Don't recall 'bone on that album. 8. Progressive big band certainly makes me think of Gil Evans as a first guess. 9. Frank Lowe is a possibility. 10. Derek Bailey and who? Of course Derek is one answer to the memory lapse I shared with you on #5 above. 11. This is familiar. For that reason I don't think it's James Newton, I haven't checked him out enough. Oliver Lake with Michael Gregory Jackson? Henry Threadgill? 12. Von Freeman maybe?

Verified that The Echo Dot was connected to Amazon Unlimited by trying to connect with the command: Alexa upgrade my Amazon Music. So I guess it doesn't hear my Hugh Steinmetz in a way that looks up the artist name properly Alexa play Born To Run produced the expected effect Alexa play Living Space got me Moraz - Bruford Alexa play Living Space by John Coltrane got me the version without strings from the box set.

Just bought a Echo Dot. Couldn't see signing up for the Echo only trial of the new Amazon Unlimited streaming service, as I wanted to use my computer to evaluate what was available. First point of comparison - through my computer, Amazon Unlimited has the Hugh Steinmetz album featured on a recent BFT, Spotify does not. First technical issue - Alexa (the Echo Dot) does not think she has any Hugh Steinmetz to play me, so my Echo Dot is not connected to my Amazon Unlimited free trial account yet.

I would think that view is not widely shared.

Nah, mature Smokey has plenty of gems. Cruising, Tell Me Tomorrow, One Heartbeat ... there's comparative duds on both sides also,but plenty of dud free albums too. He had a special skill for the smaller worldview that early to mid-60s Motown inhabited, but he grew right along with Stevie and Marvin as they broadened the art form and threw off some of the shackles and inhibitions. Never a revolutionary but always an artist.

A tip of the hat to Picasso. And there's that moment when Stan Getz encountered a digital delay, title track of Another World. Someone beat me to Evan Parker.

Even more surprisingly Shazam knew that, and also identified the artists on 6 and 9. The composer's musical voyage is kind of interesting on 6.