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Walt Dickerson - Peace John Coltrane - Africa Brass Pat Martino - Live Duke Ellington - The Great Paris Concert Keith Jarrett - Death and the Flower Slight bias toward the undeniable, total obsession track, here represented by Sunny and The Star Crossed Lovers. Might have gone with Blanton-Webster Band otherwise,

wow, corto! wicked chops in the Land of Sangrey III( or IV?) !! I've been an Anthony Davis fan since I heard him on Leo Smith's original Reflectativity in the 70s.

1. Signing Off signs on. Anita O'Day perhaps 2. Definite Mingus feeling. Disappoointing fadeout. 3. Genre bender. More contemporary classical than jazz. Gershwin feel until the vocals come in. 4. James Brown, probably remixed posthumously 5. Conga and a different kind of organ sound. 6. Some more classical influence, similar to Schubert Trout quintet 7. Vibraphone like instrument with female singing voice. Harry Partch? 8. Spoken word make lemonade lecture. Carnegie disciple 9. Milhaud, Shostakovich are my first thought, but did they really employ baritone saxophonists? 10. Deep male voices and jazz aware modern classical seem to be becoming a theme here. Wonder what an Anthony Braxron opera would sound like? Probably not like this but you never know. 11. I first thought Abdullah Ibrahim - African Space Program, but I'm leaning toward Randy Weston. 12. Collage of bowling alley sounds and political speech that seems far removed from today's guttersnipes, but you can never be sure.

Allmusic.com assists discovery of the gentleman with the good taste to cover Randy Weston - It's Ray Bryant from the album Cold Turkey.

So which two are Gene McDaniels?

Boy this BFT is hoppin' - I kept getting notifications but couldn't read until I listened, and rushed though so I could see the action. There, excuses prepared! I like how this one finds common threads between great pop and great jazz. 1. True Stride was not usually played with piano bass and drums, so I think this is jazz homage rather than pure boogie. Mary Lou Williams? 2. Burner with organ and band. Maybe Illinois Jacquet? 3. Vocal version of Monk's Straight No Chaser. I'll give Jon Hendricks the nod over Murphy amd Elling. 4. Swamp rock tinged jazz version (or vice versa) of In The Midnight Hour, medleying over to Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay. I'm guessing vocalist is better known for pop than jazz. 5. Stevie Ray Vaughn has nudged out Derek Trucks for my guess here. Loving this as pure music, labels not needed. 6. Azure Te by a silky male voice. 7. Could be Sarah Vaughn. Parody/answer song to Happiness is a Thing Called Joe. 8. Did Gene Ammons record with both piano and organ? Works well! 9. Sounds like Bobby Blue Bland. 10. Big gritty female voice. I'm not getting close with my knowledge of singers of the likely period, I don't think it's Etta James. 11. Production hints at 50's or 60's. Nat King Cole? 12. Getting rich quick, or not. Jimmy Rushing? 13. Electric bass underpins a perky, piano dominated mix. 14. Pop take on My Foolish Heart, maybe Jackie Wilson? 15. Souvenirs 16. If you don't want to get in trouble don't mess with this deep voiced lady. 17. Don't mess with Billy Eckstine. (from the intro I expected the Marvelettes to come in) Close Your Eyes sounds like the title. 18. Shirley Scott recorded with bass players more than most organists, and this fits the style. I suspect, but am not sure the organist is switching to piano, which Shirley can do. 19. Can't rule out Carmen McRae. 20. Hank Crawford seems like a possibility 21. Another Gene Ammons guess. 22. Two pianos with conga - I know Red Garland recorded with conga, perhaps he did some overdubbing? 23. This sounds a lot more like Mary Lou Williams than track 1 - but wait the band comes in, sounding a little too modern for the Asch recordings. The piano sounds chopsier than I would think for Basie. Early Jones-Lewis with Roland Hanna maybe?

We do tend to be hard on self promoters around here. We do love the same music, so tell us a little about what individual pieces of Coltrane's music mean to you personally if you want to warm up the icy reception.

Sunny from Pat Martino Live is one of my top 10 musical obsessions of all time.

I chose John Handy - New View to play in memory. Dialogue may well be the peak of a highly accomplished career.

Confirmed Choice of Potato's guess as correct. I remember reading that a pianist (John Esposito?) had some Rhames he was trying to get put out and it never happened. Quite a loss.

1. Clarinet and Organ sounding like a perfectly obvious combination that you never heard before. I would guess Bill Heid, unless the strange fadeout is an intentional laptop contribution. In that case I'd think it came from the Tzadik label. 2. The evocative percussion reminds of Sun Ra's India but the piano style definitely not, more Keith Jarrett, but free of vocalizations. Brad Mehldau? 3. The blues content is making me think of later Mary Lou Williams. 4. Farmer Golson Jazztet? 5. I'm thinking that's Milt Jackson, but not sure he's the leader. Alto could possibly be Gigi Gryce. 6. Definitely sounds like Billy Harper. 7. Maybe Tommy Flanagan? 8. Very tasty Rhodes playing. Kenny Barron played some Rhodes in the seventies. 9. Jane Ira Bloom? Wouldn't be surprised if this was on the Arabesque label. 10. Ron Carter? 11. Solo Alto. Not out, and not Tenderly so Lee Konitz is the guess. The tone fits. 12. This combination of gritty sax and silky commerical arrangements strongly suggests Gato Barbieri. 13. Nice big band. Modern enough to be Thad Jones/Mel Lewis. Tenor sax solo is not Billy Harper. 14. I'm thinking Ahmad Jamal here. 15. And this also sounds like Billy Harper, perhaps a little less. There are licks I would expect to hear if it was George Adams that I'm not hearing, a little aggressive flurry that appears even in his ballads.

Interested in downloads, but will be very busy until Aug 12 with the National Scrabble Championships.

Listened to the Harp Concerto this evening, Will probably pull down the piece with taped bird sounds soon. Any Thoughts?

But a very cool slice of history, thanks!

More than you know. I am a Max Roach fanboy and saw him live three times. And you slipped TWO Maxes by me! And Round Midnight to boot. My ears and I are going to have a talk! On 7 I had the thought Jay Hoggard and Anthony Davis and checked out the tune beginnings of their MPS album and found no matches. I'll still offer Jay Hoggard as a guess based on your hint that this might not be long after Walt Dickerson's recording phase.

Re #8 there was a recent as in this century Charles Lloyd accompanied by Arabic instruments. Could be that or Garbarek if it is ECM. No no stringed instruments on Sangam. Not Arabic but Indian.

1. Mock Trad satirical tribute to Dick Cheney. Not that I have heard much of them but Squirrel Nut Zippers is my wild guess. 2. All bowed strings, willing to sound classical at times, but still an improvised feel to much of the lead voicing. Erik Friedlander? Maybe even Maxine Roach? 3. Not any Terje Rypdal I have heard before, but still might be Rypdal. I have heard some of the Threadgill Mosaic stuff that had the same flavor, so I'll make that my guess. Usually not more than one horn on a Rypdal unless it's orchestral. 4. Mellow mainstream tenor. The recording makes me think 80s or later, live album with an attentive crowd. I'll guess Eric Alexander. 5. The style is early Blue Note funk-jazz back when funk meant Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons rather than Stanley Clarke on electric bass. It could be Lee and Jackie or it could be later adherents of the style. I'll go with some generation of Horace Silver. 6. My first thought was an old-timer like Henry Red Allen or Ruby Braff playing in a slightly more modern setting. 7. If I keep guessing Joe Locke, someone will eventually play me some Joe Locke and I will be right! 8. Feels like Gato Barbieri in his more reserved moments. 9. That's a whole lotta horn. If it ain't In A Sentimental Mood, it's at least a blood relative. Can't see guessing anyone but Rollins. 10. Lyrical downtempo piano with exceptionally delicate accompaniment. Who takes it this slow this convincingly? Wild guess is Chris Anderson. 11. and a whole lotta bass. Familiar composition that I'm not putting my finger on right now, leaning toward Monk ... Richard Davis my best guess for the artist.

The Sun Ra and Mae Barnes were a great stumpers. Very enjoyable set.

You are right. I took an electronically enhanced peek and I definitely wasn't going there but now it makes perfect sense. Great choice.

Drumbo?

http://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/mustard-pie-the-vortex-london-14-07-2010/ Pertinent to #3?

Nobody was really close to James Brown ... but the clue suggests a sideman closely associated with him (Bootsy, Bobby Byrd?) or maybe even his contemporary and counterpart elsewhere in the world, Fela Kuti. or Fred Wesley!

So #6 is actually James Brown (the JBs)?

1. Ornette from Body Meta or Of Human Feelings period. 2. Something familiar here. Sounds like Township jazz from South Africa. Dudu Pukwana, or Chris McGregor? 3. Mostly Drums. Not Max. Maybe Blakey. 4. Composition reminiscent of Harry Belafonte - maybe that's just a dispoportionate share of the calypso I've heard 5. Almost solo guitar but not quite. Who's the Brazilian guitarist I am trying to think of? Googling Brazilian Jazz Guitar gives me Baden Powell as the name I was trying to think of 6. Reminiscent of Maceo, except there's too much trumpet. Gil Evans? 7. On the sunny side of the street. Maybe Helen Humes 8. Bass and piano have a modern sound. Later Art Farmer? 9. Early Lee Morgan? 10. Joey DeFrancesco and Pat Martino? 11. Getz with Johnny Smith? 12. A bassist (or cellist) usually has to be the leader to get this much featured soloist time. Oscar Pettiford? 13. Jazz Messengers? Griffin and Golson come to mind for the effortless speed on tenor. 14. If it's Milt Jackson it has to be late in his career, they didn't record basses this way before the 70s. Perhaps an accomplished Criss Cross crew? 15. Guitarist who's not afraid to allow some rock influence back in. Bill Frisell is a possibility

Speaks well of a melody to be mistaken for Stevie Wonder. This is their finest moment. Is Gil's version commercially available?