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He's working on it.

I got an email from Matt, just replied to it.

Disc 1 of 6/24/78 won't play or rip on my computer. I sent a message via PayPal, but no response yet. Is there an email address?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Gemini https://www.discogs.com/release/4746865-Kenny-Burrell-Man-At-Work

David Spinozza, Steve Cropper and Teenie Hodges might fit that profile.

Mundell Lowe on 1?

Enjoyed it but felt largely clueless about IDs. As usual I made myself try anyway. 1. Guitar with a bit of latin feel, maybe Spanish rather than South American. Drummer has a feel for the dramatic. Masterful. I don't really associate the acoustic trio format with Larry Coryell, but I'm not coming up with other names that could pull this off. 2. Synthesizer in play here. Feel is more organic than the usual fusion ensemble. Looking for capable keyboardists that are comfortable in a more mainstream jazz setting but also embrace electronic on occasion. My wild guess is Larry Goldings. 3. Sounds like Larry Young, but I don't know it. Must be Bill Heid. 4. Lee Morgan? I was thinking it was the 'bone's date until trumpet took the first solo, so maybe Curtis Fuller as backup guess. 5. Can't rule out an ECM piano trio here. Maybe Richie Beirach? 6. Could be bass's date. Pianoless quartet. Has some similarity to Christian McBride's New Jawn. 7. If this isn't Keith Jarrett, then someone at the piano is trying to keep that fact a secret. I have listened to a lot of Jarrett and don't know this, but I'm still going with Jarrett. Drums don't sound like Motian, so Standards trio. 8. Piano and soprano duet. Herbie and Wayne? 9. Leads with bass clarinet. Compositional style indebted to McCoy Tyner. Maria Schneider? 10. Alto fronts rhythm trio playing a latin-influenced groove. Bobby Watson? 11. As it goes on I'm starting to think that's an alto flute. Very full tone, not breathy. Duet with Piano. Not striving for commercial acceptance. Probably later than Steig or McNeil. Reminds me of the Jan Garbarek - Art Lande duo album Red Lanta on ECM, but I don't think that's it. 12. Bigger band including a bari. Later Gerald Wilson? 13. Piano trio grounded in bop. The recording and style of the bass suggest eighties or later as a recording date. John Hicks?

My new Dialogs database was almost an effective sleuthing tool on #12. I found the tracks named Peace and ordered them by duration, and started searching close to 6.50 for European pianists. I didn't go far enough in the longer direction, unfortunately. I resorted to Shazam and then reviewed the database hits to find out how close I had come. Forgot that the compiler might choose to omit long applause and/or revealing intros. I did that myself on my first BFT. As I mentioned on another thread, I discovered Karheinz Miklin through his version of Peace during this process.

Came across The Rooter on Bandcamp while sleuthing a different version of Peace in a Blindfold test. Listening now, it's sounding good. Not very out, just contemporary for its time (1982).

As needed to look into side appearances and band members, and I'd be happy to do a data pull for anyone starting a new Brian database.

1. Nicely arranged, with lower register clarinet intro. Much soprano sax featured later on. Latin (or brazilian?) percussion in addition to drums flavors the beat but does not dominate stylistically. Has the Gil and Miles feel, but definitely not that. Sounds too modern and mellow to be Jimmy Giuffre featured with Woody Herman. Clare Fisher? 2. Reminds me of a tenor-piano duo album I used to play a lot, Heavy Love by Al Cohn and Jimmy Rowles 3. Percolates a bit too much to guess MJQ. I still will go with Milt Jackson. 4. Sounds like synthesizer to me, with or without horns. Leaning toward with. Bass and cymbals coming in. Not certain that the artist would be commonly identified as a jazz artist, but the musical sound world is both intriguing and overlaps substantially with jazz. Reaching to express something, not reaching for a demographic. Yusef Lateef did some new-age crossover, and I have no better guess at the moment. I do have a nagging feeling that it's the keyboardists date. 5. Bop! Maybe Thad Jones and Bobby Jaspar? 6. West coast feel. Shorty Rogers? 7. Two Tenors. Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis? The tune starts out like You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to, but quickly goes in a different direction. 8. Guitar with our vibes and rhythm this time. Drums prominently featured. Live. Bobby Hutcherson? 9. Tenor has a little of that Von Freeman cry in the tone, but not as much as Von. Could this be that pre-echoplex John Klemmer album on Argo? 10. More piano and tenor in duet. Tenor is too brawny to be Getz - Barron. I can't think of any duets by Rollins or Dexter or Johnny Griffin (It's absoluely not Bud Powell and Johnny). I don't think it's Harper and Weston. I'll go with Dexter Gordon. 11. Dewey (with Jarrett) was the first thought, and I never completely shook it. But it doesn't seem to fit. Charles Lloyd? 12. Keith Jarrett (maybe Facing You) and Paul Bley came to mind. I was going to go with Bley, then heard some humming, so it's Jarrett. Wait it's live and doesn't sound like any live solo Jarrett I know. Back to Bley. 13. Uptempo burner. Leaning toward tenor, but he sure does play in the alto range a lot. No the next guy is actually a tenor, and the difference is obvious, so first soloist was playing alto. The Cookers?

It took 28 minutes some of the numbers are internal identifiers used to link things together: Ken Burns Jazz (The Story Of America's Music),954861,194,1866,C5K 61432,Jazz,Bop,US,2000-11-14,,617893,1 Study In Brown,1146247,2664380,19900,MG 36037,Jazz,Bop,US,1955,,183534,1 Jazz Of Two Decades,1474375,194,19900,DEM-2,Jazz,Bop,US,1955-09-00,,277187,1 The Quintet Vol. 2,1794257,259082,39357,EMS-2-407,Jazz,Bop,US,1977,,727883,1 Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings Of Clifford Brown,2072432,259082,19900,838 306-2,Jazz,Bop,Europe,1989,,2048590,1 Jam Session,2318629,194,19900,EP-1-6086,Jazz,Bop,US,1954,,434341,1 Brown And Roach Incorporated,2370629,2664380,19900,MG 36008,Jazz,Bop,US,1955,,269223,1 The Quintet Vol. 1,2727158,259082,39357,EMS-2-403,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1976,,336830,1 Daahoud,2781419,2664380,37319,MRL 386,Jazz,,US,1972,,395758,1 Jam Session,2802630,194,19900,MG 36002,Jazz,,US,1954,,344735,1 Study In Brown Vol.2,3102156,2664380,19900,EP-1-6505,Jazz,Bop,Sweden,1957,,2302414,1 Study In Brown Vol.3,3155401,2664380,19900,EP-1-6506,Jazz,Bop,Sweden,1957,,1568276,1 Jams 2,3330867,529735,19900,195J-2,Jazz,Bop,Japan,1983,,902264,1 Four Classic Albums,3446010,259082,170769,AMSC 950,Jazz,Bop,Europe,2008,,1592310,1 Brownie Speaks 1953 ??? 1954,3595734,259082,36233,LPJT 59,Jazz,Bop,Italy,1986,,1795112,1 Dinah Jams,3641453,33587,19900,MG 36000,Jazz,Bop,US,1955-02-00,,243750,1 Remember Clifford,3931721,259082,39357,20022 MCL,Jazz,Hard Bop,UK,1964,,530995,1 Study In Brown Vol.1,3978053,2664380,19900,EP-1-6504,Jazz,Bop,Sweden,1957,,915036,1 Remember Clifford,4200276,259082,39357,MG 20827,Jazz,Bop,US,1963,,274999,1 The Best Of Max Roach And Clifford Brown In Concert!,4229289,2664380,95529,GNP-18,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1956,,299566,1 More Study In Brown,4481155,259082,19900,195J-1,Jazz,Bop,Japan,1983,,628691,1 Eight Classic Albums,4664123,229498,419015,RGJCD302,Jazz,Hard Bop,Europe,2013,,2487538,1 Clifford Brown And Max Roach,4869491,2664380,19900,MG26043,Jazz,Bop,US,1954-12-00,,302135,1 Alone Together: The Best Of The Mercury Years,5283069,2664380,5041,526 373-2,Jazz,Hard Bop,Europe,1995,,1123293,1 Move,5410967,217242,19900,EP-1-6087,Jazz,Bop,Denmark,1954,,662601,1 Prestige Twofer Giants Volume II,5422179,194,19591,PRP-2,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1972,,684477,1 In Concert,6089481,319800,229218,Vol. No. 7,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1955,,630214,1 Classic Jazz: The Fifties,6151539,194,43337,R612-04 314560537-2,Jazz,,US,2001,,1810706,1 Delilah / Parisian Thoroughfare,6221169,2664380,19900,EP-1-6074,Jazz,Bop,US,1955,,913545,1 Cherokee 1954-1955,6490251,259082,36233,LPJT 74,Jazz,Bop,Italy,1987,,780136,1 Carl's Blues,6935780,2303149,33660,S7574,Jazz,Cool Jazz,US,1961,,498059,1 West Coast Jazz,7076364,194,820874,600167,Jazz,Bop,Europe,2014,,1624849,1 Dinah!,7201043,33587,205,FJL 125,Jazz,Vocal,UK,1966,,856485,1 In Concert -Complete Version-,7372081,2664380,22645,K18P 6300,Jazz,Hard Bop,Japan,1984,,2815733,1 Brownie Lives!,7641262,2664380,43223,FSCD-1012,Jazz,Hard Bop,Switzerland,1991,,903946,1 Sweet Clifford,9746057,259082,204788,RJ 41122,Jazz,Hard Bop,Germany,1959,,1126604,1 The Immortal Clifford Brown,10432685,259082,26611,LM 2-8201,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1965,,510192,1 Clifford Brown,10667671,259082,19900,842 933-2,Jazz,,,1990,,1293731,1 Dinah Washington Sings Standards - Jazz Masters 40,10671354,33587,5041,314 522 055-2,Jazz,,US,1994-09-21,,1221614,1 Either Side Of Midnight - 30 Cool Jazz Classics,14006009,194,78710,CPCD 8058-2,Jazz,Cool Jazz,Germany,1994,,1639620,1 D????houd,15424029,2664380,19900,EP-1-6075,Jazz,Hard Bop,US,1956,,1012124,1 The Definitive Clifford Brown,15900013,259082,5041,314 589 845-2,Jazz,Bop,US,2002,,1803640,1 The Best Of Max Roach And Clifford Brown In Concert (Vol. I),19345324,2664380,95529,ELP-818,Jazz,Hard Bop,Denmark,1956,,2195299,1 Verve Jazz Masters 44,20723839,2664380,5041,528 109-2,Jazz,Bop,Europe,1995,,995078,1 Anything Goes: The Cole Porter Songbook - Instrumentals,20912392,194,5041,517 168-2,Jazz,Hard Bop,Europe,,,1493781,1 The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks,26116595,264026,5041,314 519 828-2,Jazz,Hard Bop,Canada,1992,,2981396,1

I saw this, and can vouch that this data is far from easy to use. But I do this stuff for a living, and I succeeded. I now have fields I selected imported into Microsoft SQL Server where I can flexibly query to see what Discogs has. I left out some of the more verbose parts like YouTube video links. This is what I wanted decades ago when I bought All-Music on a CD and it was not what I hoped. After loading the 90+GB from the 4 humongous XML files above by creating my own C# data mining program, the SQL database was about 20 gb. Adding some indexes to make queries faster took it up to 28GB. If anybody wants to throw some challenges out there I can try to see if the results are small enough to share here. Hopkins example would be asked as follows: select * from release where ismaster=1 and (select count(*) from contributor where contributor.releaseid=release.releaseid and name='Clifford Brown')>0 and (select count(*) from contributor where contributor.releaseid=release.releaseid and name='Harold Land')>0 There are dozens if not hundreds of ways to get the same answer. Limiting by ismaster is recommended - There are 500 releases for Kind of Blue, but only 2 are marked as masters and even that's one too many. The query has been running three minutes now and hasn't finished. There is more I can do to try to make that faster, at the expense of disk space.

I cheated on 10, nice choice.

It does that.

I'm a near-lifelong Christgau fan, but jazz has never been his strongest area. He did get me to give Sonny Rollins - G-Man a chance, and I agree with his A+ there.

1. Some similarity to Monday Michiru but it's not her voice. What I have heard of Moor Mother was edgier than this, but I have no better guess. Unless it's Amina Claudine Myers. 2. Gerald Wilson? 3. More mellow trumpet (or Fluegelhorn?) Lee and Wayne? 4. Band sounds bigger than a sextet, but the feel is Blue Note boogaloo. If I knew of sixties Horace Silver recording with a larger band I might hazard him as a guess. 5. Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out. Gentle and understated for much of the song, but gets to belting it out by the end. Maybe Joe Williams? 6. Sounds like tenor quartet plus congas. Maybe Willis Jackson? 7. Jazztet? 8. Stanley Turrentine? 9. Could this be Randy Weston? 10. Big Band Diz? 11. Blue Note era Joe Henderson? 12. Azar Lawrence - Bridge Into the New Age, from album of the same name. 13. Reminds me of a Matthias Lupri CD I have somewhere. Atmospheric. 14. Nice modern vibes and guitar groove, a little more traditional hard bop based than the previous track. Tisiji Munoz?

Actually I was thinking of the Five Spot re-creation, the Dolphy role was filled by Donald Harrison. Marcus Strickland impressed on Bass Clarinet when I saw New Jawn at Big Ears.

1. Intricate and lively. I don't hear piano or guitar, but do hear bone and tuba and sax, ruling out WSQ and Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy. A little more inside than Julius Hemphill's larger bands. 8 Bold Souls? 2. Jackie McLean? 3. Good fusion with synth and skronky guitar. I'll say this is from this century. Dave Fiuczyinski? 4. Has a Blue Note feel, but I'm guessing The Cookers rather than the Jazz Messengers. 5. Live date, sounds like soprano and alto front line. Seventies spiritual jazz vibe. Maybe Elvin Jones? 6. Art Pepper? 7. Really impressive high range playing at the beginning, I suspected sopranino sax until the opening solo headed toward the lower part of soprano sax range. Jane Ira Bloom? 8. This reminds me of Christian McBride's New Jawn, but they don't have a piano. Trying to remember if their Bass Clarinet (doubling on sax I think) is the same one that did the Dolphy Bee Hive re-creation, as the Dolphy influence is clear here. But I don't think the tune is a Bee Hive tune. 9. Reggae harmonica! I'm way too clueless to guess but I usually try anyway. Sly and Robbie?

Prophet is on Bandcamp, complete with a link to "Contact Sun Ra". Anybody want to click it? https://sunra-mh.bandcamp.com/album/prophet

I appreciate how modern Mary Lou sounds here, for someone who made their first record in the 1920s. It's by no means the most modern sounding track on the album.

A seventies Sun Ra gig in the Germantown (Manayunk?) section of Philly where where the band went through the audience hugging people.

1. Amazing Grace with bowed bass, drums and high woodwinds imitating a traditional bagpipes rendition. Vinyl source. Very striking. It can't actually be Rufus Harley, can it? 2. Ain't Misbehavin' with a Ben Webster feel. 3. Bone with strings and orchestral woodwinds. Melody similar to In a Sentimental Mood, but also calls up Body and Soul and My One and Only Love. J. J. Johnson? 4. Red Garland comes to mind. 5. Monk's Misterioso, also could be Red Garland. 6. Straight ahead piano with electric bass. Mary Lou Williams? Zoning? The other thought I had was the Brian Melvin trio with Jaco. 7. Latin percussion, nice groove. Stylistically, more retro than I would expect from Jerry Gonzalez. Not as retro as I would expect from Clare Fischer. I'll try Clare Fischer anyway. 8. Big band with marimba. Live recording. Maria Schneider? 9. Twisty theme. Tenor, alto and bone front line. Slide Hampton? 10. Illinois Jacquet? 11. Shirley Scott with Lockjaw? 12. Dexter Gordon? 13. Stanley Turrentine? 14. On a Clear Day, but not quite. If it's an alto that sounds like a tenor,that makes me think Jackie McLean. 15. Rosemary Clooney? Sounds like celeste. 16. Ahmad Jamal? ... Sure hate missing a Randy Weston. Well done, Felser.

You snuck a couple of my favorites by me. I really liked that Gerry Niewood album on Horizon when it came out, and have used Michael Howell on my own BFT.