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Picking up on the Naima quote, perhaps Sonny Fortune could be the track 4 player.
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Aarrrghh. I did think of Herbie, but I didn't know of a live album by the trio.
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1. Seventies-ish long jam with an African vibe. Reminds me a bit of Hannibal Peterson.
2. Tenor with Latin Percussion on familiar tune with an island vibe. Did Ben Webster ever do a latin session?
3. Front line of guitar, piano and vibes go at Monk. Jay Hoggard? Bass definitely has an electric sound, either bass guitar or amplified upright.
4. More live stuff, featuring alto. Although I don't think it's out enough, I'll guess later Sonny Simmons. Not all that many pianoless alto trios that I know of.
5. Great extended piano trio, same kind of energetic drumming as on the previous track. Myra Melford?
6. Live Woody Shaw?
Live seems to be the theme. Enjoyed both disks very much
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1. A My Favorite Things that's not overly influenced by Tyner/Coltrane. Sun Ra entered my mind, but I don't think this is his style. Paul Bley perhaps?
2. New Orleans style but recording quality suggests a date of 50's or later. Later Louis Armstrong?
3. Classic Blue Note style hard bop. Horace Silver is a possibility.
4. The drums sure sound like an ECM recording. No vocalizations, but rather mainstream for ECM. Maybe not ECM, I'll go with Brad Mehldau.
5. A nice trombone quartet ballad. Bennie Green perhaps?
6. Sounds like Andy Bey
7. A nice Killing Me Softly on alto. Is it Sonny Criss?
8. Art Pepper and George Cables?
9. Maybe Stan Getz, say about late 70's to early 80's.
10. Sonny Rollins?
11. Swinging stuff from the early 40's or thereabouts. Maybe early Count Basie?
12. All The Things You Are on alto. Sonny Stitt? I hear a second alto near the end.
13. A modern, but traditionally rooted tenor. Probably a latter day Rollins fan like Joshua Redman.
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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?
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I found a nice stash of free MP3s in the jam band rock style on www.kimock.com. In college one of my roommate's best friends was a pianist attending Berklee named Jim Kost. One one occasion Jim raved about a couple of brothers that were classmates - Wynton and Branford. We saw Cecil Taylor together on another occasion. Sometime in the last year I decided to Google Jim's name and discovered that he had hooked up with Kimock. So far the keyboards haven't been particularly out front, but I'm enjoying what I'm hearing.
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1. Summertime. Gene Harris?
2. I'll try Kenny Burrell here. Blue and lyrical
3. Dexter Gordon? Reminds me of the long One Flight Up and also the tune Jeannine by Eddie Jefferson.
4. Very precise and virtuosic theme. Johnny Griffin comes to mind on the fast stuff.
5. Jimmy Smith, maybe with Stanley Turrentine. The talk establishes the period as 90s, and makes me think that the player has been around.
6. The pianist doesn't sound particularly like Duke or Count, so maybe it's Roland Hanna with Jones-Lewis Big Band.
7. Older style organ in ballad mode, with piano too. Could this be Duke's New Orleans Suite? Nah, there should be more horns on that. Maybe some Gene Ammons?
8. Donald Byrd is the only thing that comes to mind here, but I'm far from sure.
9. The Milt Hinton style singing with the bass almost sounds electronically processed. Could this be James Carter?
10. Willow Weep For Me. Stanley Turrentine with the Three Sounds.
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I found it cheap on Half.com and enjoyed it quite a bit. Not too many people mining Sun Ra's "space organ" as a vein of influence.
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Beautiful set, by the way.
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1. I first thought of Lester Young, but later on it gets a little to gruff for him. Not quite as gruff as Hawkins or Webster, so I'll go with Don Byas.
2. The piano style seems like soul-jazz to me. After a few listens it occurs to me that that's probably baritone, not tenor sax. Gerry Mulligan is said to make the bari sound effortless, so I'll go with him.
3. Do we have a Dexter Gordon ballad here?
4. Things Ain't What They Used To Be, as piano-tenor duet. I wondered about Shepp-Parlan, but too mellow, a better guess would be Zoot Sims and Jimmy Rowles.
5. Chops and funk. Could be GH, but I'll guess Wynton Kelly.
6. More Grease. Stanley Turrentine?
7. JJ Johnson?
8. Lovely, lyrical trumpet. Maybe Woody Shaw?
9. I'll guess Gerald Wilson. Updated big band sound.
10. Fascinating organ version of Maiden Voyage. Organists are hard to find in this modern a style, and more so ones willing to lay back. If it was Jimmy Smith, I think the sound would have focused on the organ more.
11. The piano could almost be early McCoy Tyner. The trombone may be the leader. Steve Turre perhaps?
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1. Could this be Wayne Shorter with Milton Nascimiento?
2. More nice Rhodes, tenor featured prominently. CTI is a possibility. Stanley Turrentine?
3. This has that tenor sounds like an alto sound I associate with Stan Getz.
4. It sure sounds like Bird.
5. Jazz Messengers?
6. Milt Jackson, perhaps with Sonny Stitt.
7. Chick Corea, perhaps the Acoustic Band?
8. McCoy Tyner, might be Blue Note era.
9. It Don't Mean a Thing. The gospelly beginning sounds familiar, but my guess is a musician I'm not all that familiar with. Bill Mays?
10. Gotta figure the bassist is the leader here. Richard Davis, maybe?
11. I believe this is Jack Wilson's Harbor Freeway, an earlier version than the faster Blue Note Harbor Freeway 5PM.
12. Did Ramsey Lewis ever record with Herbie Mann?
13. Could this be Mary Lou Williams Steeplechase album?
14. Bill Evans would be my guess here.
15. Nice voice. Dee Dee Bridgewater?
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One false move and the cake would collapse. It never does. Marshall keeps it floating. (Mixed metaphor, but you know what I mean.)
Someone left the cake out in the rain ...
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Yep PHILLYQ I've read and enjoyed it. I'm mentioned in the chapter on the Providence 2000 national championships.
P.S. You can keep the Q. It's bad news.
Thanks to you all.
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I'll be playing in the National Scrabble Championships August 1-5 in New Orleans. For those interested, results can be followed at www.scrabbleassociation.com.
The finals will be shown on ESPN at a later date. 857 players are signed up so far, but only the 177 or so in the top division will be eligible for the finals and the $25,000 first prize. I'm currently 13th highest rated of those in the top division.
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You may be able to find a 40 CD set on History for a very low price. I recommend it.
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I got my disk Wednesday, and unfortunately it got cracked before I could listen to all of it. Can anybody in the US send me a replacement? PM please if you can.
Thanks Much
Randy Hersom
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Duke Ellington has a Star Spangled Banner on one of the Carnegie Hall OJCs.
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It appears I was wrong about Track 13?
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1. Fletcher Henderson?
2. Lester Young?
3. It seems almost familiar, but I just can't get a handle on it. Cedar Walton?
4. Is this track 13 on this?
5. I think this might be Jackie McLean. The oversimplified rationale: If a tenor makes me think he's playing alto, it's probably Getz. If an alto makes me think he's playing tenor, it's probably Jay Mac. I hope that's actually an alto : )
6. Dizzy Gillespie?
7. The composition is the same as track 3 of this. I know the composition from this album on ECM. I love the bassist's playing on both of them. I originally though it was the saxist's composition that was played on the ECM album, but the saxist himself doesn't seem to have participated in any recordings of that composition according to AMG.
8. Could be a Basie small group. The rhythm guitar definitely gives the feel of mid '50s or earlier.
9. Moments here made me think of Duke, but there's not enough ensemble playing. I'll guess Duke Ellington anyway.
10. Very lyrical. Waiting to hear if Jarrett noises start coming in. It's been a while, but I dont recall hearing the vocalizations on the ECM Staircase solo set. I'm going with Keith Jarrett.
11. Let's try Earl Hines.
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1. Wow. Extreme vocal virtuosity. The voice is lighter than Sassy, Ella, Betty or Carmen. Maybe Mary Stallings with Basie?
2. Hard Bop heaven. Haven't been able to pick anybody out. Lee Morgan??
3. Stan Getz and Johnny Smith?
4. Sounds like Brownie and Max, but where's this guitar coming from. Maybe it's Brownie's Paris sessions or something else without Max.
5. Donald Byrd and Paul Chambers?
6. Could this be a Fats Waller solo?.
7. Miles?
8. I first thought this might be Don Patterson with Booker Ervin and Sonny Stitt. The other possibility that crossed my mind was this. On relisten, the organ playing isn't particularly showy, it's just carrying a groove, Its gotta be the linked album.
9. Helen Humes?
10. Just like the other disk's track 10, this could be Keith Jarrett, but the vocalizations are not present. I don't know if Frank Kimbrough has recorded extended solo improvisations live, but I'll make him my guess.
11. Joe Henderson?
12. The horn voicings suggest Abdullah Ibrahim very strongly. A little more "out" than most of his work.
13. Anita O'Day with Cal Tjader?
14. Nice easy swing. I'll guess Count Basie for a third time and hope one of them is right.
Edited to switch the two disks to their correct forums.
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So far Palmetto is only showing up under the label list. I already own the Andrew Hill and Javon Jackson and have downloaded Marty Ehrlich - Line on Love, the Herbie Nichols Project Strange City and Bobby Watson - Live and Learn. The Bobby Previte, Ben Allison, Bill Mays and Larry Golding (As One) are in contention for the next choices. It's not a full catalog, but here are the artists represented so far.
Artists on Palmetto:
Ben Allison
Ben Allison And Medicine Wheel
David Berkman
Bill Mays Trio
Bobby Previte And Bump
The David Berkman Quartet
Marty Ehrlich
Joel Frahm
The Herbie Nichols Project
Andrew Hill
Javon Jackson
Larry Goldings Trio
Kate McGarry
Ted Nash
Bobby Previte & Bump
Thirteen Ways
Ray Vega
Bobby Watson
Matt Wilson
Matt Wilson Quartet
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I've enjoyed the recent Live at Yoshi's remakes of some of the great Columbia material. It's a two CD set from 2000 or so that I downloaded from eMusic, and a reunion of the Newport quintet, I think.
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Still waiting for it to show up on eMusic.com. I checked this morning and there were a couple new CDBabys but no Organissimo.
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1. Manteca. I'll go with Dizzy Gillespie. Probably Chano Pozo in the percussion section.
2. Solo piano, perhaps as far back as the 40's. Teddy Wilson?
3. Kind of a Horace Silver vibe going here.
4. Could be post-Blue Note Andrew Hill.
5. I can't get away from the feeling that this is Woody Shaw.
6. Ahmad Jamal is a possibility here.
7. It seems likely to be a bone led date, and since the music tends more toward funky than boppish, I'll go with Curtis Fuller rather than J.J.
8. Trio version of Maiden Voyage. I don;t think it's Herbie, maybe one of the newer pianists, say, David Hazeltine?
9. The soprano here plays freer than the rest of the ensemble. Maybe Steve Lacy with Mal Waldron?
10. Hubert Laws?
11. Sounds like a quintet with soprano plus alto sax, but I can't rule out two sopranos. Tyner influenced, but not Tyner.
12. Doesn't sound Brazillian enough to be Flora Purim, but I haven't a better guess at the moment.
13. Very nice. Art Farmer?
14. Luscious, sweet alto tone against luxurious band background. Hodges, Desmond and Pepper all came to mind. Although it sounds a tiny bit too modern, I'll go with Johnny Hodges.
15. This bit of playfulness reminds me of Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
BFT # 18 - Disc 1
in Blindfold Test
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1. Sounds a little modern than Milt Jackson, particularly at the beginning. Dave Pike?
2. The combination of idiomatic scat and electric bass seems to suggest an 80s or later recording. I'll guess Giacomo Gates, who I haven't heard, over Kurt Elling, who I have.
3. Bobby Watson?
4. Organ based ensemble playing adventurous hard bop. I have no better guess than Larry Young.
5. Sounds like Now's the Time/The Hucklebuck. Maybe Houston Person?
6. Solo piano. Nice Lush Life. With no real clue, I'll try Tommy Flanagan.
7. Nice voice, something husky about it reminds me of Rebecca Parris.
8. Pat Martino?
9. Something very familiar about the tenor, but I'm clueless beyond that. Art Farmer with Clifford Jordan?
10. Cool vocal version of Lee Morgan's Sidewinder. Kurt Elling?
11. Alice Coltrane?
12. Could be Bobby McFerrin.