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I'm guessing you mean singing rather than sinning or emitting sine waves?

Disk 2 1. Sun Ra! 2. Somewhat reminiscent of Maiden Voyage, but I'll guess Wayne Shorter. 3. Sounds like Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue. Could be Andrew Hill leading instead 4. Vibes with organ. John Patton's Let 'em roll? 5. Very cool slow organ and trumpet feature. Tomasz Stanko? 6. Thad Jones- Mel Lewis big band? Nicely segued from previous, different styles united by mood. 7. More Hard Bop. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers? 8. Nice elegant piano trio work. Tommy Flanagan? 9. Herbie Nichols composition, but not Herbie. Geri Allen? Frank Kimbrough is another logical possibility. 10. More greaze. Lonnie Smith? 11. Lee Morgan? Live band with vibes. Hmm. 12. The song is that Brazilian song heard on the Target commercial as Sweet Happy Life or something. I'm good for two Jimmy Smith guesses on this sad day. 13. Jobim tune. Gerald Wilson, maybe?

Nice set, lots of evocative mood pieces. Disk 1 1. Vibes trio, but not Walt Dickerson or Bobby Hutcherson. Lots of technique. Jay Hoggard is a possibility. 2. Solo piano. Maybe Barry Harris. 3. Bass clarinet with tap shoes. John Carter is my wild guess. Not even sure he pays bass clarinet. 4. Drums and a little touch of yodel. Ed Blackwell, maybe? 5. Hard bop tenor battle. Griff and Lockjaw? 6. Could this be John Abercrombie with Dan Wall. Larry Goldings also came to mind. 7. Quiet guitar with a touch of clarinet. I guess James Emery, though I can't rule out Ralph Towner. 8. Muted trumpet and guitar. Emily Remler perhaps? 9. Vibes and guitar in a mainstream groove. Kenny Burrell, for lack of a better guess. 10. Vibes and guitar with rock influenced drumming. Gary Burton, perhaps with Larry Coryell. 11. This could be Ben Allison 12. Fairly recent I think. Very enjoyable. I'm guessing Branford Marsalis and am prepared to look foolish. 13 Solo Monk Piano? 14. Vocals recorded in the next county for effect, but effective and understated singing nevertheless. Who's the lady that recorded a lot of albums for Concord before taking her own life? Susannah McCorkle. I'll guess her. 15. Dexter Gordon? 16. Jimmy Smith doin' What'd I Say?

I'm getting back on the train with the next BFT, but from JSngry's description of 18, I wonder if it isn't The Country and Western Pianos of Steve Kuhn and Toshiko Akiyoshi. Sight unheard.

PM Sent. I too always post my first guesses without using outside research materials. Looking forward to hearing 'em.

It looks like the complete Sun Ra Evidence catalog is now available for download at www.emusic.com. I'm so there.

I always file Sun Ra under R. After all he was in the Philly phone book that way!

Ted Curson's The Trio! Drummond and Haynes are absolutely brilliant in the rarely heard trumpet-bass-drums format. Three of the five tracks were rerelased on a :Ted Curson-Dizzy Reece" compilation

After a bit of a dry spell during which I caught up on some Leo artists, Emusic has come through with some good new jazz reissues. Three from pianist Sumi Tonooka and several from violinist John Blake. A nice opening assortment from Evidence Records including 4 Sun Ra releases and Billy Harper's Somalia. I pulled out my copy of Sumi Tonooka's Secret Places and have been enjoying it greatly, in the same neighborhood as Geri Allen and McCoy Tyner. Looking forward to checking out the two Candid reissues tomorrow.

Welcome. The next two recommendations are Peace on Steeplechase, a record of unearthly beauty that's more free form than Impressions, and To My Queen, the highlight of his Prestige/New Jazz period featuring Andrew Hill. I have them all, absolutely no duds. Some of the later Steeplechases have some humming along that only distracts slightly. I love the sound he gets out of his bassists.

I'm way out of my element here, but I'm so competitive that I always try to guess. Wish I had more time to devote to listening. 1. Smooth and swingin. Cozy Cole just for a wild stab in the dark. 2. Gerald Wilson? Very nice, a little West coast-y in flavor. 3. Bop! Maybe a Diz big band with Leo Parker? 4. Benny Carter? 5. Helen Humes? 6. This could be Duke Ellington. 7. Bird and Diz with Machito? 8. Sounds like Bud Powell as a sideman. Having trouble coming up up with a band that includes bari. Howard McGhee is my wild guess 9. I'll try Dexter Gordon. 10. Oscar Pettiford? 11. Bop era Coleman Hawkins? Very brawny tone. 12. I'm definitely thinking this is Milt Jackson 13. Jimmy Raney? 14. Ahmad Jamal? 15. Kenny Burrell? 16. Arnett Cobb? 17. Red Norvo? 18. Svend Asmussen? 19. Illinois Jacquet? 20. T-Bone Walker? 21. More doorbells! I'll pick Cal Tjader over George Shearing. 22. Quite beautiful. Could it be Clarke Boland Big Band? 23. Sounds like King Pleasure on vocals.

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.

Picking up on the Naima quote, perhaps Sonny Fortune could be the track 4 player.

Aarrrghh. I did think of Herbie, but I didn't know of a live album by the trio.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Beautiful set, by the way.

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?

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?

Someone left the cake out in the rain ...

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.