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Nah, the likely Cedar Walton sides come from 1970-72.

Cedar Walton with Clifford Jordan on 2? Cedar's certainly on the short list of "most likely to switch btween Rhodes and acoustic".

Doh. Tears for Dolphy was one of my first 20 jazz albums too!

Very enjoyable and varied set. 1. Jaco Pastorius, Donna Lee, from his self-titled Columbia album. 2. Seemingly CTI at the beginning, the sax shakes off it's smoothness and gets into some Coltrane-isms near the end. I'm thinking Joe Henderson on Milestone. 3. McCoy Tyner is a definite compositional influence, but I don't think he's the pianist. I should recognize the distinctive, nasal tone of the tenor, but no bells are going off. Not pronounced enough for Barbieri or Sanders. Aah well, I hear a bone, so I'll try Steve Turre. 4. Female voice and organ isn't all that common. The seventies vibe leads me to guess Jean and Doug Carn on the Black Jazz label 5. Is this Wayne Shorter from the Odyssey of Iska/Super Nova period? 6. Eerie female vocal. Cassandra Wilson? 7. Ornette Coleman on violin? I think he had an album called Friends and Neighbors. 8. Downtempo soprano and tenor and electric guitar. The official guess for kinda European and I don't have a clue is John Surman. 9. John Handy with Michael White ... hmmm, no, I don't think that group used a piano. I don't remember Jackie Mclean recording with violin. Dave Douglas? 10. That sounds like it could be koto. The sax sounds like Gato Barbieri, so perhaps it's a Latin American stringed instrument instead. 11. Tough one. I'm liking the exotic instrumental colors on this compilation. This could be anything from European to a Mingus Tribute band, but I definitely don't recognize the composition. Tomasz Stanko? 12. Not sure if that's all guitar or guitar synthesizier, or whether there's a keyboard. No real clue, but I'll throw Joe Morris out as a guess. 13. I definitely know this composition. I first thought Randy Weston, but no, its Monk. That narrows it down!!! Of all the people who probably covered Monk, I'm guessing Art Farmer. Is it Ruby My Dear? 14. Very distinctive and twangy tone. Probably a newer guitarist like Wayne Horvitz. 15. Did Sinatra really record with an organ combo? Sure sounds like it. Kenny who?

Horo! Sun Ra, Max Roach, George Adams, Lester Bowie ... I think a Stitt on Cobblestone made it onto a 32Jazz reissue.

The Haydn String Quartets by the Kodaly Quartet are excellent. Op 76 is a fine place to start.

It appears Alexander is the anti-couw with his definite fondness for the ivories. After several listens, I'm not very confident in most of my guesses. Very nice set. 1. Tommy Flanagan? 2. Sidney Bechet? 3. Bill Mays? I actually thought of Jack Wilson, who I'm more familiar with. 4. Earl Hines? 5. Satin Doll. Could be Ahmad Jamal. 6. Barry Harris or Oscar Peterson. Much manual dexterity, fittting the music well here. 7. Nice Lush Life on solo piano. Roland Hanna? 8. I don't really think it's John Hicks, but I'm running out of guesses. 9. I thought of Tatum earlier, but this has gotta be Art Tatum 10. Blackbird, by the Beatles. I think this might be Brad Mehldau or Marian McPartland 11. Someday my prince will come. Keith Jarrett 12. I'm also guessing The Keith Jarrett Standards trio. Hopefully one of the two will be right. 13. Herbie Hancock? I don't know any live trio dates off the top of my head. 14. John Hicks? 15. The lyricism reminds me of Jarrett, but the vocalisms aren't there and I've used up a couple of Jarrett guesses already. I'll say Bill Evans.

Really enjoying the Leo Records stuff that's landing on emusic.com. The two Cecil Taylors are wonderful, both Leroy Jenkins and Carlos Ward fit in well for my taste and edge Cecil toward lyricism. So far I'm liking Evan Parker's Needles better than 50th Birthday Concert, but much more listening to do. And the Sun Ra Disney disk is an absolute hoot.

Wild Tchopitoulas - Meet De Boys On De Battlefront

Neil Young - Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown, Like A Hurricane Bruce Springsteen - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City, Growin' Up

I find St. Arkansas to be a very accessible and memorable Pere Ubu album. It's right up there with the compilation that's got Thirty Seconds over Tokyo for me.

The hit single was nowhere near the best song on Joan Osborne - Relish, which I highly recommend. Later releases have struck me as less inspired.

Although our tastes are different, our budgets are pretty similar. I grabbed all the Prestige I could burn during eMusic.com's unlimited downloading days, and have stayed with them since the monthly download limits were imposed. I got my first Mosaic, the John Patton Select for Christmas and am seriously pining for the Curtis Amy, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to pull that off.

Weather Report and Shakti at Philadelphia's (well, Upper Darby's) Tower Theater.

Lots of new Leo Records and Leo Lab releases Some Highlights: Cecil Taylor Unit Live in Vienna Evan Parker: 50th Birthday Concert, Needles, Alder Brook Sun Ra: Disney, Live at Hackney Empire Marilyn Crispell For Coltrane Braxton (mostly Ghost Trance) Ivo Perelman Lauren Newton As a bonus, the avant stuff tends to have fewer tracks, making it an excellent value.

I very much enjoyed the Howard Johnson. The similarity with McCoy Tyner's groups was inescapable - I would have guessed McCoy if he didn't show up again later.

I like her on Howard Alden's Take Your Pick, particularly when they cover Herbie Nichols' The Gig. Her first Blue Note had some nice things on it, I haven't pulled out my cassette of that in too long.

Enough chatting, Jim. We wanna know what track 6 of the BFT is!

90%?? You want us to tell you which take it is, Jim?

The album of Nielsen choral works on Chandos is definitely worth hearing.

2 has also been guessed correctly, and a couple others have had the same name come up multiple times. Bonus 2 is a sure thing. On 8 and Bonus 4 I consider it very likely that the correct artist has been guessed, but haven't been able to verfiy it by listening. Bonus 3 is not on Spring Heel Jack's Live or Amassed.

Yes, Jim, it's a nice Hampton Hawes album. Diaz doesn't solo, but he also doesn't interfere or rock it out, just comps tastefully. Diaz also made some contributions in computer programming. He co-wrote the Clipper programming language in the late 80s.

I'm a member right now, since eMusic went to the monthly allotments. Much good music to listen to, but the sound breaks up a lot during prime time listening hours. Burn's are 99 cents a track, more than I'm willing to pay. I nabbed the good two and thre track albums during a half price burn sale a couple years ago, then dropped the service. The best sign up deal is to buy the three month CD at Best Buy.

I decided to play my Mark Shim Blue Notes in search of 1-2. No luck there. The tenor clearly is capable of playing fast with great precision, allowing a tricky theme like that to come off.

I'm more likely to put on Allman Brothers and Hendrix. Yeah on Spirit, I had a crazy live album, Spirit of 76, that I'd love to see on CD.