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Austin Cromer does indeed sing on this BFT. And we have the bandleader too! Tune previously IDed as Over The Rainbow. I read or heard that it was a jukebox hit back in its day.

I don't say much once I get desperate enough to Shazam, but I was likewise blown away. You educated away a misinformation I thought I knew, which I mention in my early BFT 228 comments.

Thanks for the feedback so far. You called a correct tune on 8. Tune correct, artist IDed as Gene "Jug" Ammons above.

Thanks to Felser and Dan Gould for the impressions. Glad to have accomplished WWFL and WWDL in the same BFT.

I'm posting slightly before Thom opens the gates Enjoy! https://thomkeith.net/index.php/blindfold-tests/ (spoiler space) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Esperanza Spaulding for 6?

Wow I only knew of two trumpet bass drum trios before Ted Curson - The Trio and one of them was thought lost in a fire.

I'm ruling out Lee. Trumpet, bass and drums is a really rare configuration through the end of the seventies. I think this is eighties or later. Really obscure guess - Scott Tinkler?

1. Piano, guitar and bass. Barney Kessel? 2. First thought was Bob Dorough, but since most of this track is about the piano, not the vocals, I'll go with Mose Allison 3. Lyrical. Maybe Kenny Dorham 4. Great Wah-wah mute work. Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy? 5. Great cutting tenor tone that's almost Booker Ervin, but I don't know of Book recording with this instrumental lineup. Lockjaw Davis? 6. Astrud Gilberto. Which means that must be Stan Getz. Sure sounds like him. 7. Mining the same vein, which I'm not that familiar with. Not Flora or Astrud. Elaine Elias? 8. The only Herbie Hancock album I remember that might have this instrumentation is The Prisoner. I don't remember this track as being from that album. But it might. 9. Bass might be the leader here. Buster Williams? 10. Bass might be the leader here. Ron Carter? 11. Despite the bass intro, I'm liking the baritone as the leader here. Pepper Adams? 12. When Gato is this laid back, the instrumentation is usually more commercial sounding. 13. Forward looking organ that doesn't sound like Larry Young. Barbara Dennerlein? 14. Over the top version of Get Happy. No Idea.

That's pretty awesome.

He would have been a great fit at Big Ears, a shame that it will never happen.

I have found no discographical evidence for Austin having recorded with the Ravens. Anybody else have any? This doesn't in any way suggest that he was not a member of the band.

There's some circumstantial evidence that the singer is the Austin Leon Cromer who was born Oct 7, 1930 and passed away November 10, 1999. Newspapers.com has a Pensacola News Journal obituary that does not mention his singing, but he did have 4 children. Ancestry.com has a Brazil Immigration card for Austin Leon Cromer with same birth date, listing his profession as musico and parents as Timothy and Gladys. The date corresponds to the Dizzy Gillespie State Department tour of South America. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/537797

BFT 225 1. Latin jazz. Dizzy? 2. Organ combo. I like the trumpet growls. Don Patterson? 3. Can't rule out Turrentine 4. Leaning toward Rollins. 5. A God Bless the Child that could be Blue Note. Wayne Shorter? 6. A Bird composition Yardbird Suite, or Now's the Time. Killer piano intro. Piano player is a hummer during his solo. Dexter? 7. Everything about the opening screams Coltrane Classic Quartet. 8. Joe Williams? 9. Tight small band sounding big. Jazz Messengers? 10. Stride feel in the piano, live date, possibly JATP. Johnny Griffin? 11. Torn between Art Farmer and Freddie Hubbard. Not really, I have just guessed Art Farmer wrongly sooo many times. Art Farmer, around the time of Blame It on My Youth. ------------------------ After reading the thread. Dan's Hometown BFT was so difficult, I was sure he wouldn't give us any obvious tracks. I initially concluded 4 was Grant Stewart rather than Rollins on that basis. Listening to 7, I know it should have been more familiar if it was the Coltrane classic quartet, but it was so McCoy and so Garrison and so compositionally that band, I was convinced it was - leading me to conclude other tracks might be big names too.

March looks better than April for me. I would be at Big Ears when April deploys. Volunteering for March.

Looks like the Wikipedia discography could use a little help: Mind over Matter (Blue Note, 1998) New Directions with Stefon Harris, Jason Moran, Greg Osby (Blue Note, 2000) Turbulent Flow (Blue Note, 2000) Far from Over with Vijay Iyer (ECM, 2017) Travail, Transformation, and Flow with the Steve Lehman Octet (Pi Recordings, 2009) Mise en Abîme with the Steve Lehman Octet (Pi Recordings, 2014) The five I have found with the help of posts here: The 'Infancia' Project with Luis Perdomo (Criss Cross, 2012) Devotion with Marko Churnchetz (Whirlwind 2014) Spirits and Warriors with Luis Perdomo (Criss Cross, 2016) Transitions with David Gilmore (Criss Cross 2017) Ganymede with Matt Brewer (Criss Cross 2019)

Converting slow moving back stock into cash may be worthwhile as they move to a more Bandcamp centered strategy.

Thanks, 15 selected. Steve Lacy, Perry Robinson, Marilyn Crispell, Rova, Derek Bailey, Don Preston and Joe Giardullo are the collaborators I went with.

I see the catalog, but not the offer. I'll have to see if I have some of the Steve Lacy sides

Maurice White is a possible member of the group on 6 then. Maybe the Pharaohs?

LOL. Mansplain that to me again, Barry!

The Teena is the last track of Starchild, Light.

I think this establishes that 6 is the Terry Callier JSngry spotted.

Milt Jackson did make a couple CTIs

Yeah, I heard the pizzicato violin as harp, but it wasn't.