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Wikipedia confirms the passing of organist Joey DeFrancesco today. I enjoyed his set with Pharoah Sanders at the High Point John Coltrane Festival a couple years back.

Wikipedia reports the passing Sunday of Philadelphia guitarist Monnette Sudler, who made several good albums for Steeplechase and other labels as a leader and also supporting Khan Jamal. Her debut, Time For a Change was a WRTI "hit" and I saw her perform in North Philly.

Artists on 1,3,5,6,7,8.9,12 and 13 IDed

So, 1,5,6,7,9 and 12 IDed?

Names I recognize as pianists on the BMI Songview list of versions of Naima by John Coltrane are: Brian Melvin Quartet Great Jazz Trio Marian McPartland Hilton Ruiz McCoy Tyner Massimo Urbani Cedar Walton. Is 11 Gil Evans?

The Blindfold test on the first issue of 1954 features Duke Ellington rating 10 Duke covers!

I'm afraid this time it's true. RIP and condolences to Raheem and family. https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChH9jhdlJAR/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D&fbclid=IwAR0rKTeWySZ3GHpY27EdViQVHkZzY4es6UJ7K2j47ocggfoJveil0-EuuDA

Internet sleuthing revealed that Hag, Jones, Mickey Gilley, Leon Russell and Ricky Skaggs did not have a brass instrument in the intro. After that I found out who did. I think listeners will be surprised by the jazz credentials of the instrumentalists. The vocalist is not known to jazz listeners, but I found him convincing and courageous.

1. First thought was Merle Haggard. The Window Up Above. For some reason I associate the title with George Jones, but the voice still sounds more like Hag than Jones. 2. Piano sounds like this century, trombone is an older soul. Herbie Hancock for a wild guess. 3. Naima! On solo piano. Not McCoy, and I don't think Cedar Walton did it solo. Kenny Barron ranks right behind Art Farmer as my favorite wrong guess, and I'll try again here. 4. Sounds more like a viola than a violin. Svend Asmussen? No that's even deeper than a viola, bass played high with a bow or cello. Someone to watch over me? I don't have much of a clue, will try Barry Harris. 5. Gee, do you think it might be Bucky Pizzarelli? Maybe with Ken Peplowski? 6. Nice ballad. I won't rule out Art Pepper. Yeah, I will, not many guitars featured on Art Pepper dates. OK, how about Paul Desmond, maybe with Ed Bickert. 7. Not 100% sure this is alto rather than soprano, but could this be Sonny Criss? 8. I'll go with Bill Evans here. 9. Lover Man. Leaning toward Sonny Stitt. 10. Got to be the bassman's date. Christian McBride? 11. Thoughts of Johnny Griffin's Soft and Furry (absolutely not the tune, but the theme uses a faster version of the effect I love in it) and Sonny Criss album Sonny's Dream (probably not, seems like bigger band) yield to a guess of Thad Jones - Mel Lewis big band. 12. Feels like Blue Note. Jazz Messengers? Bass up front and the tenor is edgier than expected, so maybe later. 13. Violin on the Sunny Side of the Street. I thought Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session, until I heard the applause. Maybe Stuff Smith? 14. MJQ sounds like a possibility here. 15. Herbie Mann owns this particular neck of the musical woods. When the vocals come in you wonder if Flora Purim is living there.

Technically Love Cry Want has no guitar. only guitar synthesizer.

The Barbara Song?

Reggie Workman on #2? There were a surprising number of ECM piano trios: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30811-ecm-jazz-piano-trios/ Beirach and Crispell seem possible.

1. Very nice. Jay Hoggard? 2. Solo bass. Trying to think of who has recorded solo bass, it's absolutely not Kowald, feels more mainstream than Joelle Leandre, and I do think it's bass, not cello. I'll guess Leandre. On second listen possibly two basses 3. The lead instument seems to be a fluegelhorn, but it's the most clarinet-like sounding fluegelhorn ever. Nat Adderley? 4. Rabih Abou Khalil? 5. McCoy Tyner, early to mid Milestone era, I think 6. I can't rule McCoy out here either. If so much later and finding his way back to the mainstream after having created a new mainstream. 7. Steve Turre - I thought didge at first but it could be conch shells. Or even both. One of the lower flutes as well. 8. I wouldn't be surprised if this is on ECM. Marcin Wasilewski, maybe? A real trio, not leader plus. 9. In a Sentimental Mood composed by Ellington but played by a later piano trio. Tommy Flanagan? Wait, here's a tenor. Can't rule out Ben, but I don't think the piano is Duke. The bass is so upfront it does seem like a later recording. What a tune, it draws out the best in just about everybody. 10. Are there two keyboards here? No but the two riffs that play off each other seem SO independent of each other. Bad Plus? 11. We do love our Tapscott, it could be Horace. But this is Pim, it could be Mal Waldron. I'l go with Mal

Agreed. I've checked out Ackamoor and Sinephro on Amazon since finding out who they were. And the Galper had me clueless until the very end.

Patrick Brennan was a fascinating rarity. I recognized Marvin Blackman's name from a Tarika Blue album I like. I see it's on Bandcamp: https://patrickbrennansound.bandcamp.com/album/soup

Wikipedia says: In the early 1970s, Swallow switched exclusively to electric bass guitar, of which he prefers the five-string variety. It's possible they are wrong.

Acoustic bass guitar is really rare, I think it's an electric. I find him to be very recognizable on electric bass.

Jon Christensen is the drummer tkeith couldn't think of, I think. I like him. Arild is playing high notes on the bass, no violins on 8. I didn't pick up that there were 2 basses on the record date for 10, have to listen again for the bass(es).

This was nearly unguessable, but you guessed it. Awesome

Five Ralph Towner CDs released this century. All tend toward tasteful rather than groundbreaking, but worth checking out.

OK, I peeked. Great choice for crushing preconceptions.

Bley first recorded in 1953, so I wonder if the pianist on 4 really came before him. If so, Hank Jones could be in the mix.

Peacock on 3 means it might be the Paul Bley. Kikuchi is another vocalizer, I think. Other names I thought of for 8 were Gato Barbieri, Ivo Perelman and the Maneris.

1. I'm thinking Jackie McLean with Charles Tolliver. Yes that sounds an awful lot like a tenor, but Jackie always did. 2. Brandee Younger? Not a lot of harp between Dorothy Ashby and her that wasn't played by Alice Coltrane. 3. Nice open trio concept similar in feel to later Ahmad Jamal, but I don't think it's Ahmad. That's a lot of bass, makes me think of Buster Williams so maybe Kenny Barron 4. In a Sentimental Mood. Earl Hines did a couple of wonderful Duke Ellington solo collections, but this feels a little to modern to be the Fatha. Let's try Tommy Flanagan. 5. Nice panorama of earlier jazz styles. When I think of who could do this and who would do this, I come up with Duke Ellington. 6. Very pleasant. Sonny Fortune? 7. Synthesizer in the mix here. Not Hancock or George Duke, too laid back. Maybe Paul Bley? 8. Boy that sounds like Dewey Redman. Until it starts sounding like later Albert Ayler - like Live in Grenwich Village 9. Even more like Ahmad Jamal. I think this is a tune associated with him. 10. ECM Gary Burton and Steve Swallow? with Pat Metheny? 11. I think it's Pharaoh, even though those records with Michael White had a widespread influence, and it could be later. 12. Grooves so nicely that you have to pay sharp attention to convince yourself it's actually solo piano. A hint of gospel. No real clue, I'll throw out Stanley Cowell as a guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Plimley