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Rolling Stone Review. Also, a clerk at the record store was also a WRTI DJ and helped my jazz interest along.

Big Fun - Miles Davis From there to Keith Jarrett and Oregon.

I'd add Cecile McLorin Salvant and Ava Mendoza to that list on the jazz side, although Mendoza's solo set may be more prog-rock than jazz. William Parker's entry mentions both Mayan Space Station (that album featured Mendoza and was part of a recent BFT) as well as In Order to Survive, so she may be playing with Parker as well as as a leader. Also John Zorn is listed as a player in one set and composer in several others. For non-jazz acts, Los Lobos, Mountain Goats, Bela Fleck and Rickie Lee Jones are on my radar, as well as the Steve Reich string quartets.

Will someone please put the whole Live in Tokyo on CD. How could they leave Soft and Furry off?

Does Thom sit out jojazz's BFTs? I have only peeked on one track, #8, and I'm figuring Thom and Tim have a good chance of identifying it.

Trying to figure the tenor I almost drove off a Cliff! Not serious with a capital C!

Trying to figure the tenor I almost drove off a Cliff!

Dick Griffin with Sam Rivers?

This really flows with a subdued groove. Well put together. 1. A pleasant Yardbird Suite featuring a lot of trombone. J. J. Johnson? 2. The tune has similarities at times to Social Call, but I don't think that's the tune. Is it Gerald Wilson? 3. Is it Milestones? 70's or later I would think for how up-front the bass is recorded. Cedar Walton? 4. Breathy, seductive tenor. the names that come to mind are Don Byas, Lester Young and Ben Webster. I'll go with Don Byas. Is the tune Where or When? 5. I think we have cello and bass here, leaving me torn between Oscar Pettiford and Chico Hamilton. The flute could be either Collette or Dolphy so Chico. 6. That's Walt Dickerson with Sun Ra. Album Impressions of A Patch of Blue. Is it called Ham & Eggs? Twenty-eight stars! 7. More bone. Slide Hampton? 8. Reminds me of New York, NY by George Russell which I think featured Jon Hendricks. I don't think Jon was a Trane fan and it can't be that album because I think it preceded A Love Supreme. 9. Afro Blue with guitar trio. I'll be googling to see who has recorded this on guitar, but meanwhile I'll throw out Vic Juris as a wild guess. I decided I would have heard it if it was Pat Martino. 10. Familiar and beautiful. First thought is Abdullah Ibrahim. The Wedding? 11. Another all time favorite. Soft and Furry by Johnny Griffin. Was the album Change of Pace? 12. Largish band, and the trumpet shows off control in the high range. Totally baffled. My Hail Mary is Gerald Wilson again. 13. Muted trumpet and flute provide lush settings for the piano. John Hicks? 14. Damn that's a familiar tenor sound. Gonsalves with the Duke?? Album cover - cast of ancient primetime drama Room 222!

I heard it from a musician friend in Brooklyn who is pretty well connected. Hope I haven't spread a hoax.

It looks like the date of death has been edited back out of the Wikipedia page. Looking for more info.

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.