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1. Lush Life - Ken McIntyre from Hindsight (Steeplechase 1974) Billy Strayhorn Composer, Ken McIntyre Bassoon, Kenny Drew Piano, Bo Stief Bass, Alex Riel Drums 2. A Child is Born - Thad Jones - Mel Lewis Big Band from Consummation (Solid State 1970, Blue Note, Mosaic) Thad Jones trumpet, Mel Lewis drums, Roland Hanna piano, Snooky Young – trumpet, Danny Moore – trumpet, Al Porcino – trumpet, Marvin Stamm – trumpet, Eddie Bert – trombone, Benny Powell – trombone, Jimmy Knepper – trombon,e Cliff Heather – bass trombone, Jerome Richardson – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, alto flute, Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, alto flute, Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, flute, Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, Richard Davis - bass. Composition credited to Thad Jones, but likely written by Roland Hanna 3. How Are Things in Glocca Morra - Sonny Rollins from Sonny Rollins Vol. 1 (Blue Note 1957) Sonny Rollins tenor, Donald Byrd trumpet, Wynton Kelly piano, Gene Ramey bass, Max Roach drums 4. Until the Real Thing Comes Around - Gene Ammons from 1951-1953 (Chronological Classics) 5. A Flower is a Lovesome Thing - Mal Waldron and Marion Brown from Songs of Love and Regret (Free Lance 1987) composed by Billy Strayhorn, Waldron piano, Brown alto sax 6. Where or When - Don Byas from On Blue Star (EmArcy 1947-1952) Byas tenor sax 7. Tenderly - Eric Dolphy from Far Cry (Prestige 1962) Dolphy alto sax 8. Over the Rainbow - Dizzy Gillespie from Birks Works (Savoy 1957) Austin Cromer vocal, Dizzy Gillespie, Talib Daawud, Lee Morgan, Ermit V. Perry, Carl Warwick - trumpet; Melba Liston - trombone, arranger; Al Grey, Rod Levitt - trombone; Ernie Henry, Jimmy Powell - alto saxophone; Benny Golson, Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone; Billy Root - baritone saxophone; Wynton Kelly - piano; Paul West - bass; Charlie Persip - drums 9. Solitude - Earl Hines from Plays Duke Ellington Volume II (Master Jazz 1972, New World) Hines Piano 10. Theme from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - Ornette Coleman from Soapsuds, Soapsuds (Artists House 1977) Coleman Tenor Sax, Charlie Haden bass 11. Pretty Beauty - Andrew Cyrille from Lebroba (ECM 2017) Wadada Leo Smith trumpet, Cyrille drums, Bill Frisell guitar 12. Makaya Makaya Makaya - Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani, Okay Temiz from Music for Xaba Vol. 2 (Sonet 1972) Feza trumpet, Dyani bass, Temiz drums 13. Dexi - Horace Parlan from Happy Frame of Mind (Blue Note 1963) Johnny Coles Trumpet, Parlan Piano, Booker Ervin Tenor Sax, Grant Green - guitar, Butch Warren - bass, Billy Higgins - drums 14. Rocket - Wadada Leo Smith, Vijay Iyer, Jack DeJohnette from Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (ECM 2022) Smith trumpet, Iyer organ, DeJohnette drums 15. Medicine for a Nightmare - Sun Ra from Angels and Demons at Play (Saturn 1956, Impulse) Sun Ra - Piano, Electric Piano, Art Hoyle - Trumpet, Julian Priester - Trombone, John Gilmore - Tenor Sax, Pat Patrick - Baritone Sax, Wilburn Green - Electric Bass, Robert Barry - Drums, Jim Herndon - Tympani 16. Odwalla - Art Ensemble of Chicago from Bap-Tizum (Atlantic 1972) Lester Bowie: trumpet, percussion, Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion, Joseph Jarman: saxophones, percussion, Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, percussion, Don Moye: drums, percussion

Obsequious is an all time favorite tune. Hope they play it at Big Ears.

Last minute folks please note. I will be dropping the reveal a couple days early so I don't have to worry about it from Big Ears.

Not Paul Smoker on 12. The trumpet on 14 is Wadada Leo Smith, but the track is not part of the Yo Miles series.

Correct ID. I did play it because I liked it.

Except for the part about being right! I'm not always in the mood for the extreme tartness Dolphy and Ornette can bring to the table, but have learned to appreciate, and there are times when it's just right for me. And I love Charlie Haden, without Ornette there would be less Charlie Haden to enjoy. Like Dan I tend to like tenors more than altos. Just not always the same tenors. Remaining sleuthing (or waiting for Tim Webb or JSngry) to be done: Artist on 1 - tune IDed co-leader on 5 Tune, drummer and full name of trumpeter on 12 tune and all musicians on 14 (trumpeter has been narrowed down) Well done so far, Organissimo Forum!

I'm OK with that. Will be ripping right away. I have ordered.

Well done on the IDs. 11 and 15 (tune) not IDed by anyone yet. I make a point of not reading the thread until I make my first guess, would say that sharing what you know should not rain on anyone's parade. Some people hide a link behind the word "this" to insure that only people who are ready to know find out. Cartoons and early jazz have had a long and somewhat symbiotic relationship. Frequent use in Looney Tunes probably didn't get Fletcher Henderson many gigs, but may have financially benefitted his later years. I had to look up the Bob Clampett reference. You could choose to word it as animated, or cartoonish. I'll go with the former. I do like this version, but Joe Lee Wilson remains my go-to version of Over the Rainbow.

IDed above. Austin Cromer with Diz.

Melba Liston is a fine arranger, did good work with Randy Weston too.

My early thoughts Thursday Allison Russell 6-7:15 Bill Frisell 7:30 - leaving early Joe Lovano w Marilyn Crispell 8:30- 9:30 Los Lobos 9:35 if I can get in leaving early Vijay Iyer 10:30 - 11:45 Friday Greg Tardy 1:00 - 2:15 Antonio Sanchez 2:20 Leaving early Mary Halvorson Amaryllis & Belladonna 3-5 Arooj Aftab - Vijay Iyer 5 leaving early Ava Mendoza 5:45 Maybe end of Tyshawn Sorey 6:50 - 7:15 William Parker 8:45 - 9:45 Ned Rothenberg 10 leaving early Tarbaby w David Murray 11-12:15 Saturday Zorn 12 leaving early Christian McBride 1-2:15 Charles Lloyd 4- leaving early William Parker 4:30 - 5:30 Trio Imagination 5:35 in progress Sun Ra Arkestra 7-8:15 Rickie Lee Jones 8:20 if I can get in. Blood Ulmer 9-10 Maybe end of Zoh Amba Cecile McLorin Salvant 10:45 - 12 Sunday Zorn 12 Wadada 2:15 James Brandon Lewis 3:15 Bill Frisell 4:15 Sona Jobarteh 5:30 Zorn or C McBride 7 Shara Nova 8 Maybe Zorn 10

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.