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Track #6 with oboe fascinated me. Based purely on the Philly hint, the group must be Catalyst? Highly interesting personnel, but I've never heard them . Will take some more work to identify the tune. OK, East by Catalyst; originally on eponymous 1972 Cobblestone album, found a clip from the 32 Jazz 2-disc compilation. Odean Pope on oboe! Thanks for the enjoyable BFT, my first participation.

I already ordered this, waiting for shipment to arrive. [Added 12/9] It's here!

OK, I participated in the latest and was able to identify 1 tune. In past lurking, I often felt there was 1 I could have gotten (but never any more than 1). I'm not tech savvy but found the download straightforward, so will likely take part in more BFT. Thanks.

#5 is Bloom, from One of several Jamal recordings I own; got into him after purchasing Drum Dance to the Motherland on this forum based on felser's recommendation... Drummer Leroy Lowe is pretty much unknown to me, though he also appears on Jamal's quartet album Dark Warrior (with Dyani on bass and Charles Tyler (!) on alto/bari).

I'm thinking Khan Jamal (partly a guess, knowing felser), but don't have time to research right now.

I often lurk the threads, but don't have the erudition to be competitive in guessing.

Happy birthday!

Dusty Groove e-mailed me announcing they have Porto Novo in stock.

Agreed, excellent suggestion. I'd definitely buy it.

My "oddsmaker consensus" forecast of Hamilton 50 is taken (I see Hamilton favored by 6 with over/under 50.5), so I'll go Hamilton 45. Needless to say, my method has never been successful.

I'm an idiot...It was Bylsma's second recording of the cello suites, and I prefer the first! My purchase of the original Vivarte box was partially based on this same blunder.

Bylsma's first cello suites recording.

I got curious about this after reading Mark S.'s Jazz in Detroit, picked up a copy via this board. Definitely little-known, I like it but wouldn't go so far as to say "gem".

New one out in the series this month: Zenith

To conclude the thread on a positive note, I've owned the following Zender recordings for a long time: (featured on just 1 of the latter's 8 discs)

R.I.P. Outstanding advocate of contemporary music. The "Hans Zender Series" of recordings on cpo introduced me to composers Feldman, Scelsi and B. A. Zimmermann; indeed to "postwar classical music" in general.

From old days of exploring microtonal/overtone music, hadn't listened for a long time. Not sure what to think, offhand it's kind of a "strongly rhythmic" minimalism that I'm not wild about.

I've always worn a watch. On days I forget to put it on I vaguely feel something is missing. I've never owned a smartphone. For quite a while I enjoyed having a "nice" (but not overly expensive) watch (I still own one from those days). Then I switched to wearing cheap sports watches for a long time. A few years ago I got a fairly nice (by my standards) Citizen "eco-drive" (light-sensitive, never needs winding) watch, which I prefer (in wet/rough conditions I go to a sports watch). It has large digits, which my aging eyes require . When the original leather band wore out I switched to an inexpensive nylon "NATO strap" watchband.

I've been listening to various versions of the Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor. This is a pretty good performance and cool video: