Joe

Fingers crossed this all works out. I would argue that Bandcamp isn't just something that's nice to have. We — anyone who loves music — need it and the alternative it provides to the big streaming services.

Interesting compared to what? JK; I very much feel invited to openness w/r/t to this release.

I love that they got help this weekend from Bobby Witt Jr. Shades of historic Rangers line-up volatility!

The Ellinson Girl The Boy In The Plastic Bubble The Children of Sanchez

José Carioca Panchito Pistoles Donald Duck

Confirmed!

Trust me: I am not above obviousness!

Thanks so much for the play-by-play! I will be very curious to read reactions to the reveal on #1. I like #2 as well (with reservations about the drummer). The performance may not feature a lot of improvisation per se, but I understand what the keyboardist is doing as an extension of what an earlier generation of B3 players like Shirley Scott did with timbre/tone color. Damn straight about the drummer on #3. #7: "And overall you can hear they're having a blast." Thanks to YouTube, you can see that they're having a blast, too. (Link to be provided with the reveal.) The pianist on #10 has not been ID'ed, but they're a pretty major figure (IMO, anyway). Double trombones feature on #12, which dies suggest Sun Ra. But it's not!

Nope, not Tommy Tedesco. Less Hollywood, more South Central.

Thank you Thom! Gotta trust your ears on track 3. I think I am in the same boat with you w/r/t the tenor player. The pianist on 4 is, if not household name, a highly regarded player. Still alive, too, and still putting out records. Not George Duke on 7, but, now that you mention it, I hear that "thing" too. Griffin is an interesting reference point for 9. There is a universe in which there are less than 6 degrees of separation between JG and this player. The common factor is another bandleader. Bingo on the alto on 10. 13: "Barry Harris school" for sure. And I agree: its about the composition and its subtle departures from bop orthodoxy.

This is a record that might (pleasantly) surprise folks who know Cooper only from his 50s work.

Nice documentation of Bob Cooper's under-appreciated evolution.

Roswell Rudd's notes to the Mosaic Herbie Nichols set are some of the best I've ever read. I also find it hard to think about my experience of Tina Brooks' and Freddie Redd's music without recalling what is was like to read the booklets included with their Mosaic sets for the first time. TBH, I was hoping for more from the notes to the recent Tristano set.

Lovely, IMO, but maybe too chill for some

Yosuke Yamashita New York Trio (w/ Cecil McBee and Pheeroan akLaff), 30 Light-Years Floating

There's "the rub" in some sense. But "worth the price of admission," as "they" "say."

Seconded!

I will definitely have more to say about 3!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Of course, you nailed a handful of these. (And you are correct about the instrument in the mix on 11.) I think you might kick yourself (figuratively) upon the reveal for 9. 2 might surprise you as well... we'll see. In retrospect, I hear how much of this BFT is about the drummers. 2, 3 , 5, 6, 7, even 10 and 13 all hinge majorly on what the drummer's doing, or holding back from doing, or not doing. But I didn't really plan it that way. On only one of these tracks is the dummer is the bandleader.

Different coast.

It's funny. Some June Christy (then, Chris Connor) came up on the mix I was playing in the car last week, and I thought to myself, "Well, here's a vocal style — an American vernacular, even — that's basically become a fossil." I guess I was wrong [?]. Eager to explore what this artist is all about.

I couldn't agree more. Thanks for these observations!