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This has been the most FUN BFT so far. With a lot of familiar musicians but also a lot of blind spots. It will be a pleasure to wait for the full answers list. And start making purchases The BFT started in the right mood: 1- (to repeat myself) track 6 from this album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3src282y056a The pianist and the tenorsax player made the identification easy. This is the jazziest version of that classic! 2- not really the type of music I love best but had fun with this one. I am afraid I have no idea who plays here. 3- a very nice mysterious track. Do I recognize Jess Stacy on piano? 4- the sax section seems to be playing a Benny Carter arrangement. Could not trace the album for this one right away but it is track 9 from this album: http://www.djangomusic.com/item_music.asp?...sid=&mediatype= 5- Bird in flight in Europe. Track 5: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Charlie%20Park...HNsawNtdXNpYw-- 6- This is our Prez, no doubt. Playing 'Don't be That way'! Never heard that one. It is not listed in any of the discographies I have. The mystery track! Love it! 7- Although the piano player's touch was familiar it was the drummer (and bandleader) who gave that away. I have that LP somewhere but could not lay my hands on it. Not really sure of the track but I would say number 2 from this wonderful album: http://wwwp.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=1104426 8- a very classic sound and a classic tune by this unit. I did not have time to identify the exact concert this was part of, but it's the tune on tracks 9 or 13 from this album: http://www.walhello.info/charlie+christian+volume+2.html 9- sound on that one was awful. Where did Milan pick this up. I have a couple of editions of these broadcasts that sound way better. Yeah! Man! That broadcast: http://www.walhello.info/count+basie+count...s+door+nyc.html Superb Prez and Clayton! 10- drew a blank on this. Like it! Probably BG! 11- another classic that I love (and one more great clarinet player). Track 18: http://swingera.net/plimage12.html 12- gave up trying to identify the exact broadcast date of that brotherly classic. One of the best rendering of this tune, 13- another intriguing track. Berman language that went that away. Will look for this version after the answers are posted... 14- liked that big band boogie but have no idea who plays here 15- my favorite singer. Thanks Milan for including him here. Track 6 (great Maggie behind the singer): http://wwwp.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=402478 16- another favorite. A rare issue. Track 9: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpu1z85a1yv5 17- could not identify that one. I am sure I know those players. Hope I will not be too embarassed when the answers are posted! 18- the tune was familiar so was the sound of the tenorsax player. Know it's not that exact recording from this band but the tune is track 17 of that Classics: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d06htr6qkl4x 19- another great sax player, playing music from a film masterpiece. It's Illinois Jacquet. Did not have time enough to identify the exact recording, 20- had no problem identifying that one at first. Hey, wait a second DG is not playing there. Turns out to be the second great version of this. Track 13: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9lamqj7iojha 21- the singer was identifiable but I could not find that song in her discography. Had to look hard to find it (I don't have that one and it's the first time I hear this song). Track 21: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4gq5g4jntv2z 22- Another great one. And a familar one. Track 9: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ebfxlfwekcqw And another classic interpretation and arrangement! 23- the tune is familiar but not the singer. Not really sure I like that one 24- a Basie live track to end this wonderful set. Will have to look for that one too!

I'll post impressions - and some answers - tomorrow morning. Need some more time to check a couple of tracks. But that track 1 that sends the BFT in the right mood is track 6 from this CD: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3src282y056a Milan, I have a problem with your track 6. The favorite musician of both of us but I have no idea where you picked this up

Who had the bad idea of adding a spoiler to that Seat Toledo? The spoiler spoils it Damn good car! I have owned one of those (a dark green one) for four years now!

I know now

I listened a while back to a Japanese vinyl copy of 'All About Urbie Green and his Big Band'. Some of my favorite musicians (Joe Wilder, Hal McKusick, Al Cohn, Dave McKenna among others) are featured. Thought the album was a bit on the easy-listening side. Seems that at that time Urbie Green was trying to form a big band that would play jazz-oriented dance music and was talking with Willard Alexander about it. Carisi probably had to work within pretty severe limitations for that album. Only part of the LP is really interesting ('Little John' and 'Springville' are among those items). John Carisi solos on trumpet on a couple of tracks, including a pretty straight solo on 'Stella by Starlight'.

Merci, Bertrand! Never would have imagined! Did Joel use any of Tristano's associates (Konitz? Marsh?) on his recordings?

And it's about time... From the Miami Herald today:

Does it show anywhere?!?

Donald 'Duck' Dunn! OK he is not really jazz but I don't think electric bass and jazz mix that well! And I wish many jazz bands would swing as much as Booker T and the MGs!

Don't care much for electric piano. Wish Paul Bley would play more of it but I won't blame him for sticking mostly to the plain (and glorious) piano. One pianist who has explored interesting areas in the electric piano field is Gordon Beck. He gets my vote!

Very sad news! This must have been a heartbreaker for Sonny Rollins...

The only Doyle I have is the live trio date with Sonny Murray and Bent Frippe Nordstrom that was released on Ayler Records. Took a couple of listening to really get into Doyle's playing! I like it now.

Coleman Hawkins also played at the October 1962 Memorial Concert for Eddie Costa at the Village Gate. Part of the concert was released on the Colpix album 'The Eddie Costa Memorial Concert'.

Preferred Ron Carter remains his debut album 'Where?' on New Jazz. Because of Eric Dolphy!

Subscribers to The Wire magazine gedt a free double CD (The Wire Tapper 12) along with the December issue that includes 'Flowers for Albert', a four-minute track from a concert that will be included in the Ayler release. 'Wire' magazine says the Henry Grimes trio is made up of Newman Taylor Baker on drums and Andrew Lamb on sax and flute. No flute is heard on that track!

Weizen, that outdoor exhibition got its start in Paris back in 2000. The photos were shown around the gates of the Palais du Luxembourg just off the Boulevard Saint-Michel. It drew a crowd. The photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand - and his editor - made a fortune out of those photos. Many of the photos were stunners!

The Complete BN Recordings of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. This was in the first batch of sets I ordered from Mosaic couple of decades ago. And still one of the most enjoyable of them all

I have never bothered to get any of the Penguin Jazz on CD books yet! I was thinking of getting the 7th edition and was about to order. But there was a copy at a bookstore I went to this morning and had a quick glance. Looks all right but I did a quick search of some favorites and found nothing on Charles Tyler, Joel Futterman or Bob Dorough. Is this really the best reference book on the subject? Not really sure I am going to order it...

French? Spanish? Old german? Old dutch? Doesn't make a difference these days... It's all Old Europe by now

Jimmy Lyons 'Push Pull' (Hat Hut)

You're such a chauvinist Brownie I think brownie merely pointed at the internal inconsistency of the french language with respect to this word. No, I think he's just got the derivation wrong - not every word comes from France. This word, as it's being used here, comes from Spanish. Does the "illa" suffix mean anything in French? While recognizing the french and spanish have a common source, I was merely pointing out that the anglosaxon spelling of this word comes from the spanish which is where the word comes from-and is therefore spelled quite correctly. And now here comes skeith who seems to be on a crusade of his own and is more and more on the lookout for confrontations Actually, the French word 'guerre' comes from ancient German as this specialist site - in French - indicates: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/langueXIX/dg/08_t1-2.htm And I have been around long enough to know that a guerrillero is somebody who joins the guerrilla! Guerrilla is what I wrote and it was what I meant! You want to stage a guerrilla about that? And next time you pick up from Wikipedia as you did to give a spanish origin to 'guerre', just indicate your source. Don't think Wikipedia is the ultimate reference.

Love that one. Superb versions of 'Body and Soul' and 'Blue and Green'. The Warner Brothers album 'We Will Meet Again' with Larry Schneider - again - and Tom Harrell is beautiful, too!

Guerrilla is the way the anglo-saxon spell this word. It derives from the french word Guerre (War). But the French spell it Guerilla

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Bet the CD that is available at Cadence is the previous Hat reissue! The new one is also announced for January 2005 at Amazon.fr: