Dan Gould

I had no idea who he was then or now but I am glad you are impressed with the combo. In all honesty I think I bought the sandstrom cd because of the first title, hankenstein. I figured any disc with a presumed tribute to mobes wouldn't disappoint.

Thanks to all who participated. I know I said this last year but its really, really likely this is it for me. I can see the rest of this year already and it will involve little or no money for new purchases and severely restricted time for listening. That's not conducive to my style of preparing a BFT. TRACK 1 All info is in the youtube comments. I stumbled across this on the site and liked the performance enough, and the electric bass was a nice fake out for a Gould BFT. Not terribly popular though. TRACK 2 "Song for My Father" https://www.discogs.com/Philippe-Lejeune-Chicago-Non-Stop/release/13163864 Pianist is a young (at the time) boogie-woogie acolyte. I thought he had a distinctly Silverian percussive flavor on this but the star of the cut and the CD is Eddie Johnson on tenor. I see Discogs has a copy for about $17. I hope someone gets it. Johnson is on 75% of the cuts, too. It's all good to great. TRACK 3 "Sister Sadie" https://www.discogs.com/Nat-Pierce-Orchestra-The-Ballad-Of-Jazz-Street/release/5568090 Very interesting record, this is off the CD release but I am linking to the LP for info on sidemen. Side 1 is Basie/Herman while side 2 is very much more Ellingtonian. TRACK 4 "Thing's Ain't ..." https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Watson-The-Year-Of-The-Rabbit/release/12143364 I thought this would be a good BFT track as most wouldn't think Watson on a Rabbit-associated tune. A lot of people thought this was the real deal, and Bill got Mr. Watson only since he's heard him about 200 times. TRACK 5 "Scuffle in the Wardrobe" https://www.discogs.com/Al-Casey-George-Kelly-4-With-Fessors-Session-Boys-Christopher-Columbus/release/14250168 The only disappointment in this never-issued on CD Storyville release was that Casey plays side 1 and Kelly plays side 2. I'd have preferred more, at least from George Kelly. TRACK 6 "Whirly Twirly" https://www.discogs.com/Frank-Vignola-Appel-Direct/release/12453971 Bought this for Junior Mance and Billy Mitchell but unfortunately they don't play on every track. But I had a feeling folks would dig the tuba on this Billy Mitchell composition. TRACK 7 "Georgie" https://www.discogs.com/Nisse-Sandstr%C3%B6m-Quintet-Live-At-Crescendo/release/14659369 The most popular cut of all. I discovered Nisse Sandstrom in my travels thru the Horace Parlan credits section of discogs (there's a fantastic tribute to Pres on Phontastic if anyone sees it they should get it.) So this turns out to be the aged Swede surrounded by much younger Europeans who everybody thought were much older and they definitely kicked ass. Don't ask me which is which on the tenor trade offs that start the tune. TRACK 8 "Gettin in The Groove" https://www.discogs.com/Rusty-Bryant-Rusty-Rides-Again-/release/8763938 1980 release on Phoenix Records, reissued by Highnote with an extra track (this is from the LP, I paid like $2 for it). Rusty with a group of Columbus OH cats. I like it a lot more than most did. TRACK 9 "Little Sunflower" https://www.discogs.com/Bobby-Floyd-Interpretations-/release/12447316 I particularly enjoyed the pianist on the Bryant LP which led me to find his one solo LP. It's nice but google and Amazon indicate that eventually he went into academia and also switched to organ. I didn't find the samples on Amazon terribly impressive he should have stuck with piano IMHO. TRACK 10 "Sippin' at Bells" https://www.discogs.com/Spike-Robinson-Al-Cohn-Quintet-Henry-B-Meets-Alvin-G-Once-In-A-Wild/release/6968706 I didn't ask but I was guessing that Sangrey figured this out by identifying Cohn and hitting the discogs. Anyway late Al is terrific Al, and I've enjoyed Spike Robinson on a couple of CDs with Sweets so I went for this one. Otherwise I would have had a track from Cohn's Rifftide CD which has been pimped on the O in the recent past. TRACK 11 "Tin Tin Deo" https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Criss-with-Georges-Arvanitas-Trio-Live-In-Italy/release/11194945 I think everybody liked this and I can't recommend the CD enough. Honestly I've never heard Criss sound this soulful. TRACK 12 "Well You Needn't" https://www.discogs.com/Herb-Geller-Hot-House/release/3370032 Herb Geller, with a European rhythm section. I tried a Herb Geller track last time, not much of a hit. I got this LP in the past year, killed myself to make it listenable and ... only Tim liked it. Mileage, I guess. I really dug the pianist on this track. TRACK 13 "Honky Tonk" Sammy Price, spoken intro (1987 Bern Jazz Fest) Percy France, tenor saxophone, Cliff Smalls, piano Oliver Jackson, drums Leonard Gaskin, bass (Limoges, France, February 8 1982) A little misdirection, Sammy Price's tongue in cheek intro was used into the same tune for Percy's feature at the 1987 Bern Jazz Fest, but I decided that I liked this performance a little better. For those familiar, this performance took place the winter before The Oliver Jackson Black & Blue recording that featured Percy. I don't know if the tour was a test run to convince Black & Blue to do the recording that took place September 1982. The band also toured Europe the winter after the record was released to promote it. TRACK 14 "Easy Living" Percy France, tenor saxophone w Skinny Burgan (bass) Bob Neloms (piano) Sir John Godfrey (drums) Music courtesy of Allen Lowe, recorded in New Jersey circa 1980. A year ago I stated in my last BFT reveal that everybody needs more Percy France. I believe that now more than ever, as just about this time last year I decided to undertake a project to collate and collect every known Percy France recording. I didn't think I'd still be working on it a year later but God I love everything Percy recorded, and this ballad stands with any ballad performance in the history of the music. This is some deep shit. (Some day I will be posting about the results of this research which will at some point be memorialized on a blog. But first I have to get the Smithsonian to be a little more responsive. Oh, and cash. I need more.)

Thanks for participating Tim. Judging from your comments on other BFTs wasn't sure, if you did participate, if you'd find much to like. But your ears are as big as Thom's and I'm glad that there are some players that struck your fancy.

I anticipate posting the reveal Thursday night so if there's anything left to say now is the time as a famous song says.

Thanks for your comments - none of your guesses are accurate and you may be surprised if you've read thru the comments as there are hardly any unidentified tracks left. On track 1 I was surprised at the thought of being played to a rhythm track, and you'll understand when you see - quite literally - the reveal. So five days to go and we have these orphans left if anyone is concerned: 1. This was not intended as something anyone would know or would be likely to figure out, unless they follow the same path I did to discover it. 2. Pianist not well known, tenor much more likely to be recognized. And why is it that so few people can summon "Song for My Father" from the depths of their memory? If I gave a hint on the tenor it would give it away and I don't feel like doing that for this track. 5. Famous tenor soloist, not so famous backing. BillF. had it backwards when he mentioned Brit vs genuine article in his comments. 6. Maybe the tuba is throwing people off the scent of the studio sound which might help or might not in the identification? Guitarist's record. 7. There are no clues I could give but I am certainly glad this is so popular. 8. Famous tenor. My hint is that it had two separate releases on different labels, LP and CD era. 9. If you figure out 8 you can get 9. 12. It won't help but here's a hint: American soloist/European trio record.

Indeed - Jimmy Heath's passing has had me going back to the December 2014 concert featuring Heath, Benny and Javon Jackson. Very glad that I can say I saw both of those legends. Here's hoping Benny is with us quite a bit longer.

The other reason I picked that cut was for Mulgrew being the other soloist.

Sounds about right though the question to me is, does the ID sound about what? Surprising, obvious or just a decent selection for a BFT? Any interest in the rest of the record as there was for the Nat Pierce?

Pretty good for minimal thoughts. It is Bobby Watson and you've knocked off one of the few surprises left for the reveal. I imagine someone like Jim S. will do some sleuthing and figure out the Watson recording. He's got 8 days to get to it.

Does this go here? Walker in HoF, Schilling seemingly on doorstep, and Jeter misses unanimity by 1 blessed vote. I for one love the possibility that all those years of "past a diving Jeter" - especially the many years he should have gracefully bowed out from being a SS but refused due to his ego, might have been what cost him the unanimous vote he would otherwise have deserved.

Damn.

Don't quite understand it. and she works for Wood TV too.

Composed by Percy France. And more on topic, in 'merican: you are a musician. This is your forum > Musician's Forum

Six, for six decades.

Well that's a good result from this BFT - the introduction of previously unknown or mostly unknown artists.

Good for you Tom. Maybe you'll find time to peruse the January 2020 Blindfold Test.

I didn't think he was booted I thought he declared he was leaving in solidarity with Paul Secor, during that unfortunate contretemps. And to my surprise he stuck with it.

Ah that kind of math. thought you were talking about the musical kind.

Not Red, but like Jim, you're in the general vicinity, era-wise. Well a lot of the regulars have checked in already so this may be a slow slog thru the rest of January, but I'm glad I had a lot of hits with Jim and Thom ... and some still interesting reveals left.

What makes it extra interesting is that side 2 brings out Ellingtonian stuff I didn't expect from Pierce. The record deserves a lot more notice than it probably has gotten - and it was recorded in 1961 but not released until 1997 from what I can tell.

I figured you'd have gotten it first.

Not Bubba but the era is right. Good that you moved back to Gonsalves as he is on tenor. This is a real interesting record, many choices to program, I went with the Horace track to keep the "BN/hardbop standards groove going ... which also allowed me to segue to ... I thought you might get this but no, and I think the reveal may surprise a few people. Well perhaps almost but no. This is more "after the fact" - I thought the tuba would catch people's ear. Not the leader though if anyone is wondering. If the players read this post, one would surely appreciate being called "grownass". Oh and edit to add not Billy. Yeah, not Durham on drums and not Concordian though that may be the perception. This is a major tenor player. Very well done. And again. Indeed. Had no idea that Allen had posted track 14 but to me it is a thing of wondrous beauty, comparable to any ballad performance in the history of the music, up to and including Hawk's "Body and Soul". And preceding it is Percy doing his other Percy thing, playing the snot out of the blues. I wonder if his career would have been any different if he was the tenor instead of Clifford Scott. Thanks, as always, for your insightful thoughts Jim.

Have you considered posting a link here noting what new recording was added? I have bookmarked your blog but bookmarks don't always stay front and center in my mind. You may drive more traffic if you post here, day by day.