Dan Gould

I've noticed that frozen potatoes are hard to come by ... whether Ore-Ida or Publix brand. There was a handful of frozen fries and shredded potato but not Tot to be found. Otherwise no big gaps in the shelves when I go to the store.

I was never part of a Last Chance stampede, both because I relied on Christmas/birthdays for my Mosaic needs, and because I never considered sets I wasn't certain I wanted to hear.

True yet you're still ahead in Views.

Yes, Claytons. So which track might be the Claytons? For that matter, which is Singer? Which is Easley and Benny Waters?

Ok well I think that one place a thread shouldn't get derailed is BFTs. Can we stick with the question at hand? Brothers, not as young as the Hollydays, not old as the Heaths/Farmers/Jones/etc. This ain't rocket science and to give one more clue seems redonkelous.

No idea what their last names are but no.

Hey, I am in charge of hints on this thread. Kindly move your misdirection elsewhere.

Are those the Holtzmans?

Except it isn't. Everybody is thinking of "classic era" so here's your last hint when it comes to the brothers: More recent than classic era, not as recent as the Hollydays.

Sorry but this reminds me of the SNL bit with Elvis' Coat.

Looks like you gave some thought to some tracks, wish you had jumped in with a rundown of your reactions. BTW it's funny that we have the "didn't achieve heights of fame" brothers ID'd but still an oh-fer on the ones that toured the world and made fine records. And no one wants to figure out the Hal Singer track?

When you think about it, it's interesting that Novus didn't go for the brothers together, perhaps to match the Harper Brothers schtick. Richard is to me the more appealing player but I guess he stopped sometime after. As for his more famous brother, he makes it out that without Novus' backing (the label went out of business(?)), he didn't have the gigs so easily and found himself in academia.

Unfortunately, while you have identified arranger/composer and the singular reason I had to give the record a chance, you have not identified the correct recording. Mine says recorded 1980 and has ten tracks. Would you look at that hair and those faces? And per discogs, Medeski was almost ten years from his next recording.

And a little Discogs-ing would reveal if that track is one of the "brothers" tracks. Since you found that, might as well reveal the rest.

OK one more then, to help narrow it down. He had a burst of recordings then disappeared. He returned to recording recently - to some notice on this board. Yes track No. 3 is Johnny Board. Who was on an Argo record helmed by Sonny Stitt and Chuck Nessa had said that he once had plans, or at least a strong desire, to record him. I really wish he had given him the Eddie Johnson opportunity, maybe even more so because Eddie got a few other chances to record in his later years. For Board playing jazz, its pretty much the Stitt record, and this one.

I said musical, not physical DNA.

Last hint I have stored up is simply to amplify something said by a participant: on #6, Dub Modal's statement that " Sax player sounds similar to Jackie McLean " is spot-on. So who has Jackie McLean in his musical DNA?

<hand shoots up> No, it doesn't swing like crazy for me. That was intensely repetitive and boring as fuck, and I couldn't listen past the wordless (?) vocal around 5:00. I didn't really want to listen up to then but I had other tabs open. Tell me again how or even if this is different from disco? I continue to find it amazing that two professional musicians who I respect - Jim and Shrdlu - find this stuff of musical value. Not now, not ever. Have at it and love it to your hearts content.

I know its very early in the year but I am beginning to wonder if your friend will have a single entry that I will own or be curious about. I guess depending on when that presumably happens, I'll have an idea of the over/under for the rest of the year.

Password Hunt #2 for track No. 3: Chuck Nessa

Chalk #9 up to sidewinder. Here's a tune specific hint: #5 is on a West Coast label, and the leader is a West Coast composer/arranger, not on the record.

Nope. No Farmers are present on this BFT.

Yes, no, yes and yes. Dub Modal ID'd the location earlier, which contains a hint about the pianist.

Finally a successful hint (I knew that one had to do it). So, which track?

There is a track with a direct thru-line from Elvin Jones to Count Basie (thru a single artist).