Dan Gould

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).

I don't know who you are referencing but I know that no one close to that is on the comp. Password Hint #2 for track No. 3: Sonny Stitt.

No Adderleys. Also no combination of Elvin, Hank or Thad.

When I was ... I am guessing 13, that album popped off the radio like nothing I had ever heard, and certainly anything else on the radio at the same time. I think you can see why it took so long to find a label. It deserved the success it had and I wouldn't call Mr. Aday any sort of "mediocrity". Anything beyond that one album, I got no dog in that fight.

Thanks for posting, Tom.

That would be a neat brother team to program but no.

Not present.

Two tracks feature brothers, however only one pair went on to substantial acclaim.

Track 3 is not Budd Johnson.

My mother absolutely hated that ode to teenage lust until I made her recognize the entire story arc: teen age lust no commitment = no sex Extreme present-day unhappiness, because of that one decision in the moment.

Password Hint #1 for track No. 3: Argo.

Sad to hear, and my wife will be more upset when I tell her later this morning. Wasn't a huge fan but I did play the hell out of that first breakthrough LP. I also have to recall that there was a time when the NYT insisted on maintaining their stylebook and would refer to him as "Mr. Loaf" in articles, after establishing his full name, Meat Loaf. Gave me a chuckle but I guess they have relaxed that at some point, the current obit sticks with "Meat Loaf".

Another hint: Hal Singer was guessed by one person but on the wrong track. He is in fact on this compilation.

OK so let's start the hints by pointing out that jsngrey used Shazam to ID Bill Easley and Benny Waters. I would think anyone could ID track #s and with a little bit of time perusing discogs, give full info. (OK not really a hint, but an invite to complete the hack and finish the IDs.)

Isn't WG a commercial concern? Why would they offer less marketable artists, poor recordings or a lot of incomplete takes? Wolfgang's is better than any academic setting where you access only in person, and only with the secret handshake, but by how much? In the end, and this may distress you, but the tapes are in the hands of whoever, including Zev. Zev/Cory Weeds/ Resonance/Blue Note - is there a worse outcome than some regular reissue of what they choose from whatever they have? Yeah, old, decrepit tapes that you never ever hear because they end up in a bag in the front yard of someone's estate sale, and then pitched for lack of a buyer. Things could be better, and they could also be worse.

I thought the joke worked better if most are hopeless nerds, and then there are the few who can find and keep a girl/boy friend.