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Tony Coe's Axel "What Say We Play Today?" Recorded live in '77 at the Camden Jazz Festival in London. Four gloriously long tracks that are a great listen. https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/what-say-we-play-today

Oh yeah, Off to the Races is a great tune. Hadn't heard the L'Olympia version before. It's a treat to listen to these guys live.

Nice. Thanks for the word.

I sure as hell wasn't sleuthing that out. Well done @cayetano

Sleuthed track 9. Just went with the very few current-day clarinetists I could think of and hit pay dirt. It's track 4 from this album. This one rewards repeated listens as well.

I have and enjoy that Verve 2-fer. Have you gotten any of the Resonance sets? I have the Indiana Avenue one, and those liners were great. Basically, Wes barely slept. Worked full time at a factory and then played at night into the early hours of the next day.

Yeah, that seems out of the ordinary. I don't know much about Ponomarev but this was between his stint with Art Blakey and his first solo record. Wonder how he connected with Marsh?

Discogs pics have a description of what this references:

The Marsh is from this one. Personnel includes Curtis Boyd, Steve LaSpina and Valery Ponomarev Per the search there were only a couple of the live sets with a trumpet player so that helped.

I like the way you set this BFT up. It helps amateurs like myself track down these songs.

Ha, my bad. Outtake is the wrong word. "Taken from" would be a better choice. With Willis Jackson ID'd, I found track 8. It's track 6 from this album. And you were totally correct about the B3 player. I've never heard of him.

It ran like a play to me, basically being a one-room set for most of the film. I thought that was weird and it took me out of it unfortunately. Some great performances but low on my list for QT films. This however, was incredible. Eggers is one of my favorite directors and I make sure to catch all of his films.

To add the label in question, Sam Records, is - AFAIK, a small business. Basically a guy with a business model to release quality LPs that jazz loving vinyl buyers are looking for. I don't think he's aligned with any major labels and again, AFAIK, isn't breaking any laws. Some of his LPs aren't up my alley personally, but some are and the ones I've gotten are fantastic and great listens. Hope you come back more often 🍻

Is track 4 an outtake from the Phil Schaap collection? By sheer coincidence I started listening to a Marsh Quartet recording there yesterday (having no idea it was Marsh on this BFT) and while there's no trumpet on the one I'm listening to, the recording itself sounds similar.

Famously, at least to me, hanging on the wall behind Tobin Bell in an episode of Seinfeld

Awesome info. Thanks for shining a light on that. I didn't know about O'Brien or this label at all. Great find @JSngry

Milt Buckner on track 8?

Listening to Thanksgiving now. Tom Harrell involved as player and arranger. Best I've listened to so far. Breakbeat alert: Found another winner on You're Not Elected

Interestingly enough the Breckers are on both the AWB Pick up the Pieces and the Sanborn track.

Now I get it. This is the Griff & Lock track, only it's not on the expanded Griff & Lock CD I have. It's from Tough Tenors, a different album all together. So Junior Mance on piano and the Monk quartet members Gales and Riley. And the Sanborn was easy enough to sleuth. First track from this. It's got to be how his saxophone was processed in the recording because it gives off an electric tone at times. So that makes track 10 sleuth-able as well. First track from this. Sammy Figueroa on congas was all that I could find regarding other personnel. Discogs is pretty scant on details about this album.

Great stuff. Listening to the show with Etta Jones and loving it. Billy has a natural interview style that works so well.

That pic cracks me up. Guaraldi must have been a character

Sanborn was nowhere on my radar for track 2. Nice work @felser Once the track is ID'd, the recording date vs AWB's Pick up the Pieces will be interesting

Happy new year! 1 - Old school style on the tenor sax. Great tone and playing. Is it the Stitt/Gonsalves duo on Impulse? Was thinking someone like Hank Jones on keys so this kind of makes sense but it's a wild guess. 2 - Average White Band? It's not Pick Up the Pieces but damn, sounds a whole lot like it. If it's not them, then I'm guessing Eddie Harris. 3 - Jam session? The sax honks in the intro are entertaining. Off time and totally random sounding, like someone's fucking around and having fun. Bluesy as hell. Is Earl Bostic involved? 4 - No idea. The recording has the rhythm section a bit buried - there's drums back there somewhere but I can barely make them out. 5 - Coming up with no ideas here. The sax has some Webster-ish style, but I think this was recorded way later than Ben's day. tough one for me. 6 - Dipping way into the blues well again, and I'm loving the slow tempo. Roland Hanna? No idea on sax or elsewhere. At this point I'm realizing that whatever the obvious song is I'm going to miss the hell out of it. 7 - Oh, this must be it. Of course I can't name it but it's really familiar. At the risk of embarrassment, is it Johnny Griffin and Jaws? Whoever it is, it's my favorite track so far of this BFT. 8 - Here we go with some B3. Nice. Love the guitar as well. Well done by whoever's playing. Reverb is present. I can't tell who this is. Wild Bill on organ? 9 - All right, some clarinet. Art Pepper? Having a hard time making a judgement of when this was recorded. 10 - Going out with a bang here. Ronnie Laws maybe? Thanks for putting this together. Enjoyable listen.

Indeed. Happy new year everyone!