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Happy new year! 1. Nice groove, not a fan of the scatting. 2. Alto, tenor and bari pairing? Interesting. Overall a little forgettable. It’s got a TV theme styled head and comes across a tad corny. 3. Immediately reminds me of Junior Mance, specifically his work on Bee Hive. Bluesy but well done. Chicago style seems apparent too. Wish I knew who else to guess but no luck. 4. Late 60s style but not sure of when it was recorded, however it was recorded well. There’s some urgency in the pace but it seems mid tempo overall and that driving from the drummer and bass player is a nice aspect of this song. Great tune. 5. Sounds like a calypso song done jazz style, heavy on the piano. I’d guess Earl Hines. There’s a lot in that playing. Not sure at all on the trumpet player. Theatrics recall Dizzy but I’m thinking it’s someone else. 6. Nice track. Cecil Payne on bari? Love just about everything involved here. 7. Oh hell yeah. Love the organ intro and start here. Bluesy jazz guitar too. Wish I could place that guitarist. Another song that has it all. Fantastic track. 8. Very familiar song and I think I have this album but as it goes in BFTs I can’t make it out. 9. Ugh, same with this one. Totally recognizable. Really well done song with some prominent comping from the pianist. Hate I can’t recall who this is… 10. Art Pepper? Sounds like an alto anyway. 11. Walter Davis Jr? 12. Same organist as before? Like the combo. Recording quality is low but still not too intrusive as to prohibit enjoyment of the song. 13. This is the style of ballad I’m not all that fond of. The playing is good but they can’t escape the saccharine song feel. It’s an older sax playing style too. Maybe later Coleman Hawkins? He has saved some bad tunes before. Thanks for this BFT! Enjoyable all around and looking forward to spot on guesses and the reveal.

I’ll submit one.

Late here this month. Without reading other comments just yet: 1. Struggling to place the decade here - 50s or 60s, leaning 60s recoding. Definitely a danceable groove and fun song. 2. Sounds Tolliver-ish in arrangement. Familiar tune. Good playing but no guesses. 3. Monk-ish arrangement. Seems like a 70s group. Sax player is like Sam Rivers restrained a bit. Recording has the trombone sounding like a French horn in spots. 4. Lyrical playing from the pianist. Reminiscent of Tyner in a way. Overall arrangement makes me think of Corea as well. Not sure. The guitarist comes in at just the right moment. Song is like a cleaned up spiritual jazz style but the guitarist elevated it beyond mediocre. 5. Off broadway? Sounds like a show tune. 6. I like the intro. Sounds 70s as well. 2 saxes? First solo serves the song very well. My favorite song in this BFT so far. 7. Well, this is good too. Nice playing and definitely a groove. 8. Better than 7 and a similar style. 9. Interesting break and good timing for one. Kind of sounds like the Blackbyrds. 10. Tyner-ish opening. Pretty sure I’ve heard this song before. Not Tyner I don’t think bc there’s not enough notes being played. Interesting restraint in that regard. 11. Psych soul. Supreme visions of longtitude…ok! Definitely psychedelic lol. 12. Reminds me of 70s Hubbard. nice BFT man! Thanks for putting it together 👍

Ratings driven decision. I live in ACC country and folks are fit to be tied but Bama brings in viewers while FSU does not. It has almost nothing to do with putting the right teams in there.

Great exposure to records I’ve never listened to. Love that album cover shot of NYC.

Nice. I almost had it!

They really love reissuing Byrd records.

Well, 2 and 3 are gateways to more than 7 things. Not clicking the article as I don’t need to penetrate this is issue any deeper at the moment.

So My Reverie from Nucleus correct? Can anyone tell when Black Bird or Amaro is playing guitar here? Amped bass…disappointed I didn’t guess Cranshaw and then Sonny.

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For future reference and making sure this gets chronicled to some degree while I have the time, here are the individual album recs in order of appearance (duplicates omitted): Muhal Richard Abrams - Young At Heart/Wise In Time (A-side) Barry Harris - The Bird of Red & Gold Rene Urtreger - Onirica Rene Urtreger - Tentatives Richie Beirach - Breathing of Statues (CMP/Magenta) Sir Roland Hanna - Solo Piano: Free Spirit (Storyville) John Hicks - Hicks Time: Solo Piano (Passin' Thru) Andrew Hill - Hommage (East Wind) Earl Hines - Tour de Force (Black Lion) Keith Jarrett - Facing You (ECM) Enrico Pieranunzi - Perugia Suite (EGEA) Mal Waldron - Update (Soul Note) Randy Weston - Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening (Verve) Larry Wilis - This Time the Dream's On Me (HighNote) Thelonious Monk - Himself Sophie Agnel - Capsizing Moments (Emanem) Ran Blake - Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake Vols 1&2 (GM Recordings) Dave Burrell - Windward Passages (hat ART) Curtis Clark - Self Trait (FMP) Marilyn Crispell - For Coltrane (Leo) Andrew Hill - Mosaic Select Solo Chris McGregor - In His Good Time (Ogun) Thelonious Monk - Piano Solo (Vogue) Sal Mosca - Too Marvelous For Words (June '81, 5 Concerts from the Netherlands, Cadence) Michel Petrucciani - Live (Dreyfuss) Eve Risser - Des Pas Sur La Neige (Clean Feed) Irene Schweizer - First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern (Intakt) Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras (Thirsty Ear) Martial Solal - Bluesine (Soul Note) Sun Ra - Monorails & Satellites (Saturn) Cecil Taylor - Erzulie Maketh Scent (FMP) Pat Thomas - The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari (Otoroku) Keith Tippett - Musician III: August Air (FMP) Jessica Williams - All Alone (MaxxJazz) Larry Wilis - Solo Spirit (Mapleshade) Duke Ellington - At the Whitney Red Garland - Red Alone Red Garland - Alone with the Blues Duke Ellington - The Piano Player Andrew Hill - Live at Monreux McCoy Tyner - Echoes of a Friend Aki Takahashi - Piano Space Bud Powell - Solo, Feb '51 (Clef) Jelly Roll Morton - Solo, '40 (General) Abdullah Ibrahim - Fats, Duke & The Monk (Sackville) Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano Earl Hines - Plays Duke Ellington Weber Iago - Piano Masters Series Bill Evans - The Solo Sessions vol 1 Benny Green - Solo Geoff Keezer - Zero One Bernie Worrell - Elevation, The Upper Air Randy Weston - Blues to Africa Monk Alone- Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings '62-'68 Abdullah Ibrahim - Senzo Art Tatum - Solo Masterpieces vol 2 Thelonoius Monk - Solo in San Francisco Oscar Peterson - My Favorite Instrument Abdullah Ibrahim - African Magic Uri Caine - Moloch Mal Waldron - Meditations Mal Waldron - The Opening Michel Petrucciani - Au Theatre Champes-Elysees Don Pullen - Healing Force Don Pullen - Evidence of Things Unseen Andrew Hill - Faces of Hope Andrew Hill - Verona Rag Junior Mance - Jubilation Ray Bryant - Alone with the Blues Jimmy Yancey - Complete Recorded Works '39-'50, Vol 1 Gene Harris - Live at Maybeck Stanley Cowell - Live at Maybeck Dick Hyman - Live at Maybeck John Hicks - Live at Maybeck Joanne Brackeen - Live at Maybeck Andre Previn - Plays Harold Arlen Paul Bley - Play Blue, Oslo Concert Abdullah Ibrahim - Memories Dollar Brand - Ode to Duke Ellington Matthew Shipp - The Piano Equation Art Tatum - LA '56 Bud Powell - Strictly Confidential Willie "The Lion" Smith - The Original 14 Plus 2 '38-'39 (Commodore Classics) Amina Claudine Myers - Poems for Piano, The Piano Music of Marion Brown Willie "The Lion" Smith - The Memoirs of... Don Ewell - Take It In Stride Lennie Tristano - Tristano/Konitz/Marsh (Mosaic) Lennie Tristano - Personal Recordings (Mosaic) Lennie Tristano - Descent Into the Maelstrom (Jazz Records) Thelonious Monk - The London Collection, vol 1 Cecil Taylor - Indent Martial Solal - Nothing But the Piano Anthony Davis - Lady of the Mirrors Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fyi! Jaki Beard - To Them, To Us Masahiko Satoh - apostrophe Johnny Guarnieri - Echoes of Ellington Saki Papadimitriou - Piano Cellules Roger Kellaway - Live at Maybeck Bheki Mseleku - Meditations Georg Grawe - Gedachtnisspuren. San Francisco '95 John Wolf Brennan - The Well-Prepared Clavier John Law - The Hours Oskar Aichinger - Poemia Matthew Goodheart - Songs From the Time of Great Questioning Stephan Oliva - Jazz'n (E)Motion. Films Steve Kuhn - Jazz'n (E)Motion. Films Larry Karush - Art of the Improviser Misha Mengelberg - Solo Irene Schweizer - Chicago piano solo Burton Greene - Live at Grasland Antoine Herve - Inside. Piano. Solo. John Taylor - Insight Rob van den Broeck - Latinesque Paul Bley - About Time Martial Solal - Live at the Village Vanguard Cor Fuhler - MP Renato Sellani - Glad There Is You Enrico Pieranunzi - Autour De Martinu - Live at the Bird's Eye Agustí Fernandez - Mnemosyne's Labyrinth (From the River Tiger Fire 4-CD Set) Thollem - Obstacle Illusion Dave McKenna - Dave Fingers McKenna Cedar Walton - Blues for Myself (Red) Barry Harris - Solo (September) Lou Levy - By Myself (Verve) Hank Jones - Live at Maybeck Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - Anthem for the New Nations (Denon) Mulgrew Miller - Solo (Space Time) George Cables - Live at Maybeck Larry Willis - This Time the Dream's On Me (High Gate) Dodo Moroni - The Way I Am (Jazz Conaisseur) Mike Wofford - Live at Maybeck Horace Parlan - The Maestro (Steeplechase) Dave McKenna - My Friend the Piano (Concord) John Lewis - Piano, Paris '79 (Dreyfus) John Hicks - I Remember You (High Note) John Lewis - Private Concert Fats Waller - Piano Solos '29-'41 (Bluebird) Ken Werner - The Piano Music of Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, James P. Johnson Walter Davis, Jr. - In Walked Thelonious Nina Simone - And Piano! Jay McShann - Kansas City Hustle (Sackville) Mary Lou Williams - Nite Life Masabumi Kikuchi - Hanamichi Amazing stuff - thanks for all the recs 👍

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Never spent time with this one for some reason. Solo Monk and Alone in SF are the only solo records I've checked out from him. Love the recs so far. I definitely came to the right place 😎

In light of the new Hassan Ibn Ali archive release coming out, and the prior release of his solo work being so good, I wanted to get some recs on other great solo piano records. What are some of y’all’s favorites and do you have a top 5?

I saw this on Dateline I think, but I’m not actively following. Like you though I hope justice prevails for these people. Sickos man

I’m not a fan of Iverson’s blog or most of his writing but this was a solid article. Likely credit due to The Nation’s editor. Thanks for the link

Wow. Great band.

I now understand the Donald Byrd detractors. Never thought that would happen. Some really lovely tunes on this list. Thanks for compiling it! Much enjoyed.

3rd track was my favorite. Doesn’t usually bother me too much but the way the amped bass shades this excellent guitar work is my only criticism. Great playing all around though and love the song.

I don’t think so. Pretty well used by those in the 20-40 y/o demos

The jazz subreddit has unfortunately become pretty useless.

1. Some nice parts but overall I’m having a hard time getting into this song. Maybe a recording snafu but the sax sounds ethereal in places which is pretty cool. No guesses. Warming up to the track toward the end when things start coming together more. 2. Sounds Cuban. And sounds like a familiar standard but I can’t name it. I’m guessing a trombone on that first solo and wow is it understated. Arrangement comes across as Benny Goodman goes to Havana - or maybe Woody Herman. I don’t think it’s either one of them, but I think it’s possible they’re an influence on the bandleader. 3. Cheers to the bass player. They are holding it down serious. Tenor sounds close to Johnny Griffin. Trumpet reminds me of Hubbard and maybe on a bad day? There was a nice part to that solo but then it was like he got fenced in and just danced around for a bit. 4. Such a huge difference here as far as the bass player is concerned. Not that they’re bad here, but definitely a more languid approach and maybe the song calls for that. Song btw is kind of a good slow burner but then it peters out some. The kind of song that would really take off if Pharaoh Sanders was involved. 5. Maybe my favorite song so far. I like how they’re executing this idea. No guesses. 6. Sounds like a JMs song. Not sure though. This meanders and makes good background music. 7. I dig the cello(?). They and the guitarist play very well together. Maybe not David Darling…struggling to make a guess here. 8. I usually like songs like this so maybe it’s just me today. Not tracking with this one. 70s stuff with Rhodes and in need of an editor overall. Guitarist threatens to take this somewhere…Rhodes man steps in to help, but it dies with the bassist. No guesses. 9. This is like Jazz does Carnegie Hall or something like that. Props to the drummer. They’re the best thing here. 10. Cool little solo sax ditty. Nice song, no guesses. 11. Now this sounds like a JMs tune too. Better than 6 though. Pharoah-ish sax, at least a little toward the end of that solo. Love what the drums and bass are doing throughout. No guesses but this is a really good song. 12. Going out on the funk tip. Nice breakbeat. Cool song but I have no idea. Sorry, some of these takes are a bit harsh but that doesn’t indict any of these tracks as bad music. Just my first takes of each song. Will likely revisit. Definitely enjoyed the listen! Thanks for putting this together.

Didn’t put 2 & 2 together on geography there but definitely interesting and appropriate! also looking forward to the next season of this series.

Those lyrics are fantastic