seeline

No kidding! I've wondered about the cover art on the copy that I got, because... it's pretty awful.

It IS by Phillip Johnston. It is not Claire Daly on baritone. Now we need the song and album. seeline, you are a master at this game! I continue to be impressed with your knowledge. Between you and jeffcrom, the two of you have guessed most of the artists! It's the title track from Johnston's Normalology, which is yet another album that I regret selling. His compositions are really fun!

It IS by Phillip Johnston. It is not Claire Daly on baritone. Now we need the song and album. seeline, you are a master at this game! I continue to be impressed with your knowledge. Between you and jeffcrom, the two of you have guessed most of the artists! Ptah... I got a *lot* of the discs I've pegged as either promos or promo purchases. (The Koch Jazz people were exceedingly kind and generous when Donald Elfman was there, likewise the wonderful press person who was with Shanachie for so many years.) At any rate, your collection clearly has some things in common with mine.

I'd like to do one... y'all got me hooked now!

I'm in - will take a download, please!

Yes - to my way of thinking, he's a superb flutist. His tenor playing has never done much for me, though - tone and vibrato both are hard to listen to, imo. * HP, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Disc One, tk. 9 is something by Philip Johnston (ss), or at least, that he's playing... It has that vibe, a bit. (Though definitely not one of Forrester's projects, as you said earlier.) That's not Claire Daly on bari, by any chance, is it? (btw, I didn't realize that Johnston was living in Australia now - just checked his MySpace page.)

You lucky man (CD). I bet most of us have it on LP, if at all. (I held onto most of my IC vinyl for ages...) btw, Brother Ah is also very interested in Japanese music, and has recorded and performed with a D.C.-area koto player. That's the main reason that I threw his name out there, a while back... Edited to add: IIRC, Toshiko worked up Elusive Dream as an extended big-band piece (on Ten Gallon Shuffle, maybe?) that's much more complex than this recording would suggest... I was wrong about the album (and the piece...) - it's on Salted Gingko Nuts

Elusive Dream is the only other original on that album that it *might* be, I think...so that's my last guess. do you have the brand-new CD reissue, or did you rip this from vinyl? (Which is all I have...)

My copy's in storage, so I have no way of checking!!! "Autumn Sea," perhaps? Or "Night Nymph"? Damn, I came *this* close to saying it several times....

So... you only now admit that it *is* Lew Tabackin? After I kept saying, "sounds like.... but no"?! Edited to add: I think someone else suggested Tabackin, several pages back... and if this track actually *is* from his "Rites of Pan" (with Toshiko), I will be sick. Now. (My copy is in storage.)

Just because - Jorge Pardo with Chick Corea (although I don't think it's Pardo). Steve Wilson? Seldon Powell? Jerry Dodgion?

did I throw Ali Ryerson's name on the table yet? Or Anne Drummond's? (Though I doubt it's her.)

Harold McNair? Ronnie Laws? James Spaulding? Bennie Maupin with Kenny Barron? (I keep going back to Barron... and you already said this wasn't James Moody, I think...)

Jane Bunnett? Richard Egües? (Why do I have the distinct feeling that this is someone really famous who rarely - if ever - recorded on flute?)

It is not Leo Wright. I am learning more about jazz arists who recorded on flute, than I ever knew before. Well, you can blame some old "jazz flute" threads at AAJ (from 2004, maybe 2005) for that, although the Latin guys are another thing entirely... Pacheco led a charanga before he started singing lead, and he was good. Mauricio Smith recorded with Machito.

Leo Wright?

I've had that suspicion for quite some time now, actually. And I'm sure you're enjoying the prospect, Ptah! Edited to add: Super-wild guess, but here goes - Johnny Pacheco? Mauricio Smith? Paquito D'Rivera? Orlando "Maraca" Valle? Jose Fajardo? or - real outside chance: Nick Brignola? (Because he doubled on more reeds than most people would imagine possible, and did record at least one album with a flute track or two...) Or is it some weird one-off with the late Jean-Pierre Rampal?! (although I thought he only worked with people who played acoustic piano when he did crossover gigs...) Or maybe Mark Weinstein? Mary Fettig? Ray Pizzi? (C'mon, I'm getting desperate here!)

Nah, just being driven crazy by that track! Besides, Lateef and Kenny Barron did some duo work back in the 70s (says some site, courtesy of Google), so maybe if I keep mining that vein, I'll strike the right answer. (I wish. )

I knew that, too. Sahib Shihab? Yusef Lateef? (Though I really doubt it's him...) George Adams? (just pulling names out of the air here...)

I was kidding, HP!

I believe you! But I'm running out of options... My gut says it's really David Ganc or Brother Ah, regardless of who it really is!

Oh, he's still quite active, and plays flute now, too. (He actually wanted me to audition for him, years ago.) He's interested in jazz/"world music"-type fusions these days. Here's his site: http://www.brotherah.com/

Well, Brother Ah is my last guess... (Maybe my final one at that!)

Andrea Brachfeld? Elise Wood? Jimmy Heath? Frank Wess? And - my last gasp for tonight - Brother Ah (aka Robert Northern)? (Yet another D.C. fella.)

Gah!!!! I shall go bonkers if I keep this up! (ditto for that solo piano cut on disc one - it *should* be obvious, but it just isn't.) Of course, maybe I'm being fooled (by the Fender Rhodes) into thinking it's a 70s recording...