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  2. Blindfold Test #128: The Reveal

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    MG, it was Grover Washington, Jr. on #14.

    Sorry, I had a bear of a time getting the board software to cooperate with me last night. I had images for the whole second half, but some image extension wasn't allowed on ONE image so the board software refused the WHOLE post, and wouldn't tell me WHICH image was bad.


    Thanks for your thoughtful responses! It's funny how context can really throw you off on a BFT. I've had the experience many times of not being able to identify tracks which are already part of my collection.


    Not sure who might have been left off #24 due to the edit. I cut and paste all the info from discography sites. I think it's intriguing enough to want to hear the whole thing!

  3. Blindfold Test #128: The Reveal

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    11. Carmen McRae "Speak Low" American Popular Song Disc 4

    Jack Plies Orchestra, Personnel Unknown

    Recorded 12/16/55

    Another box set I picked up in order to explore the swing era and music prior to my usual focus (small instrumental ensembles, early 60s to early 70s). Carmen I had heard on some of her 60s dates, so I was intrigued to hear her in this context, doing one of my favorite standards.

    12. Idris Muhammad "Wander" Black Rhythm Revolution

    Bummed this wouldn't play for Hardbopjazz. It's an outstanding song. Here's a youtube link so you can hear it if you haven't yet, HBJ.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuIiKVwd-8

    This epitomizes what I love best in jazz. The theme is infectious. The solos are compelling. The rhythm is complex and driving. It's masterful.

    13. The Mitchell-Ruff Trio "The Catbird Seat" The Catbird Seat

    Piano: Dwike Mitchell

    Bass: Willie Ruff

    Drums: Charlie Smith

    Recorded 1961

    One I've enjoyed on a 32 Jazz compilation for some time, but haven't gotten around to exploring the actual album. Joel Dorn was really providing a service with that reissue label. I loved the low prices for high quality music, even if the graphic design and presentation left a lot to be desired. Anyway, hip little track by musicians I thought folks might confuse for others or be confounded by.

    14. David Matthews "Sandworms" Dune

    I got a bunch of laughs at the reactions to this hunk of cheese. I love about the first 15-20 seconds of this, and then I skip it. That opening bass line is killer to me. But yeah, it's corny. If only someone could work the theme of this like Idris Muhammad did "Wander…"

    15. DB Shrier Quartet "East" Emerges

    Recorded April 1967

    Enjoyed the hell out of this on a Gilles Peterson compilation and thought it might really stump listeners as to who it might be.

    16. Stanley Cowell, Stanley Clarke, Jimmy Hopps "Miss Viki" Illusion Suite

    Piano: Stanley Cowell

    Bass: Stanley Clarke

    Drums: Jimmy Hopps

    Recorded 1973

    I like Stanley Cowell, but I have to agree with the overall impression that this feels…incomplete or not fully realized. I still like the mood it conveys. Perhaps hastily recorded or under-rehearsed?

    17. Cedar Walton "Mode For Joe" Eastern Rebellion

    Most nailed this classic. Phenomenal. Although I am squarely in the camp that loves Joe's original best. Hey, c'mon. It's Joe.

    18. The Heath Brothers + Brass Choir "Voice Of The Saxophone" In Motion

    Trombone: Wayne Andre

    Drums: Keith Copeland

    Piano: Stanley Cowell

    French Horn: Joseph DeAngelis

    Bass Trombone: Paul Faulise

    Bass: Percy Heath

    Flute, Alto Sax: Jimmy Heath

    Tuba: Howard Johnson

    Trumpet: Irvin "Marky" Markovitz

    Guitar: Tony Purrone

    Recorded 1979

    Another that really toes the line for how smooth I'll actually go, so I thought it might rankle some feathers but still endear itself to others. Also intriguing for me as it was sampled to great effect on the DJ Shadow album Endtroducing.

    19. Moses Dillard & His Tex-Town Display "Tribute To Wes" NOW!

    I love Wes. And I love this tribute. I'll shop there. My bag. Funky as all get out.

    20. Sunny Ade & His African Beats "Ja Fun Mi (Instrumental)" Nigeria 70 Vol. 1

    Truth be told, I had no idea this was a remix. I thought it just was what it was.

    21. Maceo & All The King's Men "I Remember Mr. Banks" Doing Their Own Thing

    I can always go back to James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, and in this case Maceo doing his own thing. This album is so funking good. Maceo in peak form, and striking a rare melancholy vibe on this one. I love this with all my being.

    22. Eddy Senay "Cameo" Step By Step

    Recorded 1972

    Sounds like an Isaac Hayes or Curtis Mayfield instrumental soundtrack number that somehow supersedes everything expected of that scenario (much like those guys often did). I love this groove and the refrain grabs me every time. Just an odd something I wanted to share.

    23. Johnny Lytle "Blues To Be There" Fast Hands

    Drums: Greg Bandy

    Organ: David Braham

    Congas, Percussion: Lawrence Killian

    Guitar: Melvin Sparks

    Bass: Peter Martin Weiss

    Vibes: Johnny Lytle

    Tenor Sax: Houston Person

    Recorded 1980

    Threw this mellow ditty on there since I thought it might be tough to spot, but I didn't count on you guys being able to spot Houston Person without hardly batting an eye! Anyway, another I owe my exposure to the 32 Jazz label.

    24. Harry Whitaker "Black Renaissance" Black Renaissance

    Recorded January 15, 1976

    I thought this one would be a little better received. I really dig it.

    25. Mildred Bailey With Red Norvo & His Orchestra "Smoke Dreams" Swing That Music Disc 1

    26. Elmo & Bertha Hope "Blues Left & Right" Hope-Full

    Elmo and his wife tickling the ivories together. I was scouring my shelves, came across this, and did a wicked villain laugh thinking I'd confuse the hell out everybody with this unusual pairing. Not even really all that familiar with the song, or fond of it, and it didn't fool everybody!

    27. Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson "Find A Way"

    What's interesting here is that this is a jazzy (jazz-ish? jazz attempt?) at a hip hop song. So this was a melody and song that was the result of a sample, which was then nearly transformed back into a jazzy instrumental. Though I have to agree that they dropped the ball and didn't really do anything with it. And that's really all that's happened with any of this sort of thing. C'est la vie.

    28. Vin Gordon "The Message" Dubstrumentals

    OK, so I love this trombone. And it can just do that simple thing it's doing here. It feels *tough* to me, similar to what I get from surf guitar songs or funk 45s. It's like 'here's this bad ass feeling, and we're not going to let it quit, we're just going to milk it a little and see who else is feeling it.'

    29. Yusef Lateef "Michelle" Suite 16

    Guitar: Earl Klugh

    Arrangement: Yusef Lateef

    Now this was a cheapie. When you upload it to your PC it's a Yusef Lateef track, on which he doesn't play, a silly little outro on an obscure 1970s Lateef album. Muwahahaha.

  4. Blindfold Test #128: The Reveal

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    1. Asa Martin "Wild Cat Rag" The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Super Rarities

    Guitar - Asa Martin

    Mandolin - Roy Hobbs

    Recorded in Richmond, IN. Wednesday, 10/19/1932

    I often listen to my collection on random, and I like the jarring changes between genres. The more jarring the better. I love the happy sound of this tune. Music for a funny cartoon.

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    2. Cootie Williams With Duke Ellington & His Orchestra "Echoes Of Harlem" Swing That Music, Vol. 3

    Duke Ellington, piano, arranger, directing:

    Arthur Whetsol, Cootie Williams, trumpets

    Rex Stewart, cornet

    Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown

    trombones

    Juan Tizol

    valve trombone

    Barney Bigard, clarinet

    Johnny Hodges, reeds

    Harry Carney, reeds

    Ben Webster, tenor sax

    Fred Guy, guitar

    Hayes Alvis, string bass

    Sonny Greer, drums

    Recorded in New York

    February 27th, 1936

    The simplicity of the theme appeals to me. I immediately stopped what I was doing and went to the computer to see who this was. A perfect little song, recorded on what would be my birthday much, much later on.

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    3. Los Mirlos "Lamento En La Selva" Cumbia Beat Vol. 1

    Jorge Rodríguez (voz principal y Director) Carlos Vásquez (tumbadoras) Hugo Jáuregui (timbales) Gilberto Reátegui † (guitarra) Danny Fardy Johnston López (guitarra) Segundo Gustavo Rodríguez (tumbas) Tony Wagner Grández Aguilar (bongó).

    Recorded 1973

    Another total change of pace like I enjoy. A dirty, funky, latin-twinged surf guitar. Sign me up. Anywhere Los Mirlos appear on a compilation, it's special.

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    4. Aldo Romano, Louis Sclavis, & Henri Texier "Harvest" African Flashback

    Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone - Louis Sclavis

    Double Bass - Henri Texier

    Drums, Guitar - Aldo Romano

    Beautiful little tune I grabbed on a whim.

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    5. Jack Wilkins "Red Clay" Windows

    I love this version. I searched for this for a loooong time after A Tribe Called Quest sampled it.

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    6. Art Blakey Big Band "The Outer World" Ain't Life Grand

    Recorded 1958

    So I have this on the pictured John Coltrane compilation The Bethlehem Years. I was trying to sneak a 'Trane through the room!

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    7. Joe Sample "In All My Wildest Dreams" Rainbow Seeker

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    8. Andrew Hill "Soul Special" V/A Blue Note Rare Grooves

    Woody Shaw - trumpet ;

    Frank Mitchell - tenor saxophone ;

    Andrew Hill - piano ;

    Jimmy Ponder - guitar ;

    Reggie Workman - bass ;

    Idris Muhammad - drums.

    from "Grass Roots" (2000), Blue Note.

    Recorded on April 19, 1968.

    I have a bunch of Andrew Hill's Blue Note albums, and he's usually much more introspective and complex than this funky number, so I thought maybe he'd be unrecognizable in this context. Awesome to hear he could bring the greeeeaazzze too.

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    9. Onzy Matthews "Midnight Lament" Mosaic Select Disc 1

    Trumpet: Dupree Bolton

    Alto Sax: Earl Anderza

    Tenor Sax: Hadley Caliman

    Piano: Roosevelt Wardell

    Bass: Clarence Jones

    Drums: Chuck Carter

    Recorded June 30, 1963

    Previously Unissued

    I lucked into this set as I have a friend who worked at Capitol for a while who got free Mosaic Selects all the time. Compiling this BFT, it occurred to me that many others might not have found a place in their budget to pick up the Onzy Matthews set. This track stands apart from much of the compilation, and I dig the mood it creates. Standards were so high back then this didn't even make it onto an album!

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    10. John Klemmer "Free Soul" Magic Moments

    Recorded February, 1969

    Originally released as Blowin' Gold (Cadet/Concept 231)

    Another famously sampled song, it's been a favorite of mine for a long while. It seems to straddle jazz, funk, and rock simultaneously. I was really stoked at how many of the participants seemed to love this one as much as I do!

    More to come later!

  6. Blindfold Test #128 Discussion Thread

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    Track 16 - Fat bass line makes me happy. Keys are a bit abstract for what it seems to be trying to be. I like it, but it also feels like it’s trying a bit hard. Could be Don Pullen, but I don’t think it quite has his all-in soul. D.D. Jackson? Seems too old to be him. Not sure… just not completely sold on this.

    Track 17 - Aw yeah, baby! Big George! First guy I ever saw in a club (w/James Williams, John Lockwood and Terry Lynne Carrington). This is THE version of Cedar’s Mode For Joe (sorry Joe Henderson) from this. In my opinion, this is THE album by ER; the others just do no measure up.
    Track 18 - Ouch… those keys do NOT make me happy. I like the tenor sound, but the rest of it just does not fit my tastes — too commercial. Tenor sounds familiar but could be a disciple of what I’m recognizing.
    Track 19 - I feel like shopping, but man, this is one cool-ass store! If it’s not late Wes, that’s got to be Benson. I’m in, though… for all my bitching about commercialized Jazz, this type of soul Jazz just FIRES for me. This is the feel the modern bands are going for, but THIS is IT.
    Track 20 - I’m liking this reggae feel. It’s not Jazzy, but more of a soundtrack meets Tower of Power feel. UGH! Why would you kill this with a drum machine?!?!?! Damned shame. It’s dead to me, now. I’m being unfair — if this came on in a coffee shop or a bar, I’d be into it, but in a listening setting, I’m quite put off by the synth drums.
    Track 21 - Aaaaaand, total redemption in 3 seconds. Well done, sir. I need to go pour a Courvoisier, be right back. It’s either Maceo being really controlled, or somebody who desperately wants to be Maceo nearly as much as I do.
    Track 22 - This is 70s cool. I wouldn’t like it if it were more modern, but something about the stuff from that era resonates for me (I’m quite confident this is not something of a throwback nature. Again, I wouldn’t sit down to listen to this, but this would be ultra cool if it came on in a record store or bar. There was a radio station around here playing more modern takes on this sort of thing but operating on sponsorship. They’ve been replaced by an all funk/soul station (which, let’s face it, is not going to last long in New Hampshire). They don’t play anything quite like this, but stuff just over the commercial fence from this.
    Track 23 - I like this, but I’m not sure it would hold up. Sounds sort of like the Concord dates in the 80s, in terms of feel. Maybe Plas? Not sure. Has that very 70s lounge feel, but from *that* side of town.
    Track 24 - I’m not made of wood, you’ve got me. Seems like a PG, less invective filled take on a Smiley Winters album I have. I like this plenty. Huh… not sure why they felt the need to abandon the feel at the end… I’m assuming there’s a next section that is truncated (perhaps a good decision).
    Track 25 - No idea, predates my listening.
    Track 26 - I like it, but I’m not sure how much I would go back to it. Wait, that’s two pianists. I was hearing it as busy at first. No, this works. I would definitely revisit this. Not sure quite who we’re dealing with. Could be Tommy Flanagan on the right, which would lead me to a guess of Barry Harris on the left, but I’ve got no real inclination towards either.
    Track 27 - Eh… back to what was bothering me about 18. I mean, there is something cool about this, but the smooth factor is worthy of an insulin injection. Not feeling this. This sounds like an electronic production, full miss.
    Track 28 - I like the reggae idea, but again, this seems to be the product of overdubs. Doesn’t offend, but doesn’t really hit, either.
    Track 29 - Pleasant, but doesn’t really speak to me. Is that a Beatles tune?

    Nailed #21! Maceo Parker. And you've identified that #24 is a truncated version, plus you noticed that there are two pianists on #26. Bravo, Mr. Keith!

    Man, the more I've had to go over this, the more I wish I'd traded a number of these out for better stuff. What's the audio equivalent of hindsight is 20/20?

    Reveal thread coming 12/1!

  9. Non Jazz Albums (Or Songs, etc.) That Rocked Your World

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    Some favorites...

    Cymande - S/T

    The JB's - JB's Monorail

    Kool & The Gang - Wild & Peaceful

    The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau

    Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!

    Rodriguez - Cold Fact

    Funkadelic - S/T

    Parliament - Mothership Connection

    Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch

    Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man

    James Brown - Black Caesar

    24-Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth

    William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got

    Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

    Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections

    Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse

    LA Carnival - ...Would Like To Pose A Question

    War - Platinum Jazz

  17. white englishman explains Coltrane '66

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    I don't believe that new art has to be earth shattering but it can be. It doesn't have to change the whole language, but it can. There is "safety" in communicating in a language the audience already knows. The opposite is teaching them a new one or expecting they will be able to translate on the spot. One can venture so far off the beaten path that it defies conventional qualitative measuring.

    What makes it good and why is it good, and should those qualities be difficult to ascertain?

  19. white englishman explains Coltrane '66

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    Posted

    Good points, Leeway.

    It is best if the artist assumes the best of the audience. The artist knows they are in on it and along for the ride. The artist does not condescend to the audience. The artist takes the lead and takes them to a new "there." And "new" can encompass a great many things, both safe and unsafe. The audience will ultimately be populated by like minds, as it filters down to repeat customers.

  20. white englishman explains Coltrane '66

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    Posted

    This is always very similar to the ongoing argument in visual arts of representational vs non-representational painting. The confusion in both is the same: critics who confuse their tastes with what is relevant; their tastes with what is beautiful; their tastes with what is art, etc. Critics who have a comfort zone they think everyone else needs to fit into. The critic props himself up as a "protector of the genre who must fend off transgressions against the way things MUST be done."

    Art requires an edge of experimentation; an edge where it can reinvent itself; a blank space with no rules where new rules can be created. The artist makes the rules. Stuffy critics will get their panties in a bunch over it. The audience, hungry for the new, will either feel what the artist is doing or they won't. As long as an audience buys into what the artist is doing, it's relevant. The coolest establishment will embrace ALL of it, give the artist a chance, and let the audience decide.

  21. Blindfold Test #128 Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Noj

    My responses are interspersed in bold italics, underlined:

    Oh, this is a long one!

    5 Crikey, I can’t think of the name of the tune! An Eddie Harris line, I’m thinking. Anyway, I THINK the guitarist may be Orhan Demir, by the way his left hand fingers attack the fretboard. But I can’t find where he’s done any familiar tunes. So maybe it’s someone else. Well, tried again a few days later but still can’t recall the title.

    It's not Orhan Demir, but if he sounds like this I'll have to check him out!

    9 It’s not Blue Mitchell, but reminds me of him a lot. And the alto player, something of Sonny Red in his lines. His sound is a lot clearer and more definite. The tune sounds like it was written for a film score. Something familiar about it, but… A few days later and I definitely know that I don’t know who or what this is.

    This one has been very well received practically all the way around, but not identified as of yet!

    10 Good Lord, a lot of this BFT is so nearly right for me, I don’t know why I’ve never heard any of it before! That was bleedin’ fantastic, but I’ve NO IDEA! Well, a few days later and it’s still fantastic and I still haven’t any ideas about it.

    Everybody's loving this one too, but no one has put a name to it!

    12 AH!! Idris! I haven’t played this album for getting on for three years. OK, it’s ‘Wander’ from ‘Black rhythm revolution’, with Virgil Jones, Clarence Thomas (ts and a total GEEZER!), Harold Mabern, Mel Sparks, Jimmy Lewis and Buddy Caldwell. Great!

    DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

    13 Oh, dem blues! I wish I knew who this was… Phew, he has some really nice ideas! And some chops underlying them. Live! Real! I keep thinking of Junior Mance but he’s got more chops and harder ideas than Mance. Maybe it’s Harold Mabern, though Mabern usually has a softer touch than this guy.

    Another one that everybody has really dug, but yet to finger! Not Mabern or Mance.

    14 Interesting this. It seems like a library band making music for people to listen to while they’re waiting on the phone but, if I were listening on the blower, I wouldn’t want them to answer, even if the sax player does sound like David Sanborn. :lol:

    18 Nice tenor player. Very nice tenor player. Don’t know the tune, either. But this sometimes makes me think of Pharoah, too. Must be the mood I’m in. A few days later, it still sounds like Pharoah.

    Not Pharoah!

    19 This sounds like the pianist in #13. Doing a boogaloo that reminds me of ‘One cylinder’.

    Cool that you've mentioned "One Cylinder" a few times. I love that song! I don't think the pianist from #13 is a member of this particular outfit.

    20 This cut seems to be taking rather too long to get off the ground and makes me suspect, after 2 minutes, that it won’t. No, I don’t think it will; it’s as if there’s these guys waiting for Larry Mizell to come into the studio with the ‘leader’ and they’re laying down the backing track.

    Dang, I thought you'd like this one. Then again, I'm certain your tastes in West African music are much more refined than my own!

    21 Hank Crawford! But one I’ve never heard before. Where the hell did this one come from? Oh, I must have it tucked away somewhere.

    No, I don’t think I’ve ever heard this trumpet solo. Sure I haven’t; it’s blindingly lyrical!

    Don’t for god’s sake tell me it’s David Sanborn! :rofl:

    Hahahaha, not Hank Crawford or David Sanborn. This player is usually much funkier and less reflective than this--but he's always very lyrical!

    22 I keep thinking (hoping) the drummer’s going to turn into Bernard Purdie and inject a bit of swing into this. But of course, it doesn’t happen. This one’s not happening with me, either. I half recognise the tune, though; bits of it sound like a Kool & the Gang number. The guitarist’s quite good, without having any real feeling for what he’s doing.

    Yes, definitely just a funk number. Not as much depth as the jazzers bring. Not surprisingly, I love Kool & The Gang--but this isn't them. Great observations!

    23 Ho Ho Houston Person! And another one I’ve never heard before! Where are you GETTING this stuff from? Oh, I think it’s a cut from one of Johnny Lytle’s Muse albums. Yeah, ‘After supper’. But it’s a different recording from the one on ‘Good vibes’. That one has Mel Sparks on guitar, and there’s no guitar on this.

    Nailed it! Houston Person with Johnny Lytle on Muse.

    Oh, I see I never finished this. Phew, there’s a lot if it! Well, a few more tracks now. :winky:

    24 Well, I certainly don’t know this one. Vintage mid seventies, I’d guess. The tenor player has quite some stuff to say and I’d be interested in hearing more of him, but hope the rest of the album hasn’t got all this ‘atmosphere’.

    I haven't explored this particular player much either, but this is definitely intriguing. As I mentioned before, there's actually more of this song on the actual album as opposed to this abridged version from a compilation.

    26 I think this is ‘Black coffee’ by a solo pianist. It’s kind of disorienting with his left hand coming out of the left channel and the right out of the right – feels like I’m between his legs! I don’t think it’s anyone I know.

    When identified or revealed, this bizarre observation will make perfect sense!

    27 Starts off sounding like telephone waiting music, but somewhat more interesting than what you actually get from your dentist’s surgery. I keep wanting it to DO something, like have a roaring tenor player come in and piss all over the band. But it ain’t gonna happen, is it? No, it didn’t.

    Hahahahaha, so on the money. This is a weirdo track on here, for sure. I included it for what it attempted. Not much to chew here. A musical rice cake.

    A lot of interesting stuff in here, Jon, though a lot of the rhythm sections seem to have, or are trying to imitate, drum machines. Not quite sure why.

    Good BFT, thanks.

    Thanks for all the very insightful responses, MG! I wanted the BFT to keep changing and show odd corners of my collection.

  22. Blindfold Test #128 Discussion Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Noj

    Thanks Hot Ptah, glad you're enjoying it!

    Not much time to respond in detail this week, but enjoying this one very much.

    Is #20 perhaps a King Sunny Ade remix?

    Track 20 is indeed King Sunny Ade, Spontooneous! "Ja Fun Mi (Instrumental)" from Nigeria '70, Vol.1.

    His Boy Elroy,

    Track 16 is not George Duke teaming up with Stan Clarke.

    Track 23 is not Stanley Turrentine, although I've also thought this sax player's sound is similarly warm and kindly.

    Track 24 is not Joe Henderson, although there's a mighty heavy lineup on this particular album. Hint: this is an abridged version of the full album track.

    Track 26 is not Marian McPartland, but this pianist does have a lighter, perhaps optimistic sound.

    Track 29 is not Lenny Breau. It is a guitarist whose career took a smooth route.

  23. Blindfold Test #128 Discussion Thread

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    Posted

    So far...

    1. alex. got it! Asa Martin, "Wild Cat Rag."

    I included this little ditty since it was so much earlier than the vast majority of my collection and I really enjoyed both volumes of The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. Outstanding compilations. I'm a bit of a compilation nut, I have hundreds. They're a great way to get a sampling of wide ranges of albums, or in this case to hear something so old and rare you'd probably never come across it elsewhere.

    2. alex. nailed another one! Cootie Williams with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, "Echoes Of Harlem"

    This one joined the fray because I wanted to see if I could sneak a Duke Ellington track past anyone here. This was an instant favorite from the moment I heard it.

    3. Not yet identified.

    4. Not yet identified.

    5. "Red Clay" Artist not yet identified.

    6. Thom Keith & felser were all over this one! Art Blakey Big Band with John Coltrane, "The Outer World"

    Thought maybe I could sneak some 'Trane past folks by concealing him in Blakey's outfit on the perhaps lesser-explored Bethlehem label. No dice!

    7. Thom Keith has the artist correct! Joe Sample. I can't stomach smooth jazz much smoother than this. An old favorite of mine.

    8. Thom Keith ID'd Andrew Hill and Woody Shaw. What an ear you have, Thom! I was counting on folks not catching Andrew Hill in this context.

    9. Not yet identified (but very well received!).

    10. Not yet identified.

    11. alex. again! Carmen McRae "Speak Low"

    Young and tastefully singing, I thought perhaps Carmen might be tough for some to ID. Vocal jazz really hasn't been my bag, but I like it more and more as the years go by.

    12. Not yet identified.

    13. Not OP, Phineas, or Gene Harris. Not yet identified.

    14. Not yet identified. I knew this one would be polarizing! A bit cheesy, but I love the bassline (which made me laugh out loud when Thom Keith requested his execution).

    15. Not yet identified. Not Booker Ervin or Joe McPhee. Hint: I only have this on a compilation culled by a famous compiler.

    16. His Boy Elroy ID'd Stanley Clarke right away! Not far from being identified.

    17. felser hit this one out of the park without hesitation. Cedar Walton with George Coleman, "Mode For Joe" from Eastern Rebellion. A classic indeed!

    18. Not yet identified.

    19. Not yet identified. felser is close, this is an homage to Wes Montgomery.

    20. Not yet identified.

    21. Not yet identified.

    ...perhaps too long of a departure through here from actual jazz...

    22. Not yet identified.

    23. Not yet identified.

    24. Not yet identified.

    25. alex., I can't sneak any of these older songs by you! There were more skips than listens for you, my apologies. Mildred Bailey With Red Norvo & His Orchestra "Smoke Dreams"

    Obviously, I recently bought the Swing That Music box set, and it's been more than worth every penny. An education.

    26. Not yet identified.

    27. Not yet identified.

    28. Not yet identified.

    29. felser knows the Beatles tune, but where did this come from? A bit of a parting cheap shot from me, admittedly. :D

    Thanks for all the responses thus far!

  24. Death of the iPod (Everyone's buying vinyl)

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    Posted · Edited by Noj

    I prefer to be my own entity, independent of radio, streaming services, clouds, etc. and for that reason I LOVE my 160gb iPod classics. I'm bitter they discontinued them. I want a terabyte iPod touch. Immediately. One device, my whole collection, displaying beautiful cover art and preferably streaming the artist lineup, recording date, and liner notes if there's time.

    How do you get all the lineup &c onto an ipod? I'd like that on mine.

    MG

    MG, it was an improvement I thought of spontaneously, since the iPod touch would have a larger screen and more room for information. That info could just display during the song, in a hierarchy of sorts. There would be room for it to stream along below the square cover art. Hell, I'd even like for all of the cover art to show, perhaps animated with gatefolds opening, etc. I can dream, can't I?

    You can manually enter all that information by selecting a track and hitting File/Get Info, but it doesn't actively display while the song plays or anything.

  25. Death of the iPod (Everyone's buying vinyl)

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    I prefer to be my own entity, independent of radio, streaming services, clouds, etc. and for that reason I LOVE my 160gb iPod classics. I'm bitter they discontinued them. I want a terabyte iPod touch. Immediately. One device, my whole collection, displaying beautiful cover art and preferably streaming the artist lineup, recording date, and liner notes if there's time.

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