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You're in charge. Weekend start sounds good though. I've listened once - enjoyed it all - don't know if more time will lead to any inspiration.

Just arrived - two discs in good order. Thanks Dan. Will be listening later today.

Nothing here yet, but a week is about the average for USA to UK I think, so Friday is the most likely day but tomorrow possible. I will be waiting for the postperson, although they keep irregualr hours these days. Living in hopes of being able to recognise something, as always.

Vic Lewis All Stars [big Band Explosion]. The title is the usual hyperbole. Just got it from eBay. Made at the 1959 Beaulieu Jazz Festival. Big names in British jazz at the time, including Ronnie Ross. Wish they had found more solo space for him though. Has Allan Ganley, Jimmy Deuchar, Keith Christie, Art Ellefson, Vic Ash and more.

Thanks, Marcus. I didn't have so much time to follow things lately. Really enjoyable BFT, almost all right up my alley and some new names to look out for. Tommy Flanagan though!

Haven't you heard of "Cavorite"?

Thank you both, 1ngram (sorry to be so long responding - various distractions of late) and Freddy - very kind of you. Some (I was going to "most" but that wouldn't be honest) tunes I can transcribe myself, particularly now I have found out how to slow the music down using "Audacity". But quite a lot still escape. As I go along perhaps I can call on you if I'm stuck. It's going to be a lengthy project so might be some time. I just work at it in spare moments, when I feel like it. I find transcribing takes a lot of concentration - some people are naturals of course and can do it on autopilot, but not me.

I am surprised that nobody has cited Art Pepper. Sticking strictly to the brief and provided he was playing alto and not the tenor he sometimes did, he had such a very individual sound that I think I would always recoginise him. Did so on a BFT not long ago anyway. Perhaps not quite so marked is the sound of Sonny Criss.

Dan: I have just emailed again, using copy and paste for safety. Can you let me know here again if not received, or by email if received okay? Sorry about the delay.

Dan: Hope I am not too late. Been a busy time and then the board was down. Sending email.

Tooter, don't give up Marcus I didn't exactly give up, just weakened and read all the comments. Now I know I wouldn't have got any further though - still can't hear that tune 2.. What gets me is that there are so many people in the world playing the kind of jazz that I like whom I have never heard of before.

Jeez, lots of posts already and I'm nowhere near figuring anything out so far. Haven't read any comments yet. I know some tunes but getting the titles is not so easy. 4. and 6. are very familiar and I'm sure I've heard 2. before. 9. is It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing and the bass player is Ron Carter I'm quite sure - if it isn't, I give up! But the track that was a real ear opener for me was 10. - no idea who but what a full sound for the line-up! 2. I thought about Javon Jackson or maybe Pat LaBarbera but these are just wild guesses. 1. is my least favorite track - could it be Dave Liebman on sop sax? Will listen some and post more thoughts before reading others comments. All music I like - lots of interest. Well done, Marcus.

Thanks, Ingram - it is really tunes I'm looking for but it is nice to know the sites you've given are there. If I ever want to pretend that I'm a real jazz player I now have the means! I've tried transcribing solos before and found it extremely difficult if not impossible. To some people it comes more naturally of course.

Yes, John - I am going to have to wait until I get broadband connection, later this month I hope. They look too big for a dial-up.

Thanks a lot, Jim and John. Looks like about all I wanted. Going to be busy.

Marvellous, Scott. Thanks a lot. Going great guns already. Any more anyone?

Does anyone know of any websites from which written jazz tunes can be downloaded? I am thinking of the more well-known material - tunes like the be-bop standards, jazz originals that have taken hold - say like No Problem, Jordu (the bridge has always eluded me ), Bags' Groove, Milestones (both of them), Good Bait, Daahoud, Joy Spring too - there are so many. I have done some searching with Google but not much success - only found some obscure material.

Thanks Marcus and Bob - my CD has arrived. At least ISP problem sorted out so I can post something as soon as I've listened - that will be this evening.

Thanks Marcus and Sidewinder. Looking forward to the arrival with eager anticipation. But I am without an ISP at present so may be a bit slow with comments - hope not too long.

Kenny Dorham with Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, John Ore and Hugh Walker.

[Matador] by Kenny Dorham. It has been issued on CD but I am listening to the LP. This is CD cover though, from allmusic.

Well, I'm listening to the bass player on #8 and the tune of #9 and still none the wiser. The tune that gets me, when we get to it, is #10. So familiar and yet maybe not in a jazz context. So could it be my miltary band days? - is it a "classical" derivation? It has been referred to as a "standard" but this seems doubtful to me if I understand the word correctly. Instrumentation becomes clearer the more I listen but this doesn't help me identify anything. For instance, #3 sounded like a tenor sax at the beginning but then fairly clearly an alto later. Groups almost always sound bigger than they really are to me. This BFT has kept me interested for some enjoyable hours - thanks again, Nate - and I'm looking forward to the answers with the usual eager anticipation.

Lots of mentions for [Kind of Blue] - makes me wonder just how often it actually gets listened to. Not that not wanting to listen to it so often makes it invalid to want to have been at the session. I remember hearing someone who was involved in the be-bop revolution (can't recall who) saying that he had no sense of making jazz history at the time; they were just having a ball, fooling around or some such. My choice, off the top of my head, is Massey Hall. To hear it unadulterated, undubbed, pristine. Can the flies record themselves? Perhaps this would change choices. Probably change my mind later, when I think of something else. Mmmmm - [somethin' Else]?

I used to play with an organist and the worst thing was lugging it about before and after. I now have a lifelong abhorrence of organs - I shouldn't be here, should I?

Success! Thanks, Brownie. My description was intelligible then. I started of describing it in tones and semitones but then decided this was not the way. But it seemed a fair bet from the start that it was that tune as it is the only blues on the album [Milano Blues]. Very nice to be able to confirm it though.