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Track 16 Album: Serge Chaloff Sextette The Complete Small Group Bop Sessions (The Jazz Factory JFCD 22807) Recorded: March 5, 1947 Tune: Gabardine and Serge or Tiny’s Blues (2:33) (Tiny Kahn) Personnel: Red Rodney (tp), Earl Swope (tb), Serge Chaloff (bs), George Wallington (p), Curley Russell (b), Tony Kahn (d)

Track 15 Album: Claire Daly Swing Low (Koch Jazz 7872) Recorded: July 21 1998 Tune: Little Old Lady (3:57) (Adams/Carmichael) Personnel: George Garzone (ts), Claire Daly (bs), Eli Yamin (p), Dave Hofstra (b), Peter Grant (d)

Track 14 Album: The Jack Montrose Sextet (Pacific Jazz PJ-1208) Recorded: May 27, 1954 June 24, 1955 Tune: Meet Mr Gordon (2:35) (Jack Montrose) Personnel: Jack Montrose (ts), Bob Gordon (bs), Paul Moer (p), Joe Mondragon (b), Billy Schneider (d)

Track 13 Album: Thad Jones Pepper Adams Quintet Mean What You Say (Milestone/OJC OJCCD-464-2) Recorded: April 26 – May 9, 1966 Tune: The Chant (5:20) (Duke Pearson) Personnel: Thad Jones (flh), Pepper Adams (bs), Duke Pearson (p), Ron Carter (b), Mel Lewis (d)

Track 12 Album: Humphrey Lyttleton Back to the Sixties (Philips 834458) Recorded: 1960 Tune: The Champ (5:25) (Dizzy Gillespie) Personnel: Humphrey Lyttleton (tp), Johnny Pickard (tb), Tony Coe (as), Jimmy Skidmore (ts), Joe Temperley (bs), Ian Armitt (p), Brian Brocklehurst (b), Eddie Taylor (d)

Track 11 Album: Manny Album Jazz Greats of Our Time Vol 1 (MCA 1376) Recorded: April 2 – 4, 1957 Tune: All Too Soon (7:12) (Ellington/Sigman) Personnel: Manny Albam (ldr), Art Farmer (tp), Nick Travis (tp), Bob Brookmeyer (vtb), Phil Woods (as), Al Cohn, Zoot Sims (ts), Gerry Mulligan (bs), Hank Jones (p), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d)

Track 10 Album: The Magic Touch of Tadd Dameron (Riverside/OJC OJCCD-143-2) Recorded: February 27, 1962 Tune: Just Plain Talkin’ (4:34) (Tadd Dameron) Personnel: Tadd Dameron (ldr), Clark Terry (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Julius Watkins (frh), Jerry Dodgion (as), Johnny Griffin (ts), Tate Houston (bs), Jerome Richardson (fl), Bill Evans (p), Ron Carter (b), Philly Joe Jones( d)

Track 9 Album: Nick Brignola L A Bound (Sea Breeze 3007) Recorded: October 17, 1979 Tune: Blue Bossa (7:57) (Kenny Dorham) Personnel: Bill Watrous (tb), Nick Brignola (ss/bs), Dwight Dickerson (p), John Heard (b), Dick Berk (d)

Track 8 Album: Bill Perkins Quietly There (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 1776-2) Recorded: November 23 and 30, 1966 Tune: Keester Parade or Centerpiece (3:51) (Johnny Mandel) Personnel: Bill Perkins (bs), Victor Feldman (p), John Pisano (g), Red Mitchell (b), Larry Bunker (d)

Track 7 Album: J J Johnson Jazz Quintets (Savoy 151) Recorded: December 24, 1947 Tune: Down Vernon’s Alley (2:32) (J J Johnson) Personnel: J J Johnson (tb), Leo Parker (bs), Hank Jones (p), Al Lucas (b), Shadow Wilson (d)

Track 6 Album: Bud Shank Sextet New Gold (Candid 79707) Recorded: December 6 and 7, 1993 Tune: Funcused Blues (5:00) (Benny Golson) Personnel: Conte Candoli (tp), Bud Shank (as), Bill Perkins(ts), Jack Nimitz (bs), John Clayton (b), Sherman Ferguson (d)

Track 5 Album: Gary Smulyan Homage (Criss Cross 1068) Recorded: December 18, 1991 Tune: Muezzin’ (5:29) (Pepper Adams) Personnel: Gary Smulyan (bs). Tommy Flanagan (p), Ray Drummond (b), Kenny Washington (d)

Track 4 Album: Lars Gullin Baritone Sax (Atlantic 1246) Recorded: April 23, 1956 Tune: Fedja (5:02) (Lars Gullin) Personnel: George Vernon (tb), Arne Domnerus (as), Carl-Henrik Norin (ts), Lars Gullin, Rune Falk (bs), Rune Ofwerman (p), Georg Riedel (b), Nils-Bertil Dahlander (d)

Track 3 Album: Victor Feldman in London Vol 2 (Tempo TAP-12) Recorded: December 1956/January 1957 Tune: Wood Work (6:08) (Victor Feldman) Personnel: Jimmy Deuchar, Dizzy Reece (tp), Ken Wray (tb), Derek Humble (as), Ronnie Scott (ts), Tubby Hayes (bs), Norman Stenfalt (p), Lennie Bush (b), Victor Feldman (d)

Track 2 Album: Cecil Payne & Duke Jordan Brooklyn Brothers (Xanadu 151792) Recorded: March 16, 1973 Tune: Jazz Vendor (4:22) (Duke Jordan) Personnel: Cecil Payne (bs/fl), Duke Jordan (p), Sam Jones (b), Al Foster (d)

Track 1 Album: Clarke Boland Big Band Now Hear Our Meanin’ (Columbia 9114) Recorded: January 25/26, 1963 Tune: Now Hear My Meanin’ (6:25) (Jimmy Woode) Personnel: Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Deuchar, Ahmed Muvaffak Falay, Roger Guerin, Edmund Arnie (tp), Ake Persson, Nat Peck, Erich Kleinschuster, Raymond Katarsinsky, Keg Johnson (tb), Derek Humble (as), Karl Drevo, Ronnie Scott, Billy Mitchell (ts), Sahib Shihab (bars/fl), Francy Boland (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Kenny Clarke (d), Joe Harris, Fats Sadi (perc)

I’m not going to attempt erudite comments so here are the answers plain and simple. Most were identified, in part at least, but not 3 (pretty obscure stuff I guess) and 6 (not so obscure anyway). I will have to put one post for each track so as to attach the album picture covers I’ve got.

.... #37, that is ...... take your time: I will send the overseas discs on Monday, I guess it will take until around the 6th until all will have theirs. I was never any good at arithmetic

Month ends a week today, after which BFT#38 takes over anytime. So I plan to put up the full answers on Friday May 26 - that will give the weekend and three days next week for any further comments. So if you've got a disc and have not yet commented, now's the time! Many of the answers are already there on the progress thread but there's still plenty of scope for more inspired guesses.

JC and JG, right, but not QJ. Bass player is one of the most easily recognisable I've always thought, generally speaking - starts with an "R"! Hmm ..... I thought of Ray Brown - but this track is not on the Verve Big Band LP I have, and there's no Griffin on it either. But Cleveland was on this ..... not Ray, Ron! Just Plain Talkin' about Tadd Dameron's Magic Touch so it's Tate! >link< Yes! The pianist is listed as Bill Evans but I wondered it maybe it was Tadd himself playing the solo.

"All Too Soon" It ought to be that tune by the timing but I had it down as "Minor Matters" - confused! "All to Soon" was written by Duke - does this sound like a Duke tune? I wonder if AMG is right in the listing.

Looks as if it should work okay. If anyone does try it, please let me know what you think of the method. Not the same as getting proper CD's of course but might be useful in some circumstances perhaps?

Just for the fun of it, I've uploaded all of BFT#36 to a site from where it can be downloaded as two zipped files. Each file takes about 40 minutes by my reckoning to downloadv and contains 8 MP3 tracks. If anyone wants to try it, the links are:- part1 part2 I will try it myself to see if it works. I know a previous BFT was available for download but didn't try that one as I had the CD. From what I've heard, it was quite a long process. Maybe the above will be quicker.

Yes..and the pianist???? (hint)

Five bull's eyes, couw, just like that. Tumbling like ninepins. Have you been looking things up? Progress thread brought up-to-date. It's been useful to me anyway. edit - I scrolled down too quick - missed one - going back.