BFT74 discussion thread

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

3. "Summertime" obviously. The alto sounds vaguely familiar, a bit Sonny Criss-like, but I've never heard a Sonny Criss organ record. The organist sounds "old-timey", not a Jimmy Smith-type; again no clue.

Actually, Criss recorded in Paris with Milt Buckner. But this isn't that.

4. I love this! It has a very English sound, to me anyway. Conjures up sunny Sunday afternoons, village greens and all that. Is the guitarist Martin Taylor?

Nope to English, nope to Taylor.

6. The alto sounds like Johnny Hodges, but I don't think it is - not quite sweet enough.

Heavily influenced by Hodges - Jeff Crom identified this as Tab Smiff.

8. I heard the needle drop. "Moonlight Serenade". This is bugging me, must be 1960s, it has that Prestige vibe.. I KNOW I have heard this organist before, but I can't think who it is.

I'm going to kick myself I'm sure.

Yes, you are

12. Another needle drop, another 1960s sounding recording. "Maiden Voyage" with 2 tenors. I like this, and feel I should know the tenor players, especially the second.

The sax players are fairly obscure, I think (though I expect someone will be able to ID them).

I enjoyed this very much MG, thank you!

Glad the post office came through with it, Richard.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Whatta blast this was! Perfect for driving around and cruisin’! On to the cluelessness!

Not truly clueless, Al

A02: My guess is a group consisting of Freddie Hubbard and Junior Cook doing “Delilah” (ehhh... maybe “doing” is the wrong word; how about “performing?”) for CTI. One small problem: I have almost every CTI by Hubbard and none of those has this song, and no discography I’ve checked says anything about Hubbard doing this song, either on his own or for someone else. Not to mention the fact that the guitarist is definitely NOT George Benson, but I can’t tell who it is. So, I reserve the right to appeal the correct answer on charges of impersonating another genre! Of course, that will make procuring the album a little more difficult once the answers are revealed, but if given the choice between being right and finding a record, I’d.... hmm, hafta give this a little more thought!

Yes, do. I'd have guessed you'd be the one to get this.

A03: "Summertime!" Y’know what’s sad is that this ain’t available in any form right now. But I guess that’s true of a lot of jazz reissues. Solo JOS is a rarity, and truly a wonder to behold, and Lou cooks nicely without overplaying, which is especially important in this context.

Quite right. Some people should be kicking themselves about now This is one of my all time JOS and Poppa Lou favourites.

A04: Arrghh!!! I wanna say “These Foolish Things,” but then the chorus comes around again to tell me it ain’t. What IS a boy to do? And double-drat: I can remember hearing another song in a similar setting (acoustic guitar and clarinet) on KNTU, calling them up to find out who it was, and now I’m drawing a blank on who they said. Maybe it’ll hit me later in the BFT.

Ha ha ha ha haaaa!!! I can’t believe I wrote that with a straight face!

Duh?

A06: I *so* wanna say a Johnny Hodges-led Ellington-type group like what he did on Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and THE Orchestra. But I know it’s not from that album. It could’ve been, though! Can’t wait to find out!

Well, Jeff got this one, so there!

A07: “Green Onions” fresh from the garden! Is this from that Steve Cropper album from a year or so ago? All kindsa funky, groovy, greeeeeazy, sweaty, and nasty (and by “nasty” I mean “sweet!”). All that’s missing is the crowded bar!

Not Steve Cropper.

MG

A08: Crud. I’ve heard this. Oh, who the heck does this? (I mean, besides Glenn Miller, wiseguys!) AAARRGGGHHH!!! I know I’ve heard this before! I’m gonna be kicking myself once I find this out, and probably kick myself harder if I own this!

Like Elvis, Glenn Miller is alive and well and playing organ in RVG's

A11: Well, I thought it was from Hugh Masekela’s Home is Where the Music Is, which would’ve marked a second time that this happened: the BFT after mine features another song from an album I used on my BFT. But, it ain’t that, not with that electric guitar on there. {{{sigh}}} I know I’ve heard this, too. Or maybe I’m just imagining things. But that sure sounds like Dudu Pukwana on the alto.

Nope, not Dudu. I'd be surprised if you'd heard this (though I'm sure Ubu has, but he's not joined in).

A12: This whole BFT is turning into déjà vu for me. I know I’ve heard this version of “Maiden Voyage” as well! Maybe a search will turn up something later....

This one you may have heard. But if you'd got it in your collection, I feel sure you would know who, what, where, when and why not.

A15: Nice late-night blues groove here. Rhythm guitar for some reason reminds me of Keith Richards circa Sticky Fingers. Maybe it’s an outtake from that session? Y’okay.... the singers have just convinced me it ain’t. Maybe. Who knows what kind of drugs they were taking back then? This does sound like the kind of thing one might record if they’d consumed copious amounts of alcohol, played the blues until 3:00 am, let the tape roll and slur whatever comes to mind. I gotta talk to my next-door neighbor about an idea I have.....

[JSngry]

no time to fully post but #2-Blue Mitchell w/Harold Land on RCA...very nice groove.

More later.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

no time to fully post but #2-Blue Mitchell w/Harold Land on RCA...very nice groove.

More later.

Quite right, Jim.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

No shit??? This is from 1929???? Man, who engineered this? Is this guy still alive? This sounds better than a lotta CDs on the market right now!

Since I've gotten so heavily into 78s the past year, I've really noticed how much better Victor's recordings sounded than any other company. I'm talking just about any era - their 1915 acoustics sound better than anyone else for the time; likewise for their post-1925 electrical recordings.

The CD I took this from was remastered by that English guy with the double-barrelled name who used to play with the Temperance Seven - forgotten his name for the moment but he's one of the gurus for remastering stuff from this era. So, when you've got a good original and a good remaster, bingo!

MG

[jeffcrom]

The CD I took this from was remastered by that English guy with the double-barrelled name who used to play with the Temperance Seven - forgotten his name for the moment but he's one of the gurus for remastering stuff from this era. So, when you've got a good original and a good remaster, bingo!

MG

John R. T. Davies

[Big Al]

The CD I took this from was remastered by that English guy with the double-barrelled name who used to play with the Temperance Seven - forgotten his name for the moment but he's one of the gurus for remastering stuff from this era. So, when you've got a good original and a good remaster, bingo!

MG

John R. T. Davies

Ah! Shoulda known! Thanks for the PM, BTW! Will be hunting that down and PRONTO!

[Big Al]

no time to fully post but #2-Blue Mitchell w/Harold Land on RCA...very nice groove.

More later.

After doing some searching, I found the album (the Bastids have it, and another Blue RCA). AMG sure isn't very kind to these sessions. If the rest of the record sounds like this, the Bastids will likely be getting an order from me very soon!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

no time to fully post but #2-Blue Mitchell w/Harold Land on RCA...very nice groove.

More later.

After doing some searching, I found the album (the Bastids have it, and another Blue RCA). AMG sure isn't very kind to these sessions. If the rest of the record sounds like this, the Bastids will likely be getting an order from me very soon!

Go easy, Al - there's one other track of this quality on the LP - Duke's @Day dream@ - the rest is quite poor imitation CTI stuff. It's OK, but not that OK, y'know? So don't pay too much.

MG

[JSngry]

Will try to post until the Ambien gets too strong, unlike last night, where the BFT turned into a stagecoach ride through the jungles of Old West California, or something like that...Palladin-esque, only psychedelic.

TRACK ONE - Mercyx3 VERY cool, I dig it a lot, not really sure who it is though, don't really care, just glad to hear it. The drumming...yeah, that's how I like it.. FLASHLIGHT! MISTER MAGIC! DAMN that alto player bites into the pocket, almost like Maceo, maybe even harder. I'll tkae this for the life, Alex.

TRACK TWO - Already mentioned...Cedar & Blue both did some of these things for RCA...proceed with caution, but don't be afraid on general principles, either.

TRACK THREE - Lou & Jimmy, that's a classic sound. Prime musicianship. 'nuff said.

TRACK FOUR - This is where last night got on the stagecoach... very nice, and definitley not misbehaving, alas. Doesn't even sound like a possibility.

TRACK FIVE - Hank Crawford, don't know the tune, exactly...beautiful arrangement, and beautiful how Hank sets the horns up for them to set him right back up. Oh yeah, :Baby Won't You Please Come Home", that's it. the thing here is the total band sound, not just lead with background, they're all up inside each other's heads, working together, and it's beautiful how they do that. Anf that unison...sparse and dark, that builds up a a space for a chorus, a dark phantasmagoric delimiter, and then the sun starts to rise, the flowers to bloom, and here comes Hank Crawford, playing the new day into being. Can't just anybody do that, ya' know!

TRACK SIX - What is this..."Because Of You"?..not Bostic, I don't think...Tab Smith maybe? Somebody copping Hodges, but not the tone, not all the way. Contrast this to the Hank Crawford cut, which has still-wet spots on the sheets at 3:30 AM ...this one is more like hanging out on the line the next morning - or being put on the be at 5:30 in the afternoon, in anticipation of Hank's scene

TRACK SEVEN - Oh no...Green Ball Bearings...ain't an onion in sight, not even some ramps...not for me., thanks anyway. It sounds like the way men think women like for them to fuck.

TRACK EIGHT - Been looking for this one for quite a while...KNTU used to play it every do often...McGriff, I think..."Moonlight Serenade" w/no bridge, which is too bad, because that bridge at this tempo would be pretty sweet. But ok anyway! http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/J/JimmyMcGriff/MovinUpsideTheBlues_x.html Would've been sweeter still to have heard Vick on this one, eh? MASSIVEVANGELDERREVERB!!!!

TRACK NINE - I'm having Ambien flashbacks from last night,,,only this time it's of Alfalpha singing after swallowing a saw, or something freaked up like that. Hard to hear that now with ears of its own time, I'd think.

TRACK TEN - Speaking to me rhythmically very much, but the Night Train goes off the tracks pretty quickly. Good thing that the tracks keep moving along without it, although it doesn't seem to either notice or care, and it probably should. Sometimes you don't need to catch a train, and this is one of those times. Much better w/o it.

TRACK ELEVEN - Fifes are many things to many peoples. To me, they're just goddamned fifes. Once they're gone, though, it's ok. There's an "orbiting" qulaity to the thythm relative to the melody relative to the timbres that I find very appealing.

TRACK TWELVE - Odell Brown. Beautiful cut, in some ways more "Maiden Voyage"-ish in spirit than Herbie's? Hell yeah, god bless america for this. for real.

TRACK THIRTEEN - Now that's a hard left...who's on banjo? sometimes it's like the band is riding the banjo on thoe upward, ripping bits....I find this as easy to laugh at as to appreciate, literally as easy to do one as the other.

TRACK FOURTEEN - oh god, is this off that Lionel Hampton Brunswick side I've been threatening to order for years.?

cause, i mean, i could get ALL up into all that in there, yeah!

TRACK FIFTEEN - When you play this real, the rules make themselves.

Bonus One - Sounds like...Roy Brown? The Root Man, eh? The Chango! Late 40s, I'd guess...how do you not like that, especially when the guys got a rootman to fuck you over with if you don't

Bonus Two - Ruth & Red! Can't argue with any of that!

Bonus Three - Had not heard Irene Reid until now....great, GREAT monologue...is all her work got this much vibe? What have i been missing?

Bonus Four - happy rabbit trails?

Thoroughly enjoyable, even more without Ambien overload!

[Big Al]

TRACK FIVE - Hank Crawford, don't know the tune, exactly...beautiful arrangement, and beautiful how Hank sets the horns up for them to set him right back up. Oh yeah, :Baby Won't You Please Come Home", that's it. the thing here is the total band sound, not just lead with background, they're all up inside each other's heads, working together, and it's beautiful how they do that. Anf that unison...sparse and dark, that builds up a a space for a chorus, a dark phantasmagoric delimiter, and then the sun starts to rise, the flowers to bloom, and here comes Hank Crawford, playing the new day into being. Can't just anybody do that, ya' know!

Does this mean it's this? If so, it would seem that there is a whole world of Crawford Atlantic soul I needs to dig into!

no time to fully post but #2-Blue Mitchell w/Harold Land on RCA...very nice groove.

More later.

After doing some searching, I found the album (the Bastids have it, and another Blue RCA). AMG sure isn't very kind to these sessions. If the rest of the record sounds like this, the Bastids will likely be getting an order from me very soon!

Go easy, Al - there's one other track of this quality on the LP - Duke's @Day dream@ - the rest is quite poor imitation CTI stuff. It's OK, but not that OK, y'know? So don't pay too much.

MG

Okay, but if I ever see 'em cheap (less than $5), I'm scoopin' 'em up!

[Dan Gould]

Does this mean it's this? If so, it would seem that there is a whole world of Crawford Atlantic soul I needs to dig into!

There were several Crawford Atlantics I offered on my LP lists, with no takers to date.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

TRACK ONE - Mercyx3 VERY cool, I dig it a lot, not really sure who it is though, don't really care, just glad to hear it. The drumming...yeah, that's how I like it.. FLASHLIGHT! MISTER MAGIC! DAMN that alto player bites into the pocket, almost like Maceo, maybe even harder. I'll tkae this for the life, Alex.

As you've no doubt seen now, it IS Maceo.

TRACK FIVE - Hank Crawford, don't know the tune, exactly...beautiful arrangement, and beautiful how Hank sets the horns up for them to set him right back up. Oh yeah, :Baby Won't You Please Come Home", that's it. the thing here is the total band sound, not just lead with background, they're all up inside each other's heads, working together, and it's beautiful how they do that. Anf that unison...sparse and dark, that builds up a a space for a chorus, a dark phantasmagoric delimiter, and then the sun starts to rise, the flowers to bloom, and here comes Hank Crawford, playing the new day into being. Can't just anybody do that, ya' know!

Yup!

TRACK SIX - What is this..."Because Of You"?..not Bostic, I don't think...Tab Smith maybe? Somebody copping Hodges, but not the tone, not all the way. Contrast this to the Hank Crawford cut, which has still-wet spots on the sheets at 3:30 AM ...this one is more like hanging out on the line the next morning - or being put on the be at 5:30 in the afternoon, in anticipation of Hank's scene

Yes, it's Tab. I thought you'd pick up the connection with the Hank Crawford.

TRACK SEVEN - Oh no...Green Ball Bearings...ain't an onion in sight, not even some ramps...not for me., thanks anyway. It sounds like the way men think women like for them to fuck.

Well...

TRACK EIGHT - Been looking for this one for quite a while...KNTU used to play it every do often...McGriff, I think..."Moonlight Serenade" w/no bridge, which is too bad, because that bridge at this tempo would be pretty sweet. But ok anyway! http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/J/JimmyMcGriff/MovinUpsideTheBlues_x.html Would've been sweeter still to have heard Vick on this one, eh? MASSIVEVANGELDERREVERB!!!!

[Big Al]

Woo hoo! Two for me!!!

[jeffcrom]

I was going to use inside information obtained by hanging out with MG for a couple of days to post some more answers and make myself appear smarter than I really am. I decided not to, because it would be wrong and unethical. And because MG pointed out that, as a moderator, he could just delete my post....

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was going to use inside information obtained by hanging out with MG for a couple of days to post some more answers and make myself appear smarter than I really am. I decided not to, because it would be wrong and unethical. And because MG pointed out that, as a moderator, he could just delete my post....

MG

[mikeweil]

I'm afraid I won't be able to contribute any guesses for a while, I'm very sorry, but my time is limited and, to make things worse, my computer's soundcard seems to be defective. Of course I can transfer the whole thing to my MP3 player, but still I have too little time for listening, for various reasons - sorry, but I appreciate your compiling these discs, in any case.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I'm afraid I won't be able to contribute any guesses for a while, I'm very sorry, but my time is limited and, to make things worse, my computer's soundcard seems to be defective. Of course I can transfer the whole thing to my MP3 player, but still I have too little time for listening, for various reasons - sorry, but I appreciate your compiling these discs, in any case.

No rush, Mike. I shan't be able to post the answers until after I get home on 24 April.

Allan

[Big Al]

I was going to use inside information obtained by hanging out with MG for a couple of days to post some more answers and make myself appear smarter than I really am. I decided not to, because it would be wrong and unethical. And because MG pointed out that, as a moderator, he could just delete my post....

That's alright: I'll be seeing him next week, and since I'm BFT Grand Poohbear, I think I outrank him and therefore shall attempt to surreptiously procure answers from him and then post them here as if they were my own.

If that doesn't work, I'll take him out, get him drunk, and con the answers out of him.

When that fails miserably (and after I've sobered up), I am not above bribery and other unethical methods.

Of course, if his position as Moderator outranks my positions as BFT Grand Martial, and this post is gone in the next fe

[Big Al]

I don't if any of y'all have ever had the pleasure of listening to a BFT with its creator, but I can now say that I have. MG & me had a blast (no, a FANTASTIC time) last night, driving thru downtown Ft. Worth listening, dissecting, and discussing the various tracks on his BFT. MY only regret is that I didn't have some sort of recording device to pick up the discussion. Not that we said anything earth-shattering, but it was fun and I, at least, would've enjoyed letting the rest of the BFT community hear the nattering of two jazzheads who apparently have strikingly similar spouses!

A nice wrap-up to the weekend: roaming the Stockyard section of Ft. Worth and stuffing ourselves with Mexican food, despite weather that was more akin to London than Ft. Worth!

Alas, I have no more answers than when I started the evening! But I do have a groovy t-shirt from Spillers Records, the world's oldest record store! I shall wear it with pride and, with any luck, get my picture in next year's Spillers calendar wearing it!

Edited April 19, 2010 by Big Al

[tkeith]

Not much to offer on this one. Just threw out what I could -- feel bad about tanking on the second half of last month, but time has not been on my side.

1 - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Some shades of Maceo and DDBB. I'd guess the latter.

2 - 'Scuse me while I pour a Courvoisier. Or maybe Isaac can pour it for me. That's some serious reverb on that trumpet. Harold Land on tenor. Kind of like Jimmy Stewart appearing in a Lassie movie.

3 - More harsh reverb. Sounds a bit like Sonny Criss on alto to me. Now it's losing that feel. I'm going to be surprised by who the alto player is. No clue on the organ.

4 - Ain't Misbehavin', but no clue who it is.

5 - No clues. May recognize the tune, but it's not holding my interest.

6 - Holy mother of reverb infested vibrato. No idea.

7 - Green Onions. No clue.

8 - Can't remember the name of this -- learned this when I was a kid watching a guy play lead in the Seacoast Big Band... that dude is still around and still blowing his ass off, too. Arrangement is Earlandesque. Not sure on the alto -- again, the compression/reverb is killing me.

9 - Devoid of clues.

10 - Awkward arrangement of Night Train. Not really grabbing me. Almost sounds like it's either overdubbed or in the rehearsal stages. I generally take to this sort of thing, but this one didn't reach me.

11 - No idea. Can't really explain this other than to say the musicianship is missing. Tenor player is very scoopy, like a rock player. I assume it's South African due to the feel and the instrumentation, but it just doesn't grab me.

12 - Maiden Voyage. Lesser player trying to play like George Coleman. Big sound, at times tends to rush his lines a bit, a la Jimmy Heath, but it's not him. Second guy actually sounds a lot like George, but not as polished.

13 - No idea.

14 - No idea.

15 - No idea (finishing strong).

Bonus

B1 - Wailing alto, no clue.

B2 - Attitude reminds me of Denise LaSalle, but no idea. Make a nice companion to Cleanhead's "She has it, she's got it, she sits right on it, she just won't give it away."

B3 - Yikes. Gruesome. All the happiness is gone from this song. I like the tenor. Could be a subdued George Coleman, but definitely a Jazz guy and a bigger core than George.

B4 - Totally lacking clues.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

1 - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Some shades of Maceo and DDBB. I'd guess the latter.

Correct on Maceo, but wrong brass band. But Maceo is the leader.

2 - 'Scuse me while I pour a Courvoisier. Or maybe Isaac can pour it for me. That's some serious reverb on that trumpet. Harold Land on tenor. Kind of like Jimmy Stewart appearing in a Lassie movie.

Harold Land is right!

3 - More harsh reverb. Sounds a bit like Sonny Criss on alto to me. Now it's losing that feel. I'm going to be surprised by who the alto player is. No clue on the organ.

Not Sonny.

11 - No idea. Can't really explain this other than to say the musicianship is missing. Tenor player is very scoopy, like a rock player. I assume it's South African due to the feel and the instrumentation, but it just doesn't grab me.

Yes, this is from SA.

12 - Maiden Voyage. Lesser player trying to play like George Coleman. Big sound, at times tends to rush his lines a bit, a la Jimmy Heath, but it's not him. Second guy actually sounds a lot like George, but not as polished.

I think you're right to say these are lesser players. Neither sax player made many recordings. Is it good to be less polished than GC or more polished? I don't know. I think they're themselves.

You surprised me getting the Maceo! Thanks Thom.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

12 - Maiden Voyage. Lesser player trying to play like George Coleman. Big sound, at times tends to rush his lines a bit, a la Jimmy Heath, but it's not him. Second guy actually sounds a lot like George, but not as polished.

A few minutes thought about this made me wonder...

I haven't really followed George Coleman's career closely so I'm not at all sure when he began to be an influence on younger musicians. My guess is that would have been after he was with Miles Davis - was that the mid-sixties? So this track was recorded in 1966. George was, of course, on Herbie's version of the tune but, from memory, they weren't imitating his solo on the tune - I've never felt that. Were these sax players trying to play like Coleman or perhaps like someone else?

MG

[DrJ]

OK here are my comments - sorry for the delay, been really busy:

1. No idea who it is, but enjoyable. I also know this song - but can't think of the title, it's a crossover soul classic hit, right on the tip of my tongue. I think they do it justice, bringing in a new angle. I do feel the piece doesn't quite deliver fully on the initial promise - the band comes storming out of the gate with a very locked in rhythm section, but some of the solos are rather routine. The last alto solo though is pretty superb. Love the use of tuba. Will be interested to see who this is, I'm sure on a good day for the soloists these guys would be incredible to see.

2. Ummm...not my thing. This is the only piece I hit the forward button on before finishing.

3. Lou Donaldson with Charles Earland, Jimmy Ponder, and Leo Morris, playing "Summertime," this is from the SAY IT LOUD! album on Blue Note, I have this on vinyl. SUPERB. Love it. 5 stars. This is a just a great, floating treatment of this tune, makes me visualize a very lazy, hot summer day.

4. This is an odd, odd piece. The guitar in the left channel and clarinet on the right sound like they were recorded on two different continents several decades apart. Were they? I DO NOT like the guitar on this...too much meaningless filigree, plays over the lovely simple clarinet lines to the point of distraction. No idea who it is. The guitar SOUND is not unlike Joe Pass, but I've never heard Joe play this tastelessly, doubt it's him.

5. I enjoyed this a lot. Really nice full alto sound, not sure who it is though. Sonny Stitt? Whoever it is has real command of the horn.

6. Hodges type sound on alto, but I don't think it's Hodges, not quite "sweet" sounding enough. Willie Smith? Sounds like someone from that era. Enjoyable. Positively AWASH in reverb, what's up with that?

7. "Green Onions" right? Here, unlike with Track 1, all this one makes me want to do is hear the original. This cover doesn't do it for me. Too sterile, needs more GREAZE.

8. I'm terrible with song names - I think this is a classic Glenn Miller tune but I can't think of which. Anyway, this was quite enjoyable, but again I'm not sure who it was. Charles McPherson or again Sonny Stitt (don't think so)? Don Patterson on organ? I liked this, but what's with the crazy heavy reverb again?

9. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys? I'm not against use of unconventional instruments in jazz but this just didn't grab me, felt like a lighthearted novelty.

10. Enjoyable - no idea who it is, will be interested to see - I could explore more of this.

11. This had a nice relaxed groove but grew tiresome for me. The harmonica constantly whinging in the left speaker drove me to distraction.

12. Maiden Voyage - this is going to I'm sure be a big puzzler, I'm a bit stumped. The tenor sounds a bit like Harold Land, beefy and slightly nasal quality, but I don't think it's him. I'm really looking forward to finding out the identity of the players. Enjoyable though not a superb cover either.

Could it possibly be the version from Grant Green's ALIVE recording with Claude Bartee on tenor and Neal Creque or Ronnie Foster on organ? (I have that CD in my collection but didn't think of it until after leaving for work this morning so couldn't listen to see)

13. I LOVED this. 100 stars. Swung like mad, great playing by all. Is this a recording by Clarence Williams, who I believe introduced this tune? I will buy this in a heartbeat when I find out.

14. Not really into this - I'm not a big fan of this type of funked-up jazz, feels like neither fish nor flesh to me - pick one or the other and do it well etc.

15. Sounded like they were humorously sending up jazz/rock stuff or something. Lester Bowie on trumpet?

So at least a couple of things I will need to buy when I find out WHAT to buy. This was a very nicely paced disc, great car listening, thanks!

Edited April 21, 2010 by DrJ

[Big Al]

3. Lou Donaldson with Charles Earland, Jimmy Ponder, and Leo Morris, playing "Summertime," this is from the SAY IT LOUD! album on Blue Note, I have this on vinyl. SUPERB. Love it. 5 stars. This is a just a great, floating treatment of this tune, makes me visualize a very lazy, hot summer day.

Wow! I gotta find this SAY IT LOUD album, cuz this version ain't from that record, but after looking at the lineup you listed, all I can say is..... WOW!!!

12. Maiden Voyage - this is going to I'm sure be a big puzzler, I'm a bit stumped. The tenor sounds a bit like Harold Land, beefy and slightly nasal quality, but I don't think it's him. I'm really looking forward to finding out the identity of the players. Enjoyable though not a superb cover either.

Could it possibly be the version from Grant Green's ALIVE recording with Claude Bartee on tenor and Neal Creque or Ronnie Foster on organ? (I have that CD in my collection but didn't think of it until after leaving for work this morning so couldn't listen to see)

THAT'S the version I was thinking of when I was making my guesses! I mean, I knew it was wrong & all, but at least now I know *why*!!!