BFT266 Link & Discussion

[Ken Dryden]

Download the May BFT here:
 

https://thomkeith.net/2026-organissimo-blindfold-tests/

[cayetano]

I listened to the first 3 (the art of duo).

1. "Smoke gets in your eyes"? Sax-guitar sounds similar to Lovano-Frisell. Nice.

2. I love that vibraphone. Top. It's Walt Dickerson with Richard Davis? 

3. I don't recognize the theme. It's Kenny Burrell in the 80s? Maybe Rufus Reid on bass? There is a live duo but I don't have it.

 

[Ken Dryden]

2 hours ago, cayetano said:

I listened to the first 3 (the art of duo).

1. "Smoke gets in your eyes"? Sax-guitar sounds similar to Lovano-Frisell. Nice.

2. I love that vibraphone. Top. It's Walt Dickerson with Richard Davis? 

3. I don't recognize the theme. It's Kenny Burrell in the 80s? Maybe Rufus Reid on bass? There is a live duo but I don't have it.

 

Obviously track 1 is "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.

Track 2 is Walt Dickerson, but Richard DAvis is not present.

Track 3 does not feature Kenny Burrell nor Rufus Reid.

 

[cayetano]

2. It's "God bless the child" from his masterpiece "To my queen", with George Tucker. Just I got a japanese vinyl reissue in the listening stack.

Another batch:

4. Great hard-bop. I got this: "The rat race blues" by Gigi Gryce on Prestige. With Richard Williams, tp; Richard Wyands, p; Julian Euell, b; Mickey Roker, dr.

5. I like a lot this bass clarinet, but no idea who is.

6. Not my fav style, sounds to me like neo-bop from the 80s, maybe Harrison-Blanchard?

Edited yesterday at 02:20 PM by cayetano

[T.D.]

#6 is April in Paris but I don't have this recording or recognize the artists. The Thad Jones version (from The Magnificent...) is the one imprinted on my memory.

[Ken Dryden]

29 minutes ago, cayetano said:

2. It's "God bless the child" from his masterpiece "To my queen", with George Tucker. Just I got a japanese vinyl reissue in the listening stack.

Another batch:

4. Great hard-bop. I got this: "The rat race blues" by Gigi Gryce on Prestige. With Richard Williams, tp; Richard Wyands, p; Julian Euell, b; Mickey Roker, dr.

5. I like a lot this bass clarinet, but no idea who is.

6. Not my fav style, sounds to me like neo-bop from the 80s, maybe Harrison-Blanchard?

Obviously correct on tracks 2 & 4l

Track 5 is not a bass clarinet.

Track 6 is not Harrison-Blanchard.

 

[cayetano]

5. Oh, it's a clarinet, maybe Jimmy Giuffre?

[Ken Dryden]

Not Jimmy Giuffre.

[Lester Mobley]

Continuing my momentum from the end of last month, I've managed to post well before the end of the month. Thanks for putting it together! I enjoyed everything.

1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. I enjoy the sax, but not a big fan of the guitar with that decay/echo. Wild guess: Seamus Blake and Kurt Rosenwinkel?

2. Don't know a lot of vibraphone and bass duos, so my guess is Walt Dickerson and Richard Davis. Davis certainly plays arco in some duets with pianists I've heard.

3. All I can say is it's a song composed by a West Coast jazz musician. I know Phineas Newborn does a cover on the Newborn Touch album. Bluesy and groovy. Nice.

4. Gigi Gryce! I think this is from one of his three Prestige/New Jazz albums with Richard Williams and Richard Wyands.

5. I'm sure I've heard Coltrane play this tune. Nice to hear a bass clarinet. No ideas.

6. A standard, familiar tune. I forgot the name of course. Relaxed but pleasant. Maybe a bit tepid, in that I enjoyed it but it doesn't quite grab me.

7/8/9/10. No ideas. I also forgot the name of the bebop tune in 10...

11. Romantic waltz. Prominent bass. I guess for that reason it puts in my mind John Hicks's covers of Pas de Trois, but it's not the same song and it's not Hicks. No ideas.

12. The tenor is coming out of blues or R&B or something along those lines. How about King Curtis?

13. Lovely standard song. No ideas on the guitars.

14. Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan! I can't keep the names of the spirituals straight, but I'm sure it's from Goin' Home, a gorgeous album.

15. Feels good. Could this be the Louis Hayes group with Abraham Burton and Steve Nelson? David Hazeltine wouldn't have been my first guess for the pianist, so I'm hesitant.

16. The trumpet is making me think of Wallace Roney. And maybe Billy Pierce on tenor? I think I enjoyed the rhythm section the most.