Dub Modal

Listening to Thanksgiving now. Tom Harrell involved as player and arranger. Best I've listened to so far. Breakbeat alert: Found another winner on You're Not Elected

Interestingly enough the Breckers are on both the AWB Pick up the Pieces and the Sanborn track.

Now I get it. This is the Griff & Lock track, only it's not on the expanded Griff & Lock CD I have. It's from Tough Tenors, a different album all together. So Junior Mance on piano and the Monk quartet members Gales and Riley. And the Sanborn was easy enough to sleuth. First track from this. It's got to be how his saxophone was processed in the recording because it gives off an electric tone at times. So that makes track 10 sleuth-able as well. First track from this. Sammy Figueroa on congas was all that I could find regarding other personnel. Discogs is pretty scant on details about this album.

Great stuff. Listening to the show with Etta Jones and loving it. Billy has a natural interview style that works so well.

That pic cracks me up. Guaraldi must have been a character

Sanborn was nowhere on my radar for track 2. Nice work @felser Once the track is ID'd, the recording date vs AWB's Pick up the Pieces will be interesting

Happy new year! 1 - Old school style on the tenor sax. Great tone and playing. Is it the Stitt/Gonsalves duo on Impulse? Was thinking someone like Hank Jones on keys so this kind of makes sense but it's a wild guess. 2 - Average White Band? It's not Pick Up the Pieces but damn, sounds a whole lot like it. If it's not them, then I'm guessing Eddie Harris. 3 - Jam session? The sax honks in the intro are entertaining. Off time and totally random sounding, like someone's fucking around and having fun. Bluesy as hell. Is Earl Bostic involved? 4 - No idea. The recording has the rhythm section a bit buried - there's drums back there somewhere but I can barely make them out. 5 - Coming up with no ideas here. The sax has some Webster-ish style, but I think this was recorded way later than Ben's day. tough one for me. 6 - Dipping way into the blues well again, and I'm loving the slow tempo. Roland Hanna? No idea on sax or elsewhere. At this point I'm realizing that whatever the obvious song is I'm going to miss the hell out of it. 7 - Oh, this must be it. Of course I can't name it but it's really familiar. At the risk of embarrassment, is it Johnny Griffin and Jaws? Whoever it is, it's my favorite track so far of this BFT. 8 - Here we go with some B3. Nice. Love the guitar as well. Well done by whoever's playing. Reverb is present. I can't tell who this is. Wild Bill on organ? 9 - All right, some clarinet. Art Pepper? Having a hard time making a judgement of when this was recorded. 10 - Going out with a bang here. Ronnie Laws maybe? Thanks for putting this together. Enjoyable listen.

Indeed. Happy new year everyone!

HNY! Thanks for putting this together. Didn't know any of these songs so definitely enjoyed hearing them and reading the reveal.

I had no idea he recorded that much for the Peanuts gang.

That is a good piece. Thanks for the link.

Great article. Thanks - edit to add that their discussion on distribution was really interesting as it was true insider info.

$5 download on Bandcamp https://craftrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/after-hours-remastered-2025

Nice tune. And interesting that it was released in Europe via ECM but it wasn't recorded or mixed by Eicher, nor were his studios used.

PM coming

I don't think I've ever heard of Wingy Manone before but this Storyville set is a great listen.

Raoul Bjorkenheim - Doors of Perception Finnish jazz ftw

Engrossing book. One of my favorites.

Ha, just started this.

Betty Roche's Singin' & Swingin'

Craving some jazz vocals. Etta Jones' From the Heart. Lots of highlights here. Good Morning, Heartache is beautiful. There's not one that I don't enjoy

Interplay for Two Trumpets and Two Tenors

Listened to 2017's 12 Comp (ZIM) the other day and remain awed.

Interesting and full life. His half-sister was a famous writer and his father was a mine speculator with claimed lineage to Scottish royalty.