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First thing, RDK, thanks for a great test. I had a ball. Track 3. “Lady Day and John Coltrane” Gil Scott-Heron: If it isn't jazz, I do not know what it is;) Track 4. “Elm” Richie Beirach: At first, I had thought of Zbigniew Seifert. How strange, since "Elm" is dedicated to him. Then, I moved on to D.D.Jackson on piano and Christian Howes on violin, but I did not dare to write it As a matter of fact, I have this CD, but I had never listened to this track. The piece was familiar to me from its ECM recording but I couldn't nail it down. Track 7. “Silence” Keith Jarrett: I knew from the beginning that it was Haden's composition, but at first I hadn't thought of the Jarrett quartet version. Then, of course, I gave the record a spin, and there it was... Track 9. “Witchi-Tai-To” Jim Pepper: I love this record (as just as almost everything Jim Pepper plays on). Track 10. “Un Poco Loco” Johnny Smith : My private guess was Jack Marshall and Shelly Manne, but I knew it couldn't be Shelly. Track 16. “Peace and Love” Gary Bartz: I was there, that night! Eleven years old, but I was there. Thanks Dad Thanks again! Luca

... and #15, I think, is track number 4 from THIS Luca

Re #7, I think that the song is Charlie Haden's "Silence", and the band is Keith Jarrett's quartet w/ Redman, Haden and Motian. THIS Luca

Yes, I know But I was only looking for the link (I have the LP since it first came out in 1983. Great record, by the way). Luca

You chose Jim Pepper's second version, I think: This Luca

The piano player might sound like Rowles, in fact, but the song is not You Are Too Beautiful, in my opinion (I've just tried a couple of different versions, and it looks like a different piece). Luca

# 423, bought in 2000. Luca

# 5, first disc: This Nice to hear it again. I hadn't listened to that CD for a long time. Luca

As well as a Japanese Sony Master Sound cardboard edition in 1999 (SRCS 9192-3) that Italian Sony imported and distributed for a short while. I bought mine then. Luca

I have Inner Glow on LP. I'm all with Brownie on that one. A great record that deserves a reissue. Luca

Never heard of Rudolph Johnson before, but the tune was not new to me. There's another version of it on Clifford Jordan's "Two Tenor Winner" from 1984 (Criss Cross 1011) with Junior Cook, Kirk Lightsey, Cecil McBee and Eddie Gladden . Now I know why I had been toying with Jordan's name for some days, RE #2. But the Jordan version is faster (too fast, in my opinion) and I think I like the Johnson one a lot more. A very nice discovery, indeed. I guess I have to buy that CD. Thanks, again. Luca

Well, better late than never Luca

Rock's last hint gives away the solution to #9: #9 Wicked choice :-) Luca

Have the MPS LP since 1977. Haven't listened to it for a long time, but my recollections of it were more big band-oriented. Time to dig it out! Luca

LA, August 13, 1977 Manny Boyd (ts, sop), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), George Cables (p), James Leary (bass), Eddie Marshall (d), Bobbye Porter (perc). Luca

First of all, it's a great selection, in my opinion. Some considerations: #1. Jaco, of course. #2. My first impression was Stan Getz. Then Charles Lloyd. Then Wayne Shorter. So it has to be yet someone else... Great track, one of the disc's best. #3. RRK. Funny how I spotted the drummer first, and then the whistle gave it away. #4. I, too, had thought of Larry Young (but I could not remember Young ever playing this piece, which I knew in other people's version, but not this one). Very nice. #5. That's Shorter for sure. Almost too easy! #6. Cassandra Wilson? I do not know her latest records well, it's only a wild guess. #7. Great track. The bass riff was all I needed. It's a record I know almost by heart. 'Nuff said. #8. Julius Hemphill and Nels Cline? #9. I am certain I have and know this, but I can't decide who's playing. Wild guess, again: Charles Tolliver, James Spaulding, Stanley Cowell. Otherwise, the bass player sounds like Ron Carter (Clint Houston maybe?), and the piano player a curious mix between a '60s Steve Kuhn and Andrew Hill... The string arrangement sounds to me like a Gary McFarland thing. Nice track, anyway. #10. Gato. I have (and love) that. #11. Why do I have the idea that it's Kenny Wheeler playing? Is it a Graham Collier group? #12. I was waiting for Pharoah Sanders (in his Theresa period) to come in, but it didn't happen... #13. A Mingus vibe, but no Mingus, so it must be Ted Curson. #14. Eugene Chadbourne? Marc Ribot? #15. It looks like a track from the Capitol "Ultra Lounge" series, but I can't say who it is. Rockefeller Center, it has been a great listening experience. You really have a knack for putting compilations together! A disc I will come back to often. Thanks. Luca

Brownie, don't worry, your CD is on its way. I forwarded it to you as soon as I got mine. Luca

I got'em, too. Just forwarded one. Thanks. Luca

He's also on a recent Ahmad Jamal CD, "Live in Paris 1996", released on Dreyfus in 2003. There's also George Coleman on tenor sax. An excellent concert, in my opinion. Luca

I think it was on Regent/Savoy. Luca

Yes, I have those. They were issued in 1979 by Raretone,a label coordinated by Liborio Pusateri, one of the authors of DESOR. Four volumes came out, three recorded in 1948 at Click Restaurant in Philadelphia (vol.1, 2 and 4), and the other volume recorded in February 1949 at the Hollywood Palladium (volume 3 of the series). I think that most of this material has never been reissued elsewhere, and the four LPs have become quite rare. Luca

There's a Philology CD ("Sweet Paul", Philology W72.2) that has two tracks by the Jack Sheedy Sextet with Paul Desmond, recorded in San Francisco, January 1950. It looks like those are the earliest known Desmond solos. Tracks are "The Man I Love" (with an alto solo) and "Down in Honky Tonk Town" (here Desmond takes a clarinet solo). Luca

My copy is #2714 of the 1995 1st edition of 3000. The sticker says "Pressed on 150-Gram Vinyl" Luca

Me too. Corny they may be, but I find them refreshing in their naivete (and I happen to enjoy quite a lot the sound that Horace gets out of that RMI electric piano). Luca