BFT 73 (It's All About the) Discussion (of ME) Thread

[Big Al]

Finally got to listen to disc 1 -- way behind this month. I dug most of this a lot. It kind of lost steam at the end of disc 1.

1 - aaaah... Peter Schickele?

2 - Well, some old fart must've turned 40.

3 - Groovy. No idea, but fun.

4 - Again, no idea, but fun. So far this encompasses an entire segment of the genre that I'm woefully ignorant of, but I like it.

5 - Very much digging this. In a weird way, the drums remind me of a tune on Pharoah's album PHAROAH on India Navigation.

6 - That bass is killing me. Hate that sound. Otherwise, I'm much digging this track. I'll throw out the guess of Bernard Purdie on drums. Organ seems too tame to be Groove, but seems a lot like one of his 70s recordings.

7 - Stanley Turrentine on tenor, got that right away. I guess I could pretty safely guess BP on drums again.

8 - That was like George W. on a bender -- clueless, but fun.

9 - This is tasty. Maybe something from George Braith? Dunno. Recognize the alto, but... can't peg it. At times, there are ideas that have me thinking James Spaulding, but the tone is wrong. At times, there's some Carl Grubbs in there, but seems to constrained to be him.

10 - Chops to spare. Not entirely sure who it is, but a very clean sound. Heavy vibrato, so I'm guessing an older guy. This is plain fun.

11 - This one is just too flowery for my tastes. Sounds like a soundtrack to a movie I'm guiltily watching because I'm too vegetative to do anything else. Or waiting to have my teeth drilled.

12 - No clue. Pass, though... a strained oblique makes it painful for me to have my right arm raised, finger pointed, as I shake my hips....

1. I'm pretty sure I've never been so complimented in my life. Wow!!!

2. I'm pretty sure I've never been so insulted in all my .... koff! hack! HAAAARRRCCCHHH!!!! Ptooie! Now, where was I? And who took my cane? And why are these kids playing my lawn!?!?!?

6. I tell ya, there was a time in my life I would've guessed Purdie on drums on this one, until I became a fan of the actual drummer. Now, for some reason, I can pick out his drumming among others.

12. :lol:

[Big Al]

Answers coming this weekend! I'd like to say the delay is due to very detailed work much like what I put into the construction of the BFT itself, or that I'm still allowing for late-minute stragglers.... but the real reason is that, once again, time got away from me and, yes, I'd like to do more than just list the answers, simply because there's a story behind a lot of these which I'm itchin' to share!