Wonder who's playing on this

[Michael Weiss]

West Coast Airlines

[AllenLowe]

I hope it's a West Coast band.

one of the stewardesses looks like Dorothy Provine.

Edited October 25, 2010 by AllenLowe

[brownie]

Wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be an East Coast group

[AllenLowe]

or a French band -

[Larry Kart]

Definitely West Coasters, albeit with an East Coast vibe. Going just by sound, I would say either Victor Feldman or Mike Wofford on piano, Harold Land or Plas Johnson on tenor (or someone kind of in between those two -- dammit, I KNOW that guy's sound), maybe Buddy Collette on flute. Trombonist is tricky. If it's a valve trombonist (and I think it might be), sounds something like Bob Enevoldson. If it's not a valve trombonist, I'm stumped -- too many possibilities. Doesn't quite sound like Rosolino to me but could be him. Frank might be a good guess because he, Land, and Feldman made a nice record together, as Free For All can testify.

[AllenLowe]

are you Larry Kart or The Amazing Kreskin?

Edited October 25, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Peter Friedman]

Definitely West Coasters, albeit with an East Coast vibe. Going just by sound, I would say either Victor Feldman or Mike Wofford on piano, Harold Land or Plas Johnson on tenor (or someone kind of in between those two -- dammit, I KNOW that guy's sound), maybe Buddy Collette on flute. Trombonist is tricky. If it's a valve trombonist (and I think it might be), sounds something like Bob Enevoldson. If it's not a valve trombonist, I'm stumped -- too many possibilities. Doesn't quite sound like Rosolino to me but could be him. Frank might be a good guess because he, Land, and Feldman made a nice record together, as Free For All can testify.

Though I can't identify the musicians, I am positive the tenor player is NOT Harold Land. The tone and phrasing don't sound (to me) a bit like the way Land plays.

[Larry Kart]

are you Larry Kart or The Amazing Kreskin?

Not Kreskin, but when you've been listening to shit for 56 years, part of your brain becomes a sonic filing cabinet. The same I'm sure is true for you. Just guesses above, though I would be astonished if those weren't West Coast guys.

[JSngry]

Wilton Felder on tenor, definitely. Quite possibly The Jazz Crusaders as a whole.

[Larry Kart]

Right -- it's Wilton Felder whose sound I was thinking of. And Wayne Henderson and Joe Sample certainly fit. But the flute player?

[JSngry]

Could be Wilton...don't know if he ever doubled on record, but a gig like this would be a good place to do it.

Other than that...who fits that would have been running in The Crusaders' circle around this time?

[Larry Kart]

If it is The Crusaders, that was a pretty hip airline and/or ad agency. But then Chuck and I both knew a lovely, very knowledgeable and devoted jazz lover named Richard Rand, sadly deceased, who worked at Leo Burnett on the Dewar's account and was responsible for getting Henry Threadgill in one of those Dewar's Profiles ads. IIRC, Threadgill was asked in an interview what he was paid for doing the ad and said something like, No money but lots of scotch.

[JSngry]

The Crusaders were somwhat "connected", not in the Tommy Tedesco/Bud Shank/Carol Kaye "we know everybody and play every gig" sense, but as I understand it, the group did have a fair amount of SoCal "crossover" appeal by the mid/late 60s and the individual members had begun doing a variety of sessions. That any one of them made a connection that resulted in a scoring gig for what amounts to an "industrial" film wouldn't be too big a surprise.

L.A. can be like that, ya' know.

[Chuck Nessa]

[Stereojack]

The Crusaders came to mind pretty quickly for me, too. I see that several others had the same idea.