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bumpin' with the tidbit that the drone-y instrument in Track 6 is not a sitar, but a tambura or tanpura that unlike a sitar doesn't have frets so it can't be used to play melodies

1. very melodic but it gets boring as there's no personality. Sounds like Brubeck/Desmond at times.

2. The groove is excellent but I don't like the piano. I like the drummer more.

3. The saxophone seems influenced by Coltrane. How would you call this anyway? I feel like it's between fusion and prog

4. This sounds from the 70's or even way before. I like it.

5. I don't have a clue about this tune but I like the joyous feel

6. This seems like a Coltrane rip off, it clearly lacks of depth for me

7. Now this has personality. Great dialogue

8. The singer doesn't say much to me. Not bad nor good. Nice solo

9. I like this. It always keep the tension - and the music keeps changing till the end.

10. This is a blues right? 70s, right? I liked the keyboard player the most

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6 is certainly closely related to John Coltrane - I think it's kind of interesting how in the late 60's and 70's there was a lot of this kind of movement towards more repetitive, hypnotic structures and a certain meditative simplicity in music whether it was modal/spiritual jazz like here or the emergence of kraut rock or the early minimalism of composers like Steve Reich or Terry Riley

10 is certainly in a blues form - the horn playing is the highlight here for me personally, but I love listening to nice swingin' soul-jazz hammond, too

a couple more bumps before reveals begin

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Hey jtg, post some more blindfold tests.

last bump before the reveal - still time to enter if you start right now

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what kind of stuff are you most interested in?

do you have any from the mid-70's?

I'd be interested to see what kind of stuff they played in the tests in that time period

Nope, most of my collection comes from the 50's and 60's. I've got the whole year of 1970 and one random issue from '83 but no other ones from the 70's.