Kari S

Ok, but there was not that long ago. They were selling the exact same model released back in the day - with the same pricetag.

Maybe they mic'd it or recorded it or tuned/set it up wrong, who knows. In the late 60's/very early 70's there are lots of examples of "poor sounding Rhodes" all over the place, where the piano sometimes sounds like a celeste even. I don't think Hancock himself found his perfect "sound" for it until Headhunters, in 1973. It was a lot more fuller, not so staccato but still retaining that percussive feel. As far as the Hubbard CTIs are considered, I agree that RED CLAY and STRAIGHT LIFE are "musts", especially the forementioned. SKY DIVE is also really good - by the way didn't Jarrett say that he wouldn't touch the electric piano after Miles; he surely plays it here. I actually have all of them, and "Keep Your Soul Together" from 1973 (http://tinyurl.com/ncvpb) is also highly recommended. On POLAR AC, if I remember correctly, he's starting to slip a little into to the slick Columbia period, it features Bob James onboard and some strings etc.

Ditto... Well actually I was considering buying my first laptop, and going for the G4 Powerbook - which technically isn't even "new" anymore, the new ones are called Macbooks. I also need an MP3 player (I'm tired of my current 1GB solution) with good capacity, and the gazillion gigabyte iPods are just unbeatable at that. But they're all soooo expensive. Sure, they're (Apple) riding the "hip & trendy" wave, and sometimes - as with iBooks - they're selling old technology with an Apple logo, a white case and a huuge pricetage. But am I wrong in saying that this is all still pretty "recent"? I mean I don't think Apple was "hip" in such a big way before the whole iPod craze. And that seems like it wasn't that long ago.

I'm always interested in hearing Douglas' latest offerings. 'The Infinite' is my favorite too, hands down (from the quintet). Although I enjoyed hearing the 'Strange Liberation' band live, I didn't really enjoy the cd that much, for some reason.

Hmmm... Do I take it that this isn't your favorite then? How is it by the way?

I know he wasn't really a jazz guy, but at least he (kinda) had his own style. Like him or not? What do you recommend from his own releases or from his various sideman gigs?

Bennie Maupin's "MOONSCAPES" from 1978... Pretty awful stuff Bennie's blowing, well like Bennie, high in the upper register all the time, over some very commercial sounding beats...

What - "Bitches Brew"? - the Miles tune? Anyway, it seems I'mma gonn have to pick this up...

Don't know if these were mentioned already, but Bennie Maupin and Eddie Henderson in the 70's come to mind...

Or is restricting his/her listening to the MTV playlist crap that's polluting the airwaves. Record companies give money to rappers even before they've recorded one thing for chrissakes - just so that they can buy them Escalades and big a** houses.

Q-Tip came pretty close. Or the guys from Brand Nubian, or Mos Def. This was in the 90's

Charlie Rouse...? and er.... Kenny G?

R.I.P. Grooved with everybody from Miles, to Joni Mitchell to Santana.

Donald Fagen: Morph The Cat 2006 Been listening to this on repeat for probably eight times now. It's all right! Lyrically Fagen touches on post 9/11; some reference to the Bush administration ('Mary Shut The Garden Door'); an imaginary discussion between a young himself and Ray Charles ('What I Do'); on death ('Brite Nitegown') etc. The musicians are familiar from the recent incarnations of Steely Dan: Keith Carlock, Jon Herington, Wayne Krantz among others. Sound-wise, this is also familiar stuff. All of the tunes have that rhythm n blueish, straight "Fagen beat", like on Steely Dan's Everything Must Go, in different tempos. The songs are instantly recognisable Fagen, some maybe a bit more complex than "regular" Dan stuff, and he also allows the soloists to stretch longer than the usual few bars on a standard Dan song. Even though the cd only has eight songs, some, like 'The Great Pagoda of Funn' definitely require more listening times to open up. Then there are more straightforward r&b groove tunes, like the fantastic 'What I Do' (my favorite hands down) or 'Brite Nitegown'. But all obviously feature that warm r&b groove, great licks, tasteful horn arrangements and great playing all around, that's what you'd expect. ::tup

Mobley's Another Workout sounds exactly like that, just a *yawn* another blowing session. If I may so bold to say, one of the dullest sessions I've heard.

Sure. But how about Lance Reddick from 'The Wire'? I can totally see the resemblance...a good actor too, although not really "a big name"

Yeah, he sure does have a great band. Although I didn't quite dig 'Vertical', this looks like it could be interesting

Yeah Woody was staying in Paris and asked Larry to come join him with some Parisians in a band. I think they were something like a house band at some point.

The blond girl that got eliminated, Heather Cox I think her name was, has a bright future ahead of her as a porn star. She already has the name...

Just noticed this: http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tix/performan...ail.cfm?id=2683 James Brown: Soul On Top Jazz at the Bowl JZ1-HB Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 8:00 PM Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Avenue Hollywood, CA (323) 850-2000 Artists: James Brown Angie Stone Program: In a one-of-a-kind concert, the Godfather of Funk revisits his 1969 jazz big band album Soul On Top. Backed by a big band, with original arrangements by Oliver Nelson, Brown sings standards and vamps up one or two of his classics with swinging style. R&B queen Angie Stone opens the show. --- I know it isn't until September, but I'm already intrigued by this...

Richard Pryor doing an interview, high on coke:

I quite recently bought IF (1974). Boy does it suck... His tone sounds ridiculos, as do all the solos for that matter. The one 'giantsteps-ish' tune is probably the worst of the bunch... So AVOID

I'm not quite sure which release the writer of this topic is referring to, because if it's "Shades of Blue", that was released almost three years ago. Even though Madlib is very good at what he does (maybe 'genius' might be pushing it a bit, but...), I found it to be, well nothing special really. First of all, even though he "got access to the BN vaults", he only sampled the safest choises like Wayne's 'Footprints'. If he had the chance, why didn't he "dig deeper". And second, he only sampled the themes and not any solos. I think there would've been some intersting collages had he done that, and done it well. The Yesterday's New Quintet (or Madlib x five) has some very inspired moments, but also a lot (or too much actually) of first-grader keyboard noodling. The Stevie Wonder "tribute" he also released borders on sacrilege... "Madvillain" (by MF Doom and Madlib) is however a solid masterpiece.