Soul Stream

Who doesn't love cereal? I'm a Raisin Bran guy since a kid. Also and honorable mention to Lucky Charms.

Yeah,...I caught part of the first episode and it was horrid. Thought I'd never watch again and just stumbled onto in again...was good this time. Except The Motels were pretty bad.

Man....Softly was killing me again today...when Larry holds the bassnote and just starts flying off into oblivion. Pretty wild. By Unity, LY really had that whole thing of his in the palm of his hand, literally.

Always wanted a Vespa, but of course they are really, really expensive these days...old or new. But they are super cool.

It's THE note...randomly enough...Jim Dye picked out one of the most recognizable snippets in jazz organ history. When Jimmy is taking that tune all the way...he plays all sorts of great stuff and then rushes up to THAT note. It's like a knife to the heart when he finally hits it. Timing! Tension and release! Beautiful!

I think of jazz guitarists as two types...those that know the chords to "Have You Met Miss Jones" and those that don't...

Didn't see Jimmy Smith's "Greensleeves" in the track listing. -_-

As is Bill Heid and Goldings obviously... ← Yes, Bill Heid is probably the best there is when it comes to the LY concept. Goldings and Yahel are also wonderful. And again, I think Jim Alfredson has a handle on this stuff as well as exhibited in his "Young's Dream" from their first CD.

Not an "oldies" nut by any stretch. But saw Tommy Tutone come out and kill a Blink 182 song. He nailed it with one of the best rock vocals in my memory. Plus sang his hit Jenny and sounded great as you'd expect. The other acts were fine on their own stuff, but faltered on the cover song they had to sing. Except Tommy Tutone...that guy's got some artistry (can't believe I said that). ...of course...Vanilla Ice won.

Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise is another of those mind-blowing Larry Young pieces. I was actually listening to it last night. He just deconstructs the hell out of that tune. wow!

As much as I love Larry Young, any attempts by me to play in that bag have always been pretty sophomoric and unconvincing. I love to listen and do pick up some of what he's doing, but to integrate that into the JOS bag is pretty ridiculous. You're either in Larry's thing or you ain't it seems. I know Jim really knows Young's concept. Adam Scone is also very, very convincing in that style as I've seen him rip "Monk's Dream" "Talkin' Bout J.C" and others to a ridiculous degree. But as for me...uhhh....

The type of playing Jim is referring too...well, it's technically not easy and you would need to be used to making those sort of stretches routinely, but Larry Young was Larry Young. His whole style was based on this sort of chordal, harmonic nuttiness (for lack of a better term). Beautiful stuff. But it gives me a hand cramp just thinking of holding those sort of stretches constantly.

Thanks Jim...that first EAD/G is a hell of a stretch. Larry must've had huge hands to do that sort of thing constantly. I've got big hands, but it's still uncomfortable on that first set of intervals.

Oh, yes. That's very cool. Gonna have to figure that one out. Thanks for pointing it out. Larry's really blowing at the end of his solo on Ritha amazing. Still, one of the most amazing Larry Young solos to me his his complete and utter destruction of Talkin' About J.C. off the Talkin' Bout album. His solo on that is just jaw dropping. And it goes on and on and on and on.....

There are no extra songs or additional takes from this session.

CJ, Although a few of the answers may sound a little "music-speak", my intention wasn't a "musicians only" question. Feel free to quote index points such as "1:26-1:47" in a song to show what passage you want to show.

At what point in the song are you talking about Jim, before or after the head?

Same version, just edited.

Yes Jim! That is one of the most remarkable bits pure improvisation ever. Fantastic.

I haven't put on much Larry Young in while. However, was listening today. Aside from the obvious remarks about originality, I really enjoy certain rhythmic things and pet finger patterns he leans on as a basis to his style. Can't point out a single passage right now, but wondered if anybody had any particular passages of Larry Young. Not neccessarily a whole tune, but that's cool too....

O.K...I'll give you a pass. Didn't notice the connection to Playboy, so...that's KIND of funny. Just don't get used to it.

Argg. The ol' "organ" joke... No wonder we had to resort to calling it by it's "B3" brand name.

Hasn't Gerry Mulligan scoffed at the whole 'natural musician' myth? I'm sure he said that Chet could read the dots, knew the chords but he didn't always know what the chords were called! It's nicer to believe the 'romantic' version. And hell, I've been stranded during 'Have You Met Miss Jones' even WITH the book! ← Yes, I think it's time for everyone to drop the myth that Chet was an musical savant. Like Chet's bogus story of how he got hired to play with Charlie Parker, he liked to perpetuate these silly stories that made him somehow superhuman.

Yes, I love that book as well. However, this has been argued back and forth quite a bit, but.... The idea that Chet is SOLELY an "ear" player just cannot be correct. A "natural" musician, gifted beyond compare for his ear..o.k., I'll buy that. But the idea that Chet just blows on top of any old complicated set of changes, playing intricate scalar stuff at times...I AIN'T buying. This lore that is so easily gobbled up by people in general has got to be put to rest. NOBODY picks up and instrument and blows that stuff with little or no knowledge of what's going on harmonically. Russ Freeman talks of Chet being an ear player, yet in the book people talk about Chet bringing in his book and it falling off the stand leaving him stranded on stage during "Have You Met Miss Jones." So, that might be a good story, but it's misleading for musicians to hear that imho...

This is a great CD. Some GREAT examples of Groove's basswork in a very, very clean and clear setting. I love the way he plays ballads.