CJ Shearn

when Mitchell is collectively improvising with Jimi on "The Star Spangled Banner" it really reminds me of Trane and Elvin, as well as Trane w/ Rashied Ali

damn. great, tasteful player. RIP

I think Sonny Theodore Rollins. Anyway "Road Shows" is wonderful. Sonny on "Best Wishes", "Blossom" "Tenor Madness", and "Some Enchanted Evening" is masterful. I just wish he'd decide to release the whole Carnegie Hall gig

I love Kenny Garrett, but I feel underwhelmed a bit by the record, especially b/c when compared to the live shows I have of him circa 1996 with Pat, Nat Reeves, Brian Blade which are smoking. That said, "The Ring" is great, I love how Kenny explores those overtones and harmonics as Jim stated. Still I don't think this record touches "Beyond the Wall" or "Standard of Language". It would have been great if "Sketches" was a double album, as they did play "Beyond the Wall" tunes live, but I can enjoy it for what it is, and hey it gets more Pharoah out there

could the vinyl be any worse than the awful DMM vinyl reissues of the mid 80's?

thanks for the tip. I picked up Soul Box from my CC tonight. They have 1 copy of "Inner City Blues" but they couldn't find it. WTF is with the Walter Beasley and Norman Brown shit tho?

saw a youtube vid from Mosaic on the Woody Shaw homepage, are they reissuing this as a Mosaic single?

I don't understand why they didn't just put all 3 discs in a triple digipak. Watch, down the line they'll put out this set like that minus the bonuses.

get well George!

I enjoy my set but again I haven't owned 1 million copies of KOB. I like having official versions of the false starts, the live cut, the '58 Miles session, and the book. I think my vinyl is fine I have checked it, I plan to frame it. I put the discs in regular cases, some rub marks from the package but they don't affect play. This is why I dislike the ECM Touchstone series design, my copy of Jack DeJohnette's "Special Edition" is scratched up

I guess cuz McGriff was an endorser he continued to play a XB-3 even tho it sucked? honestly the Diversi sounds world's better than an XB-3, my guess is b/c Joey had them clone his B-3 or maybe even Jimmy's, that he used on Organic Vibes

I was 10 when Miles died and it hit me hard, one of my fav. albums always was "Someday My Prince Will Come"

I ordered it along with the new Kenny Garrett and KOB 50th anniversary

I find the "It Club" set to be full of exceptional and vibrant playing.

wow, good stuff. Yes I can see the resemblance to Michiru here

I'll be sure to order "Groovadelphia" soon!

since this thread went dead in the Hammond organ forum, I picked this up yesterday. Pretty good disc, trio with Jerry Weldon and Byron Landham. I guess this is the first record where Joey plays the Diversi, and I gotta say it sounds very close if not exact from Joey's B-3 all the details like percussion and Leslie break, etc. I guess this functions as a Diversi demo record as such as the liners rather stupidly make a big deal about it and act as if the timbres Joey's using are different than usual. The real surprise is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" which escapes cheesiness with a hip modal vamp. I don't think this album is as strong as "The Official Bootleg" or "Organic Vibes", but Joey's playing is superb and continues to move away from JOS cliches and such.

I'll usually have on stuff I made on an MP3 disc at work, Miles, Trane, Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny but sometimes I'll bring other discs too. Joe, whats worse is I've listened to PMG, and I'll have headphones and I'll be quietly singing along and coworkers think its off pitch. I mean that stuff has to be full volume to truly get the best effect, but lol thats funny.

damn I'd love to see the good Doctor. He did a Stevie Wonder impression? LOL

I heard this barf inducing panflute stuff in the office today, at first I thought it was my coworker Jack who likes a lot of questionable easy listening material, but it was my other coworker Kelly listening to some CD (it wasn't Zamfir lol) with painful renditions of "My Heart Will Go On" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" blasting on the otherside of the room. And ppl complain about what comes from my computer? LOL. I would love to blast "Ascension", the more out moments of "The Elephant Sleeps but Still Remembers", or "Song X" hehe.

I wish George would cut a record with Lonnie and Ronnie Cuber

lol on the shirt Scott. Pat actually was wearing a really cool black long dress casual long sleeve shirt (with the sleeves rolled up) with a hood during the gig. Only thing is you can see my tooth needs to be capped as its shorter than my other front tooth, it was bonded but it got broken off last year and it was rebonded. I love Jack in tht pic, we look like old buds. He added me to his myspace afterwards, I sent the request, I know he checks it so I sent him a heartfelt message of thanks.

Bringin It Home has Benson blowing his ass off, especially on "Summertime".

pics finally!