CJ Shearn

Joe, the sort of out stuff Pat was playing was like, the crazy shit on the last chorus of 12's with Bill Stewart on "Soul Cowboy" on "Trio Live". After the gig we talked about youtube a bit, Pat said youtube is a "troubling phenomenon in our society" apparently someone shot a vid of him dropping his kids off at school, really strange and kind of creepy. I can understand it too with all the low quality camera phone shot vids from gigs and such

what an amazing show, I just got back home after much bus travel this AM. Pat played the best I've ever heard, my friend and I were in the front row, I was right in front of Pat's GR300 synth console and his Digitech pedal board. The interplay with Pat and Jack was on another level, they played a searing "I'll Remember April", where Pat started playing 8 bar exchanges with Jack for several choruses, Pat got real outside, and Jack responded with volcanic playing of his own, at tunes end Pat went over to Jack, slapped him five, then Jack slapped Larry five and they all laughed. Q&A of course was great, Pat went into some heavy shredding a la live versions of "Offramp", and he even did some filter sweeping which was very cool. The last tune of the night, "Broadway Blues" was a blast. Pat was rhythmically displacing the melody, engaging everyone in some free improv, and hilarious false endings, doing some real C&W finger style picking omn the fretless 12 string, at one point referencing loosely "The Star Spangled Banner" before going right back into the head. After the gig, after I asked the crew if the guys were coming out also b/c as some ppl here may know from my mentioning in passing the wheelchair access is real tough back stage. Larry came first to pack his bass, what a great guy, he signed Mehldau's "Trio Live" and loved my Pablo records tshirt. Jack came out, I met him, got a few pics, and he signed "Saudades" and "Pilgrimage" for me, he was very tired but soo hip, and I finally after 5 years met Pat! Jack graciously brought the discs I wanted signed to Pat. At first he was carrying around my Mehldau disc by accident, I said "Jack, you got the wrong disc, the Mehldau, not the Brecker" and he was like "oh!!!!!!!!!!!! let me see here" it was really funny. Pat came out, brought the discs to me, I introduced myself, thanked him and told him how I saw him on the SoN tour in Purchase and how I had an email interview with him, he remembered! we were talking a few mins, what a great generous human being, totally genuine. He was totally interested and not looking at someone in a wheelchair as many people are apt to do. Pics coming soon, what a great night, met some ppl from the "American Garage" board too, and we were all talking with Pat. I need to nap now hardly got much sleep!

I remember hearing one of my teachers talk about the tune "Guernica" before I even heard the album, back in HS. Its a hip tune.

wow, and I've always thought of ECM as being refined in presentation, looks like I'll have to buy more slim jewel cases. I think "Saudades" is the album I would use to show someone why Jack is one of the greatest drummers in the world, and I think when this decade is up it will be among one of the best jazz albums this decade.

thats dissapointing to hear these aren't remastered and in thin crappy packaging. I'm going to see Jack DeJohnette/Pat Metheny/Larry Grenadier friday night in Woodstock, maybe I'll have Jack just sign "Saudades" by Trio Beyond instead, thats one of my favs.

cool, thanks. Most live Freddie I've heard from the 80's is a can't miss. Of course the opportunity to hear some Joe Henderson I've never heard is great too.

I ordered DeJohnette's "Special Edition" which I've never heard/owned in any format.

I ordered both the original which I recently had heard as an LP burn, and 2nd live volume as Wounded Bird just reissued them. I know its nothing earth shattering, just good solid post bop on the studio side, but how is the double live album? I see it has a very long version of "Guernica" which for me is the highlight of the first volume.

it appears to be a new recording from May this year with a trio of Jerry Weldon on tenor and Byron Landham. Joey's playing the Diversi as you can see on the back insert. on High Note. http://www.amazon.com/Joey-D-DeFrancesco/d...4599&sr=1-1

I have all the Metheny's they all sound ok except First Circle but the music there I love so much so I don't know.

as a leader for me its definitely "Up at Minton's" and "Sugar". "Cherry" is up there too. As a sideman, its about the records that have been with me thru my entire life: "Midnight Special" and "Back at the Chicken Shack", also the JOS "Fourmost/Fourmost Return" gig and "Off the Top" I like very much too, as well as the "Gene Harris Trio+ One" date. Stanley's smokin on "Uptown Sop"

I'll buy it to have all those tracks in official form. But now I feel even sorrier I dumped the original single CD remasters to go for the boxset which I haven't bought yet. I don't regret dumping the single disc reissues of the '65-68 stuff to get that box tho

damn, cuz theres a lot of details in PMG tracks I'd love to uncover............ or, in the case of CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl, hearing what Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter really played live as opposed to the Steve Gadd/Gary King overdubs in the album mix, cuz I would really hear Jack's broken funk over "Rock Steady" and "Inner City Blues".

I'm listening to the "What's Going On?" tracks, right now Marvin's lead vocal. Also d/l' "Superstition". Is there a way to use a program to do this with CD's? it sounds like the second lead vocal for Marvin is the one mostly used on the master take of "What's Going On"? this stuff is great

its a great set. "Oh Baby" is a terrific album, that Patton-Green-Dixon rhythm section is second to none. Actually, Green and Dixon are one of my fav. organ rhythm sections of all time behind Benson and Dukes and McFadden and Bailey

damn, I just caught this today. I was JUST thinking about putting on "Introducing" and "A Blowin Session" later on, and I find out reading this, he passed . I loved that gruff R&B-ish tone of his and his fluency. I also like the jam session with Count Basie at Montreux '75, and his one off with JOS. Man, if only Alfred had tapped him for one of JOS' jams with horns! And how could I forget? I love his contribution to Wes' "Full House".

ahh ok, thanks Niko!

sorry! I didn't mean to imply Bobbi Humphrey, I meant that Hart said the affair Lee had was with a "prostitute, a hustler" (his words) rather than something with Bobbi Humphrey

what did Bobbi Humphrey do that made her a "jazz great?" those shitty Mizell Bros. produced sides? I even read, I think it was here, she didn't improvise. Anyway, Billy Hart's story about the night Lee died, makes it very obvious the other woman was not Bobbi Humphrey. He said she was "a prostitute, a hustler"

RIP, he played fine on "Interplay".

man, did Lou play Cherokee at a ridiculous tempo? I've been listening to "Here 'Tis" a lot lately.

awesome! hopefully a whole new generation of ppl my age will be exposed to this stuff

Lou Donaldson: Here Tis- fantastic organ combo recording with Grant Green and Baby Face Willette on organ. burning stuff on this album!

I bought "The Dream Team" and "McGriff's House Party" last night 'cept that XB3 on "Dream Team" is way too thin.

I was shocked to read the news at AAJ. RIP