CJ Shearn

it is a great album. JOS made few in the late 70's.

I have it and it's one of the best releases I have heard this year, most definitely. Vince Mendoza did all of the arrangements except "Procession" which Joe himself did.

I had one of those boot Casa Caribe casettes when I was younger. full of burning playing. I will try to look for the 2 disc version, since I am very selective w/ Benson and have no interest in much of his pop/smooth stuff. I just usually stick to listening to the albums where he just really smokes. He is one of my all time fav. guitarists though

my friend bought me the KJ Paris Concert one. I hope they make a PMG "Offramp" shirt.

thanks gentlemen.

with all the CTI talk, and since Mosaic Contemporary just reissued this, is this Benson worth getting? I already have what many of us consider his best CTI "Beyond the Blue Horizon", I noticed Creed contributed his awful tendency to overdub studio parts over live tracks (as is the case with my favorite CTI "CTI Summer Jazz At the Hollywood Bowl") is it worth getting for George's playing or better left alone?

Lon, interesting you like the Wes sound over the DCC, Parkertown copped me the DCC disc a while ago and it sounds good if a little non distinct to me. I plan on picking up the "Full House" Keepnews reissue in the near future.

he played great on the Legends of Jazz ep. "The Tenors" and damn he looks great for 78

hey, its not wrong to hear people genuinely going nuts on "Live at Yoshi's" by Pat Martino or VSOP "Live Under The Sky", the crowd reaction on the latter is awesome, like a rock concert. What is dumb is when people clap after a thoroughly written 8 bar bridge or something that's part of a tune and not improvised

In the liners to the new Trane at Newport reissue, Ashley Kahn states that Willis Conover was trying to calm the crowd after a raucous JOS trio set before Trane came on. Was this recorded? I'm thinking it's probably something Verve would issue rather than Blue Note b/c Jimmy's final BN sessions were February 1963. Does anyone know if tapes exist?

Ron does NOT play electric bass on "Sugar" its DI'ed acoustic bass. I just looked at the "Pieces of A Man" CD booklet, Jerry Jemmott is not listed in the credits. It just says "Ron Carter: bass and electric bass".

exactly.

happy belated birthday! I am glad there are other young people who dig jazz seriously.

really? I thought the solos on "Tunisia" were smoking, I think Kenny really loves the laid back style, he has for years, I have never heard him return to the fire of "Blue Lights", "Round About Midnight At the Cafe Bohemia" (w/ KD) or the Jimmy Smith sides, but he still is one of my all time fav. guitarists.

well, the notes to the Shaw say that Cuscuna put in "All Things Being Equal Are Not" to restore the sequence of the original album, "It All Comes Back To You" was not planned to be on the original album.

yes, it is contrafact from "Sunny". Anyway, Ron is seen playing electric bass on the inner sleeve to "CTI Summer Jazz At the Hollywood Bowl", but reportedly the actual electric bass you hear on that record was overdubbed by Gary King, that is definitely true as Steve Gadd overdubbed drums over Jack DeJohnette who is only heard on "Cherry". Tho if you listen closely throughout all three volumes you can hear Jack's cymbals from the original recording bleed through.

indeed that is very interesting. I don't think I have anything with Gilmore in my collection other than the date with Hank Mobley.

what were they thinking marketing this to kids? It was on webjunk 20 but I've seen it before.

so did I with the 8/57 session.

Big Al, Bailey is the drummer on all the other "Confirmation" LP tracks. The 8/57 tracks were misidentified as Blakey. Art was not present at the August 25, 1957 session, but was the drummer for most of the February 25, 1958 session, only "Lover Man" featured Bailey on drums. The entirety of that latter session is contained on "The Sermon" and "Houseparty" RVG's. Also it is easy to hear the 8/25/57 tracks feature Bailey, as both drummers are very different and distinctive.

if the RVG's for "Midnight Special" and "Back At the Chicken Shack" sound anything like "The Sermon" and "Houseparty" RVG's they'll be fantastic. I wonder if those sessions have any more additional tracks besides "On The Sunny Side Of The Street"?

will they change the title of the tune "Gaza Strip"? Dan, I have not pulled out my copy of the Morgan Mosaic in a while either but IIRC "The Lady" is a composition by Owen Marshall.

that's good to know. Last session I have with him playing drums is Jack McDuff's final album.

well, I hear a definite thread in his ideas of expanding the melodic content, like on "Blue Monk" he often explores different facets of the melody in his right hand while trilling with the left. After hearing the "It Club" set, I find his playing, and comping to be pretty inventive, maybe also because there are tunes there that were not played as much on some of the Columbia albums. But then I haven't heard everything.

has he stopped playing drums largely to pursue singing or for something like health reasons?