CJ Shearn

interesting...... I can drive myself crazy with it but I listen to clips of Reich often on CDuniverse and such.

thanks for the tips y'all. Now, what about the Yoshi's albums I ordered? how do you like them? They seem to get high praise all over

well, I just ordered both Yoshi's albums because I've been consistently impressed with his playing. Where to go next? BTW, what is the sound quality of MaxJazz releases in general?

sorry, the album title made me chuckle

I hope I can get this set soon

maybe I'll grab the Blakey when I get the new PMG DVD soon.

wow are those European BN comp covers? those are great!

interesting thread, I'm laying back. As far as I known, isn't there distortion on the "Workin" tracks? when I had the XRCD I certainly heard distortion particularly on Philly Joe's kit, now that I have the Concord Quintet box, the Joe Tarantino mastering, almost like the SH "Full House" job (again major props to someone on this thread for hooking me up , it sounds a lot smoother, and nice and round to my ear. I don't notice the distortion as much on the tracks that make up "Workin" on the 4 CD box. As far as Prestige RVG's I have Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane and nothing is really wrong with that to me. As long as the treble isn't jacked to the point where cymbals cause fatigue I'm cool. I don't use the treble knob very often on my system's amp, usually it stays in the default setting.

interesting Robert. I thought his DCC Gold work on Wes' "Full House" was good, nothing really to make it stand out but clear and good. I don't like the SH board either, it caters to the type of audiophile where their personal insecurities are thrust way out in the open in the form of my cock is bigger than yours like our own banned Greg Maltz. I can't stand that.

yeah. Lonnie on the pedals!

let me post some more thoughts actually, just wrote this today to a teacher I had in HS who got me onto Pat years ago. He's a good guitarist himself. I wrote: Metheny Mehldau is a great record. Its so nice to hear a Pat record with pure melodies again, as much as I love "The Way Up" its cool to have something a bit more simplistic. I do some of my best listening at like 1 or 2 in the morning when I make connections I otherwise don't, and that zone I mentioned, Brad's zone harmonically is not that different than Pat's, they both get off on the same sorta thing like the next to last tune on the record "Annie's Bittersweet Cake". Written by Mehldau, that could easily have been on an early Group record like "American Garage", its not far from Pat's zone at all, he really gets off on the changes in his solo. Then I think its bars 10-11 of the "A" of Pat's "Bachelors III" which I think is an ABA tune, he cops a line straight out of "Three Views of a Secret" which is sooooooooooo hip.

they didn't play "Black Elk Speaks" huh? that's a shame. I wonder if the yelling goes on live too. Well, I consider "Braggtown" to be a live record, as everyone is in the same room in a concert hall, just no audience obviously.

today's a beautiful day to die!!!!!!!!!

This collaboration definitely works. As for a quieter Metheny release I enjoy it a lot more than "One Quiet Night" which was beautiful I just got a little bored at times. I think Brad adds a darker edge to his playing and compositions here that blend with Pat nicely. I dig the crescendo of "Legend" and like the almost poppish melody of "Annie's Bittersweet Cake". The quartet tracks are outstanding, "Ring of Life" is the money tune, I like that drum and bass/funky groove from Ballard and Pat and Brad just kill the sucker, I wish Steve Rodby was the bassist on this cut though, its special the sort of rock solid thing to Metheny tunes of this type. It may be possible that the second album will be a live album from the Metheny/Mehldau quartet performances beginning next year. Ok, calling Joe Gloss

I like this one a lot after one listening......... actually, the burnout tunes crack me up........... but did anyone hear the bass solo on "Black Elk Speaks"? Damn.

well they had difficulty getting both discs so I just cancelled and picked them up at a brick and mortar tonight.

well, Metheny/Mehldau is "in stock" while Braggtown "usually ships within 10 days" so I hope that'll come.

I ordered "Metheny/Mehldau" and the new Branford quartet record "Braggtown" from them, will they come through? the free shipping seemed a plus for me as well as the price.

Blakey: the Blue Note version from 1960 is mine. I also enjoy the Basie band version from "Montreux '77" with Waymon Reed smokin it up on trumpet.

I find the RVG fine, not treble heavy thankfully.

paid by the note? Chuck!

the clips sound excellent. Got my preorder in! I really gotta check out "House on Hill" also, I heard it in Barnes and Noble and it was cookin.

I know what you mean about "Qing Wen" montg. It doesn't bother me that much, what does is the heavy compression on this disc as I noted in another thread. I enjoy this record though, "Standard of Language" for me may be KG's best record to date.

Creative Wav studio does not seem to play CD's but straight wave files. Hopfully someone knows where we can access these programs

I just popped in the new Kenny Garrett into the computer, and it sort of confirms my suspicion this record was compressed to hell and is very hot. I can see the levels peaking in Winamp on the first tune "Calling" on the left channel, but where do you guys get those programs that analyze waveforms? I would like to use such to see how compressed some of these discs are. Thanks Nonesuch for squashing the dynamics on this great new album