CJ Shearn

very minimal....... LOL. but I like the red lettering on black background.

Listened to the entire set last night. I think it's a very good album. The disc featuring the CMB, those songs have definitely, without a doubt evolved from the studio versions, the jam discs are very good too. I think disc 2 is my favorite of the lengthy jams, but disc 3 has grooves that won't quit! Scratch's addition was very cool, and while I am not a huge fan of hip hop, all the well known samples he was doing with his voice were pretty cool. Anybody else listen yet?

just finished disc 1, smoking high energy first set. The next two discs should be really interesting, I'm looking forward to how Scratch and DJ Logic add to the equation.

I will be picking up mine tonight.

anybody get this yet? waiting for my local Coconuts to get the copy I ordered in, probably tommorrow it'll come. I heard "Technicolor Nightmare" on the Ropeadope site, and "Sitting on a Cloud" on npr.org, both sounded excellent. 3 discs of some very interesting music looks like.

really? that's interesting.

interesting stuff going on "One to Twelve", SoulStream. Finished listening to the first half of "That Certain Feeling" (end of disc 2) and "Early A.M." I like the melody, think its hip, Clifford Jarvis' drumming is explosive, out of Elvin's bag, but like firecrackers setting John's solo into more angular directions. Gotta thank this board for making me go out and get the Select a few years ago.

cool, thanks.

wow, its gotten some mileage. SoulStream, is the form of "Good Juice" AABAC? if that is the form, I like what John does with the bassline on what sounds like to me the "C" section at the end of the tune. BTW does anybody have any pictures of Joe Dukes? I've never seen any photos of him

really? wow, I've used a graphic EQ for years, it'll help. Mine is not audiophile quality, (Technics) but it works.

happy basude Joe!

how about "Oh Baby!" be the first in a series of SoulStream reissues of Patton on Blue Note, with the bass so jacked up, and the treble lessened quite a bit? it'll be the opposite of what people complain about with the RVG's.

I pulled out the Select the other day and put on "Oh Baby!" and it's really a crime that outside of the box this session is not otherwise domestically available. Definitely some of the best soul jazz I have heard, and among my favorite organ records at the moment along with "Organic Vibes" "The Sermon"(permanent all time fav) and "Live at Yoshi's". All the tunes are memorable, hey "Fat Judy" is a great sidewinder clone, and since Patton does have a following, its a shame that average buyers can't purchase this session. A domestic single disc reissue is probably unlikely with the Mosaic out, unless Blue Note licenses it to Water in the future or something. Anybody else think this date should be available to the wider jazz public?

yes, these death rumors are a little much. Glad to know Griff is alright for the moment.

wishing him a speedy recovery.

good point Shawn. I've always thought for accessible artists like Pat Metheny that, radio stations could play his stuff because so much of it is melodically hooky, and thats what many like, right? Guess not, no vocals. People would be like, wait, there are, but their all in something I can't understand. Ron Goldstein's comment about jazz not being exciting, he has Kurt Rosenwinkel on his label, and "Heartcore" was a project that he was allowed to completely have creative control over I believe, I dunno how it sold, but he then cut "Deep Song" so its not like Verve dropped him after the uniqueness of "Heartcore", and besides, wouldn't the music fit in well with Verve's remixed projects or whatever? Goldstein's statement about Christian McBride is funny too, the man has a triple album coming, and his band is at the top of their game........ oh wait, to the guys in suits, McBride isn't relevant because he has funk, and a whole lot of other "not jazz" in his music. Well, that's artistic growth people. Could he have stayed a Ray Brown disciple and continued to be interesting, not broadening his palette? I don't think so.

I find myself humming "The Tackle" everywhere I go. Bobby really sounds great on this, the more I listen.

Darek O plays bass on Anna Maria Jopek/Pat Metheny: Upojenie

wow, I was thinking about the connection of avant garde sax players and R&B too the other day before this thread came up.. Certainly when I hear Trane, Sanders, Brecker, anyone do the low blatting honks I think of R&B but taken to the extreme. Michael Brecker mixes the free with R&B notions to me very clearly on "Delta City Blues" where he is setting up that ostinato figure for himself with a honk, using that as a device to jump off point where he alternates the upper register stuff, sounding out and earthy at the same time.

I burned the Honeydripper from emusic and made my own twofer with Tough Duff which I also d/l.

no problem Coleman enters with like almost a fanfare type lick. The sax solos are like a relay, the hand off is so smooth, its hard to notice the change, it took me a few listens also because I was so focused on the music, it totally bypassed me.

Booby breathes like Darth Vader, lol. He sounds like he wants to eat the vibes as he plays. Yeah, he says "ice cream", guess cuz it was a smooth take. I love that "I Thought About You", beautiful. GARussell, Blake has the first solo on "Speak Low", he has the rounder tone while George's is brighter, also Blake does the more "Traneish" (for lack of a better term) licks, like the one in the upper register when hes false fingering. When Coleman solos, he is on the right, and momentarily you hear Byron Landham drop the tempo.......... hey, its really fast!

I used to listen to CM as a little kid in addition to all the hard bop and stuff, Bellavia, Feels So Good, Land of Make Believe, my mom also played Children of Sanchez, "Lullabye" is a song that can reduce me to tears, because with the lyrics, because my father was never around much, it has a very personal, painful meaning to me.

up for air, this is going to be a triple album! price of one disc. Definitely gonna pick it up. Heres the tracklist: 1 Technicolor Nightmare 12:48 2 Say Something 6:04 3 Clerow's Flipped 6:05 4 Lejos de Usted 7:01 5 Sonic Tonic 11:44 6 Hibiscus 6:02 7 Sitting on a Cloud 6:52 8 Boogie Woogie Waltz 14:54 9 See Jam, Hear Jam, Feel Jam 29:23 10 Out Jam/Give It Up or Turnit Loose 9:35 11 Lower East Side/Rock Jam 6:26 12 Hemisphere Jam 3:36 13 Bitches Brew 4:51 14 Out Jam/Via Mwandishi 7:57 15 Mwandishi Outcome Jam 7:10 16 The Comedown (LSD Jam) 3:58 17 E Jam 33:03 18 AB Minor Jam 12:59 19 D Shuffle Jam 9:00 20 D Shuffle Jam, Pt. 2 11:32

yes, Jimmy's solos on Groovin at Smalls are staggering, when I hear JOS and Trane from this period, the similarities are evident to me.