CJ Shearn

Monk, Mingus, Wayne, and Pat Metheny. You know a Metheny melody right off, the phrasing, and the kind of chords.... he has a distinct harmonic sense in his tunes. Now, one could argue that you can't tell whether Lyle Mays or Pat wrote the melody lines of some of their greatest tunes, but Pat is more concerned with singable melody, and Lyle's melodies to me have more of a sense of a "process" to them, if you know what I mean.

the Keystone Bop recordings are excellent. Some wonderful playing by Jo Hen and Booby ;-). John makes some very good points about the stylistic changes Hub went through. His early 60's recordings expressed a wonderful warm midrangey tone and fluid ideas... the CTI stuff well, his chops were just crazy, though sometimes I feel his ideas were limited amongst the whinnying lip trill, and screaming high notes, throughout the 70's period. then the 80's a bit of everything. Though on recordings like "Night of the Cookers" I can hear him getting into more of that high note stuff a bit more easily. Think I'll play "Face to Face" now

who is Steve Lake? is he another ECM producer?

oh I have been waiting for this! glad to see its on ECM too instead of one of the "majors". I am all over this one too.

hmm, Gleam must have some substance to it if it was Japan only, as do the Japan only Herbie's of the period, and the VSOP albums. would like to hear it.

Ithink to Downbeat anything fusion wise=pretention. I forgot to put dozo in front of yoroshiku..... oops

um, how come when I d/l these Joey D. live cuts all I get are excerpts? it'd be nice to burn the fulltunes to disc

damn, that sucks, it'd be nice if Super Blue made it to CD I've wanted to hear it.

cool, downloaded it

Take the A Train is the one example of the Woodyard I thought of. And a movement from the Newport Festival Suite. Listening to "Milestones"now, so far at the beginning it sounds like the rimshot on 4 is occuring on every measure. Once Cannon reaches the bridge in his first chorus it changes up a little. Am I right here?

didn't Sam Woodyard originate the rimshot groove thing in Duke's band? Otherwise I could see the rimshot on 4 thing being a Philly Joe innovation

I saw him live a few years ago and had his album with Spanish jazz musicians. it was very interesting.

Kyo san, yokoso! Watashi wa CJ desu. Yoroshiku. Gomenasai, nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu. I've wanted to hear this, Hiromi is an amazing player. Sorry everyone, practicing very very bad, basic Japanese I've learned so far. Nihongo ga ja arimasen (I am not skilled or I am not very good in Japanese)

RIP. this was a surprise when I saw this thread.

I still gotta grab this one. Tony's vocals on that one song crack me up "things don't change in the bed, just cause your wed. mmhmm, that's right, you heard me" something like that. I read somewhere that "Emergency" had some effect on the punk scene, as an influential album, any truth to that? Also the liners to VSOP "Live Under the Sky" state Tony made a punk album for Columbia that was rejected.

yeah, has anybody else played Tunisia like that? It's like in the A section hes playing it so fast hes skipping notes.

I think musicians like Kurt Rosenwinkel put out some incredibly creative stuff last year with albums like "Deep Song", I think with the exception of songs on it like "Cake" and "Use of Light" nothing really grabbed me emotionally. He is an incredible writer and I will continue to check what he puts out, but his music didn't get me the way releases like PMG's "The Way Up", the JOS/Joey record or even Bill Frissell's album last year.

yeah I wondered about Jimmy's organ at Rudy's (no pun intended) too. I wonder if the organ you see in the Mosaic set is JOS's own B-2(his first organ) or B-3 that he bought a bit later on. He started using percussion on the recordings the middle of '57 I think(when he stopped using the last drawbar for that whistle) I would assume the organ with cig stains is Jimmy's as seen is a session shot from "A New Sound A New Star"

what about domestic RVG's of "Elvin Jones Live at the Lighthouse"? sometime this year I'd like to get the Mosaic, primarily to hear these sides but also some of the studio ones. I have been enjoying Elvin's "The Truth" a lot over the past few days.

thanks, I was curious about the original release dates. I wasn't aware they were released that late. And you know, I never really thought of Crazy! Baby as an atypical BN cover because of the photo being taken by someone else.

in the liners, Jimmy said Jackie asked him when he next session was and he called him to be on the date.

"Plays Fats Waller" gets criticized? I like that album too, ContemporaryladySF. I wouldn't use it as an intro to JOS but I find it very tasteful and swinging.

Blue gets a nice tone on "My One and Only Love" definitely. beautiful, warm and full. Blue was another underrated player I think, despite all the albums with Horace.

the things we will never know. Also all the "blurry" images like Maiden Voyage, Night Dreamer, were taken by Reid too I think.

wow, great stuff MG. you think that "Home Cookin" was a 45 session possibly, thats interesting because the tune lengths indicate more stretching out within the limitations of a 45 format(between 3-6 minutes a tune ) if we discount the bonus tracks on the CD. I have "Home Cookin" behind "Crazy! Baby" on the shelf because the sessions were recorded in 58-59 for that album. Anyway, does anybody know why the graphic design of "Crazy ! Baby" on some original issues features the album title and logo in greenish-yellow while other issues including domestic and Japanese CD are in light blue?