CJ Shearn

we're dorks, k, lol. I took the cord winding thing off. I can move far back from the CD player so thats nice

the Sennheiser 202's came today. I like them, sound is a bit hollow, but its very nice anyway. I heard they need a break in time?

Jimmy Smith at The Club Baby Grand gets my vote, along with his Japanese only sessions, do those as RVG's please as I said on the AAJ board. it's about time that killer version of "The Preacher" comes out domestically.

hopefully my pair will be here by tuesday, I really need phones for night listening.

montg check these out, Herbie Hancock Trio '81 with Ron Carter and Tony Williams. great acoustic playing in an era where Herbie's main releases were kinda industrial. ditto on 80/81, there is no guitar synth on this record, BTW Gene Harris Trio + 1 with Stanley Turrentine, swingin! Milt Jackson: Mostly Duke and Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk, excellent set of live albums with a quartet featuring Monty Alexander, Ray Brown and Mickey Roker Freddie Hubbard, Friday and Saturday/Sunday Nights Keystone Bop with Joe Henderson and Booby Hutcherson Pat Metheny Question and Answer- with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes

is it really that much of a big deal? the distortion on "The Rock" doesn't bother me..... tapes get old and wrinkly soooo...........

I'm a non musician too!!!

yeah "Always and Forever" is a popular Metheny ballad

I wonder why after listening to "Stepping Stones" why "In a Capricornian Way" is not a standard. Same for Pat Metheny tunes, there are plenty that he wrote that would work in a blowing context "Song For Bilbao" the beautiful ballad "As I Am", "Its Just Talk", "Double Guatemala"(just a blues, but its Pat!), "H&H", "Never Too Far Away", "Change of Heart", "Say the Brother's Name". Joe G. whatcha think?

I have the obvious 4 Miles discs in the K2 reissues, but a DVD with the set? hmm

I ordered the HD202's today. My old phones quit earlier. Really bad $40 Maxell noise cancelling cans.. terrible workmanship.

does anyone notice on "Stepping Stones" how they seem to use the same applause segment in between each tune? not that it matters much, the music is so great.

thanks for the info on the copy protection, that is one ugly set of logos.

I haven't gotten the Dex, Blakey and Silver titles in this batch with the copy protection, so in the future when I buy them, how will I know they are not CP vs. the XCP thing?

thanks Felser. The Muse sides originally issued on 32 Jazz, are OOP, so I use Amazon Marketplace sometimes to get harder to find items used, would I kill myself pricewise trying to find them? I am interested in finding a reasonable copy of The Freddie Hubbard/Woody Shaw Sessions but some yahoo has it on sale for $149.99! sorry, at that price I can do more important things in life :-p

wow, that is saying a lot. And the band well, is great....... as great as the bands with Larry Willis, Steve Turre, Mulgrew Miller and Stafford James are, the Quintet on Stepping Stones just flat out grooves. I don't feel so bad about "It All Comes Back To You" being omitted from the playlist, because the liners say, it was chosen for more radio friendly reasons.

got it as a freebie (well, for $3 b/c of shipping) from BMG, and man...... this may be the best Woody Shaw I've yet heard. Mind you I have the One Night With Blue Note DVD, the four Highnote discs, Unity and a few boots as far as Woody goes but wow. I thought maybe with the hype surrounding this reissue that I'd be underwhelmed but no. Gotta give it a close listen, but even the landlord who is a jazz fan, who was doing some work in the house, stopped what he was doing and called it "magnificent" now hes been around the block, but hes never heard Woody Shaw, so maybe I made a new convert.

wow I remember some of those too!

I'm holding out for PS3, because Sony usually has the games I want to play plus I have stuff from PS1/PS 2 so the backwards compatibility makes sense.

any other fav. reviews? I was looking at Grado SR-60's and I have no doubt they sound incredible but the fact I read they don't travel that well for portability, and that they don't seal out much ambient noise is a concern to me. Plus they aren't in my budget, so I hope I will make the right choice going for the Sennheiser's with the amount of money I want to spend.

thanks.

I think I may need to change my headphones especially since my music w/o headphones has disturbed the neighbors recently. I have $40 noise cancelling Maxell headphones that have fell apart in less then a year, so I only really want to spend $20-30 on a new pair, and I've heard the Sennheiser HD 202 are pretty decent for the price. read a couple reviews o/l but what do everyone here think? thanks

what? no more K2's?

sure, I'll bring this back up for discussion. Really? "In N Out" as a progressive album with a trumpeter doesn't sound all that out to me. "Our Thing" the title track, yeah with that modal stretch, but as far as Joe Henderson goes on classic Blue Note goes "Inner Urge"(especially) and "Mode for Joe" sound way more "out" to me. And Freddie on Herbie's "The Egg" is pretty out there too. That tune for me is just kinda, LOL!

I like the cardboard slipcases. do you mean the plastic see thru ones like Miles "Round About Midnight" Legacy edition, and Trane's ALS deluxe?