CJ Shearn

From the Vanguard set. On disc 1 you can hear Trane call the tune as "So What", although at this juncture the melody is clearly "Impressions". I read somewhere in another thread here that he based the riff on a early 40's classical recording(?) But according to David Wild's liner notes Trane had called "Impressions" "So What", even when the tune became further from the Davis classic. So what's the deal? thanks in advance.

my Blakey collection: A Night At Birdland vols 1-2 At the Cafe Bohemia vols 1-2 The Jazz Messengers (Columbia) Midnight Session Moanin Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers at Club Saint Germain(RCA 2 CD set) At the Jazz Corner of the World Drums Around the Corner A Night in Tunisia (Blue Note) Like Someone in Love The Freedom Rider Free For All Indestructible! In This Korner Keystone 3 Live at Kimballs all of these are worth it IMO, "In This Korner" is a cookin' underrated session featuring the great Valery Ponomarev on trumpet.

I don't fit any of the donor types, but........ I hope Mike can get well soon!

LOL

I just rebought the Vanguard set from BMG, wasn't ready for it a few years ago and sold it, however I am ready now. What was I thinking? Anyway I played my friend "One Down One Up" the other day and he was like "DAMN!" during the last stretch of Trane's solo where Elvin is just tearing behind him, great stuff.

Bertrand, does your son have a PS2? If so you may want to pick up the recently released Namco 50th Anniversary collection which I'm pretty sure contains the original Pac Man.

Enigma. LOL. A mix of made of some of their stuff. Mainly I like the atmospherics, but "I Love You, I'll Kill You" is strangely relaxing in an odd way.

I d/l last night Jack McDuff: Tough Duff, The Honeydripper, Brotherly Love. Eric Alexander: Alexander the Great and The Battle: Live at Smoke, and finally Horace Silver Paris Blues. I really wish I still had my microsoft publisher on the comp (lost my Office XP disc oops) to print the cover art.

she'll be back up there with Miles.

great news.....

wow, interesting find Bertrand

hmm interesting how Pat pushed the sax sample sound back. I have him doing a whole percussion trigger thing with the Synclav guitar on a live Q&A trio show on "The Calling"

thanks for the clarification Bruce

does anyone know if theres a story behind "Free For All"? particularly because its such an intense title track. I hear Blakey using the high hat in the manner of Tony and Elvin in ways he never did again.

happy birthday Bu! Probably my single favorite drummer and appears more as a leader or sideman on recordings in my collection.

BruceH, what do you mean by when Bill Evans "still had balls"? a little confused here.

indeed great stuff.

I picked up Sonny Clark Trio then other day and actually just finished the album, it really knocks me out. Sonny's lines come out of that whole Bud/Horace/Wynton Kelly thing but they have personality all their own. The solo take of "I Remember April", I may be off the mark but I heard a little Bill Evans-esque stuff in there, anyone agree?

yeah although I'm not a huge fan of super out stuff (prefer the fine line between inside and outside) theres just something different about Trane going out, its real.

just listened to disc 1 again, and really the whole thing took me to another place. The playing and the energy is almost too much, my heart is still beating really fast as my whole body was getting into this music. What really does it for me is when Elvin and Trane are just going at it. After listening to clips of "Interstellar Space" that may be next, Coltrane's soul, the fact that are our bodies are not immortal are pouring through the horn.

I find my attention wandering sometimes during the solos on these sides but its a challenge to really focus. I end up getting hooked in the end though, my whole body gets into the music.

this set really opened my eyes. Not sure if I'll go for "OM", "Ascension" or "Live in Seattle" and "Live in Japan" just yet, but after a full listen to both discs it changed my perspective on really intense late Trane. Perhaps the Monk/Trane album opened me as well. I also bought "The Sonny Clark Trio" RVG (a Sonny kick started after listening to "Cool Struttin"' and the live boot of the Blue Note All Stars in Japan at the Mt. Fuji fest, 1986) , damn that'll be tough to listen to after the intensity of the Trane Half Note material.

finished disc 1 and I am short of breath. That whole disc is like an endorphin rush, seriously. That solo, wow. The fadeout at the end of Afro Blue is kinda a shame but its a radio broadcast. But man.......................

I will be picking up this set later today.

IMO, Sonny has been one of those players that really transcends time, he still remains a force. Anyway, I don't think returning to the melody is a bad thing. It helps reconnect the song to the listener.