CJ Shearn

thank you, JazzShrink. True Marcello, I guess it could be considered a tribute band all things considered.

that humor is lost on me. sorry ^.^;;

http://dizzygillespie.org/ well, could it be that even if some of the players were not directly involved with Diz, they could just be great musicians, thus they got call? I mean Randy Brecker, Claudio Roditi, Renee Rosnes, et al. are great players.

last night at Binghamton University: Slide Hampton, Cyrus Chestnut, Jim Rotondi a sax player I can't remember the name of (Labelle was the last name I think) John Lee and Dennis Mackrel. Damn did these guys smoke, Cyrus had a beautiful "My Funny Valentine" feature, and there was a funky burning "Manteca" as well, at the end of "Night in Tunisia" Rotondi did his best Mogie imitation, I actually shouted out "get mad!" Met Cyrus and Rotondi after the gig, Cyrus signed my Roy Hargrove CD, sweet cat, and Jim and I were talking about Freddie and Woody Shaw, the sax player said he had really wanted to work with Woody because "he was really the only one doing anything new" and he was tight with Carter Jefferson, but as we all know what happened to Wood, the sax player never got the chance. Also Rotondi and I were briefly discussing "Alexander the Great" from Eric Alexander, and he told me as a horn player, that RVG's is the best sounding room he ever played in.

outside of "Legacy" yes, it was his last album where he was billed as the leader. Right before JOS had passed Joey got him signed to Concord and was going to produce a new CD for Jimmy but unfortunately it was too late

wow no other guilty pleasure confessions for Enigma? guess cuz I'm one of the younger ones LOL

Enigma the j-pop/r&b of Hikaru Utada and Namie Amuro remixes of video game music

I have "Cherokee" but would love Jimmy Smith Trio+LD and Lonesome Road.

Soulive give me John Patton, Lonnie Smith or Brother Jack anyday for that funk.

Although for the "Charles Earland: Live in Concert" I've read one track ("Morgan") is edited, is that true? And for those of us that d/l and burn from emusic, do you consider that having a "real" copy of the album or do you go out and buy the real CD afterwards?

the Jaco disc is OOP?

agreed Bertrand. Is there any unreleased Jimmy Smith in the Library of Congress vaults? Blue Note or Verve (depending on the time period) could jump on that. The Half Note must have radio broadcasts of Art Blakey since Alan Grant mentions it on ODOU

how is that one FFA? I've heard soundclips and was underwhelmed.

ditto. To me extreme out playing is Peter Brotzmann, or some of those EAI things but Trane always had something to say in the blues.

thanks. what else is recommended?

LiLeah, there are several threads where Soulive has been discussed, you can use the search engine if you'd like. The majority of posters here are not fans of this group but there are some. If you would like to learn more about great jazz, stick around here

After d/l "Alexander The Great" from emusic, I am now strangely fascinated with The Mighty Burner, he cooks all over that record, altho his solo on "Explosion" has to be one of the most boring I've heard as he is obsessed with hammering a triplet lick repeatedly (sound like a certain guitarist we know and love? ) Anyway, Earland has never been a player thats really stood out to me, like Jimmy McGriff I find his playing often sort of plain, such as LD's "Hot Dog" and "Everything I Play is Funky". But some of the Highnote stuff with tunes like "Dolphin Dance" I dug when I heard on the radio. So out of his Highnote/Savant output, what do y'all like?

really 7/4? To me on Michael Brecker's Impulse dates Jack's cymbals sound fine. Dry as always, perhaps you may not dig the sound b/c by that time he had switched to the Sabian models he now plays and I think with ECM he may have used Istanbul and Paiste.

thanks. God that third take from night three takes me on a ride.

forgot to add "Paris Jam Session" and "Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World" to my list. Getting rid of Blakey and JOS albums? ok, I can't relate, everybody's taste is different tho.

Kari, Herbie's always sung along or "groaned" when he plays more often than not you can hear it off mike. You can REALLY hear it on the track "Mojuba" from "Dis is Da Drum".

great article, I'd like to check out that Suso/DeJohnette LP. I love Jack, one of the things that grabs me about him is the innate funkiness he brings to everything (must be his bass drum playing) and that swinging ahead of the beat, much like Elvin. Its occured to me that theres a lot of Elvin in Jack, but he has totally molded it to his own thing.

thanks Guy, that makes sense.

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.