CJ Shearn

oh yeah, I noticed that feet crushing gravel sample in "Wadagbe" was on "Dis is Da Drum", which I thought was alright, but I like this album much better, great playing and tunes, a very layered effort too I think. Anybody else liking/not liking this record?

Kari, you will be pleased. Herbie plays an unbelievable solo on "The Source", IMO his best on record in recent years.

I picked this up last night, I like Terence but not having heard his first for BN, I bought it, I think this is the only time I've bought an album for a producer credit. and what a band. A very unique album, at points hinting at Mwandishi, the playing is nice, "Wadagabe" is pretty cool, as well as "Over There" which sucked me in b/c of its Metheny like build. I think Herbie's production influence is felt more in the said Mwandishi ish ness of cuts like "Wadagabe", and the world influence in many tracks. The man himself lights it up on "The Source", something about Herbie's trills make me scream out loud in ecstacy!!! Any other opinions of this one? oh yeah, whats with that whiny synth sound found on Snoop Dogg's early stuff (isn't that deriveed from P-Funk anyway that whiny synth sound) popping up on albums these days? even Lyle Mays uses it (to subtle effect) on "The Way Up"

I have it, and enjoy it, maybe one of the few things I've heard this year that is outstanding. One criticism tho, I think Rosenwinkel's compositions are very interesting, at this point they seem more about his head then heart. "Use of Light" and "Brooklyn Sometimes" as well as "The Cross" are tunes I can find a couple melodic hooks in. I bought "Heartcore" the same day too...... thats a head trip!

thanks! I shouldn't have but I ordered Dexter's "Carnegie Hall Complete"

he sounds ok, nothing spectacular. just hit his site and was greeted with a smooth tune doesn't mix with the other tracks on the CD in a good way, unfortunately.

ok, ok ok, can we go back to the topic please?

thanks for the correction Dan.

happy basude!!!!!!!!!!!!

I may have asked this before, after the Jimmy Smith gig, I know they had worked with Johnny Hammond, and I know Thornel cut a Prestige record "Soul Cookin", but did they continue to play on the NY scene or other local scenes?

I just gave a friend the recent RAM reissue and that copy of the show I burned (he'll get the official discs) and I ordered the Legacy edition, along with the new upcoming Wayne.

I like this tune, to me, it sounds based on "Wayne's "Speak No Evil". If I think of the head of Wayne's tune on top of the head of the Willis tune, it matches.

I saw Houston for the 2nd time late last year at Binghamton University with his regular quartet, it was really good.

oh man, I had d/l a bittorrent and burned the Pasadena show prior to this release. it even sounds as if it may be from the remaster as the quality is excellent, I should buy this b/c I would be better off having the concert officially released... despite having the original album remaster from a few years ago......... maybe I will just give it to a friend if I purchase the Legacy edition. I think dimeadozen.org removed the torrent when I made an announcement about the official release version of this gig.

thanks John, hopefully I can find copies of these recomendations.

John, will these be HighNote releases, the Maintenance Shop stuff? Also do you know if Woody Shaw, Live vol. 4 was transferred from a casette tape or something? cuz theres a dip in sound quality but the music is incredible (that's what matters most). I must grab more Woody

I love whooshing cymbals too! oh man, Victor Lewis on the "Live" Woody Shaw stuff gets me going, as does Bill Stewart's whoosh, and in a weird way, Jack DeJohnette's dry Sabian whooshing.

I'll second Blue Lights, Midnight Blue, Blue Bash and the Five Spot date

Lou contributed to the Birdland albums with Art Blakey, some of the most important hard bop records ever made. He deserves the respect for that in a major way, those albums I think were a bridge between bop and hard bop.

thanks, Lon, very cool I will definitely be buying that one.

As someone on the board informed us, three volumes of "Woody Shaw Live at the Maintenance Shop" will be released. Are these going to be released by Highnote as Woody Shaw Live vols. 5-7 or something totally different? I just got Woody Shaw Live 1-4 and have been digging the hell out of them. Also, when is Columbia going to reissue "Stepping Stones"?

I voted for "Breezin". I liked that one as a very young kid, before I knew about a lot of stuff, but I wish George would do another straight ahead album, with an organ. I mean he played his ass off and smoked on "Summertime" from Brother Jack's "Bringin it Home" album... As for the pop/R&B sell out stuff, whatever you want to call it, I think he made the transition completely on "Breezin" although I doubt pop fans more familiar with "On Broadway" have heard that killer guitar solo, or at least really listened closely enough to it. The CTI albums had something, I personally like "Beyond the Blue Horizon" very much. Finally, as for his new one, its trying to get the young R&B crowd noticing him, I heard clips, didn't really care for it all that much, but......... I'd say it is far higher quality than most mainstream R&B you hear on the radio today.

lol, thank you very much Joe. Come on, I bet you hear it too

man, I should have seen this thread sooner! "Offramp" is a critical album of me turning into a PMG nut, and "Are You Going With Me?" is my favorite PMG tune of all time, it had a profound effect on me when I first heard it. Even better is the rearranged drum and bass sorta version Pat did with Anna Maria Jopek on her "Upojenie" album from 2002. Oh yeah, anyone notice the unison bass/piano/crash cymbal passages lifted directly from "Barcarole" (originally it was all in the bassline) in the trumpet/guitar synth section of "Part Two" from "The Way Up"?

Houston Person.