CJ Shearn

Zev Feldman told me years ago he'd love to release some of those shows but would be a hard sell. I doubt with his current trajectory we'll see any of that stufff released given Sony also holds the tapes. I was gonna mention that

Oh yeah, I love Linger Lane. For me, that album is quite underrated, and the fact it was recorded outside gives it a unique vibe. I recently got the Japanese CD version.

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Whoever said Sunflower is schmaltzy to them, I understand that comment and I can't really argue it. I will say that, and I love that album, the shit Herbie plays behind Freddie on "For Someone I Love" and Billy Cobham's responses to Herbie are anything but. I watched a recent interview with Cobham where he said it's one of his favorite CTI sessions. Now, Bobby Hutcherson Natural Illusions for me OTOH is an absolute dog and his worst Blue Note by far. It gives Jim's comment weight Blue Note was done by '72. It strikes me as an attempt to be their version of a Sunflower cash in and absolutely inline with musak. If Bobby made an album resembling Satie's definition of furniture music, that's it.

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I had that set... burned in the fire like everything else. Magnificent set! All in for the 50's one. Not going for Clark or Hubbard sets.

+1 on Creed establishing the smooth sound Milt on CTI was great. Only one I haven't heard is Olinga, just portions of that one. Goodbye is wonderful. Ordered it from The Bastids awhile back. Sunflower and Cherry are my favorite because of the Billy Cobham hookups with Herbie on the former and how hard he swings on the latter

I LOVE Milt on Pablo, albums like Montreux '77 with Ray Brown, Simply Duke and Memories Of Thelonious Sphere Monk, but there's a limit to that stuff for me. I had about 50 Pablo's on CD at the time of the fire, but I don't think I'd collect that many again. Like Concord, (and I have a handful since rebuilding) that kind of thing goes a LONGGGGGGGGGG way if you know what I mean. So many albums of relatively polite mostly standards driven swinging, and I'm tempted to reach for electric stuff. My taste though hard straight ahead swinging jazz is my foundation, it's become a LOT wider to the point I never play the what is/what isn't jazz game anymore. High Energy and Gleam are fantastic. I think revisiting some 70's albums are fun, even though I'm a millennial and was born in 81 when that music was still relatively fresh. That music, while it might occasionally get a roll of the eyes from people who experienced in real time, it can be valuable for other generations... see the acid jazz boom in the 80's 90's or how some kids coming up now really love the 70's thing. Honestly, while having bought the new Jazz a Vienne Past and Future 2 CD compilation which is excellent, most of the unknown to me French musicians it highlights coming up now like Leon Phal and Jasual Cazz, it struck me how the 70's is a very real thing to them, alongside hip hop. The new jazz drumming innovations come from hip hop and ppl like J. Dilla.

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I quite like Red Clay, Straight Life a ton, but my fav Hubbard CTI's are both the In Concert albums with Stanley Turrentine, Herbie, Ron, Jack and Eric Gale. So intense and loose! Lenny White and I debate about Red Clay often, I think because he was on the record he feels what he did but he respects I prefer Straight Life

Yeah, the remix that ended up on The Sugar Man. I have the Gilberto with Turrentine Japanese RVG and have no need for the alternate mix. I prefer the original Gilberto with Turrentine one.

In The Beginning is really good but my favorite Hubert on CTI is Afro Classic, and Morning Star as well as his performances on the California Concert. At Carnegie Hall is just a mess with the overdubs, really no need for them.

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Yes, I gotta rebuy that. Think I'm gonna get the recent Japanese blu spec CD reissue of that. I like those very much.

A great different perspective. Thank you! For me the CTI sweet spot is 1970-1974

This is interesting! A lot of stuff I never knew about. Thanks for posting!

The video was wonderful!

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Wikipedia's stating heart attack. Apparently he had numerous health issues

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YMO is really hip. I compose for a hobby and that stuff is an influence on me. There is a musical sophistication and integrity harmonically that exists with the jazz influences that isn't in a lot of the Kpop I've heard and admittedly I am not a huge fan but a guitarist friend is. Maybe I haven't heard the right stuff

I think because it's from Japan and for a lot millennials and generation Y and Z they never heard anything like it before but I plan on more of the compilations because they are very nice.

The style of Japanese pop from the late 70s and early 80s that emerged from the economic bubble period. I recently got a few compilations Tokyo Nights Japanese Female J Pop, Funk and Boogie 1981-1988 (thanks Bastids and $6.99 too!) and the two volume Pacific Breeze Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie that across both discs cover the years 1972-88 in their totality. The Pacific Breeze comps get the edge for me in terms of scope with the first one having some particularly deep album cuts like Minako Yoshida's "Midnight Driver", "Say Goodbye" by Hiroshi Sato, "Coffee Rumba" by Izumi Kobayashi, "Sportsmen" by Haruomi Hasono and "In My Jungle" by FOE. As far as modern J-Pop goes my favorite has always been Hikaru Utada who has been around 20 years now. Soweto Kinch is in her current touring band and Vinnie Colaiuta was in the past.