CJ Shearn

Congrats!

Pat Metheny Unity Group

Wow, sounds like a great read, I never knew much about the pre '69 McLaughlin either. He played in a group with Jimmy Page, when they were young, right? Also with Dick Heckstall Smith and Jon Hiseman?

Yes, he truly was.

Will they just kill the fusion monicker, and start calling it what Lenny White says it is, jazz rock? All jazz is a fusion so I've really become annoyed with the term "fusion" over the past several years.

Looking forward to picking this up sometime........ I love the original "At Fillmore" album as I said, but, the edits made it such an annoying listening.

To be 100% truthfully honest, the tunes and playing on "Black Codes" are great. That's an album I grew up with, when Wynton mania was at it's height. My mom bought that and I think the Haydn trumpet concertos (the one where Wynton has a traditional 3 valve and 4 valve trumpet on the cover). What happened afterwards, with all the politics was just strange. "Knozzmoeking", "Hesitation", "Delfeayo's Dilemma" all great tunes. I still feel Wynton's solo on "The Impaler" from Tain Watts first album in '99 is the last great solo on a record b/c he was really pushing himself, then Branford goes totally bonkers outside, which makes it one of my fav. tunes period. "Live at the House of Tribes" had too much of a forced live recording vibe to it.

Seeing them live in NYC next friday. Cannot wait!!! A friend of mine who's never heard Pat will have her mind blown, I think. The only bad review I've seen of this tour came from Howard Reich, who just went in with the agenda to bash Pat. He has no tolerance for jazz that goes past 1970, clearly, or that uses electronics. Pat's son is a huge dance music fan (heard him say that in other interviews) and part of the title track's sonic influence comes from what Pat's heard in that music....... so so great

Lou is so great on the Blakey's, the Jimmy Smith stuff, the things with Lonnie, "Lou Takes Off", "Here Tis".

RIP

I have "Victory" and need to spin again. It's a great album, it reminds me of a Branford trio disc but more concise. Allen's playing is great on Jaimeo Brown's "Transcedence" which as I said before, is a deeply moving, profound album.

It was supposed to come as an US Verve reissue years back, but then it was reissued by a Russian outfit. Was that legal, that reissue? It was never on CD anywhere before that, I don't think.

Been a while since I looked at the back tray cover, but '57.

I'm with Sangrey on this one, it sounds waaay off in the first few bars of the second chorus, I got thrown off........ great playing still, but it's very off in that brief moment he mentions

All Day Long and All Night Long issued under the Prestige All Stars in this series

How are the 2 Burrell's and the "Olio"? I heard a 70's twofer vinyl pressing of the latter years ago (was it a twofer? WHRW at Binghamton University has a green label 70's pressing), used to have the OJC of "All Day Long" and I recall there was a spot where the tape sounded like it got wrinkled a bit. Not a dealbreaker for me, but curious as to how these sound. There are several titles I want in this series, but can't buy anything right now.

Gotta hear this one, still haven't heard "Quartet" or "All Our Reasons". I have seen YT clips of this band a long time and I love what they do.

http://www.newyorkjazzworkshop.com/marc-mommaas-irreversible-momentum-cj-shearn/ Accidentally posted twice, enjoy! A real fascinating person and player.

I enjoy all 6 of those later period BN's. Very good mainstream music, Tony was one hell of a writer. "Tokyo Live" is the best of the lot and glad I found a real copy of it for $35 quite a few years back.

RIP. Great player, and 66 is far too young

A pair of Audio Technica ATHMFS50 cans.

Very nice.

I thought the same thing!!!!

I watched it last night, terrific. Mentioned it on the twitter for the blog, too. The arguments he makes for jazz struggling to be mainstream, as a jazz educator, and the various bits of social commentary are as relevant now as they were then.

I agree. I would think anyone under 35 or 40 who knows about Herbie, might easily not know of his connection to Miles. OTOH, there's the weirdos like me ;-) But it's true, most of my age bracket or younger doesn't know about the Blue Note recordings, Mwandishi, the funk stuff. The Kennedy Center Honors especially with Snoop's performance, introduced Herbie to an even younger generation or so we could hope.