CJ Shearn

Yeah it was, we weren't friends really, there are a few mutual people we have in common though.

I met Camille when we were both students at Binghamton University. Back then she sounded like Dexter Gordon, it was awesome.

Speaking of packaging, just received the Complete Live Recordings on Savoy Bird set and the cardboard sleeves don't seem to scratch the discs. I rip many discs for backup on my hard drive, but I still play the discs a lot.

Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also. The packaging of the discs in the three boxes is annoying the way one disc is partially "stacked" over the other. You have to remove two discs to hear the bottom disc. And trying to push the top disc back onto the rubber spindle so it stays in place is difficult. I'd listen to these sets much more than I do if it wasn't for the packaging. :rofl: Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also. The packaging of the discs in the three boxes is annoying the way one disc is partially "stacked" over the other. You have to remove two discs to hear the bottom disc. And trying to push the top disc back onto the rubber spindle so it stays in place is difficult. I'd listen to these sets much more than I do if it wasn't for the packaging. Yes! Exactly! I'm afraid of breaking the disc too, when it doesn't conform to the rubber spindle easily. I have two of the discs flipped playing side up when I remove them to get to that bottom disc, or I think disc 1 of "Fearless Leader". the packaging is annoying for those sets, but beautiful otherwise. I love "The Heavyweight Champion" package design though. They aren't thinking that packaging, or mini LP's without inner sleeves upsets anal obsessives like all of us. I can't see casual fans buying these sets, so the audience must be us.

I'm living in the Atlantic stuff for the time being, although the Impulse material is my favorite era.

Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also.

John Coltrane: The Heavyweight Champion-The Complete Atlantic Recordings, disc 3

RIP.... Glad he got the attention he deserved in the past few years although there was conflicting thoughts about his level of ability amongst many here.

Wayne was killing on "Walkin" though, so was Kurt

RIP....... his playing on David Weiss' "Endangered Species: the Music of Wayne Shorter" is great.

I will get this set sometime for sure, "The Piano" is a GREAT album.

My thing with vinyl is this: the way I play music, the vinyl would be and was toast. Also since I only have the use of one hand, handling vinyl really carefully in the proper way, so for me, CD's are better.

AAJ posted a great interview with him from 2000. I love how he said to not classify his music as jazz, it seems he crushed the interviewer quite a bit though. A trap I'd like to avoid while interviewing some big names in the future, while keeping in mind a general audience is reading.

I like his playing on "Grantstand". I really gotta explore more because he had that wonderful balance of being in and out. RIP....... a sad loss indeed.

I thought Bud plays great on the side with Blakey, too.

I've lived with this music many years, and I think (despite all the hiccups, like Arthur Taylor rushing things) it's great to chart Trane's rapid development. I think my personal favorite sessions have always been "Informal Jazz", all the stuff with Burrell, and the Garland quintet sides, from this period.

Garland was late for the IIRC.

Source. F Source. F Source. F Thank you! the blog I was referencing.

David, the reason I brought up Alzheimer's is because a few years ago, it was a Christian McBride blog where he reported Horace was suffering from the disease. I then recall reading somewhere (maybe here?) he no longer remembered how to play the piano or that he wrote all that music. I am truly VERY sorry for bringing up the topic. I love Horace's music dearly as a fan, and would never impinge on his private life.

Thank goodness

"Nutville" from that gig is great. How long ago did he contract Alzheimer's? it seems around 2004 he was fine, then not long after, heard he couldn't even remember those compositions or play the piano.

Me too, Jim, always a favorite. Something I never hear people mention, all the lower manual pops you and every other organist do, Jimmy Smith got that, and adapted them from Horace Silver's left hand percussive accents.

Just noticed that eMusic has both the electric and acoustic collections available for download. A quick search of Amazon didn't turn up any physical products. Given this development, I would bet that they will eventually be available as seperate CD box sets sometime in 2014 after the holidays. Having just finished working through this box, two sub-boxes would make a lot of sense. I got aural whiplash from some of the drastic changes from period to period over the 17 years. The electric stuff alone had some of the best and some of the worst music I've ever heard. 'Headhunters' and it's ilk are one thing, Herbie all by hisself in the studio with vocoder and machines is something else again... Just noticed that eMusic has both the electric and acoustic collections available for download. A quick search of Amazon didn't turn up any physical products. Given this development, I would bet that they will eventually be available as seperate CD box sets sometime in 2014 after the holidays. Having just finished working through this box, two sub-boxes would make a lot of sense. I got aural whiplash from some of the drastic changes from period to period over the 17 years. The electric stuff alone had some of the best and some of the worst music I've ever heard. 'Headhunters' and it's ilk are one thing, Herbie all by hisself in the studio with vocoder and machines is something else again... Yeah, I mean "I Thought It Was You" is so cheesy, but it sticks in your head. Don't have the box yet but I was going thru Spotify where they have the individual albums (not the current remasters from the set) and I hope with the box I can at least look at the Laswell material for what it is. I really never liked it at all. Still through everything there's Herbie's unmistakeable harmonic and rhythmic sense. It has to be looked at from an R&B lens some of that post "Secrets" work, I think because those audiences love that stuff. I think the previously Japan only acoustic sessions are some of his best work, hands down. I really want the box to have all the VSOP stuff and "Flood" b/c a friend burned me that a long time ago. Herbie's been pulling out the vocoder again fairly recently though.

Interesting. I always thought that for the CD's the RVG's are meant to mimic that bright boom, I heard a sample of an original pressing of "Soul Stirrin" and was surprised how much the sound reminded me of the CD's.

I'm a music lover and I've got a number of these audiophile 45rpm sets. The smallish number I have are largely sessions I'm particularly fond of and would like to get on vinyl in the best possible fidelity. These MM sets tick all these boxes although I've now slowed up purchasing them with none in the last year or so. Their downside is expense and bulk- they take up a lot of cash and shelf space. I don't think I'll be going for any of the 33rpm issues they're planning. I'm sure there are music lovers who have purchased Music Matters LPs. I've purchased a decent number of audiophile sets myself (though not Music Matters). I just think that these LPs are played up in the audiophile press whose audience tends to be equipment buffs rather than music lovers. In the end, I wonder how many people who purchase Music Matters 45s go on to buy and listen to music that's not presented in an audiophile manner. I'm a music lover and I've got a number of these audiophile 45rpm sets. The smallish number I have are largely sessions I'm particularly fond of and would like to get on vinyl in the best possible fidelity. These MM sets tick all these boxes although I've now slowed up purchasing them with none in the last year or so. Their downside is expense and bulk- they take up a lot of cash and shelf space. I don't think I'll be going for any of the 33rpm issues they're planning. I'm sure there are music lovers who have purchased Music Matters LPs. I've purchased a decent number of audiophile sets myself (though not Music Matters). I just think that these LPs are played up in the audiophile press whose audience tends to be equipment buffs rather than music lovers. In the end, I wonder how many people who purchase Music Matters 45s go on to buy and listen to music that's not presented in an audiophile manner. Yeah I don't read too many posts there (I lurk at Hoffman) where there's a real discussion on how good the music is, but mostly the merit of like Steve capturing the essence of Elvin's ride the way RVG never could, etc.... I just think hey in the course of RVG recordings, there is tape distortion, and other stuff. so it's probably really heavily noticed on those remasters with good equipment. Those sorts of things will always exist in the original recording, I noticed in the SHM CD of "Speak No Evil" tape delamination artifacts moreso than previous issues b/c it's so clear, but it seems like RVG used tape in the mid 60's where you really hear that. Did he use cheaper tape starting in the mid 60's. Anyway that SHM is great, I love it.