CJ Shearn

I agree Milestones. Jack is one of my favorite drummers if not my favorite drummer. I have yet to get the set, but "Special Edition" is a great record as is "Parallel Realities". I listen to it often and "Saudades" with Trio Beyond has always been in constant rotation since it's release. Jack is such a cool person as well, and seeing him with Pat Metheny, another one of my favorites, and Larry Grenadier in Woodstock in 2008 was revelatory for a few reasons. First, because it was pretty much an informal, jam session type gig (a benefit) hearing them play standards that Pat has never played on a record before was amazing, and Jack's implied approach to time, and outright swing at points really made it special. Many argue Jack is too busy as a player, but he knows how to push the music just right, and the Jarrett stuff proves that.

Well, between both boxes you get most of the tracks on "Live and Unreleased" (which I used to have) there are some GREAT performances on that album, like "Cucumber Slumber" from the "Tale Spinnin" lineup with Chester Thompson on drums and Alex Acuna on percussion. Also the rest of the tracks from the "Night Passage" sessions at The Complex in California. All of the performances with Jaco on that set (12 in total) are in the 1976-82 Jaco era WR box.

I have both the 1971-5 and Jaco era sets that Sony released, and the WR of 1971 and the WR of later are two totally different animals. WR and "Live in Tokyo" are my 2 favorite albums of that period and the Jaco period, I think "Night Passage" is certainly best after "Heavy Weather" and "Black Market", and "Speechless" and both parts of the "Dara Factor" are strong tracks on the second self titled album. The early WR is an extension of IASW Miles in sound and the collective improv approach, but there was always as Jim Sangrey said something substantial going on no matter the context. Though its controversial, I really like "Mr. Gone".

I just contributed a small donation as well. It's critically important that Priester, and other musicians like him who encounter these very difficult situations, that they are assisted so they can live comfortably. Makes me think back to when Horace Silver was very ill, and having difficulties, prior to his nursing home placement.

Will check this one out soon!

As I've been listening to "Ronnie Foster Live at Montreux" since it arrived from Dusty Groove, it got me wondering, what kind of career did guitarist Greg Miller have or drummer Marvin Chappell outside of playing with George Benson? It's a fun album actually. Chappell was edited out on the Carnegie Hall version of "Summertime" with Gadd's overdubs (shades of CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl),Miller tends to play a lot of straight eights Martino type stuff here, did he ever record again?

I have neever heard his music but have known how influential he's been for a long time. RIP

Wayne still looks like he's in his mid 60's I think

I agree, but then there are people like my father and uncle who like straight ahead, fusion but also smooth. Generally it's separate audiences, and, albums in the past that were intended to cross over into smooth jazz like "Simply Said" and "Happy People" by Kenny Garrett haven't generally.

I have it ordered from Amazon with a GC I got for Christmas. I'm hoping by chance it drops another 5 dollars or maybe somewhere around $35.

Bill Frissell seems to have a comfortable deal with Savoy. He left Nonesuch because he wanted to release so many projects a year and they couldn't handle it. Maybe Bob James on OKeh is for straight ahead projects? That's a strange one.

wow!

"Latona"

I am going to pre order soon, the music that quartet plays is brilliant stuff and always presents a new challenge upon each listening.

Man, hope he recovers. Montreux is such an institution for great jazz, regardless of whether or not the festival has upheld the jazz thing in a big way, the past several decades. So many great recordings made there

Listening to disc 1 of the Select right now coincedentally.

Foster's a different kind of organist, a lot of floating textures rather than outright burning which he can do. He does tend to lack tasteful material on a lot of his albums though. He does play Moog on it also, the cut I sampled on YT was the cover of Seals/Croft's "East of Ginger Trees", listened again, wasn't too bad.

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!! That's absolutely right. Really strange when you think about it, but not really, as I'm sure Wayne still feels the loss of it every day, but he's managed to free himself of the attachment of that suffering, and has moved on in his daily life.

But we are NOT into UA era Blue Notes here! And those BN Montreux albums were notorious in how briefly they were available. They were cut out before people even knew they were released. I was fortunate to get the Hutcherson Montreux as a cut out at Third Street Jazz back in the day, and it is something I would have bought new as soon as I saw it. That's true, I will have just 3 of the UA era BN's b/c I am not very into that era either. Well, that explains why no one has heard the other Montreux sets. I saw Donald Byrd recorded a set at Montreux that same day, and I'm surprised they didn't release that set especially after "Blackbyrd" was such a hit. Had Lee Morgan lived, since the album was originally intended for him, he might have gone down the heavily Mizell produced path too.

Well, I went ahead and ordered Ronnie Foster "Live at Montreux" and GG "Live at the Lighthouse" from one of the previous batches. No one I know or asked has heard the Foster title which I'm quite shocked at because we're all into obscure titles here

Since Dusty Groove has it readily available, is this album worth the $16? I heard "Chunky" on YT and seemed kind of average to me, but it also seems like it may be one of Ronnie's best BN's since it is just a trio. Thanks.

It's a strange cover. The design reminds me of some of the King issued Blue Note covers like "The Soothsayer" but the naked people falling is really out there. Wayne and the quartet sort of free themselves of any "attachment" in the music and sort of flows, in the spirit of joy and creation, so the freeing of attachment is kind of what makes this band's music difficult for some, IMO.

Looking forward to this one. I don't think that "drilling into the harmonic essence" is something that eludes fans if they are not musically trained, and that sometimes adds to the not getting it. I'm not a musician but my ear has become accustomed to unusual harmonies or harmonic abstractions, because I think after so much time, the ear gets used to "conventional". I always felt Brian Blade brings a strong fire to the group with his explosions within the music.

That is because it was one of the last entries in the 4XXX series - which is not covered. Perhaps there will be a further series mopping up the remaining 4XXX titles that have not seen CD release (one can hope). There is for example Bobbi Humphrey's initial album with Lee Morgan and Billy Harper, which, while not great, at least is better than anything that came out under her name afterwards. I've heard stories somewhere she never really improvised which I find hard to believe. After hearing "Sugar" from "Live at Montreux" (tested the album on YT) and while that did not much for me at all, I found it better than the more famous Mizell discs. When you are in the company of Morgan and Billy Harper, you *have* to play, so I would think that early disc led to promise unfulfilled.

I will get the Elvin Lighthouse dates from the next batch. Was thinking of "BN Live at the Roxy" just because it is so bad. Couldn't tell you about the GG "Live at the Lighthouse" omissions though. What does seem strange is shouldn't releases like Hutcherson Live at Montreux have the label design like above instead of a white "b"?