CJ Shearn

This should be good. "The Cloister" is an insane composition.

Wow............. interesting article indeed

That's funny as hell! Great stuff.

Damn, RIP

Wow, if those are considered legal I sure as hell wouldn't buy them. Glad for the official US releases by the labels themselves.

It's difficult. Tried it in High school

Are those new versions of "Matador" and "Solid" going to be released on CD? I think "Tomcat" is out as an XRCD now.

More JOS!

Tonally, not even remotely. Vocabulary-wise...there are "overlaps". Exactly. Like the fast trill lick that goes to a ritardando. I never mistook Henderson for Brecker or Smith for DeFrancesco either.

Ravi is a very good player though so it might be interesting to see how BN handles things with him.

Right..... even though Joe had that incredible creative run with Milestone, whether it worked musically all the time, IDK..... still strong though. I think maybe Joe thought "hey I did this first" and someone else was taking the credit in bringing it to a larger audience. I think Jimmy Smith felt the same way with how the media treated Joey DeFrancesco when he was first coming up and paid him all that attention being the young guy bringing jazz organ back.

Good point. I just never understood why Henderson was so sour about it.

I have been thinking about this one, I think Jim Sangrey brought it up here once, that Henderson called Brecker an "imitator". I've heard Henderson licks in Mike's playing before, but did Joe feel he wasn't properly acknowledged for the influence? Brecker always said how much of an impact Joe had on his playing.

Man, that's a shame. Was listening to his great playing on the "Endless Miles" disc, and his playing on those two Joey DeFrancesco albums from a few years ago is excellent too.

MJQ: Django (K2) The Jazz Messengers with Monk Ben Webster and Associates (VME) Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions (Conn) (all these were $7.99 used! the MJQ was free) Endless Miles (one of the first webcasts I ever watched) Almost got some David Murray also, there was David Murray Big Band on DIW, and I forget what else.

Get well Al!!!! Don't always enjoy what he does but he's a hell of a singer

Thank you for 10 years and 4 albums! Hopefully this place will stay open for us.

I use my PS3 for Blu Ray, and I also have a program to stream HD files from my computer to the PS3. Blu Ray looks absolutely great for concerts and sports (as I am a fan of mixed martial arts)and the sound is so much better. Regular DVD's look nice upscaled to HD too, but exposes flaws in the source material, obviously.

RIP Gene... The hippest math teacher looking guy to play the organ!

Hmm, so Dewey did sort of a live sampling record for DJ's? That should be really, really intriguing.

As a Chicago fan, the Bulls really need someone like LeBron, or Kobe (not gonna happen cuz he wants to finish his career in LA).

Make sure you see the PMG, "The Songbook Tour". Word is it's a warmup for a new album next year.

Is Hank's "Just Coolin" a tribute of sorts to Prez?

Marginally related to this is my absolute #1 pet peeve: anachronistic photographs on reissue jackets. Those Prestige two-fers from the 70s are egregious offenders (i.e. 70s Miles on a package of 1956 Quintet tracks) but there are others. This also bugs me in books. You're talking about Sonny Rollins' 50s heyday, yet the picture you have of him is from some cheesy festival in 1982. Yuck. The mammoth Coltrane 16 disc Prestige set had this problem.

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