Milestones

A handful of great songs. I wish there had been a few more great ones, but he's got his place in Rock history. R.I.P., Meat!

Interesting thought. I know both pieces well and never made that connection, but even without listening now I can hear some pretty serious similarities. But I don't think it's quite the thievery that Steely Dan did of "Song for my Father."

It took me awhile to come around on Brecker, but I now find a large amount of stuff that I continue to listen to. This includes Metheny's 80/81 (an absolutely ferocious solo on "Two Folk Songs"), the record with Tyner, Time is of the Essence (IMO the best of the solo records). Actually the solo records on the whole are quite good, if not consistently first-rate. Also the Abercrombie record Night and the "Directions" live record. And he is no disgrace on Gathering of Spirits with Lovano and Liebman. I have no trouble regarding him as a major jazz figure.

In 4 decades of being a jazz lover, I have never really explored The Three Sounds. I've had the feeling that they were too light--the usual accusation, it would seem. Like most, I am attracted to music with more fire and originality. But I have done some listening this morning, and I find there is nice grooving and joyous feel to the music. Plus they sometimes recorded Randy Weston pieces.

In 4 decades of being a jazz lover, I have never really explored The Three Sounds. I've had the feeling that they were too light--the usual accusation, it would seem. Like most, I am attracted to music with more fire and originality. But I have done some listening this morning, and I find there is a nice grooving and joyous feel to the music. Plus they recorded some Randy Weston pieces.

The ethereal sound on the recent ECMs is really nothing like his ballad style. I regard Lovano as the greatest ballads player of the past 3 or 4 decades.

Those ECM trio records are just too ethereal and lacking pulse. But I will say that the ECM with the Polish trio is better than the others.

We differ there. He seems to be falling off with the ECM albums, but before that I'd say he was my favorite tenor.

I would like to see some live material released. As pointed out, there must be plenty of it. I have seen live concerts on YouTube with Joe Lovano that are much better than the official live album by Tyner and Lovano.

A great one for sure...in every way. R.I.P., Sidney.

I doubt I'll get beyond one (1) on this BFT!

Brotherhood (1995)

Yes, sometimes music at home is devoured like socks in the washer/dryer.

Track 12 is "This Little Light of Mine." I have this on a compilation of Harris's Concord period.

An interesting BFT, for sure. Anyone trashing Billy Higgins, one has to at least suspend the jazz card.

I was born in 1960 and I don't recall anything about disco being good as music. As both music an cultural phenomenon, it seems to be largely forgotten.

If anything, we live in an age of "found" music. Consider that Bob Dylan's vast discography has probably been doubled by the massive and ongoing bootleg series. In jazz, we see a similar thing with Miles Davis.

Thanks for the video of Benny Golson. As many know, Golson is a great storyteller, and his recount of hearing about Clifford Brown's death and writing his famous tribute is priceless. A very touching performance too, with the audience so respectful that you could hear a pin drop.

I know that quite a few are no longer playing, which is fine at that age. I know most musicians would prefer to play until they drop, but sometimes you just have to retire. Is Benny Golson still active?

I remember buying this quite cheap on vinyl decades ago--a used record. I recall that I liked some tracks, others not so much. I would like to hear it again. It doesn't appear to be available on Apple Music.

It seems like nothing but doom and gloom of late. Variants, surges, the whole works. Will this MOFO every slow down? Our football team has about 14 players out due to Covid, including the QB and backup QB. Also, the head coach, Stefanski (his second time). Geez.

Really? So Miles was dreadful and boring when playing the dreadful and boring "My Funny Valentine"?

I'm an HO scale all the way. I went with this full tilt as a youth. Trains and buildings were huge at Christmas. These days it's pretty much limited to one boxcar on a railroad crossing in my office. I ride real trains from time to time--in fact, two vintage trains (steam locomotives) this past summer in West Virginia.

Anyway, I don't live in the mountains, and won't be visiting soon!

I've been using external Bose speakers for my desktop computer...for a long time now. They are quite satisfying to me. Not interested in listening to music on my cell phone. Well, maybe I would if I was stranded on a mountain and might not be rescued for two or three days.