Milestones

My view has always been that the 8-track was the worst music format ever invented.

Happy Birthday, Herbie. Hope to see some more releases from you.

Happy birthday to this great musician, composer, leader, and man.

I know this will look like mostly a list of his best compositions, most of which are found on several recordings. But note I have a few from sideman projects as well. "Down San Diego Way" (Lenox Avenue Breakdown) "Odessa" (Lenox Avenue Breakdown) "Miss Nancy" (Illusions) "Bush Baby" (Illusions) "Dear Dessa" (Hipmotism) "Lenox Avenue Breakdown" (Spirits in the Field) "My Son Ra" (Focus) "Cottontail" (James Newton) "44th Street Suite" (McCoy Tyner) "We'll Soon Find Out" (Joey Baron)

At least Davis is making recent music with Leo Smith--not stuff that I'm very familiar with, but I will have to check it out.

I would love to hear some new music by Jay Hoggard and James Newton--separately, or better yet together.

Thanks...good stuff. It looks like he worked extensively with latter-day Gil Evans and earlier Carla Bley.

With the recent death of Arthur Blythe, I've been thinking about--and certainly listening to--the great Bob Stewart. He must have appeared on a dozen records with Blythe, and his contributions were always prominent and exciting. Stewart also played in Bowie's Brass Fantasy. These are the two best places (it seems) to hear what is almost certainly the greatest tuba man. But I'm happy to receive more recommendations.

Love that DeJohnette--probably the best record he ever made.

Those two by Joey Baron are really worthy checking out, especially the second release (the one on top in the picture).

Now playing Night Song from 1997. He put together some interesting lineups, such as using marimba and tuba.

R.I.P. Mr. Blythe. I certainly enjoyed the music you made. How strange this happened now, given that over the past few days there was a renewed discussion going on at the Arthur Blythe thread.

I' m a big Frisell fan, but the recent albums have not done a whole lot for me--good stuff on all of them, but none of them comes across as an impressive whole. Sometimes I long to hear him work in more overt jazz situations--such as playing with Joey Baron, or the late Paul Motian, or Lee Konitz.

I just did some sampling of the notorious Put Sunshine In It, which is on Spotify. Some of the tracks really aren't that bad, with sort of a David Sanborn or Grover Washington feel. It's certainly not a classic in any way, but not quite the train wreck it's often claimed to be. Or at least so it seems to me.

Blythe was known to show up in some unusual spots--such as with a group called Tibetan Dixie, with organist Jeff Palmer, and on Lester Bowie's The 5th Power. His sideman recordings are usually very good, and I think the very best of these is 44th Street Suite with Tyner (which also has David Murray).

As for Kenny Barron, I would point folks to Wanton Spirit and especially the track "Loss of a Moment."

Joe Farrell. I've basically known him for work with Chick Corea. I do have some of his solo stuff, but not much. I like what I hear.

The clip from The Ladies Man is pretty fascinating. I never saw that before. Thanks for uploading.

isn't there a book called this? Anyway, the choices sure could fill a volume, and everyone's volume would be a little different. I'll just offer one track for now: "The Man I Love" by Miles Davis, mostly for Miles' extremely affecting work, but also for the fascinating stuff contributed by Monk and Milt Jackson.

Few things are certain, but this much is actually certain--rock 'n roll would have developed much, much differently without Chuck Berry. RIP, Chuck, your name is up in lights.

Yeah, I'm just questioning some notion of consensus. If anything has been proven, it is that there is NO consensus--witness all those who are defending OP. I am one of those (like almost everyone, I suspect) who just does not "get" certain artists, even "major" ones. I'm happy to read people on the forums praising these same artists; it just may help me to "get" them. I saw Archie Shepp receive a negative comment. I can't say I ever had an appreciation of Shepp, but then I recently got the Goin' Home record with Horace Parlan--and I find myself enjoying that.

Really...Keith Jarrett CANNOT be praised on this forum? Isn't he another case of love him or hate him?

I haven't seen too much debate on those no-talents.

Who would be the third-most controversial "popular" jazz musician, following OP and Wynton? We never seem to get into such debates on more low-profile players.

Just to show there is an exception to every rule. However, Shaq will always be infamous for that.