Joe G

I now turn the birthday honors over to you, my young friend. :rsmile:

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I enjoyed the day. I even caught a wonderful lecture at MSU on the subject of emotion and expression in music. How fitting!

That's a lot o' Sco! I bought Grace Under Pressure immediately upon release and it was my overall favorite of his for a long time. I like both Hand Jive and Groove Elation quite a lot. Wore 'em both out, and saw Sco touring in support of both albums. From Hand Jive, check out "Out Of The City" - very nice tune. I'm in agreement with you on both Quiet and Works for Me. The latter, unfortunately, did not. The other weird thing about it is the mix. Mehldau is way off in a corner somewhere. Up All Night is interesting, with some good tunes, but Uberjam has the slight edge for me of those two. Some monster playing on En Route, as I recall.

Listening a little at work right now. Sounds cool. I'll check it out more at home this weekend.

No, you're the guy who helps us load in.

Written over the changes to Confirmation. The only place I've heard it is on a live-in-the-studio John Scofield video. Unfortunately the chart for it is not on Swallow's website, and a google search turned up very little. Any leads on either a chart or some other recordings? Thanks in advance.

Thank you Bev; all points I was wanting to make. I was just talking with a friend of mine who is an excellent and multi-faceted drummer. He went to school here at Michigan State as a jazz performance major; afterwards, he went for a degree in speech pathology, the field in which he now works. He told me that he felt he had made back everything he had put into his jazz schooling and then some. I'm a part-time instructor of jazz guitar at MSU now, and I try to impart to my students that music school is just a short stretch of road in what will hopefully be a long and varied musical life. I take pleasure in learning new music, materials, approaches, etc., and hopefully I impart that curiosity to my students. It's then up to them to decide what to do with what they learned.

I have to wonder about my young cousin, now attending college. The most recent thing I saw her put up on facebook was a photo album of her very own "hash bash". Not the wisest of moves, afaic.

I came to all this stuff in the early 90's, when I was leaving my metalhead high-school phase behind. I thought electric Miles (specifically Bitches Brew and Pangea) was more immediately comprehensible than, say, Larks Tongue In Aspic.

Big Whoop wanna fight about it?

I put that group together for the Chicago Jazz Festival. I have a tape of the gig. And you said the results were dismaying. Was it an "off" day for someone, or was it just not working no matter what?

Thank you for posting, Jon. Drop in whenever!

Chuck Nessa, this is your thread!!!

One day soon I'm going to have Chuck pick out three of his releases to send to me. But one of them has to be Air.

Actually, I would call that faith. Could be faith in yourself, the Universe, whatever. But it's a little different than hope, in my view. Stronger.

I poke fun at 'em now, but yeah, they rocked. Master of Puppets was released just before my 16th birthday. I thought it was the most incredible album I'd ever heard.

Thank you for that, Joel!

I came across this just last week and sent it to my students. Good stuff.

Martino's version on Head And Heart is far more intense than that youtube version.

Once again, we're hitting the same venue (Chris'), but a month behind you this time.

I've been revisiting Donny Hathaway Live, which has his absolutely killer version from '71.

We did have that one - Jim A started it in the political forum as a retort to HammondCheese; it subsequently became an actual "what are you smoking" thread.

Though I have to say that the night I saw him on that tour, it was some of the best playing I've ever heard from him (for reference, I've seen him about 7-8 times starting in '92).

Wish I was a little closer to Indy... Corey is outstanding! What's the format, Joe? Trio? The show last night was okay, but Corey had to compete with two electric bassists and two other guitarists, it being a Guitar Summit. Tonight, Rachel and I went down to Bloomington, had dinner with Ghost of Miles and Mrs. Ghost, then saw Corey with a quartet in an abandoned restaurant. Much better showcase, and Corey was playing some incredible stuff. My kind of player.

I'm thinking of leaving work a little earlier than I planned and get some blueberry pancakes and a veggie omelet at Saywer's.