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By the way, I am wonderiing why the tune "IF" is on this cd since it is a Tony Williams tribute. I see no apparent connection to Tony Williams. The two recordings I have of this tune, from Joe Henderson's "The Kicker" and Larry Young's "Unity" - neither of those recordings had Tony on drums.

Well - Jack says the tune Pee Wee is from the Miles Davis album ESP. Not on the ESP copy I have. It is however, on my copy of the Sorcerer.

the more I listen to this, the more I am struck but how many different guitar tones Scofield is using on this cd. And yes Jack and Larry are fantastic with some great solos by each. My only complaint with Jack is that he needs to brush up on Miles's discographry before making announcements.

I saw them live once in 1972 and I always thought that Inner Mounting Flame came closer to what I saw than the live albums that came out in the 70s. I guess there were personnel changes and all and the music changed. What are the good live ones then?

picked up "It's Time" - had it before on the Mosaic box - so nothing new, just a great Jackie Mac recording!

I picked this up and so far I really am enjoying it. I have expressed some annoyance on this board at how everyone seems to adopted Scofield's tone - and yes there are other guitar tones I prefer - but I am more annoyed at the imitators than at Sco himself. He plays great on this cd. Whatever you may think of any of the players - the band is really HOT on this recording. Thanks to everyone on this thread for pulling my coat on this one.

So it is coming out July 25? I can't wait.

I am currently enjoying Pax - what a great Hill album. Just amazing that it was not reissued before and the sound is marginally improved over previous sources.

I pretty much agree with most of what Guy said. I love the Inner Mounting Flame but felt it was all down hill from there, except for the occasional flicker of brilliance. So rather than listen to the later Mahavishnu Orchestra, I prefer McLaughlin's other stuff: the brilliant Extrapolation, or Where Fortune Smiles, My Goal's Beyond, and some of the Shakti stuff. and I am sure I am forgetting something.

Best wishes and hope you had a great one!

I think "Alone" on Verve is his best solo effort. The earlier sessions for Riverside(?) which were not released until long after his death are touching performances, but they get me in a kind of sad mood; I don't think Evans was feeling too well. "Alone" was reissued with additional newly discovered bonus tracks as a VME just a few years back (unfortunately leaving out an excellent "A Time for Love" which were on the first CD reissue and the complete Verve box. It had very good liner notes, which were left out when it was just recently reissued again. Daniel A, My VME has two takes of a Time For Love, do you mean there were actually 3 takes? The VME has the orginal liners by Evans himself and some updated notes by Phil Bailey in 2001, whose notes got left out?

I have always preferred the Solo Sessions (vols. 1 & 2) on Milestone to either Alone or Alone Again. Also, I have always considered Conversations with Myself a great solo album althought technically it isn't or maybe it is.

Thanks very much Brownie and Bichos!

I have no idea who the guy is. A friend asked me to see if I could get a picture.

I heard this in a store and then immediately bought it. If you have heard World Sax or the the Julius Hemphill sax units, this will have some familiarity, but it is not as out as those could be at times, perhaps it is more akin to my beloved 29th Street Saxophone Quartet in terms of style. Also, here they add Bass, Piano, and Drums Featured soloists: Odean, Joe Lovano, James Carter, and Michael Brecker. On an initial listen recorded live, this band really cooks. Anyone else heard or like it?

Sure it has some shlock on it, but that "Elvis 30 #1 Hits" that came out a couple of years ago, has the best sound for those recordings - it is night and day. Obviously the Sun sessions are great material

Interesting comments guys. Dan- it is an autobiography right? So why is Horace referring to himself as Horace or are you paraphrasing? ( I am looking at the Horace "quotes" about Tyrone Washington from your earlier post) Any other comments? I am interested because I love the guy's music, but on the fence about the book.

I heard Martino's new Wes tribute cd in Tower the other day. Man it sounded good! It will be tough to beat Live at Yoshi's though - one of my all time favorites.

I contacted Mosaic yesterday...they said Hard Bop hadn't made it to them yet, but should in a couple of days. thanks for the update! let me know if you get it.

anyone get the Art Blakey "Hard Bop" and can compare it to the japanese issue on sound quality?

Exactly. And that's another reason why it's too soon. An interpretation of past events in a movie is one thing, but something this fresh, combined with the power of film on the human brain and memory, is going to do exactly that: replace facts with interpretation. I might agree except that waiting more time doesn't necessarily mean we are going to get a more factual presentation. Look at the american Western films of the 40s,50s, 60s, these films are about events that occurred many years before but they are hardly fair to native americans. Having seen United 93 I found it to be a remarkably balanced film that relies heavily on facts (I would conjecture that very little is made up) without over glamourizing the passengers or demonizing the hijackers. And the message I got from the film, which I guess is different from Dan's view, was that although there was indeed a pilot on board (he had only previously flown 4 seaters) the passengers actually did not have much hope they could pull it off.

Not sure what this means as I am not up on cybertalk. these people on those planes were friends, neighbors, relatives of close friends. sorry if you are bored. You're not sure what it means, but your paranoia can be trusted, eh? It must have been posted simply to annoy you, after all... So why don't you just tell me what it means then, and then I don't have to speculate. I don't speak in code here.

No Chris you are not being too simplistic, it's just that you know very little about the facts. and that, in the words of Jim A., is pathetic. It is uncontested that the pilot and copilot were murdered in the first few minutes of the hijack and the passengers and flight attendants were aware that the pilots had been killed.. And yes Chris there are phone conversations with passengers where they indicated that they were going to revolt against the hijack -not sure what you mean by the immediate situation.

so enlighten us please. It's pretty simple. Nobody knows exactly what when on up there, including whether they were trying to save themselves or save the Whitehouse or whatever, except the people who were there. And they are all dead. And in the end, it doesn't matter whether or not they were trying to save their own lives, the lives of people on the ground, or the Whitehouse. The simple fact is they recognized they were not going to be held hostage but instead they were dead meat and decided to do something about it, instead of passively allowing a few men to control their collective destiny. And for that they are heroes. Not exactly true that only the passengers knew what went on up there , because a number of the passengers were having conversations with relatives and others on the ground about what had occurred at the Trade Center, etc. and about what the passengers were planning to do So one issue is that the United 93 passengers had a big advantage over the passengers who crashed into the Trade Center because those passengers had no warning that these were suicide flights. those passengers should not be denigrated for letting others control their destiny because they probably really believed if they did not resist, they would return to the airport. Furthermore, I think it does matter whether they were trying to save just themselves or others. Saving yourself is not usually a heroic act, saving others is. But what do I know, I am just pathetic right? I never said anyone was pathetic. I said the conversation was. That's a big difference. Also, by trying to save themselves they inherently were saving other people, since they were all aboard the plane together, no? well it was not made clear to me why the conversation was pathetic, unless your point is that since we don't know what happened up there, it is a useless argument. Well I reject that premise, because as I said before, we know a lot about what went on up there because of the numerous conversations of United 93 passengers with those on the ground. Your last sentence is of course correct but not clear - I was referring to people saved who were not on the plane, but that means that they were much less heroic. And as I have stated many times in this thread , I am not convinced, based on the facts that we do know, they thought they were saving themselves.