Guy Berger

Slightly more superficial than the above example (in terms of synthesis with Indian music, not in terms of quality), but there's Coltrane's "India". And some of Miles Davis's 70s music includes tabla and sitar. (On the Corner, In Concert, parts of Big Fun and Get Up With It.) Guy

Even more significantly, Larry played electric piano on Bitches Brew. Guy

I'm really looking forward to hearing Motian on this tune! (Though "After the Rain" would have been even better! But maybe too predictable.) Guy

Both the Lakers and the Knicks are missing the playoffs this year. An NBA fan's dream! Guy

Charles Lloyd recorded Bacharach and Costello's "God Give Me Strength" a while back. Guy

I more or less followed the same path into jazz as PhillyQ. Just pay attention to who's on the CDs you like, and get more stuff featuring them. Guy

By the way, has anyone else been reading Paul Shirley's blog? He's the 12th man on the Phoenix Sun's bench, and he can be pretty funny:

For what it's worth, I saw Peterson (w/my dad) about a year ago and it wasn't great but not bad either. He did start out with a really nice boogaloo, though, and the guitarist (Wakenius) is good. Guy

Isn't "Deception" one of the first Miles tunes to experiment with stopping harmonic motion? Guy

Wow, Chris, thanks for posting that -- it was really cool. Guy

Jazzkat, When you check out WBGO on the web(wbgo.org, I think), also give a listen to WKCR. They don't always have jazz on, but they do have some great jazz programs. If you search around here, there's at least two threads about WKCR in the lat month. KCSM is also available online, and it's a great station. One of the things I look forward to every time I visit the Bay Area. I have my radio dial currently tuned to some station in the lower 90s where they play lots of offbeat stuff -- techno, Latin, whatever. I don't really know the station name because I almost always play CDs in there. But a few months ago I stepped into the car and heard the DJ say, "...and that was John Coltrane with 'Sun Ship'. " Guy

I didnt notice it on the radio. The two worst albums for cymbol overdose are Coltrane, and The Waiting Game. If Elvin's the one giving the cymbal overdose, I'll take it. Guy

Nah -- most of this stuff has been on there already or even comes from there. This is for people on this board that don't have access to easytree. Guy

I just put together all my live '67 stuff in FLAC format (which is everything the band made that year, I believe) and it will be treed/vined here soon. It's just as good as the Antwerp gig, though not always in such high quality audio. Guy

Seconds on the Monk's Cafe recommendation. I am Philly born & bred. The usual things people complain about Philly: it's old and dirty and redevelopment is proceding in a pretty weird fashion in the downtown area--there are still wastelands 5 minutes from the most expensive real estate in the city. The town kinda looks drab in many ways because a) the city has never gotten its act together on presenting itself well to visitors and b) it's an eighteenth century town and it's just hard to do a lot of things the twenty-first century demands. So there's a feel to it similar to say, New Orleans or the older parts of London. It seems decrepid. Myself, I LIKE that. But I also used to play in a junkyard. Eric pretty much explained above what I didn't I like about Philly. To be honest New Haven (which is a 120K town, not a metropolis) is nicer, and I'm not the Haven's biggest fan. On the other hand I grew up in suburban CA from the age of 10 and my tastes are tainted accordingly. Guy

I'm on it Senor Moose!!!!! Or maybe we should take it to the Chick Corea thread. Guy

I saw him a few years ago and really enjoyed it. On the other hand, my experience with a few albums (Flight of I, Dao, Cryptology) is that he goes for a somewhat claustrophobic, relentless ensemble sound and listening to them all the way through gives me a bit of a headache. (FWIW, I don't have this problem with most of Trane's later music.) Guy

A question. Currently I'm ripping some boots I have using EAC and then converting the resulting WAV files into FLAC files using FLAC FrontEnd (w/verify option). Is this process 100% reversible -- in other words, if I did the reverse steps, would the CD I burned from the WAV files be 100% the same as the original CD? I think I'm just paranoid. Guy

Those are cool recordings. Had those European fans even heard Giant Steps at that point? Because what Trane is playing is way beyond that, he's already looking ahead to "Chasin the Trane". Guy

Sorry to offend any residents of this city, but I visited it in January and thought it was terrible! There's a great Belgian beer bar downtown that's worth checking out, though -- Monk's Cafe. Only bar I've ever been to with a tapestry on the wall. Guy

Steve Nash! Guy

I thought there was way too much Corea on "Black Beauty." And the guy really doesn't have a lot of taste - he's not a believer in "less is more." Try to get a hand on the live '69 stuff (which I will be tree-ing soon here). Chick's work on those dates is unimpeachable. I can understand why the electronics on Black Beauty would be off-putting to some, and at certain points goes over the top. The March date from the Fillmore East (Wayne's last gig) isn't as excessive either. But Chick is still doing some incredible stuff on Black Beauty -- his solo on "Masqualero" is awesome. Guy

If you warm up to Sextant, be sure to pick up the 2 CD Complete WB Sessions. Agree with Jim about Thrust, for some reason (Mike Clark's drumming, maybe) I like it better than Headhunters. Guy

I agree that either guy alone is better than both, but Chick's work with Miles up until Jarrett joined the group is superb. Guy

Has anyone else done the Echoes/2001 sync? Much better than the Wizard of Oz thing, IMHO. :tup Guy I've done the Wizard of Oz/Darkside sync, but have never heard of the Echoes/2001 sync... Do you start the song at the beginning of the movie (as you do on Wizard of Oz)? No... you start it exactly when the last sequence ("Jupiter and Beyond") begins. It's very cool, because the tune and the sequence are exactly the same length and each has three different (and synchronized!) sections. Guy