mrjazzman

if you can find it, playin in the yard by or with stan tracey............

Both Sphere CDs on Red are in print. The Umbria Jazz concert has been retitled "Pumpkin's Delight" (#207). Luca ← umbria jazz and pumkins delight same cd

blowing the blues away.............

not challenging your comments at all but i believe this is the first time i've ever heard of mulgrew miller being "adequate"!! ← from what ive read, you and I could probably enlightnen and broaden our mutual jazz horizons............

not challenging your comments at all but i believe this is the first time i've ever heard of mulgrew miller being "adequate"!! ← just for MY ears, and i don't mind the challenge, the way you worded it, it's outright attacks(which come fast and easy on this forum)that i don't like..........

I agree 100%

What sets him apart from Peterson? ← to me his lines and breaks are very sharp and edgey and somewhat percussive(although not to the extent of mccoy) whereas oscar's are more flowing and bluesy with slight tinges of stride...............

I have a new found appreciation for Randy Brecker. Just got home from Yoshi's Clifford Brown 75th Birthday Celebration. First night, Tuesday- I saw Randy Brecker play some kick ass trumpet tonight. Arturo Sandoval could not get out of Florida but will be here wed night. of the remaining three, Randy impressed me the most. Jeremy Pelt of course was the youngest of the three and has great potential but has to pay a few more dues. Valery Ponomarev was fabulous. and at 76 Benny Golson was as good as one can be at 76. was not all that impressed with the Mulgrew Miller trio but they were adequate. but again, imo Randy Brecker stole the show with his solos. looks like he's playing out of the side of his mouth, and looks like he's not even breathing, his delivery is effortless, the younger Pelt had more pyrotecnics and was into the higher register more that the others. played brownie covers. included in the program was a beautiful 4 song ballad medley by each one of the trumpet players and Miller(in Sandovals absense)gave Golson a photo of him, my dad Elmon Wright and Earl Bostic from a gig they did at the Hi Hat Club in Milwaukee in 1955. He said he and my daid were the best of friends and did everything together in the Bostic days. inbetween the songs, Golson made some very poignant comments about brownie, said brownie made a lot of music that was never recorded, i'd better stop here..................

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I own A World Of Piano and Here Is Phineas. he was what you might call a technical speedster. I hear art tatum and oscar peterson in his playing(mostly oscar).......

my favorite 3 are art blakey, elvin jones, and tony williams. of the living, lewis nash

I think JazzKrow posted this in the "Live Show" thread; should be a killer show.....wish I could make it! ← just looked at that thread it's over 10 days old, come on you can make it, the show runs through sunday........

The triple threat, master tenor saxophonist, arranger and composer of numerous jazz standards will be at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA tonight through sunday for the Clifford Brown 75th Birthday Celebration. Arturo Sandoval, Benny Golson, Randy Brecker, Jeremy Pelt, Valery Ponomarev and the Mulgrew Miller Trio. I know there have been and still are triple threats out there but can anyone name someone who is a triple threat on the level of Benny Golson? I can't. See you at the club BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

jazzbo, are you serious???? is everything ok??????

i'd sell not one but both of my daughters before i'd get rid of my blakey, smith and morgan sessions

Oh Clifford, if i didn't already have all that stuff i'd say don't dump it, send it to me

in the bio's of jazzmen sometimes the cause of death is mentioned but often times not. i want to know what these masters died of, maybe it will contribute to me becoming a centanarian which i plan to do, babies born today will definitly live to be 100, what say you...........

michael cuscuna(the man)says his favorite art blakey & the jazz messengers lp is Mosaic. of my 1600 cd's that I started collecting in April '97 my first two were A Night At Birdland vol.'s 1 & 2 so of course they are my favorite blakey sessions

It's funny, there was a time when I would have agreed with you, but I feel like I've grown to appreciate later Trane much more than I used to. I feel the content of his solo on ODOU is harmonically and thematically very rich. Do I listen to this period of Trane all the time? No, it can be exhausting (but exhilarating). most of the time I need to be in a specific mood. I also love hardbop Trane, but I don't think his later recordings do a "disservice" to his earlier stuff. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. Do you feel that way about Miles? Freddie Hubbard? Ornette? ← MAYBE that was a bad choice of words maybe i should have said that it takes attention away from his hard bop period......

It's funny, there was a time when I would have agreed with you, but I feel like I've grown to appreciate later Trane much more than I used to. I feel the content of his solo on ODOU is harmonically and thematically very rich. Do I listen to this period of Trane all the time? No, it can be exhausting (but exhilarating). most of the time I need to be in a specific mood. I also love hardbop Trane, but I don't think his later recordings do a "disservice" to his earlier stuff. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. Do you feel that way about Miles? Freddie Hubbard? Ornette? ← i don't know, i guess im getting older, but nowadays im entrenched in hard bop probably because hard bop is an offspring of the blues and the blues can never be dated. as we all know it's a matter of opinion and listening taste. believe me, I LOVE trane but in 2005 the avant-garde thing just sounds dated to me. ornette i could never get into same with eric dolphy can't get into his solos maybe with the exception of his work on the blues and the abstract truth. blue train, miles work prestige and columbia, bethlehem work, giant steps, crescent, the prestige box, the atlantic box, that's the trane i love, of course i love coltrane live at birdland, live at the village vanguard, but the stuff after elvin and mccoy left(they got tired of the unstructured noise)i can do without...........

i agree with you 100%.........

no, it's not just you, i think his avant-garde period 40years later sounds like a bunch of noise, Coltrane Live At Birdland hooked me on jazz at the tender age of 15, i was even digging SOME of the avant-garde stuff, but like i said 40 years later it sounds like a bunch of noise and does a disservice to his GREAT hard bop period

Jazzbo, you're not telling me you don't like The Blues And The Abstract Truth, a set that Scott Yanow calls(and of course I agree with him) "a true classic"........are you????????

I just played the JJ Johnson vinyl after cleaning the LPs on the VPI cleaner and - wow - what a great set ! Don't miss this, Mosaic lovers... ← I was torn between stitt and johnson, you just made up my mind and probably the johnson will go oop first, what do you think........

I have the Max Roach Mosaic for trade.............