CJ Shearn

I picked it up the day after it hit, Kyo. It's taken a few listens to enjoy it, but........... "Sakura Sakura" is really great, I played it for a few friends who didn't get it unfortunately. "Under the Bridge" is killing too, Hiromi is a very good straight ahead player, she sounds a lot like Bill Evans here, but her ideas are her's.

I gotta still check out Fly, and looking forward to McBride's new one.

Aric, you're an idiot.

I forgot to add "Aubrey" is a bit cheesy, but "Trouble Man" is great. Bob James really got 2 unique looks at the "Don't Mess With Mister T" thematic material. Starts out with some cool dissonant strings.

"Soul Box" is the best of the lot, it has arrangements by Bob James, but........... Grover plays his butt off. Billy Cobham replaces Idris Muhammad on "Taurian Matador".

I'm ashamed, only scoring 60-79%. I got tripped up by a few of the "new Blue Note" questions and some of the pre 50's history ones but now I know! I guessed wrong that Mogie recorded 76 sessions for the label. I was thinking of his 25 leader dates.

I really like Wallace's playing on "Miles From India", but I think my favorite Wallace Roney has always the Tony Williams recordings, "Foreign Intrigue", Wallace doesn't really sound like Miles at all there. His phrasing in general is very much influenced by mid 60's Miles with all those chromatic runs, but the contour of them is very different.

I'm surprised they haven't reissued the Japanese LP only "Gleam", which is quite good.

cool. I need to go back to it myself, been listening to the new DeJohnette album. I think FPB is rough, passionately played music. I also think because of the principles, people expect somewhere between Elektric Band/RTF/Mahavishnu, and that might be dissapointing to some people.

BigBeatSteve, the reason I don't like that these Andorran reissues or whatever are coming out is because, I support Blue Note. And how they present their product, flaws and all.

wow that sucks they are doing this

hell yes. I can't find anything about a US release tho.

I agree on your judgement - Patrice Rushen was the best on this record, IMO. This was released in 2006, still the Concord site talks about the CD with Hiromi being his first all acoustic bass trio recording? I traded that in recently, the record did nothing for me on repeated listens.

STG, you raise an interesting point about Earland's playing. Earland's solos were kind of like Art Blakey, you knew the bag of tricks but everything just sounded so good that you don't care. Both Blakey and Earlsand swung like hell on their respective axes and were brilliant at bringing out texture and the tightness of arrangements.

Stanley recorded an acoustic trio album of standards with Patrice Rushen and Ndugu Chancler which didn't quite heat up IMO. I'm looking forward to this one

what the? seriously?

hopefully soon: B&W's my dad has

Glad to hear he got over it ... you happen to know who the dismissed pianist having trouble to read Pepper's new tunes was? Yes, I was wondering that, too. I have to think there was more involved. Are Art's tunes all that much more difficult than most jazz comps? As usual, Laurie's notes go into great detail (almost more than we need to know) about Art's problems and the convoluted/difficult background to the session. Interesting to hear Art tell the audience that the previous bassist had to "fly home because his mother was very, very ill." That would have been cool to hear Rodby with Pepper. I love his playing with Pat Metheny.

oh man...... this is my first Pepper experience. I bought a BRAND new in the used section of Coconuts of this set today for $24.99!!!!

that's a great site.

RIP

John's playing in Trio Beyond was some of the best I've heard from him, definitely

I miss going to a record store and finding an OOP title or import. If I go to a local store here like Music City an indie that's been around 25 years it's fun to browse the jazz section. That's where I got the Herbie Nichols BN box. I found a Benny Carter Impulse! vinyl there with Van Gelder in wax so it was probably an original pressing or close to.

that's a cool cover but I think probably some people will find it offensive.

not WR, but for Joe Z's last recordings I really like "Brown Street" and "75". The WR Live at Montreux DVD is very good as well.