CJ Shearn

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.

I love how Herbie and Chick play off the rhythm section, and how Herbie does his usual thing setting up rhythmic motifs to engage the bass and drums.

that's cool we all do hear different things and have varying tastes so its understandable why you may not dig this one. I have a live show of the Garrett/Metheny/Reeves/Blade quartet that its just too bad Warner never actually released an album of because the show is killing. Well I'm gonna play the FPB album again :-D

I really like this new project and love the new RTF disc. I've found this really out phrase Chick plays on "Hymn to Andromeda" to be incredibly funny, b/c you just hear Christian just say in his deep Barry White baritone "yeah Chick!". I dunno Jetman, I hear plenty of heat in this music, and Kenny Garrett really delivers with his playing, even moreso than "Sketches of MD", and I haven't been that interested in McLaughlin's last two hearing soundclips but I like his intensity here

Oh yeah, it'll be fun. Last night the guitarist played his ass off, played a solo a la Wes, then in the same solo would rock out hard.

Anyone grab this? I picked this up the other day, and as much as I dig the "Anthology"with the two full albums, plus the best of the other two, this really is RTF's best album because of how the thirty plus years of experience has matured the material. When I first heard of the reunion I thought it'd turn out to be like a rock supergroup disaster but its really amazing just how tight they really were after all those years, I hope theres some new material coming down the pike. Chick said RTF would continue

last night at Binghamton University, a real funky good time. Maceo had a great band including Ron Tooley on trumpet who really stole the show on a number of tunes. Maceo also did his Ray thing with "You Don't Know Me", which really stunned my dad. The unfortunate thing was the sound which was TERRIBLE. Often the vocals were buried, as were the horns and keyboards, I talked to Maceo's engineer and things got a little better however, by the first 2 songs my ears were fatigued, too much treble and thumping ill defined bass. The house sound equipment is terrible though. The music was great fortunately.