CJ Shearn

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.

I got mine from Abstract Logix. I thought the album otherwise is only available at their US tour until the summer when it gets wide release. What I've heard so far as a cursory listen, it's great though I'm still really digging the new RTF album a lot. Kenny Garrett's playing on the FPB record already shatters most of what's on "Sketches of MD", which after seeing Maceo Parker live tonight, I can take for what it is, a good funky record.

my copy should be in the mail today, however the album has Vinnie Colaiuta, not Blade. I'm digging the new RTF album personally.

congrats!

it's a horrendous album, I've heard it. JOS playing keyboards and a lot of anonymous sounding funk

Larry Goldings' Caminhos Cruzados is a good one too, just dug that out.

definitely for me one of the most dynamic bass-drums teams ever. The Miles stuff, the way PC and Philly laid a groove down was magic. And of course the way they work together with Hank on "Workout" is great too.

best deal ever for a CD, picked up SMV "Thunder" at the next to last day of CC being open for $1.51!

I just picked this up last night. It's a fun duet between Chick and Hiromi recorded at the Tokyo Blue Note in September 2007. Chick sounds very inspired on this and I've become a big Hiromi fan, and perhaps more than her own albums she shows what a creative improviser she is. Great "Bolivar Ba Lues Bolivar Are" on here.

pulled this out right now. It is a killin record.

I missed this the first time. This will be cool.

damn, heard soundclips, I gotta get this soon when funds allow.

damn, let's hope BN fixes this before I pick up "One Step Beyond"

damn.

fantastic news these are coming out. :

WTF? when the Fearless Leader set is out?

I like Art Blakey's recording of that too

kind of odd for a 1961 stereo BN, others like the "Here Tis" RVG are much wider.

yeah I remember growing up having a few of those weird albums, London maybe that were purely to show stereo separation, they must have been records from the 50's. I guess I'm so used to stereo it's hard to imagine an album in surround.

I need to play "Rabo De Nube" again for sure