CJ Shearn

sold my Chambers Mosaic Select so I'll just buy what I think are the best 2 albums from that set: Whims of Chambers and Bass on Top, pass on the Morgan's cuz I have the Mosaic, and probably will check the others.

I don't have any of these so I'll be getting all 5.

LOL that was great.

funny this thread came up because I was listening to Mex's famous D&C solo too. I love his tone, playing and ideas. Gonna have to grab some of these leader dates myself.

damn Sly looked and sounded awful in that vid.

cool!

it is a great album. JOS made few in the late 70's.

I have it and it's one of the best releases I have heard this year, most definitely. Vince Mendoza did all of the arrangements except "Procession" which Joe himself did.

I had one of those boot Casa Caribe casettes when I was younger. full of burning playing. I will try to look for the 2 disc version, since I am very selective w/ Benson and have no interest in much of his pop/smooth stuff. I just usually stick to listening to the albums where he just really smokes. He is one of my all time fav. guitarists though

my friend bought me the KJ Paris Concert one. I hope they make a PMG "Offramp" shirt.

thanks gentlemen.

with all the CTI talk, and since Mosaic Contemporary just reissued this, is this Benson worth getting? I already have what many of us consider his best CTI "Beyond the Blue Horizon", I noticed Creed contributed his awful tendency to overdub studio parts over live tracks (as is the case with my favorite CTI "CTI Summer Jazz At the Hollywood Bowl") is it worth getting for George's playing or better left alone?

Lon, interesting you like the Wes sound over the DCC, Parkertown copped me the DCC disc a while ago and it sounds good if a little non distinct to me. I plan on picking up the "Full House" Keepnews reissue in the near future.

he played great on the Legends of Jazz ep. "The Tenors" and damn he looks great for 78

hey, its not wrong to hear people genuinely going nuts on "Live at Yoshi's" by Pat Martino or VSOP "Live Under The Sky", the crowd reaction on the latter is awesome, like a rock concert. What is dumb is when people clap after a thoroughly written 8 bar bridge or something that's part of a tune and not improvised

In the liners to the new Trane at Newport reissue, Ashley Kahn states that Willis Conover was trying to calm the crowd after a raucous JOS trio set before Trane came on. Was this recorded? I'm thinking it's probably something Verve would issue rather than Blue Note b/c Jimmy's final BN sessions were February 1963. Does anyone know if tapes exist?

Ron does NOT play electric bass on "Sugar" its DI'ed acoustic bass. I just looked at the "Pieces of A Man" CD booklet, Jerry Jemmott is not listed in the credits. It just says "Ron Carter: bass and electric bass".

exactly.

happy belated birthday! I am glad there are other young people who dig jazz seriously.

really? I thought the solos on "Tunisia" were smoking, I think Kenny really loves the laid back style, he has for years, I have never heard him return to the fire of "Blue Lights", "Round About Midnight At the Cafe Bohemia" (w/ KD) or the Jimmy Smith sides, but he still is one of my all time fav. guitarists.

well, the notes to the Shaw say that Cuscuna put in "All Things Being Equal Are Not" to restore the sequence of the original album, "It All Comes Back To You" was not planned to be on the original album.

yes, it is contrafact from "Sunny". Anyway, Ron is seen playing electric bass on the inner sleeve to "CTI Summer Jazz At the Hollywood Bowl", but reportedly the actual electric bass you hear on that record was overdubbed by Gary King, that is definitely true as Steve Gadd overdubbed drums over Jack DeJohnette who is only heard on "Cherry". Tho if you listen closely throughout all three volumes you can hear Jack's cymbals from the original recording bleed through.

indeed that is very interesting. I don't think I have anything with Gilmore in my collection other than the date with Hank Mobley.

what were they thinking marketing this to kids? It was on webjunk 20 but I've seen it before.

so did I with the 8/57 session.