CJ Shearn

the Mehldau collaboration should be interesting, looking forward to picking it up, but what I'm really waiting for is The Way Up: Live DVD being released this fall.

oh wow. maybe someone has additional live shows of these guys? I know some radio/TV stations in Europe broadcast stuff from Northsea often. So, on the album review subject you think Tesser (who I've seen write in Downbeat and Jazz Times I think) missed the point of the music and this "tribute"? And Lazaro, I agree! the way they do the head is just amazing, like "holy shit!!"

awesome. Was the setlist similar to the album?

isn't one of the future releases supposed to be 1969 Juan Les Pins concerts?

I heard a strange review of this on NPR's Listen Here by Neil Tesser yesterday. He said he felt the album was lacking something and the trio failed to live up to expectations "both live and on record". Is this guy off his rocker? It seems he missed the point of the music, the trio not playing Lifetime verbatim, but doing their own thing, which is the best form of tribute. They also said "Saudades" is a Brazillian tinged title track, where do they hear that? To my ears I hear it as a loose funk-rock tune. Jazztimes also gave this one a weird review too, stating the music is more "Back At the Chicken Shack than Lifetime".

my friend ordered this for me as a belated b-day gift, hope it comes soon.

great! I will be checking his new one out for sure. I have this live show from the Pursuance tour recorded at the Knitting Factory, man it cooks! Pat Metheny on "Wayne's Thang" is great. One of the best guitar synth solos I've heard him do, ever.

"Every Day (I Thank You) is one of Pat's best ballads IMO, I was listening to it last night, such pretty changes and a great Brecker solo. David Sanchez played this with the Pat Metheny Trio recently and it did not have the same effect. I also love Brecker's solo on "Two Folk Songs" it's really funny too, a bassist I am friends with who's in a few local bands, we talk about that tune the first thing we talk about is how out Mike's solo is. "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOO" Jack DeJohnette man!" at the end of "The Turnaround" is priceless. Calling Joe Gloss, calling Joe Gloss!

I have never heard of Nigel Kennedy, perhaps b/c I have been out of classical for a long time, but something with Jack DeJohnette is hard for me to say no to! Actually, the soundclips sound really nice.

wow, a boxset would be interesting. What group does this document?

ok, I will give it that Prayer Meetin and Rockin the Boat have similar feels, and, they were contractual obligation records. But, I have to disagree with The Sounds of Jimmy Smith being weak, I don't have the RVG b/c I have the Mosaic. I enjoy the Date with Jimmy Smith session, though to me its not as polished as the later jams to come, and there are balance issues with the sound, especially noticeable with the organ on "Falling in Love with Love".

I'm with Parkertown on this one. Robert H., would you care to expand on what you feel makes JOS BN's "tired", and which ones?

......ok an RVG of Workin, after the box just came out?

this is a well known bootleg released from the Midem jazz fest several times under different titles. Features the Heath brothers. Pat has no connection with releasing this material.

I can't listen to the ODJB for very long either. They are important for putting jazz on wax, but the semesters I TA'ed the jazz class (and also when I took it for fun) hearing "Original Dixieland Jass Band Two Step" over and over was maddening. One thing I thank that class for is opening my ears to pre swing era jazz though I don't necessarily enjoy it.

good points Mike. I can't imagine Tony on ECM either, and I agree if you let go of the "Lifetime" tribute tag, this disc really works on its own.

I can attest most of the JOS is good, I have all of the live discs on Milestone. The Tyner, not sure, I have "Together", "Enlightenment" and "Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo" as far as that stuff goes.

listened to clips, wow that "Never Can Say Goodbye" remix works.

well said Reinier! ECM= Editions of Creative Music. I wonder what's up with the 5 second lead in before the tracks start. It was like that on a bunch of Jarrett albums too.

really Lon? I had no idea this set leaned the other way I have yet to purchase this set also

more traditional huh? I thought this set brings and certain forward push with Larry and Jack which makes the more out moments really work well. And of course Jack is the usual master of implied time. I was playing "Seven Steps to Heaven" for a friend from this and I asked him to pick out 2 and 4, he couldn't do it. I met my friend when I was a TA in the jazz course.

yes skeith, I thought saudades meant sadness or songs also............... but yeah I meant that the touring agency might be a factor in the album title, which is sort of odd.

yep, I think using that as a riff base for the tune was intended. But does anyone think the title "Saudades" is odd? considering in the liner notes, its said that is the European touring agency that helped bring Jack, Sco and Larry together, the Yellowjackets thank the same touring agency on their new album "25" as well.

what a shame! She always gave great and quick replies in emails to questions I had about the catalog.

great news!