CJ Shearn

I would love hearing this one for "This is Not America" which is one of my favorite tunes in the Metheny/Mays canon

whoa, what kind of mannerisms did Jeremy project? Freddie' sometimes disinterest in what's happening around him? David, I've lurked around AAJ where you post and enjoy what you have to say. How is Freddie these days?

yeah, I heard that Pat will be doing that for the next group thing, hooking up one of his guitar synths to a cat toaster pick up

story goes I used to like "Flight Time" when I was little, but now, tunes like "Fallin Like Dominoes" make me gag!

hey Joe, if you hook your guitar up to a cat or a toaster it can make cool sounds. I hear Roland has been producing a cat pickup to hook up to your guitar and trigger various kitty sounds.

I agree.

I am digging it so far. makes me smile, so good thing.

listened to the first two tunes so far but it sounds excellent, I saw Wynton live last year and he did a great show, his pianist Eric Lewis evengot into Cecil Taylor territory. Can't say I like a huge amount of Wynton's stuff, but this is an exception and "Green Chimneys" is pretty smoking. Picked this up along with used copies of Yellowjackets "Four Corners", "Greenhouse", Stanley Turrentine "More Than a Mood(!!!!!), and since it was a buy three get 4 free, bought back my copy of Big John's "Let Em Roll" which I stupidly sold. Ok, waiting for Chris A to jump on this thread and diss it. Uh oh, I said I bought Wynton *and* the Yellowjackets.

I know I must get PMS cuz I get moody, cry a lot, and want chocolate. no, seriously, not making that up!

what the hell? it doesn't make any sense RVG would do sessions in NY unless they were live on location things, but didn't he stop doing that in the mid 60's?

who are Quanuum?

It isn't fair to generalize the group of ppl who listen to Soulive, I admit that. But as far as "hippie kids" go, the stereotype in my experience was true. Guys and girls, that if you try to expose them to straight ahead or any form of post bop jazz its like "aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!" ::runs away::

well said Soulstream. And again unlike many on here I do enjoy the "Night of the Cookers" albums very much, they are just fun.

I would have paid for an expanded reissue as well, but I am glad to just own the music, its a JOS album I play quite frequently. Isn't the LPR series and offshoot of the Verve By Request series which began as LP reissues anyway?

haha, guess so

for 4 of the 5 tunes, do unedited takes exist somewhere in the Verve vaults? I am very happy the CD is out, but if unedited tracks existed, why didn't they use the restored versions like the "Root Down" reissue. It seems to me Verve/Universal didn't wanna take the time to research any unedited tracks from one of Jimmy Smith's best albums.

oh, thank you. I did not know that about that tune. LOL, JC covered R. Kelly?

apparently they do have a horn section live at times. But, when I saw a live video on BET Jazz of a tune called "Lenny" despite interesting use of a fretless bass sample by Neal Evans, the tune was incredibly boring, not much going on over a slowly building bluesy melody and a couple chords.

yeah I find that too, its interesting, you stick anything that doesn't have a funky groove in their face and its like "what?!"

27. most of the stuff from 55-68 and some boots of the 2nd quintet.

true, that is an achievement in itself being that big playing music without vocals. Although I am in that age bracket of most Soulive fans, just out of college, I grew up on Jimmy Smith so my outlook can seem a little closed minded and condescending to some.

wow youmustbe, too bad.

I see they are releasing a new album on Concord soon, and I fail to be excited about anything they put out. Five years ago I d/l stuff from their studio EP at the time for a taste and I was unimpressed, after hearing about the hype surrounding their then new release "Doin Somethin" When I was in college, I was part of the Harpur Jazz Project at Binghamton University, where we brought Soulive to a local joint cosponsored by the venue. Of course the aim was for the kids into jambands and they mightily suceeded with that goal, I did not go b/c I was not interested. The only song I ever liked of theirs was "Turn it Out" because of a long Benson-ish guitar solo. And it seems when I've talked to fans of Soulive about other organists (JOS, McDuff, Dr. Lonnie, etc) they have no clue or don't care. The players in Soulive are great at keeping a groove but theres not enough meat in it for me, certainly not like Organissimo, who are doing far more interesting things in the organ trio realm. So anybody who has listened to them, what is it about Soulive I'm missing?

some of mine: Herbie on "Succotash" (Inventions and Dimensions) Dexter and Donald Byrd on "Tanya" Horace Silver on "Wee Dot" (alternate take) Pat Metheny "Are You Going With Me?" (any version), "Third Wind" (Still Life), "Question and Answer (out chorus solo from "Trio Live") Lyle Mays "First Circle" (The Road to You) Jimmy Smith "The Boss" Joe Gloss "Tenderly" and "Pre Dawn Rain" Pat Martino "All Blues" (Live at Yoshi's) Bob Mintzer "Run For Your Life" (Yellowjackets: "Mint Jam") Joey DeFrancesco "Rock Candy" (It's About Time) Bennie Maupin "Speedball" (Live at the Lighthouse) Joe Henderson "Round Midnight" (Live in Japan) "El Barrio" (Inner Urge) Elvin Jones "A Night in Tunisia" (A Night at the Village Vanguard) Jack DeJohnette "Two Folk Songs" (80/81) Michael Brecker "Syzygy", (self titled) and "Every Day (I Thank You)" (80/81) John Coltrane "Teo" George Benson and Grover Washington "Rocksteady" (CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl) Stanley Turrentine "Impressions" (Sugar)

happy b-day Wayne!