CJ Shearn

Sit On It, Unfinished Business and The Cat Strikes Again aren't particularly great, but I see what you mean about the Blue Note material.

Another vote for "J.O.S." His comping and riffing are wonderful on it, plus the solo, quoting "My Babe" in the midst of that straight 8th soloing that Don Patterson, Johnny Hammond and Groove Holmes picked up on is so inventive. I have to say the Baby Grand, February '57 and Groovin at Smalls are among some of the finest material because his creativity was at a peak, the ferocity matchless and the mastery over the entire organ is just (no pun intended) incredible. Really, the first 15 albums show this off in abundance.

Really sad So awful. Bley's cousin was announced as being in the audience along with Lisa Abercrombie when I was at the ECM @ 50 concert on Friday night at Rose Theater.

The whole album is great, but then there's "Blupp" which is so absurd and funny, the moment it came on I couldn't stop laughing.

"Blupp" on Afric Pepperbird is one of the greatest things I ever heard.

Thank you! And yes, you should, I have the Wounded Bird reissue which is just a straight copy of the Elektra/Musician original, and sounds like a flat transfer.

Though largely in a supporting role, I love Pullen's organ playing on Maceo Parker's Roots Revisited.

Thanks. Well, that album I've lived with since I was 6 years old, and since I've gotten back into drumming stuff, Grady is such a great model for how to play quarter notes and swing. However, I can't seem to get away from accenting triplets like Elvin..... it's just ingrained in my consciousness. I cannot be like my heroes but I'll try excelling at that thing the best I can, I want to get into electronic music creation too.

I thought everyone here might get a kick out of me playing with "Suicide is Painless" from JOS' "Off The Top". Gonna have a whole channel of this stuff, just fun for my soul. https://youtu.be/7mez393-q9E

I'll definitely check it out

ECM's promo digital advances are already uncompressed, CD quality with full PDF booklets, they are the only label really doing that. A lot of labels issue MP3 promos with minimal info.

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Damn......... RIP.

I bought the SHM Japanese import a few months back and I like it.

RIP. "Iron Man" is excellent

I signed up for the trial too but beware.......... some albums like A New Perspective I expected to be available in the hi res master from a few years back, only "The Black Disciple" is hi res, the rest is the RVG. Albums like Innervisions sound great and seemed very close to the Japanese SACD I heard at my friend's house on his system. And some albums like the new Nicholas Payton are not available in full. So gotta buy that CD eventually edit: the Payton is not out yet so they released 2 singles.

Just wondering. I gotta get a copy sometime. Good to know, Amazon copies seemed not so cheap last I looked but discogs has quite a few

Did you get the DeJohnette off discogs?

Not sure I trust that when for example, HDTracks had Herbie's VSOP at 24/96 but it indicated it was upsampled from a 16 bit file.

Lon, very true. I was messaging this morning with Jamie Saft, because I had questions about the mastering of his last two recordings. Blue Dream and Hidden Shadows musically are very good, but the mastering is horrendous and brickwalled, Hidden Shadows a bit less so. The latter is in the vein of 70's Impulse! with Dave Liebman and Hamid Drake, but the mastering engineer, primarily has experience with dance and pop music and applies that approach to jazz--which for an acoustic jazz record of recent vintage is unacceptable. For something like Saft's Sunshine Seas that approach would be fine. Jamie was very understanding of my concern surprisingly and said the mastering engineer who did Strength and Power with Roswell Rudd (quite a dynamic, natural recording) is doing the next two albums.

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These guys are very interesting. I will be reviewing this one, I have the last one too. I like it when I'm in the mood for crunchy industrial noise.

Interesting. What was it about the later Blue Note albums? the blues numbers, unusual tune choices like "I'm Movin' On" or "Matilda, Matilda"?

Looks very nice!

JOS basically did three types of Blue Note records: early trios with a lot of interesting ballad and standard choices, these include the all star trios. The blowing session dates, between '57-60, mellow records, and the quartets