CJ Shearn

John, will these be HighNote releases, the Maintenance Shop stuff? Also do you know if Woody Shaw, Live vol. 4 was transferred from a casette tape or something? cuz theres a dip in sound quality but the music is incredible (that's what matters most). I must grab more Woody

I love whooshing cymbals too! oh man, Victor Lewis on the "Live" Woody Shaw stuff gets me going, as does Bill Stewart's whoosh, and in a weird way, Jack DeJohnette's dry Sabian whooshing.

I'll second Blue Lights, Midnight Blue, Blue Bash and the Five Spot date

Lou contributed to the Birdland albums with Art Blakey, some of the most important hard bop records ever made. He deserves the respect for that in a major way, those albums I think were a bridge between bop and hard bop.

thanks, Lon, very cool I will definitely be buying that one.

As someone on the board informed us, three volumes of "Woody Shaw Live at the Maintenance Shop" will be released. Are these going to be released by Highnote as Woody Shaw Live vols. 5-7 or something totally different? I just got Woody Shaw Live 1-4 and have been digging the hell out of them. Also, when is Columbia going to reissue "Stepping Stones"?

I voted for "Breezin". I liked that one as a very young kid, before I knew about a lot of stuff, but I wish George would do another straight ahead album, with an organ. I mean he played his ass off and smoked on "Summertime" from Brother Jack's "Bringin it Home" album... As for the pop/R&B sell out stuff, whatever you want to call it, I think he made the transition completely on "Breezin" although I doubt pop fans more familiar with "On Broadway" have heard that killer guitar solo, or at least really listened closely enough to it. The CTI albums had something, I personally like "Beyond the Blue Horizon" very much. Finally, as for his new one, its trying to get the young R&B crowd noticing him, I heard clips, didn't really care for it all that much, but......... I'd say it is far higher quality than most mainstream R&B you hear on the radio today.

lol, thank you very much Joe. Come on, I bet you hear it too

man, I should have seen this thread sooner! "Offramp" is a critical album of me turning into a PMG nut, and "Are You Going With Me?" is my favorite PMG tune of all time, it had a profound effect on me when I first heard it. Even better is the rearranged drum and bass sorta version Pat did with Anna Maria Jopek on her "Upojenie" album from 2002. Oh yeah, anyone notice the unison bass/piano/crash cymbal passages lifted directly from "Barcarole" (originally it was all in the bassline) in the trumpet/guitar synth section of "Part Two" from "The Way Up"?

Houston Person.

no, the station is WSQX in Binghamton, NY, which is upstate.

their playing here in June, I might go see it to see Stanley Clarke live. I thought they were on the bill separately but all these jamband kids wil attend and probably think their getting jamband stuff but will find its totally different.

LOL!

wow, what a range. The local jazz station needs to get a hold of this, they have sort of boring stuff all the time.

damn, I'm ordering those "Live" albums too very soon

I read the Rosenthal book a few semesters back for pleasure. Yeah, Igot some factual errors too, but I thought the discussion about Lee Morgan and "badness" to be interesting. This would also be a good book for future members of the Harpur Jazz Project (a group on campus that brings jazz concerts and we try to educate people I'm graduating, so its done for me) who think race hasn't hasn't been a factor in jazz.

lol at the cover.. "yeah cat, I'm smooth....... WHAT?? WHAT??"

I think they gave me a used copy of Pat Metheny's "Secret Story Live" DVD, I refinished it, they also gave me $5 store credit

ok Alon, cool, gotcha On the topic of smooth, I'm getting down on some Richard Bona right now, is that a bad thing? its the eighth track on his first album, the groove is smoooooooooooooooooth

Alon, what "pop" albums of Metheny's do you speak of? For the record the only pop album hes made in years was an album of his tunes with Polish vocalist Anna Maria Jopek.

Pat Metheny smooth? uh, The Way Up!!!!!!!!!!!! hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keiko Matsui, yes she does have songs that are smooth jazz with the hooks and all, but she does a lot of other stuff like worldbeat and technoey type things, and she'll have full blown orchestrations too so shes not entirely smooth.... Yes, I have a few of her albums, and Michael Franks too

The group is Steve Smith and Vital Information which features ex Santana keyboardist Tom Coster on keyboards and they have several things out on Tone Center records. They played my neck of the woods recently but I was unable to go.

wow Jim, great review

wow, sad news, I was listening to "One Flight Up" the other day. Such rich basslines on that album.

yeah Big Al, I thought maybe it was Wayne, and his wife at that time was named Miyako right? I think I can see an Asian face from the profile