CJ Shearn

Ingrid Jensen and Anat Cohen are indeed great players. Ingrid has a great warm, brassy tone that sometimes reminds me of Freddie Hubbard. She definitely deserves more recognition. If I ran the world, all female jazzers would get equal recognition with the men.

fellow Metheniac here, but I probably won't upgrade any of the Geffen stuff unless theres bonus tracks, and honestly only 2 need a remastering. I won't upgrade "Song X" tho, I rarely play it, I "got" it after a few listens, but its not something I really care for. I'd rather hear the out stuff on "Trio-Live" or the inside-outside of "80/81". I'm not a big free fan, altho ppl like Metheny or Jarrett or Herbie are exceptions. Rachel the "Longest Summer" video is hilarious, Pat acts in it and plays an unplugged guitar synth in an abandoned house, lol.

DMP, according to Doug Payne's CTI discography, Johnny Hammond is the organist on that extra material, although it lists his as originally being uncredited.

I won't be upgrading this one.

how about Jimmy Smith at the Club Baby Grand vols 1 &2. ?

I was shocked by the news too. Blamires and Led were the most fun to watch. I had a feeling Pat was gonna use Mark again for something in the future.

listening to Walkin from Night of the Cookers vol. 1

Up for some fresh air. I bought this last night, and finished disc 1. I like it, maybe thats cuz I like blowing sessions.

nah, his name is Mike Carbone.

I take care of the pre class music (one of my TA duties) so "Contemplation" was playing, and Mike, my professor walks in. I asked him to ID the band, he says "sounds like McCoy" all well and good....... but he thought the bassist and drummer were Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, instead of Ron and Elvin... that was so funny.

I placed an order going on a month ago for a non jazz related item, a "King of the Cage" mixed martial arts DVD set taking advantage of their first time purchase free shipping offer. The order ships within a day, however I have not received ANYTHING. emailed customer service (or lack thereof) and they told me that the ordered be arriving, I wait a few more days, no dice. So I filed a lost shipment claim, which can take up to 2 weeks for them to approve, you have the choice of either requesting a replacement or refund. I hope I get a replacement soon, I have no problems with the retail store, but man the online store sucks. Avoid at all costs.

Herbie Hancock Trio '81 (Sony Mastersound)

on my copy of Keith Jarrett's Live at the Blue Note box, for disc 3 I believe, in the booklet, two pages are stuck together, like they forgot to be separated.

ha, good one Jim, I just haven't put up a new one.

and I'm still not up for getting into heavily free stuff like Brotzmann, Cecil Taylor or even Ornette.. yes, I like some free jazz but not to the point it goes so out that it bothers me (like Brotzmann, sampled some clips--no thanks) and I've listened to inside-out stuff and borderline free for 6 and a half years, I even like some of Pat Metheny's free stuff (I used to like anything he did but now I've picked favorites-become more critical with him, even tho I recognize a consistent quality to all his work) I really didn't like "Free Jazz" either even tho I listened to it very hard, we even analyzed a section of it when I was a student in the jazz class, even tho I can focus on all the different levels of activity there, its just not to my taste. Anyway, I think people bget turned off to jazz b/c they might end up hearing something really heavy, like a free tune, something like Kenny G, or maybe turned off by the discussions that we as jazz fans have like artists, pros and cons, etc....... or they could get turned off by elitism such as that which ppl like Stanley Crouch favor.

KG all the way

23, I'm just a baby

yeah, it was a very nice show indeed. They also did a great "I'll Remember April" with White soloing with mallets to begin, he did a lot of pitch bending on toms too.... I said his solo reminded me of Elvin and Tony, and he told me he studied with Alan Dawson, pretty cool. Theres a jazz club opening up in November in Johnson City (where I live) over on Main St, by a drummer named Joe Roma. I've been talking to him about maybe getting a job in some capacity there when I graduate. To start he plans on having it open Friday and Saturday nights from 6-12, and have a primary focus on a variety of different groups and settings. It'll be interesting to see how the club does, maybe some bigger names could be brought in, in time. Wow that Zora avatar is soooo cute are you going to teach her how to play the Hammond when she gets older? the world could definitely use another Alfredson on organ.

Just got back from seeing Houston's quartet which included Stan Hope on piano, Per-ola Gadd on bass and Chip White on drums. Very good show, the concert featured a very nice "Trieste" by Jobim with hard driving rhythms by White, a burning "Lester Leaps In", "So What" with a nice bass feature for Gadd, also a nice "My Funny Valentine" too, very pretty. After the gig went backstage and chatted with Chip and Houston, saw him last semester so he remembered me gave me a copy of his new one, he gave all of us in the Harpur Jazz Project some free discs, very cool.

don't have the CD or LP anymore (one of those mid 80's reissues), but Donald Byrd's "A New Perspective", something like "Elijah" or "Christo Redentor".

true Jim, thanks for reminding me of those. "Off the Top", sure.

as far as compositions go for Jimmy, FWIW, I think "J.O.S." is probably the most developed since its not just a riff

I'm an anime fan, so I enjoy the Sailor Moon season 1 set, the Neon Genesis Evangelion set and the Tenchi Muyo! OVA set (original video animation)

on "Mr. JJ", Strickland should have soloed first tho, b/c there is really no way he could follow Garrett's smoldering spot, good tune tho.

montg, not really. Tain takes short solos over vamps, most of the solo space is alloted for Garrett and Strickland.