CJ Shearn

Going to a local Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy that I reserved in a bit. The last B&N I did that at was when Vol. 1 came out

Oh cool, that's definitely the way to go with that.

Yes, definitely,I see your point and that's true Santana has always talked about Trane. It's a good thing to get new listeners into the music, always a plus. I always wondered with an album like "Supernatural"(which I never really dug and that last track, with it's rubato kind of opening sort of reminiscent of Trane if some people who heard that became curious and they went back and checked him out.

Yes I remember that Capitol Vault Series series line. $89.99 for a download? Crazy. No thanks, give me the full package any day. Downloads, I have Blakey's "Mosaic", from HDTracks sounds great, but the $17.98 without a PDF of the liners or anything was a bit too much.

Ahh I see!!!! So that must have been done on Spotify as well.

Interesting... so did Spotify obtain the Bobby Hutcherson Select illegally? I regret selling that years ago b/c I never played it much. I always liked Spotify for streaming new music but never as a substitute for serious listening. I found many things, as are Amazon's AutoRip some things are badly encoded (Keith Jarrett "Testament" for example, the piano sounds wavy like a badly encoded 90's MP3)

Ahh ok, that makes sense. I wonder if the labels will license the material used for Mosaic sets for streeaming and such. I remember OOP Selects on Spotify several years ago

Fair enough, though the release of that Jarrett "After The Fall" and Arild Andersen's excellent "In House Science" are probably the most "jazz" like things on the label I've heard in recent memory. The Ronin stuff is great though, just getting swept up in the hypnotic qualities as you said, with spaces for improvisation/variation neatly woven in, though "clockwork precise" was a wonderful way to put it.

I always wondered how the partial sets were produced, manufacturers, error, returns of defective parts? I remember 20 years ago when I got the Mobley set I requested a new disc 6 to swap out a badly damaged one, and they were so prompt, but I always wondered how a proliferation of partial sets occurred.

As much as I dig Santana albums like "Lotus", he doesn't bring much of value when talking about jazz much. I saw it back on Netflix and enjoyed it.

Is the Woody Shaw Muse set gone? I didn't get any emails/alerts that it's gone but I'd assume since it was backordered a while ago maybe it'd be scarce.

Can't wait to hear this set, I know you said you felt the Olympia stuff was the best Scott, but I am looking forward to hearing the whole thing.

I can hear the influence of electronic/techno musics as well, and you are right, what the music has to do with jazz is open to however one defines the idiom (which is nearly impossible these days the more ECM's I listen to). What I like are the subtle shifts over time,the grooves and that's what got me about "Holon" which was the first album I heard many years back. Actually before I return to "Awase", the forthcoming, let me pull out the live album, good idea!

Just got a promo of the forthcoming album the other day. I really like this band, and the pushing the Glass/Reichian minimalism to new places, and the organic flow in which subtle changes occur. Bartsch's love of martial arts and Japanese culture is very evident in the shifts in what this band does. "Continuum" with Mobile was nice too.

Me too

I think some of Hubert's very best playing is on "The California Concert", and "Afro Classic". The "Rite Of Spring" and "Morning Star" aren't bad either, used to have those on vinyl. When I recently picked up Ron Carter's "Spanish Blue" in Japan, Hubert's playing on "So What" is quite nice. "Romeo and Juliet" which I had on cassette as a kid, I still remember as being a disaster.

You know, not sure. I think most of it probably has. I don't think anything in the Live in Europe 1967 box was recorded by Columbia, but they were widely circulated. I'd have to check the Losin discography.

I gotta check this out, really liked "Bells On The South Side" last year

I have one of her discs a friend gave me, but I never opened it. I think when younger jazz artists are trying newer things it's nothing but a good thing to attract the audience, I'm watching a video of "Worth It", it's not bad, fun music. I may give "Trying To Figure It Out" a spin. I think it's so important now more so than ever there are so many great women playing.

RIP. My 3 visits to Tower in Shinjuku this past November were very very special.

I really want to grab a copy of the complete album on CD now, just having reviewed Kit Downes' "Obsidian", which is a fantastic album.

I found this weird too, I posted that on FB. I have never seen a Blue Note album with a ??? before the BLP or BST prefix.

Great point. Mehldau has one of the most astonishing left hands I've ever heard, particularly on "Live in Tokyo" or "10 Years Solo Live" and that's a very different way of using it than Horace Silver. When I think of a great left hand I'm thinking about the ability to frame the harmony, or create a strong percussive accent.

I really like albums like the 6 CD "Sun Bear Concerts", the solo concerts while not everyone's cup of tea, are a different animal and draw upon different vocabulary. I like "Sun Bear" over Koln. The trio albums are all uniformly excellent, they are so consistent, I have most of them though "Bye Bye Blackbird" I do not yet have. 'At Deer Head Inn" with Paul Motian subbing for DeJohnette is terrific.

Absolutely, and Herbie Hancock has a great left hand. A Snarky Puppy video just came up on my YT on autoplay, and the keyboardist there has a strong left hand as well.