CJ Shearn

Really nice article.

The record finds Pat exploring tonal territory that began on "Tap", extended through parts of "Kin" and through to the "Cuong Vu Trio Meets PM", some of his most inspired playing in years.

Jams_runt, the Hancock disc he did is excellent, no skimping on serious straight ahead playing for lack of a better term, and his "Positootly" is nice as well. The Gordon Goodwin Big Band, I heard them once, did nothing for me. For that kind of glossy LA thing, the Bob Mintzer LA Big Band does it way better.

Have you heard his album "Letter to Herbie"?

"Peace" is very good, I plan to review it

Finally ordered a copy of this, $84.99 at Amazon, will be passing my existing single discs to a friend.

I haven't heard "Spirit Fiction" in quite awhile, but it's very good, cerebral. Ravi is excellent on Jack DeJohnette's "In Movement".

His latest group and albums, and participation in the Mack Avenue Superband has been quite vital.

RIP, very sad news. Great playing with the Turrentine's as well.

Awesome!

Man, this is sad. I saw him in Binghamton at the defunct Night Eagle with an Indian group, they were great. Really nice guy too, have his autograph on their album, only pressed on CDR I believe.

http://bit.ly/2lMdBLh One caveat here though folks: this is not a jazz podcast per se, the first non jazz one I've done. Divinity's music contains jazz influence, she is just a really cool person and this interview was great. For those with an open mind, go ahead For those that this doesn't do anything for, that's ok too, the fact I compared Q-Tip's lyrical behind the beat flow to Hank Mobley may bother some, but it's in the same ball park to me.

RIP "Mornin'" is a great tune

Fair enough

Chris Heaney. That guy was something else. He missed so much great music because he hated things like Rhodes or synths.

RIP

Saundra was quite a person, her stories were very interesting indeed.

Right, and the accessible forms of jazz to the general populace, didn't the snobbery exist in every era? People who liked Paul Whiteman I'm sure got ridiculed by those who liked the "real jazz" of Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, those into Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey chastized by Basie, Ellington, Fletcher Henderson fans, those who might have gotten into the music with "Time Out" or "Bird With Strings", "Headhunters", etc ("oh that isn't the true Herbie, the true Herbie is on "Empyrean Isles" or with Miles") "Heavy Weather", "First Light" the Pat Metheny Group's "Letter From Home", I can think of many albums that serve as a wider gateway. Then I'd argue what alienates new jazz fans further is when the discussion turns to race or "this is how swinging is, that's not swinging" etc......... The neo swing thing that started with Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, of course that still reverberates as you were saying.

That, and as soon as someone recommends Miles or whoever to a newcomer the conversation devolves into minutiae about x album over y, or really obscure albums (to the general populace anyway) cuz as normal as "Miles in Tokyo" is to us, its pretty obscure for most. It took me a while to see that bigger picture willfully. Then if a young person gets into jazz through say, Robert Glasper, there are some fans who prefer classic jazz, may not be as up on the current scene, and that drives younger listeners away too. It's always my hope that listeners in my generation or younger also get interested in the history, not just the scene now, though admittedly I am, probably due to my reviews and other writing more invested in the scene now, though for personal pleasure listening everything I have loved before is in rotation.

"Live in Tokyo" is still my favorite WR album.

Really great! swingiing, grooving like mad

It's a great set, I used to have it, most of the tracks are on the second Columbia WR set, but for me, "Live and Unreleased" has been eclipsed by the "Legendary Live Tapes" 4 CD box. JMO tho

Lon you were banned at AAJ? The forums that were always hairy for me were Jazz Central Station (yes, I joined jazz BBS's at 17 when I got my first PC) and Jazz Corner. The latter with the whole DEEP stuff, that was just insane, but I do think that if you spend too much time thinking about a forum in actual life, it's a problem. I'm a member of other forums for other interests I have, like shoryuken, a famous site for competitive fighting video games and some people take it way too serious, the keyboard warrior thing is at a premium on a site like sherdog, which covers mixed martial arts and boxing, that place I lurk but don't post. This board has been really great with the exception of the incident between me and Joel, there's a lot of people here with wide musical tastes which is great.

And no more wacky stuff going on

Damn, RIP..... huge loss