CJ Shearn

I said in a previous post that I ordered this to cheaply fill some major holes in my Shorter BN collection. The 11 albums have been available (sans bonus tracks) in hi res for quite sometime. Anyone who has this set, are the masterings a combination of 80's McMaster, Conns and RVG's or are these transfers from the 24/192 ones used to make the hi res and SHM editions? As I said I'm not concerned about the mastering that much but the track listing on the Universal Italy site looks like a cut and paste job from previous versions. Does this set have the corrected "Soothsayer"?

I bought the Shorter to inexpensively fill some holes, to get the rest of the BN's. I just ordered it. I'm not too worried about the mastering, I have the SHM of "Speak No Evil", which is incredible of course.

Fantastic album, really beautiful stuff. http://bit.ly/1YnKB9e

Thanks! I really think of these interviews as just conversations between a knowlegeable fan and the musicians. Later this month I have interviews with David Krakauer, Brent Wallarab and Dave Liebman ahead of his workshop at New York Jazz Workshop. What surprised me was Zev was totally geeking out talking to someone as passionate as he, usually I'm so passionate that it surprises the musicians (in a good way of course). When he asked me questions, I was taken aback. I used "unbelievable" one too many times, I'm still growing in my interview style.

http://bit.ly/23F6mTr Still working on learning to match levels in Audacity folks, the intro/outro is a bit lower than the phone interview portion.

I couldn't agree more! They are like these unbelievable essays where you learn so so much I know I do.

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/prince-loring-park-sessions-1977-stream.html This is some nice stuff, Prince on mainly everything. I suspect quite a few people like Lon will be familiar with these sessions, hope they see an official release! Musically they kinda fit with the general tenor of Herbie Hancock around 1973-76, pretty typical jazz-funk vibe.

My sentiments exactly.

He just appeared on acoustic with George Coleman on his new one, would like to check it out. And that has me excited, Jim!

Great! I will also be interviewing him in May for New York Jazz Workshop's Podcast as he is doing a workshop there this summer. The "Expansions" album, I have it and have only been able to play some of it so far but it is terrific.

Wish I could help, sorry I do not have that set. Been looking for "Pendulum" myself.

Enjoy!!! My review of Larry Young's seminal "In Paris: The ORTF Recordings" an indispensable addition to Larry Young's legacy. http://bit.ly/1roqNbl

Haha, right! I am the same age as a lot of these "hipsters" who are trying to reclaim a portion of interest in the music, but the difference is I try to live in the music deeply, looking at the history, the times surrounding what and how it was shaped, its not a lifestyle thing, it is life.

Great stuff Jim. I never thought for a minute the music Jimi was playing was music for white people, that statement of that person lacks historical knowledge. As you also stated most people are content with the pop culture minutiae, and don't wanna know the depth, thats why it's a pleasure to read and be a part of discussions about music with you and others here, always a learning experience. It's ok when most don't wanna go that deep, about Prince or whatever, but it's really interesting to see in that clip how Prince on the same stage with JB and MJ, he clearly understood the tradition and the lineage but took it to a whole other place in that moment. Incredible.

It's about time to own some of his music rather than just always hearing it on the radio. Unfortunately, and predictably, prices for his stuff on eBay have jumped through the roof, it will level out, but $50 for an original CD of "Purple Rain"? can't be that hard to find!

RIP. Brilliant musician even though I was never big into his music, its a permanent part of my generation, for sure, iconic.

It's stunning, heard that a few days back. I'm getting more into pre bop anyway but that recording really just highlights how fresh those ideas are in the Hot Fives and Sevens.

Very cool!

Really? I thought that was one of the most interesting aspects. Since at least "Tap", Pat's been exploring new colors and textures in his sonic toolkit. He's using his classic Roland GR300 guitar synth on most of the album, but he has the regular guitar sound blended with the synth and distortion at the same time which is new for him. Nasheet Waits and Jason Moran play fantastic as well. It really sounds like a band that's been together for a while (though they weren't at all which is what Logan told me in my interview with him) instead of just a collection of all stars.

Wow, great stuff! Not just wonderful sound but great music.

My conversation with Fuze, we talked about his excellent new album, "Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam", microtonality, music ed and future projects, a really fun and fascinating chat we had. http://bit.ly/1MB5nkO

Interesting thoughts. I enjoyed the Kuroda and Moran when I first heard them and I think the new Lonnie Smith is nice, I don't like it as much as "In The Beginning", but I think it's quite good. I've wanted to hear the new Charles Lloyd, I really liked "Wild Man Dance". Personally I think Blue Note'sy had as strong a recent renaissance as ever, Logan Richardson's "Shift" is one of my favorites this year The label direction under Don Was reminds me a lot of the pretty awful "Blue Note Hits A New Note" UA era as far as trying to do something different with the music, except the music is a lot better, and a lot more honest. For those with an open mind, Blue Note now is quite nice, for those that wanna stay in the classic '54-70 era, well........... YMMV, but as a fan of Blue Note and known where the label's been I think things are pretty healthy now.

I will get one soon myself, I enjoyed the stuff I heard in the EPK. George still sounds quite nice.

I will be reviewing this and received my copy a few weeks back, really wonderful music. Jack's brushwork is superb in many places, just check out "You Go To My Head", totally blows the assertion that some people I know have had that DeJohnette overplays, there's a difference between busyness and over playing and there is none of that here, just beautiful sensitivity.

Don't bother. This recording is not legit, I have a copy of this from Dime, and it is a radio recording