CJ Shearn

This. Also The Jazz Futures: fun to hear where those guys were at at thee time, as well Roy Hargrove on Novus, Joshua Redman Spirit of the Moment, Wish, Kenny Garrett, "Pursuance" and "Songbook". Branford's "Dark Keys", Tain's "Citizen Tain", Joe Lovano "From the Soul", the Mehldau Art of the Trio 4 and 5, all things I dig. At the time I was pretty nonchalant when a lot of that stuff came out because I was still in 1950's, 60's hard bop mode. JMT was an indie distributed by Verve, but Gary Thomas "Till We Have Faces" I'd enter in the conversation for serious discussion. Brecker's "Tales from the Hudson" and "Two Blocks From the Edge", "Time is Of the Essence". John McLaughlin "After The Rain", There's a bunch of Larry Goldings albums from that decade I still haven't heard,

EXACTLY! I have nowhere near the expertise in free improv you do, but so much of it is killing without swinging in the "conventional" sense, like the new Jack album or "Espiritu" by Bendian/Cline.

PM sent on Ego, Young at Heart and New York Is Now.

That's what I remember too, Valerie. And it was selfless, not ego driven the way Phil Schaap approaches his incredible knowledge base. Bob was one of the MC's on the Concord "Tribute to Carl Jefferson" set, so he was in my conscience fairly recently.

Wow. Sounds great!

It definitely does. On my first spin, this is my first time really listening to Muhal, Henry, Roscoe, all guys that have been on my radar, just needed to be ready to "get there". I am really liking what I'm hearing, especially "Chant" and now, "This".

Burning! Thanks for sharing.

I would hear his show often on the NPR affiliate in Binghamton, WSQX often in the mid 90';s. RIP Bob

Looking forward to hearing it, mine should be arriving shortly.

Most Verve stuff is reissued by Hip-o Select right? I am not sure much of the stuff issued in the 90's and early '00's is in print if any.

I recorded a podcast for my personal blog with my feelings on the matter. Sorry about the sloppy edits trying to eliminate dead air, and I used "outstanding" too much. http://insidethespangalang.tumblr.com/

Wow. Just like if Carl Jefferson saw how Concord's product changed, he might have been unhappy. (Gorelick? come on!!) Granted there's more wide ranging jazz that there's ever been on Concord, but I see where Gioia is coming from in that angle definitely.

Smart move to stream lossless. We get HD quality video on Netflix but still since most people prefer lower quality MP3 the music still suffers. I rip everything from my collection to my laptop losslessly or to save space 320 kbPS MP3 (I have a hard time telling the difference between that and the CD) I decided that for some of the Blue Note stuff on HDTracks of things I don't have I'll do that, but I still get the CD's of new releases and reissues when I can, even if I just rip everything to my laptop these days.

My friend went to the second set friday night with Pat and Christian guesting, he said Roy was forgetful, when Pat called H&H, he had to remind Roy they played it together 25 years ago, but he said once Roy was behind the kit the years melted away. Another friend who saw Roy last year reported similar about the forgetfulness but let's enjoy the treasure of Mr. Haynes while he is still here, in the moment.

Happy 90th Roy! my friend is at the gig tonight.

Been heavily getting into Coleman today thanks to the free and legal downloads he offers on his site. I had "Tao of Mad Phat" when I was 13 but wasn't "getting" it b/c I was such a hard bop snob then. I listened now, and I couldn't believe I wasn't "getting it", I had "A Tale of 3 Cities" as well, back then. My mom's friend had tons of promos she gave to me that her friend got for review, a ton of RCA/Novus stuff around that time.

It must be like the Columbia Complete Album sets right? The Weather Report 1971-75 definitely is that, a shiny "clamshell" box. I always thought clamshell boxes were what the 32 Jazz discs came in?

A friend of mine doesn't dig Ornette too much (his only experience might be Song X) so I sent him a YT link of "Una Muy Bonita" to show him Ornette isn't too "out there". How could someone not is beyond me. Ornette is so full of melody. The Atlantic stuff is so great. I hope they issue Love Call and NY is Now and the Empty Foxhole on HD tracks so I get the BN stuff in one shot.

Really? what channel was it on?

Cool, as I'm listening to the Atlantic box now, it puts in mind I should check this out sometime soon, always intended to get "Sound Grammar" as well.

RIP............ another huge loss. What Wynton wrote was GREAT.

Yeah, instead of that they could possibly issue the complete catalogs of Hancock, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Bobby Hutcherson, Jimmy Smith, Hank, on a disc or 2....... It would expose new fans to a lot of great music and the classic BN catalog, with just a bit more with the standard catalog. How about reissuing the Washington, sure, or some of the gems from the 80's and 90's catalog too. Don Was did say the entire catalog will be available in some form. Why waste space on physical product for most of the UA era stuff, downloads would be ok, so that people who love that period (my friend LOVES that period b/c he loves disco and jazz funk) can get it.

I infer "Somethin Else" is included because it goes to 1951-58 when I looked it up. All Miles to me is worthwhile, but I think vol. 1&2 as great as they are, are not as interesting as the Prestige stuff, or the Columbia's.

This is interesting with some of the titles like "Maiden Voyage" on HDTracks too, same transfers? Will Blue Train feature all the takes that are on the recent Japanese SHM release? I just have the RVG which sounds fine to me. Don't feel like the upgrade game, especially because the SHM CD sounds very nice, which I got because I didn't like the RVG of that one. Might be worth it to hear a transfer of Somethin Else that doesn't have the treble boost of the RVG, (which I have, used to have the McMaster) I've never heard the audiophile releases of that title, and there are many, right?

I got an original copy of this box for $30 a few months ago, like new. Great stuff, I need to sit and listen to it all still. I think the presentation of the original Trane and Coleman boxes is great