CJ Shearn

I heard some of that on the radio back then, it was nice! But hey, it's Horace

JOS "Angel Eyes: Ballads and Slow Jams" is a must, one of Jimmy's finest late period efforts, "Damn!" is good too, but this one is the better of the two IMO, from the same date.

"A Jackson In Your House" is great, as is "Reese and the Smooth Ones" which I listened to on Rhapsody a while back to sample and take a few steps into the catalog.

It should because it was distributed by BMG in the 90's, I don't remember when Warner stopped distributing ECM.

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. Right. I'm thinking more like the power generated by the likes Schlippenbach Trio/Quartet, Peter Brotzmann, Anthony Braxton's classic quartet, or Tim Berne. Not swinging exactly but a sustained and sometimes punishing intensity that generates the same feeling for me. Yeah, "Chant" on "Made in Chicago" has a punishing intensity that made me say "yeah!" out loud, something that when a friend heard it, he found that very difficult to take. That album is not easy listening, gotta spin it several more times, but I loved it on first play. It took me over a decade to get to late Trane and where I can enjoy a lot of extreme free stuff, still working my way into Brotzmann. (Can't sit thru all of Machine Gun on Rhapsody, incredible music) funny because I can sit thru both takes of "Ascension" sometimes. It's all incredible music, it just the intensity gets me exhausted. I guess the thing I like about Brotzmann's sound though is it comes out of Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster but goes into a complete different zone. One of my best friends is a saxophonist in NY that plays a lot of free stuff, but he plays other things in all sorts of contexts, so that opens the door for me too. I like what I heard of Zorn's "Hemophiliac", not my first thing, but an occasional dip is nice.

I don't. For that title, I have the 24-bit mini-LP edition. Sounds pretty good. (By the way, note to the forum: I need to correct myself. "The Fifth of Beethoven" = "Little Symphony." Not as I stated above.) Bottom line — I think we all love Ornette's Atlantic work (well, mostly!), and this 2015 reissued box set is a good thing. How we accumulate each title, in the end, doesn't of course really matter. We'll all find an edition we're happy with. Listening is what counts! Those recordings continue to be fresh to this day. Damn that warehouse fire! Right!! the music is incredible and I enjoy the original boxset just fine.

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?