CJ Shearn

Yes! Joe Magnarelli Live at Smalls, also happens to be the final recording of Mulgrew Miller who has lots of room to stretch out.

Wonderful story Chuck! Thanks for sharing

Happy birthday RVG! Regardless of what some people think, we should be thankful for all he has done. I am grateful for the hundreds of RVG's BN put out (tho I have replaced a few) because it allowed me to get previously very hard to find music, and a lot of great music I hadn't gotten to yet, cheaply.

Damn, this is a real shame. His playing on "Enjoy the View" I thought is quite fine, and his playing since 2004 or so I think, with the SF Jazz Collective, Joey DeFrancesco and Kenny Garrett amongst some of the finest of his career.

HBD!

Wow, I never knew about this either! Has nothing to do with what I feel about the music. edit: just finished reading the ebook which I spent 6 hours reading straight through. Fascinating read.

Great documentary, thank you!

The release coming out in January sounds great, will have to get it!

Looks like a CTI 9000 series, and yes felser, agreed. By the time Matthews became house arranger the arrangements were just awful.

Yes the Hays session is a very deep record, Bill Stewart plays fantastic on it. HDTracks has hi res versions of the Smalls releases, but I'd rather get the CD's b/c of the nice presentation. The Magnarelli is significant of course being Mulgrew's last session. Gotta pick up the Lund and Hoenig releases at some point, and the Frank Lacy which just came out

Maybe there are three such efforts, CJ - I've got several Live at Yoshi's as well (Jessica Williams, Mulgrew Miller), released by MaxxJazz. I like live jazz but can't get it often where I live (the excellent Savannah Music Festival in late March/early April being the exception), but AYK live recordings often suffer from inferior sound. The nice thing about most of the Small's (there's one very early one I'm thinking of I wish sounded better) and all of the Smoke Sessions releases is very good recording quality matched with excellent performances. IMO, of course; YMMV. I wish there were more of these efforts. I have the Mulgrew Miller Yoshi's and Kennedy Center volumes and they are excellent. I really like the Smalls releases I have (about 8 or 9 total? I think) that push at the boundaries of the mainstream like the Kevin Hays, Will Vinson and Seamus Blake releases.

Yes, the Evans is quite good. So is the Jimmy Cobb, both I have heard on Rhapsody. Very similar to the Smalls Live label, but maybe a bit too much of that is overwhelming with 2 labels doing that. I like the presentation of the Smalls' releases I have, and most include inner sleeves The presentation of the Smoke releases sounds very nice too, from the descriptions

Way too young! RIP. I believe he is on "Miles from India" which I still like very much

Happy birthday!!

http://insidethespangalang.tumblr.com/ I read the article, listened to "All Blues" and my thoughts are contained in a brief podcast. I may have to re do it to clean up some rough edges but wanted to get my thoughts out before I forget

This set will be one I will definitely be looking after, having all the variety under one roof is too good to pass up. Same reason why I find the Clifford Jordan set appealing, and would like to grab down the line as well.

That's great that Raksin got that law passed. I had never heard the story of Nelson's death, very tragic.

Wow, that B side is awful!!!

RIP

I can't imagine that being any hotter than the master take. Or did lightning strike twice?

I think that's about it, 5 albums

Yes, the article should have been more about Clark.

I still buy CD's too, but I rip them to my hard drive.

You are welcome Chris I agree with you on "The Continents". If you enjoy that you will like "Piano Sonata: The Moon" which takes up most of disc 3 of "Trilogy" at nearly 30 minutes. I think that piece with it's smooth integration of composition and improvisation showcases just how together the Corea/McBride/Blade unit is.

RIP