CJ Shearn

Happy birthday CT! one of my favorite trumpeters ever

This set is a nice companion to that Woody Shaw Columbia (which I still don't yet have) so it is worth it for that alone.

The Winston, Blake, and Brewer releases look interesting for sure. I really dig his playing on "New Life" by Antonio Sanchez and "Live at Smalls" by Will Vinson. Listening to the Blake now on Rhapsody. Blake is killing on Lonnie Smith "In the Beginning" too.

I enjoy the set very much, the only really forgettable thing is the Stevie Wonder "Isn't She Lovely" cover, if you like that kind of thing, a fairly anonymous rhythm track with great players, you'll love this.

RIP...... I love his passionate solo on "Bags Groove" on the Newport in NY albums. Also so great with McCoy.

I am listening on Rhapsody now, really digging his tone.

Yes, I agree on the Metheny, if a release can come to fruition. Looking forward to hearing the Haden and Hall, too.

On the alternate of "Hat and Beard", I find Freddie's solo much hotter (if that's possible!)

That rebuttal is indeed great, looks at all sides, leaves us to make the choice. It's the best thing I've read to come from all this craziness.

This project will be killing, everybody!!!

Yes, I really want to hear those alternates too Jim, because they certainly seem like as is the case with the alternates of the Second Quintet contain elements of difference that are worth hearing. I always felt that way about "Fuchsia Swing Song" alternates of "Blues Downstairs, Upstairs", the differing approach and feel to each one is wonderful.

My thoughts on the whole thing published on my own blog. http://insidethespangalang.tumblr.com/

"The Birdcage" is always side splitting to me. This news came as a real shock, I'm not the most avid movie person, but he was a wonderful actor, and as an improvising comedian, what he did on "Inside the Actor's Studio" with the scarf was outstanding. Depression is very serious, as someone who has suffered from debilitating bouts of it, I had to agree hearing Dr. Drew tonight saying the brain disease (depression) that Robin was suffering with really robbed the world too soon of someone great.

I'm working on an article about this ridiculousness for my personal blog

Very interesting reading, a lot of facts I did not know. I always wondered about the March 8, 1957 date, because that would mean the Horace Silver quintet session was taped in the afternoon in Hackensack and the Jimmy Smith "Plays Pretty Just For You" session taped in the evening at Manhattan Towers. It seems to conflict with the method Rudy often stated: taking three days to set up for a remote recording. is it possible he set the remote equipment for the JOS session prior? It seems to me the same equipment he used for live club dates was the same that was used at Manhattan Towers, certainly if you look at, say the photos from Smalls for "Cool Blues" it looks like the same microphones from Manhattan Towers sessions. Also, the point made about the "Orgy in Rhythm" date being the first recorded in stereo, it seems odd that the only track recorded in mono is "Amuck".

Welcome. I really hate the sound of my voice in the interview cuz I sound like some 15 year old, but there is enthusiasm there at least.

Jack has an enormous knowledge of the tradition, all the way back to Baby Dodds. There's a few cases on the Standards Trio DVD's and on albums like "My Foolish Heart: Live at Montreux" where he plays things in exchanges with Keith or in solos that recall Philly Joe, Max and that type of thing filtered through his own unique prism, but as Jim notes, if you want something where Jack plays a pure bop vocabulary right out of the 40's and early 50's, that isn't really there, to my knowledge in his discography.

On my own blog www.insidethespangalang.tumblr.com We did it live on Skype, we talked about his new prog project, THEO, Jimmy Smith, Larry Young, synths, recording techniques and cymbals. I still need to work on my craft, but his responses were phenomenal. please enjoy. This is my second "live" interview for my podcast.

Absolutely, I think all the "Special Edition" albums on ECM are great, but the first one, and "Tin Can Alley" really do it for me.

Jack is always pushing himself as a player and that's great, his playing with Michael Brecker I love, and pretty much any band project he's put out on his own in the past few years.

I never listened to him much but his piece on the state of black music years before the BAM thing, was very insightful.

Hard question because he always teeters on the inside/outside spectrum, but he swings like a madman on pretty much anything, even when he plays his patented half eighth/swing feel it's so killing. His displaced funk playing is a thing I love too. Jack has never been straight bebop in the classic sense as danasgoodstuff notes. Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not may be as close as you can get to Jack playing "bop" b/c Keith plays a lot of bop standards on that record, it's terrific.

Yeah, it wasn't very funny.

RIP

RIP one of greatest