CJ Shearn

That was a great recollection!

I have the Rhino edition also.

Sorry about that! I haven't got around to hearing those Pullen records, I missed out on the Mosaic Select set which I wanted years ago....... I will have to find some of those on Rhapsody/Spotify and listen. Always wanted to hear the trio record with Gary Peacock and Tony.

I believe the Montreux Summit Dexter tracks are included in the Complete Columbia box. Yep, they are, and Wounded Bird released vols. 1&2 of Montreux Summit.

Very cool!

Ooh, very nice! Vu's always such an interesting player

Ambrose new record really has thought provoking compositions....... Jazz for me doesn't have to have to swing in the conventional way for it to be good, and I love hard bop, he's a really killing player. MrJazzman, I think if you hear him on Jack DeJohnette's "Sound Travels" you'll change your mind a bit.

I didn't realize that Billy Mitchell was playing with Horace in 1957. Most biographies say he was in Miami until 1958. Me either, so I wonder if that means Louis Smith was a sub for Blue on the Newport '58 gig?

you can hear the merits or quality of a remaster via streaming in spotify..............? Yes, if it's plugged into your main stereo system you can. I never blind buy anything these days, Spotify (or youtube) is used to assess everything prior to purchase. Right, my laptop is plugged into my receiver, so it goes over my speakers. Sometimes the albums there and Rhapsody are encoded badly I definitely don't crank hard rock in headphones.

Listening to "The Stylings of Silver" now, "The Back Beat" is one of my favorite tunes of his, I love his funky entrances on Blakey's "Cafe Bohemia" volumes

Kenny Garrett's playing on the FPB record makes up for his own fairly dissapointing overall (the first track is great, and the next two are good) live album "Sketches of MD"

He raves about a lot of stuff, but I can't share his enthusiasm for many of the releases. Same......... like I had bought Jan Garbarek's "Dresden" cuz he raved about it. It's quite good but I never played it much so I got rid of it. It's still in my Amazon cloud though. I don't share his enthusiasm for all the ECM stuff in the same way. Steve Khan "Live in Koln" I felt a bit underwhelmed by after Kelman's review. We do share the same love of Pat Metheny though

Listening to the Led Zep I remaster on Spotify now, sounds great. I've heard all the "hits" so to speak, not the albums in context. used to have the Led Zepplin DVD with the incredible Moby Dick solo

Damn........... will spin "The Stylings of Silver" for him

You are welcome. An acquaintance of mine, as I said before really loves that period of BN, as do some others (we aren't the audience for that stuff) and I find, like you said years ago, a lot of that stuff effluvia too (Gene Harris' Tone Tantrum is pretty weak) I really wanted to back up in words how difficult that period was, so I dug up your post I had to edit a few things to make it smoother, but you've always been such a source of on the scene knowledge and wisdom here, it's incredible.

Yeah, I think I remember that a bit :-D Obviously that wasn't good for the record..

My new article for the blog, With a list of notable albums for the readership there to check out. I included a long quote from Jim Sangrey from the RIP George Butler thread, about the state of BN in the 70's. So, Jim you were mentioned! http://www.newyorkjazzworkshop.com/blue-note-records-75-cj-shearn/

I have "Floating Point" and really want to hear "The Boston Record", which not surprisingly, John Kelman has raved at AAJ.

Wonderful date, the Columbia Dexter box is very good, save of course "Isn't She Lovely" which by far is the worst thing on the set. Tons of fine Woody Shaw on this set too for the few people who haven't heard Dex's Columbia's.

RIP.

Same here. I just knew mainly about the Hendrix stuff and the famous aborted Miles/Jimi session. what a career!

My friend is an ex bandmate and good friend of Keir's! He's very very interesting musically, thought provoking may not be the right word, more like change your perception of what music and the avant garde can be. I watched a bit video on YT a while back of a solo saxophone recital Keir did, it was very unique.

Right on. Hence all the GRP love in certain circles, Paul Whiteman makes me gag, but people love it. Brian Culbertson, same thing, (dude can play) it just doesn't touch me. There can be a certain level of sophistication, like Ben Williams and Derrick Hodge do, still accessible music, melodic, it's quite good and not watered down.

Snarky Puppy is definitely bringing more people into the fold

To me, everythingfrom the aforementioned Beethoven's Fifth ( even moreso the Eroica) Miles' "Agitation",even some of the Stockhausen stuff I've heard on YT like "In Freundschaft" (though it's not my favorite thing to listen to) Pharell's "Happy", to some of the piano pieces from Conlon Nancarrow it's all melodic. Most people though, Nancarrow and the like would hardly classify as "melodic", neither would "Ornithology", but I think like Jim said, if melody had a wider definition, then some non traditional melodies wouldn't be as strange to the population.