CJ Shearn

RIP. I must read "Blues People".

Gotta check this out later! Mo Joe, yay!

Stanley was far more diverse than anyone gave him credit for, one on my all time favorite tenors period. I agree with Jim on the CTI stuff, there is far more there than you would think. There are brief moments on "Povo" on the Hubbard/Turrentine "In Concert: Volume 1" where he uncharacteristically goes outside briefly, ditto on "Straight Life" on the 40th Anniversary Edition of "California Concert". "Blue Flames" with Shirley Scott is a great album too, nothing groundbreaking, just good solid swinging.

Really? wow. Since everyone reports the set uses the best available sources, I would think the initial reissues of those 2 as standalone titles used those same sources. The sound and dynamics on "The Piano" are incredible.

Mine never had that insert on the back for longer than 5 minutes.

I love Pat's stuff and I welcome the change to that Group-ish sound blended with the more straight ahead nature of the Unity Band. This is really PMG 2.0, and while fans on the Metheny Yahoo list complain it sounds too much like PMG (I've heard a few tracks) I don't mind that b/c I love the little additions to Pat's very familiar, yet still complex language, and I am anxiously awaiting for the album. Sure, you know when the glissandos moving in thirds, or metric shifts or modulations are coming, but that's part of the charm for me. I can say what is on the album is great, and sort of functions as a "let's get the new guys acquainted" type thing with new textures the way "Speaking of Now" did. Pat tends to have developments in album pairs of three, so I think the next one (whenever that will be) will really take chances. Xybert, I find listening to "The Way Up" is good preparation for "Kin".

Are there even more alternate takes added to "The Piano?" vs the 2004 CD? This box is off my radar for a while. Did they also restore the missing audience dialogue present on the Japanese and French "Live Under the Sky"? The ones I remember off the top of my head "this is the greatest audience, ever" and Herbie joking about showering in the rainstorm. Not all that important, but strange they were edited out on the 2004 US reissue of "Live Under the Sky".

It's good we still have them though

Yeah it was, we weren't friends really, there are a few mutual people we have in common though.

I met Camille when we were both students at Binghamton University. Back then she sounded like Dexter Gordon, it was awesome.

Speaking of packaging, just received the Complete Live Recordings on Savoy Bird set and the cardboard sleeves don't seem to scratch the discs. I rip many discs for backup on my hard drive, but I still play the discs a lot.

Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also. The packaging of the discs in the three boxes is annoying the way one disc is partially "stacked" over the other. You have to remove two discs to hear the bottom disc. And trying to push the top disc back onto the rubber spindle so it stays in place is difficult. I'd listen to these sets much more than I do if it wasn't for the packaging. :rofl: Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also. The packaging of the discs in the three boxes is annoying the way one disc is partially "stacked" over the other. You have to remove two discs to hear the bottom disc. And trying to push the top disc back onto the rubber spindle so it stays in place is difficult. I'd listen to these sets much more than I do if it wasn't for the packaging. Yes! Exactly! I'm afraid of breaking the disc too, when it doesn't conform to the rubber spindle easily. I have two of the discs flipped playing side up when I remove them to get to that bottom disc, or I think disc 1 of "Fearless Leader". the packaging is annoying for those sets, but beautiful otherwise. I love "The Heavyweight Champion" package design though. They aren't thinking that packaging, or mini LP's without inner sleeves upsets anal obsessives like all of us. I can't see casual fans buying these sets, so the audience must be us.

I'm living in the Atlantic stuff for the time being, although the Impulse material is my favorite era.

Just double check the discs to make sure "Side Steps" doesn't have concentric scratches. I got my set a long time ago and while the disc with said scratches remarkably plays flawlessly, I think that might of occured when the set was banging around in the truck on the way to the store. Anyway, I am in the get it all camp with Trane also.

John Coltrane: The Heavyweight Champion-The Complete Atlantic Recordings, disc 3

RIP.... Glad he got the attention he deserved in the past few years although there was conflicting thoughts about his level of ability amongst many here.

Wayne was killing on "Walkin" though, so was Kurt

RIP....... his playing on David Weiss' "Endangered Species: the Music of Wayne Shorter" is great.

I will get this set sometime for sure, "The Piano" is a GREAT album.

My thing with vinyl is this: the way I play music, the vinyl would be and was toast. Also since I only have the use of one hand, handling vinyl really carefully in the proper way, so for me, CD's are better.

AAJ posted a great interview with him from 2000. I love how he said to not classify his music as jazz, it seems he crushed the interviewer quite a bit though. A trap I'd like to avoid while interviewing some big names in the future, while keeping in mind a general audience is reading.

I like his playing on "Grantstand". I really gotta explore more because he had that wonderful balance of being in and out. RIP....... a sad loss indeed.

I thought Bud plays great on the side with Blakey, too.

I've lived with this music many years, and I think (despite all the hiccups, like Arthur Taylor rushing things) it's great to chart Trane's rapid development. I think my personal favorite sessions have always been "Informal Jazz", all the stuff with Burrell, and the Garland quintet sides, from this period.

Garland was late for the IIRC.