CJ Shearn

Best wishes and prayers to him!

"Sangam" is such a great album, too bad it's packed away

I changed from free to standard shipping and they put it in "shipping soon" status. It will probably change to "shipped" by the end of the night. Edit: it did ship!

He also contributed excellent playing on some of Stanley Clarke's more recent albums. RIP.

Still waiting for mine to ship since I ordered using a Amazon GC, it should enter "shipping soon" status shortly I hope.

NPR has a link to a first listening of this, listening now. No words for me to describe it other than astonishing music. http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170099510/first-listen-wayne-shorter-without-a-net

"Sound Travels" is really great because it has such a variety of moods on one album, Latin, hard swinging, funk, the meditation type thingh he's done, a piano solo, so theres something to every taste.

Yes, Milestones, there is a thread in new releases about the Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Volume 2, due this tuesday. That is the unreleased stuff with Jack 7/4 mentions. Also, Jack had mentioned the trio with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke was rolling tape every night of their tour last year. I don't know if/when Chick plans to release that.

I agree Milestones. Jack is one of my favorite drummers if not my favorite drummer. I have yet to get the set, but "Special Edition" is a great record as is "Parallel Realities". I listen to it often and "Saudades" with Trio Beyond has always been in constant rotation since it's release. Jack is such a cool person as well, and seeing him with Pat Metheny, another one of my favorites, and Larry Grenadier in Woodstock in 2008 was revelatory for a few reasons. First, because it was pretty much an informal, jam session type gig (a benefit) hearing them play standards that Pat has never played on a record before was amazing, and Jack's implied approach to time, and outright swing at points really made it special. Many argue Jack is too busy as a player, but he knows how to push the music just right, and the Jarrett stuff proves that.

Well, between both boxes you get most of the tracks on "Live and Unreleased" (which I used to have) there are some GREAT performances on that album, like "Cucumber Slumber" from the "Tale Spinnin" lineup with Chester Thompson on drums and Alex Acuna on percussion. Also the rest of the tracks from the "Night Passage" sessions at The Complex in California. All of the performances with Jaco on that set (12 in total) are in the 1976-82 Jaco era WR box.

I have both the 1971-5 and Jaco era sets that Sony released, and the WR of 1971 and the WR of later are two totally different animals. WR and "Live in Tokyo" are my 2 favorite albums of that period and the Jaco period, I think "Night Passage" is certainly best after "Heavy Weather" and "Black Market", and "Speechless" and both parts of the "Dara Factor" are strong tracks on the second self titled album. The early WR is an extension of IASW Miles in sound and the collective improv approach, but there was always as Jim Sangrey said something substantial going on no matter the context. Though its controversial, I really like "Mr. Gone".

I just contributed a small donation as well. It's critically important that Priester, and other musicians like him who encounter these very difficult situations, that they are assisted so they can live comfortably. Makes me think back to when Horace Silver was very ill, and having difficulties, prior to his nursing home placement.

Will check this one out soon!

As I've been listening to "Ronnie Foster Live at Montreux" since it arrived from Dusty Groove, it got me wondering, what kind of career did guitarist Greg Miller have or drummer Marvin Chappell outside of playing with George Benson? It's a fun album actually. Chappell was edited out on the Carnegie Hall version of "Summertime" with Gadd's overdubs (shades of CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl),Miller tends to play a lot of straight eights Martino type stuff here, did he ever record again?

I have neever heard his music but have known how influential he's been for a long time. RIP

Wayne still looks like he's in his mid 60's I think

I agree, but then there are people like my father and uncle who like straight ahead, fusion but also smooth. Generally it's separate audiences, and, albums in the past that were intended to cross over into smooth jazz like "Simply Said" and "Happy People" by Kenny Garrett haven't generally.

I have it ordered from Amazon with a GC I got for Christmas. I'm hoping by chance it drops another 5 dollars or maybe somewhere around $35.

Bill Frissell seems to have a comfortable deal with Savoy. He left Nonesuch because he wanted to release so many projects a year and they couldn't handle it. Maybe Bob James on OKeh is for straight ahead projects? That's a strange one.

wow!

"Latona"

I am going to pre order soon, the music that quartet plays is brilliant stuff and always presents a new challenge upon each listening.

Man, hope he recovers. Montreux is such an institution for great jazz, regardless of whether or not the festival has upheld the jazz thing in a big way, the past several decades. So many great recordings made there

Listening to disc 1 of the Select right now coincedentally.

Foster's a different kind of organist, a lot of floating textures rather than outright burning which he can do. He does tend to lack tasteful material on a lot of his albums though. He does play Moog on it also, the cut I sampled on YT was the cover of Seals/Croft's "East of Ginger Trees", listened again, wasn't too bad.