CJ Shearn

Roy was tripping you said?

Damn, RIP

If Baraka's feelings towards hard bop as a retrograde music are very well known, what were his feelings towards music with "Afrocentric" leanings like McCoy's "Asante" or Joe Henderson's "Power to the People", "Black is The Color", etc...... which admittedly, the latter titles have more sociopolitical leanings than being "out" musically.

What exactly was a remix engineer in those days? As I asked about the Dexter set, the booklet also lists remixing credits for each session. Were the original mixes unsatisfactory?

Man, Benny sounds and looks wonderful!

yeah I noticed that on Spotify Reinier, bothered me tremendously. Who owns the tapes and are they still around?

RIP. He always cooked with McDuff and added some great playing to his final 2 albums.

I will go for the USB at some point, the album is terrific. I like that Chick released the music this way as opposed to only releasing a box set in Japan for example. I think Chick, Stanley and Lenny are playing even better as a unit than back in the RTF hey day, and thats saying a lot b/c RTF has been consistently excellent lately IMO. Does the USB contain additional music from the Yoshi's and Blues Alley gigs that disc 1 of the album was comprised from or the Hollywood Bowl gig mentioned in the liners?

Wow, I have the double album, too much $$ this USB at this time, I would like it though, the album is fantastic. Is this USB stick protected so you can't delete the files?

Listening to the set on Spotify, I had one of the "Best of LP's" growing up. Is this a legal release if it comes out of Spain? seems to be from a master source

What the? interesting from an artistic perspective but doesn't seem to follow the tradition of Montreux posters.

"The Greatest Love at All"

Thanks for the info

I thought Sonny might have been there. Did they play together at the concert?

Who was featured in the "Titans of the Tenor" concert?

Isn't C. Sharpe's only recorded appearance on Mogie's "Indeed!"? Lee had the otherwise unknown Kenny Rodgers on sax.

"Fun Time" is good to hear him on a ballad, I forget which one but he takes it out at the ending cadenza which is amusing and Basie brings him right back down. "Montreux '77" he is prominent on, including a tenor duel with Eric Dixon on "Jumpin at the Woodside".

This is the only way to get properly remastered domestic versions of most of Clarke's Epic releases. IMO Stanley has made some of his best music of recent vintage his last few albums: the 2 Stanley Clarke Band releases and the trios of course with Hiromi and Lenny White and the Corea/Clarke/White: "Forever" album. Probably many people will purchase the Clarke/Duke sets because many soul/R&B consider that their finest music even though I'm not that hot on getting something like the Duke set I know a lot of family members would enjoy it. I wonder if we will see as the Herbie set apparently was canned, a "VSOP Quintet: Complete Columbia Albums Collection" because that would be a way to get "Five Stars" out domestically in physical form plus remastered versions of "The Quintet" and the only domestic CD versions of "VSOP" and "Tempest in The Colosseum" though I have most of those on French Columbia CD's. Also, I would not be thrilled about a Freddie Hubbard Complete Columbia Albums Collection BUT I would love to see a domestic release of the Japan only "Gleam", and at this point that would be the only way to get that most likely.

Will try!

Some very very cool stuff.

From the NEA luncheon, great stuff

Very cool! Not sure why so many people are arguing about is it Trane. This is where he was in 1956.

How did "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" end up on the Blue Note "Yule Be Struttin" compilation? Was it because Michael Cuscuna was the original producer and was able to get the tune licensed to BN? Must be a similar deal to how he got the Horace Silver Newport tape from Columbia for the eventual Blue Note release.

I would be interested in hearing the Japanese koto album.