Today:
Kevin Eubanks: Live at Bradley's
Greg Osby: Invisible Hand
John Coltrane: Giant Steps (Rhino Replica)
Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen
Yesterday:
Ella At Juan Les Pins
David Murray: Big Band, Saxmen
Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana
Michael Brecker: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Tonally, not even remotely. Vocabulary-wise...there are "overlaps".
Exactly. Like the fast trill lick that goes to a ritardando. I never mistook Henderson for Brecker or Smith for DeFrancesco either.
Right..... even though Joe had that incredible creative run with Milestone, whether it worked musically all the time, IDK..... still strong though. I think maybe Joe thought "hey I did this first" and someone else was taking the credit in bringing it to a larger audience. I think Jimmy Smith felt the same way with how the media treated Joey DeFrancesco when he was first coming up and paid him all that attention being the young guy bringing jazz organ back.
I have been thinking about this one, I think Jim Sangrey brought it up here once, that Henderson called Brecker an "imitator". I've heard Henderson licks in Mike's playing before, but did Joe feel he wasn't properly acknowledged for the influence? Brecker always said how much of an impact Joe had on his playing.
Man, that's a shame. Was listening to his great playing on the "Endless Miles" disc, and his playing on those two Joey DeFrancesco albums from a few years ago is excellent too.
MJQ: Django (K2)
The Jazz Messengers with Monk
Ben Webster and Associates (VME)
Gil Evans: The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions (Conn) (all these were $7.99 used! the MJQ was free)
Endless Miles (one of the first webcasts I ever watched)
Almost got some David Murray also, there was David Murray Big Band on DIW, and I forget what else.
I use my PS3 for Blu Ray, and I also have a program to stream HD files from my computer to the PS3. Blu Ray looks absolutely great for concerts and sports (as I am a fan of mixed martial arts)and the sound is so much better. Regular DVD's look nice upscaled to HD too, but exposes flaws in the source material, obviously.