CJ Shearn

Make sure you see the PMG, "The Songbook Tour". Word is it's a warmup for a new album next year.

Is Hank's "Just Coolin" a tribute of sorts to Prez?

Marginally related to this is my absolute #1 pet peeve: anachronistic photographs on reissue jackets. Those Prestige two-fers from the 70s are egregious offenders (i.e. 70s Miles on a package of 1956 Quintet tracks) but there are others. This also bugs me in books. You're talking about Sonny Rollins' 50s heyday, yet the picture you have of him is from some cheesy festival in 1982. Yuck. The mammoth Coltrane 16 disc Prestige set had this problem.

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I don't know, its just a weird habit I have, I stare at the Pablo logo on album covers too. Used to watch the label spin on the turntable.

LOL, ok!

A local store has the '87 reissue of "Live at Birdland" I had them play it on the speakers, sounded ok but I generally avoid those early MCA CD's. Just have a few of what were then "new releases" (Brecker, DeJohnette, Yellowjackets) the sound is generally not that great.

I've always done this since I was a kid, the BN logo is one of my favorites and I love just looking at the different colors it is depending on the album, adds so much to the look. Am I weird or do other people do this?

Great cover! The only thing that's slightly off is the Blue Note logo itself because they are using the '59-62 era version with the numbers in the center.

Yeah there are a few wobbles in the piano solo, as I intently listened to the RVG yesterday, really doesn't bother me all that much b/c the album is just great music like so many other Silver BN's.

I ended up getting the "Out to Lunch" RVG for cheap yesterday, great session as I have only heard parts of it. But when is the XRCD coming?

I want to hear this on Rhapsody but they don't have it yet. I find it amusing and cool his name is in the exact same font as "Introducing Kenny Burrell". The photo has a similarly focused look to that cover too.

Interesting article.

Happy birthday!

Thanks. Had a wonderful peanut butter pie my mom made!

Thanks guys! One more year and I'm 30 :-p.

I don't hear the stray trumpet note at 4:00, not on my copy. Just hang breathing in between notes. What I do wonder about is the warm reverb on the "Quartet" session, in 1955 Rudy was still using spring reverb and this isn't it. Is this "warm" reverb on other CD/LP issues?

I can also hear in early Herbie a Horace Silver influence, primarily in the funk but harmonically more daring and inventive. As for Miles, what were critics/musicians thoughts at the time when they heard "In Your Own Sweet Way" or, "On Green Dolphin Street" with the modal leanings more explicit in the A section?

it's not on CD Kyo, I have a needle drop I got from somewhere.

I think he is on the Jimmy and Wes albums too. RIP

He is doing an Ornette-ish improvisation on the tour bookended with "Broadway Blues". I will see/hear this for myself in October. Pat and Ornette have been talking for years about a followup. Hope they do it before time runs out for Ornette.

not at all like my iBot.

have you checked out 80/81? Some incredible blowing from Pat, Mike Brecker and Dewey Redman. "Every Day (I Thank You)" is one of Pat's best tunes melodically and harmonically. You really shouldn't ask me though b/c I own just about everything Pat has recorded as a leader . Can't wait to see him live in October on the "Orchestrion" tour. Granted I'm a big fan of Pat in certain doses (Song X--which is still the most facile translation of Ornette's phrasing to the guitar anyone has ever done--the trio with Haden and Higgins), I got 80/81 in the midst of a big Dewey Redman binge and found myself kind of perplexed at the completely unironic smooth jazz flourishes in Metheny's writing and playing. It's completely not my bag, but I wholeheartedly respect and, in some perverse way, support Metheny's reluctance to go down any clearly defined, conventionally "tasteful" career path. "Song X", the Twientieth Anniversary is a revelation, both sonically and musically. I think Pat is supporting Ornette on that album much in the same way that Don Cherry did with the parallel lines. Pat is doing some crazy things with Ornette's music using the Orchestrion.

have you checked out 80/81? Some incredible blowing from Pat, Mike Brecker and Dewey Redman. "Every Day (I Thank You)" is one of Pat's best tunes melodically and harmonically. You really shouldn't ask me though b/c I own just about everything Pat has recorded as a leader . Can't wait to see him live in October on the "Orchestrion" tour.

Herbie: Takin' Off RVG