CJ Shearn

Get well Al!!!! Don't always enjoy what he does but he's a hell of a singer

Thank you for 10 years and 4 albums! Hopefully this place will stay open for us.

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.

RIP Gene... The hippest math teacher looking guy to play the organ!

Hmm, so Dewey did sort of a live sampling record for DJ's? That should be really, really intriguing.

As a Chicago fan, the Bulls really need someone like LeBron, or Kobe (not gonna happen cuz he wants to finish his career in LA).

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.