CJ Shearn

I saw her on Letterman last night, good track. I will be picking this one up sometime

I enjoy Strickland with Tain, although his solo after Kenny Garrett on "Mr. JJ" from "Detained" seems a bit anticlimactic.

I watched Strikeforce on Showtime last night. Friday Night Fights on Friday....... excellent fight between Jesse Brinkley and Curtis Stevens. Glad that Nick Charles is back.

Orchestrion: Pat Metheny

isn't "Live at Montreux 1976" the Stuff album to get?

You are correct. Pat Metheny is right now really looking into that area with "Orchestrion" coming out on Tuesday. I have heard some of the record and its on its way to me........ fears that people have that this is stiff, mechanical music will be surprised. It sweings hard.

that sounds kind of crazy, mistake maybe?

yes, all the, well almost SF Jazz Collective sets are HDCD but they aren't hard to rip for some reason.

yes you can really see how much discs are compressed using the graphic EQ on WMP too. BTW Kevin, I have Vista and EAC does work. Had to use it to extract the data off the Joe Henderson "State of the Tenor" discs which got damaged terribly years ago that the scratches couldn't be repaired by refinishing.

I've been using it to play CD's, but I have different players too.

oh damn. Fantastic brushwork indeed. RIP

happy bday Joe!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid41695735001?bctid=60400727001 Really looking forward to the album

Are these new Legacy Editions going to sound better than the previous ones? Didn't they remaster these albums just a few years ago?

great photos!

I have the K2 and it sounds very good.

yeah Jim, that's what I was thinking, of the Trane Half Note stuff. I guess the term burnout would apply to something that was new for that generation of players, but something that had been around. Though cats like Branford, Kenny Garrett, Tain were filtering it through their own lens.

from the Bad Plus Do the Math blog: “Burn out” was a favorite style of the Young Lions: fast, aggressive, modal, and dominated by a lot of piano and drum interaction (see “Chambers of Tain” on Black Codes). A lot of post-Coltrane 70’s jazz is also aggressive and modal, but one of the ways the Wynton or Branford Marsalis “burn out” music was distinctive was how modality was pushed chromatically to the point of atonality. Arguably the clearest predecessor to that “atonal modal” fast swing is Liebman and Beirach, first with Frank Tusa and Jeff Williams in Lookout Farm." Now, certainly there are examples of other forms of "burn out" Bird on "Koko", Johnny Griffin "The Way you Look Tonight", but what's defined above is more of what I'm after at the moment.

I've been in a real burnout mood and love things like Tain's "Mr. JJ" on "Detained", the stuff on "Black Codes", Branford's "Dark Keys", "Dewey Baby" off of "The Beautyful Ones Aren't yet Born" Kenny Garrett's "Triology" and "Standard of Language", the title track of "Beyond the Wall" definite burnout, Chris Potter's "Lift" what are some other records I may have missed in the past decade, or the 90's with more serious burnout stuff?

Akon is uh................. all the troubles he's had.

yes, he did. He has a true love of the music which allowed BN to do things for people like us after Norah Jones hit it big. They probably have introduced Al Green to a younger audience too, especially since ?uestlove produced "Lay it Down".

yes, especially the surprise on his face and when you saw him say "son of a.............." when his sons came on.

which is fine since that's just the natural course, there are some worthwhile new things like what Robert Glasper is doing so as long as they can continue things like that.

that's not good. It seems from the clientele the man who is replacing Lundvall has worked with, he has little experience with jazz.