CJ Shearn

Alexander's a very good player, but especially since he was the SFJazz Collective director, Joshua's playing and writing have gotten very interesting. I still love "Spirit of the Moment" sure Redman is derivative on that, but its such a burning record.

Jeff "Tain" Watts: Dancin' 4 Chicken, and Devil's Ring Tone: The Movie, and the instrumental version.

Branford Marsalis Trio: The Beautyful Ones Aren't yet Born

Hmm, interesting.. There are plugins, well I have one of them, since my stereo is hooked up to my computer called Stereo Tool which has an increased stereo option to widen the spread without any artifacts.

son of a........... it does have "Sweet and Lovely". I'm not a vinyl junkie so......... but wow.

Theres no correlation between "Roll Call" and "In the Air Tonight". The latter is a great tune, I love it, but seriously, pun intended.

guess they couldn't license the original cover. Neither version is truly complete though because they both omit "Sweet and Lovely". I have to listen to the CD set again but maybe each "Epistrophy" was included, don't know.

what the........ You're right Lon I just pulled the disc off the shelf and compared the track timings against the Mosaic site for the 4 LP's and the bits of "Epistrophy" as the themes for each set aren't included except for the final one, b/c I think the liners to the double disc say they wanted to cut repetition. Yet,the live Miles sets seem to include all versions of "The Theme" at the end of them, hmm.............

cool Shrdlu. Theres just something about the hard swinging rhythm section of Kelly/Chambers/Cobb, thats hard to beat. Even though they are on both albums, "Full House" has just a certain atmosphere that makes the stretching out on the tunes wonderful.

Actually I can see Ratliff's point. I have a friend who plays drums in a metal band, who also enjoys jazz and we talked about how theres a lot of similarities between the music as far as speed, odd meters and technical proficiency. There are drummers out there like Travis Barker, whom I don't necessarily like, but he has studied jazz, from what I've read somewhere.

The CD from '98 has wonderful sound. The LP set looks nice though.

That logo you have is the 1985-to the present version of the '59 era one. Theres a newer variation without any text in the barline, and of course for various new albums in the past 12 or 15 years they have resurrected the '64-66 era version with the catalog numbers in the entire whole note portion of the logo. In 1959, for only Jackie Mac's "New Soil" and Blakey's "At the Jazz Corner of the World" issues, on the front cover on the upper left hand corner there was a vertical stripe with "BLUE NOTE" the catalog number and a half white/black LP label design. There's also the version from '68-71 or so with the solid color logo with "BLUE NOTE" underneath in a square. Then the lowercase "b" logo, used on labels and album covers from about '73 till the label shut down until 1985. From what I've read and understand about the shoes, mostly hip hop fans with no interest in jazz are buying them.

True, it is odd RVG collapsed the spread on some of the initial batches. Why "Maiden Voyage" still sounds fresh though is b/c it's one of Herbie's most enduring tunes, but also because that style is the template for and what many young players are doing today as far as straight ahead goes.

well Claude, I would consider myself an audiophile without tons of money, like mainly I listen through Audio Technica studio monitor phones which are very good, so I'll just wait for the Music Matters issue. There are some McMasters I regret getting rid of like "Prayer Meetin", even though the RVG has greater detail, I roll the treble back a few notches to get it to sound ok, though. There are some McMasters I would not give up like JOS "Crazy Baby" if an RVG ever hit domestically, b/c it has good dynamic range, while other RVG's like "Maiden Voyage" and "A Night at Birdland" I find to be vast improvements. Others that have now become RVG's like "Grant's First Stand" I simply chose not to upgrade from the McMaster, b/c well I already have that music, and I have heard bits of the RVG, but prefer the sound of the '99 McMaster release, again more dynamics. I'm pretty much like a lot here on sound but if I find something that sounds good to me, I'm happy

damn, RIP

This may seem crazy, but for me, "Full House" slightly edges out "Smokin at the Half Note" which is just as indispensable.

I will wait for the new reissue of Out to Lunch as I don't have any format version of this. When is the CD coming? I'd love to check out these new XRCD's but money is so tight and I have the RVG's, it's a shame some of them are compressed like that, but I thought as Kevin stated on the SH board once, that the EQ also affects the loudness on the RVG reissues?

in no particular order I would put: Jan Garbarek: Dresden Christian McBride: Kind of Brown Tain: Watts ( "Return of The Jitney Man" was enough to sell me on this and it should be in the mailbox) Chick: Five Peace Band Live Return to Forever: Returns Keith Jarrett: Testament Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival Jack DeJohnette/Danilo Perez/John Pattitucci: Music We Are Gary Burton: Quartet Live SF Jazz Collective: Live 2009

Wouldn't Concord/Monterey Jazz Festival Records try to release this in their series?

excellent article. Cool to read how they restored his bass. I think LaFaro reached a middle ground with the way Motian and Bill kept time, and that's what adds to the wonderful floating, it can seemingly go anywhere character the trio interplay has. Definitely Jarrett's trio is profoundly influenced by this, especially since Gary and Jack were members of Bill's trio at separate times.

me too. I hope MC is still working for BN.

Jim's a nice guy. We had a great conversation a few years ago after a gig about Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw.

gotta give more thumbs up to Phil Collins, and Chester Thompson, going through "Genesis: the Movie Box". I had been into some Genesis grow up, but all thanks goes to Jim for helping me really *listen* to these guys.

I listened to that tune as I'm going thru "Genesis: The Movie Box", I definitely caught a lot of Genesis influences in the music though.

I love this date, especially Haynes long solo on "Mooche" which leads Philly Joe to set off more choruses. Also everyone is comfortable with the bop dialect whereas the other dates were see what happens, tho IMO, I like them and they were mostly successful.