CJ Shearn

RIP

I'd make a strong case Beyond the Wall, and Standard of Language are Kenny's best records. His playing on "Five Peace Band Live" by Chick, makes up for Sketches of MD methinks.

far better than the most recent KG live album "Sketches of MD"

Donald is one of my all time fav. drummers, I hope he gets well soon. I was really digging his playing on "Open House" the other day.

get better Joe!

is that EMI release all of Bechet's BN material?

Maureen Sickler? RVG's assistant

while I'm listening to Jackie Mac's "Jack Knife" might as well mention the oft cited "Monuments". Never heard it and don't want to. "Feets Don't Fail Me Now" by Herbie Hancock, and virtually anything from the Columbia period not released in Japan save "VSOP" and "The Quintet". "Sit On It", "Unfinished Business" and "The Cat Strikes Again" by JOS. "Stone Blue" by Pat Martino, mostly b/c for 1997 theres horribly dated synths, namely gratuitous use of the DX7.

LOL, sicko! I knew you'd say that. Seriously, it's cool Down Home With the Neely's is kind of softcore tho, maybe it should have a TV MA rating

Jim, you know I'm interested! I love electronic/ambient stuff.

Lars Ulrich, Tommy Lee, Joey Jordison

lol. yeah, I was surprised it wasn't generic music, he was getting stuff out of the oven and it was playing.

"Alfie" on Down Home With the Neely's, no shit!

That solo counterpoint at the soundcheck was "Ode to Joy"? I didn't recognize how deconstructed it was! The clip of him at home playing piano was nmice too with his son providing "accompaniment". Jimmy was very Monkish on piano with some Cecil Taylor esque flourishes. JOS was trying to become more popular with his audience, but the stuff he was playing showed that unbelievable depth some people don't realize he had.

me too on the Fantasy box.. oh well

the documentary reinforces how much of a genius JOS was and it's before he got totally sour about things. I liked how he lectured that critic saying "you can't say Dizzy doesn't know his horn" and the recording session footage of "Got My Mojo Working" at RVG's was great. LOL, funny being able to go "yeah, thats the alternate of "Satisfaction". The Bach like counterpoint at the soundcheck was mindboggling too.

ditto

some dude on Amazon panned it for some messy ensemble work and what he thought was the band not together.

yes, the boot is from that time, I got it from DIME a few years back. It's a perfect soundboard from Germany, and Jimmy is playing without pedals because they forgot to bring the B-3 pedal board! I've never heard the official album, but part of it has been on CD right? I did have one of the Newport in New York volumes when I was a kid it was on Cobblestone's cheap subsidiary Kory.

as a backtrack to Fearless Leader, wasn't Philly Joe slated to be the drummer for most of Trane's leader dates? I thought I read somewhere Bob Weinstock and Jones had a rocky relationship so Art Taylor was selected as the drummer. Of course he was the house drummer for Prestige at the time so it makes sense.

I have a Jimmy Smith bootleg with Roy on drums

no,"The Real McCoy" played fine for me.

my local record shop Music City, I came home today with Fearless Leader and Interplay as a package deal $45! The owner Benny, a nice guy, I had explained that they were sawcut and priced incorrectly at $50, whereas the internet sells the same sawcut versions for $15, so I said "howabout selling me both for $40-50?" he agreed to sell me both sets for just $45, woohoo!!!! Strange tho as the first two sets have the discs affixed to plastic hubs but "Side Steps" has them in pockets. Still it looks better and more complete to have all three on the shelf now. Hate having to remove disc 2 to get to disc 1, vice versa. I'll just put it in a plastic case for a second to safely remove it.

happy birthday!

maybe you're right, at least they'd have heard of Miles.