most of freddie's stuff on cti is pretty solid. i like a record on columbia called "superblue" too--mostly for the title track.

it's from 71.
www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll

no promises, but if i find my copy of "mo' betta'..." i'll send it to you. i got the cut i really wanted (gangstarr's "jazz thing") on vinyl.

terrence does the music for a lot of spike's films.

Bakari: I have the soundtrack to "Mo Better Blues." The score was was written by Bill Lee, Spike's father, and Blanchard plays all the trumpet solos that we see Denzel Washington playing in the movie. After that film, Spike Lee brought in Blanchard to write the soundtracks to several of his subsequent films.
Most notable was Clockers and the 25 Hour, in my opinion.
And the Malcolm X Jazz Suite...well, the CD is very different from the music in the movie which is great in its own right.

The problem with ITunes and most online services is that they often just lack the best tracks by a certain artist.
How about "Little Sunflower" by Inner Shade, which is the instrumental version of the group Incognito, and a song written by Freddie Hubbard?
What about anything by Danilo Perez, one of the most talented pianists on this planet?
Or Steve Masakowski, a wonderful jazz guitarist from New Orleans?
What about Pat Metheny with Michael Brecker and Charlie Haden:
"Everyday (I Thank You)"?
Or how about "Nimbus" from Ralph Towner's "Solstice" album with Eberhard Weber and Jan Garbarek.

I think I Tunes is a great concept, but it's just a start for exploring music.
More exciting to me is internet radio, and now satellite radio.
I never would have discovered the group "Les Gammas" without internet streaming broadcasts. They are not jazz, but have a jazz element to them.
Kind of hard to describe.

But we are getting to what I failed to express in the first place.
Most jazz bores me. Except for artists who use jazz as a means of musical exploration, including those that are just simply exceptional in what they do:
Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans.
Pat Metheny, Danilo Perez, Al DiMeola, Courtney Pine, Terence Blanchard, Ralph Towner, Eberhard Weber, Wayne Shorter, and perhaps Bill Frisell.

That's my short list.


and I am still listening to "The Way Up" and thinking if this isn't the future of jazz, then what is????

john zorn

Man, I spent wayyyy to much money on iTunes last night:

Wayne Shorter - Beyond the Sound Barrier & Footprints Live
Kenny Kirkland's one and only record
Gonzalo Rubacalba (Discovery, Live!)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song
Vijay Iyer - Reimagining
Dave Holland Quintet

damn, I gotta a lot of listening to do!

Just downloaded Davis's "Kind of Blue." Have heard many of the cuts before but nice to have them all a part of my collection now. Looking to see if I rent the DVD that was done about his Isle of Wright Festival concert.

New stuff for me recently is the Hudson Project, which I think is a one-time collaboration of Bob Mintzer, John Abercrombie, John Patitucci, and Peter Erskine. It is helping to solidify some of the practice I've been doing with Mintzer's jazz etudes.

I finally found an original copy (first pressing) of Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' for the bargain price of $40 (they have been getting upwards of $120 on ebay). Wahoooo!!!!!

>I dig McCoy Tyner as well. Have his Illuminations and Soliloguy CDs. Need to look into what else is good by him.<

Bakari...might I suggets McCoy Tyner's SAHARA.
I just picked it up a little bit ago. McCoy works dem keys man!

A friend at my local record store introduced me to Mal Waldron's THT QUEST.
It's a gem if you can find it!

Mos def. I really like Woody Shaw. It's my first album of his.

I recently saw the movie, "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen..." with Jeremy Irons. It features this French jazz singer, Patricia Kaas. I LOVE her stuff! So I downloaded a bunch of it immediately thereafter. Check her out!