in my cd-player:
 

herbie hancock - possibilities

is in my cd-player, but its off. i´m listening to the birds in the garden:)

Yes! Have you heard 'Uncommon Ritual'?

www.amyhanaialiigilliom.com

Hey Stan, thanks for asking. Amy may have some tracks with me on her site, not sure.

If you can find any tracks with Tom Conway or our group Gypsy Pacific, that might be something different for you to check out. Our websites are most likely down for revamping at the moment, but I could send you some CDs if you want to check it out. You might eventually want to check out the stuff we did with Willie Nelson this morning.... we had a blast! We'll go back in and finish the raw tracks over the next few days, and then pull it together while he's touring. I'll keep you posted if you're interested.

Yeah, I think Willie's great. Did you get to hang out with him, or was it strictly "professional"?

I'll check out those links later. Thanks. . .

We had a good hang.... Willie is really easy to work with, but he knows what he wants. I've known him for quite awhile, and we kept talking about doing a project together, but we finally got around to it this week. We'll be finishing up on Saturday, most likely.

For the last three days, i've been listening to Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Woods' Out Louder. It's a great album. Also listening to alot of Afro Cuban Jazz....primarily an album called Jam Miami w/ Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanches and Chick Corea to name a few. It's a Live concert celebrating Latin jazz.

I've put just about all my CD's into iTunes and my iPod. I have playlists for all the tunes I'm learning for about 3 or 4 different ensembles and sometimes I just put it on shuffle and take what I get. I have a whole bunch of Mingus in the there, Miles Davis (huge amount of Miles), Coltrane (most but more would be better), Oliver Nelson, Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubek, Astrud Gilberto, Jobim, Getz, Astor Piazolla, Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Sonny Rollins, Mahavishnu, Beatles, Zombies, Yardbirds, Television, Tom Waits, Yusef Lateef, Frank Zappa, Archie Shepp, Talking Heads, Deep Purple. UnCommon Ritual is in there as well as Edgar's Bottesini Concerto with Yo Yo Ma, and Oregon From the Wood and Bromberg Wood. Paul Warburton Quartet and **** Hindman trio (with Paul). Live Dead (Grateful Dead), Hendrix Electric Lady Land. Blue Oyster Cult. Black Sabbath's first 4 albums (really good stuff) Primus (which I am tempted to delete). And then there is Paul Chambers Boxed Set from Mosaic.

Here's some stuff that's in there that almost nobody here would have heard of but me: White Witch, Adam's Township, Jake Sharp, Squat, Dan Baraszu, Trey Wright, Kodac Harrison, Pillowtexans, Sugar Kayne, Kevin Spears, Cadillac Jones, Enter the Haggis, Art Vandalay, Pass a Fire, and far too much to list here.

Then there are my own bands and ensembles: 12+ Scapeweavel CD's, Carousel 5, 5th Sundays, DROP. Free Translation.

What bugs me is all my really good classical and rock and roll is mostly on vinyl and I haven't converted that to digital yet so I have to get my classical fix from the radio right now because I loaned out my turntable several years ago. And I have 8 gigabytes of WREK's All Jazz show that I downloaded as 128 kbps MP3's from their web server, with playlists. I think I might start downloading their classical show too.

The stuff I'm putting in there now is just about anything Rudy Van Gelder is re-mastering. It's all just killer Jazz recordings and I have a whole lot of that in there.

If you haven't heard Chris Wood with his brother Oliver Wood (Wood Brothers), that is just killer Delta Blues type stuff. Oliver sings and plays guitar and Chris does DB and harmonica. It's the best stuff I've seen and bought recently.

Tell me more about this Matthew. I'm not hip to it

If Willie likes you, I guess you're ok.......

I guess you can't say **** any more David. :eek: But thanks for listening.

I guess he likes me. I sure like him. Maybe the most easygoing guy in the biz.

Whoa!
 

What is that in Willies left hand? Looks suspicious. :eek:

:rolleyes:
Nuthin, he's just pointing at me. But I know what you're thinking.

It's some sort of overactive automated censor. Can't say ****, can't even say a it must have been those ****ake mushrooms I ate. :o Let's try putting Josie and the Pussy Cats in my iPod? How come that works?

In the old iPod

Paul Chambers - Mosaic Set
Miles Davis - At Newport 1958
Kurt Elling - Nightmoves and Live in Chicago
Lamber, Hendricks and Ross - Everybody's Boppin'

I dug up some of my old cassette tapes to listen to in the car. I found Joe Henderson 'Page One' and a tape that a drummer named Billy Bowker made for me a long time ago that's all Wynton Kelly with various other musicians including PC, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd and others. There is a lot more, I just have to re-unbury them out of my mom's garage.

I've been listening to John Patitucci's Communion and some John Mayer Trio stuff with Mayer, Pino Palladino, & Steve Jordan.

bjork: vespertine
lenny breau and dave young: live on bourbon street
the bad plus: prog