Recommended listening

[marklucas]

I thought that some of you might respond to this thread.i would like get some feedback on records that you guys listen to that maybe alot of folks don't know about that are worth checking out.

i think that leni stern's record "closer to the light" is a killer.zach danziger's playing is pretty sick seeing that he was about 16 or 17 when he recorded this one.

another one to check out is nat janoff's record "looking through".matt garrison and gene lake proove to be awesome in this trio.

steve kimocks band "live in colorado" ain't nothing but a jam session.long tunes and rodney holmes and alphonso johnson are two of the best at their instruments.

pick up the hermanators cd "twisted"! mitch stein,kip reed and rodney holmes light it up here.check out the last tune where rh plays a pretty nasty solo.

btw,does anybody have an official release date for the new randy waldman cd?

[Clintuplet]

Mark, that Hermanators CD is pretty strong. I really enjoy listening to it even though Holmes' hats seem a little distorted and have a really metallic pointed attack. Fantastic stuff playing wise. If you like Rodney Holmes you might check out a CD by Jane Getter titled 'Jane'. There are a couple of nice tunes with Holmes doing an outstanding job.

[peter c]

Tony Williams Lifetime: The Collection
Paradox: with Billy Cobham
David Grusin: One of a Kind (with Steve Gadd)

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 18, 2003 05:54 PM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[Frank Sanchez]

Steely Dan - "Alive In America." Dennis Chambers And Peter Erskine.

Tower Of Power - "Oakland Zone" David Garibaldi.

The Dave Weckl Band - Live (And Very Plugged In)

Michel Camilo - "Live at the Blue Note" Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez.

John Scofield - "Pick Hits Live." Dennis Chambers

[five eight]

Good call, Mark, about the Steve Kimock Band with Rodney Holmes. I went to kimock.com and downloaded enough free music there to fill up six CDs (and there's STILL more) and these CDs are all 70 and 80 minutes long, one has just three songs! It's improvisational rock, mellow and dreamy stuff by and large, but great for listening to in the ride or gettin' next to mama. [img]wink.gif[/img] No vocals, unobtrusive yet it commands your attention; kind of like Jerry Garcia's version of SHUT UP AND PLAY YER GUITAR. Holmes may not be in the Weckl weight class but he's a splendid player despite the limitations of similar tempos and the type of beats Kimock's music requires.

As far as Pete's recommendation for Paradox: I second that motion. Paradox is the damndest electric trio I've heard since The Police: Bill Bickford plays guitar like a speed metal picker OD'ing on jazz chords; Wolfgang Schmid is the Vinnie Colaiuta of the electric bass; and on drums I've got just two words for you---Billy Cobham. These guys play hard rock funk fusion in odd time signatures sans vocals and it's killing. They have two CDs, a studio outing from 1996 and a live in Germany rave-up from '98; both CDs reparted my hair for me and I'm surprised they didn't singe me bald-headed! Cobbo's phat drums sound huge, especially his floor toms. And Tony Williams notwithstanding Cobham sired fusion drumming as we know it.

I'm not done with William Cobham from Panama yet; I recently re-bought all the original Mahavishnu Orchestra recordings on CD. How in the world did an English jazz guitarist get Cobham together with a country bumpkin fiddler from Nebraska, an Irish bass player who looked like Bill Wyman and the mad Czech Jan Hammer playing, of all things, a mini-Moog? Doesn't sound like it would work on paper but it sure worked on vinyl (still works over 30 years later on CD.) Don't take my word for it---Vinnie, Terry and Simon all will tell ya: Billy's THE man and Mahavishnu was the band.