Flashpoint - Steve Smith & Anthony Jackson

Awaiting YOUR review.

I guess I got pinged with the same e-mail; looks like some decent stuff!
I thought about the Jaco/Word Of Mouth DVD...$75?! Uh, no.

Bozzio & O'Hearn on DVD? Kazumi Watanbe with 'El Negro' & Bona on DVD? Sounds cool as does the Zawinul Syndicate DVD(must have a multi-Region player...so that's out for me).

I did notice the Legends' cd is now available; I have a boot of a Legends' show from '99(?)...mostly Blues-Rock & not very good, IMO.

 

I picked up the Steve Smith cd last night ( after seeing this thread). Actually found it in a store, imagine that.

So far, I like it. The usual great playing by AJ and everyone else. The music falls somewhere between Camillo w/AJ and Petrucciani w/AJ and something a tiny bit heavier ( if that makes any sense). Not blown away by the songwriting, but definately worth picking up.

On another note, I LOVE Dave Weckls new one, Multiplicity. I think Tom Kennedy is my new favorite. And Ric Fierabracci (sp?) is cool, too.

 

Oh, and Bill Conners latest with Lincoln Goines is real cool in an electric bass in an acoustic jazz kind of setting ( not straight ahead, though).

 

Great "heads up" thread!!

 

Those Real Player samples are great! I'm officially on the lookout for that CD.

 

Tom Kennedy, Lincoln Goines, Matt Garrison, Anthony Jackson, Victor Wooten......some of my favorite players, and all play Foderas.....Hmmmmm

 

...must be the bass, right?

Actually, IIRC, Kennedy was the first I ever saw witha Fodera...I picked up Assembler back in the '80s(I think) & saw the bass in the liners; I noticed it sounded sweet. A couple of Weckl back, though, I noticed Kennedy was a Yamaha-user/sponsor. Is he back to Fodera basses?

 

With my hack talent.....I would probably get struck by lightning if I had a Fodera

 

Great link, man. I've been wanting to get some cool music dvd's. Just a tip for everyone here; stay away from the BILL EVANS & RANDY BRECKER * SOULBOP BAND LIVE (DBL). I went to one of their shows, and let me tell you, it was embarrasing. They had clearly rehearsed the songs like once before the gig and said to each other: "Ok, so we sucked ass now but we'll probably nail it on the show." The whole show was an insult to the audience. Hiram Bulock played tasteless 11 minute solos in every damn song, so after about 20 minutes you were sitting there bored to death.

Don't get it even if you're a hardcore Bailey fan. He didn't take any solos during the night and you could see he was saving up for something special. So in the last song his special little something was finely taken out of the bag. It turned out he'd arranged Birdland in an extremely tacky two handed tapping version. Oh, the horror. But, at least he nailed that one right? No, not even did he nail his own solo arrangement. Now this is over a year ago and I still get a bit offended whenever I hear people talking about how great these guys are.

If anybody here's a great big fan of Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Dave Kikoski, Hiram Bullock or Victor Bailey please don't take it personally when I say that they're a bunch of washed up old has-beens who should've retired ten years ago.

Thank you. I needed to get that off my chest. I'm not really a hateful person, but keeping an experience like that inside of yourself for over a year does that to you.

 

Tell us how you really feel Paul

 

If anybody here's a great big fan of Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Dave Kikoski, Hiram Bullock or Victor Bailey please don't take it personally when I say that they're a bunch of washed up old has-beens who should've retired ten years ago.WOW!!!! i guess you didn't dig the show you saw,that's cool but saying that a bunch of guy's in their 40's and early 50's are old and washed up and should of retired ten years ago is a little strong don't you think?

 

I can't say that I care for anything that Steve Smith is a part of but those are some heavy weights he has for company on this date. Let us know what you think.