Mr. Green Genes

This one is gorgeous too, and I've also noted this CD in my shopping notebook.

Interesting proposal, I've noted it on my CD purchase list (like many others you've reviewed), still doing an amazing job!

Symbad_Bassist, congratulations once again on your reviews. I don’t know this one (I mean I’ve never heard it), I have the other ones you mentioned by Hancock, but not this one. A friendly piece of advice: if you haven’t already, get "Empyrean Isles" featuring Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, Tony Williams – it’s beautiful (also remastered).

"Joe's Garage" (Beautiful) as you say, but this is definitely an easier record. That was the point, thanks for the nitpicky intrusion.

Look, you don't get it. This is about having influenced a musical thought, not some commercial form that's easy to grasp and trivial. In fact, in all conservatories and with all conductors, they study "like a virgin" (if I'm not mistaken, but correct me since you live on planet sboratex). We're talking about an extraordinarily beautiful album (which is independent of whether it's an influential album), and I really don't believe it sold that much upon its release, because the only Zappa albums that have made it to the top ten are "over-nite sensation" and "apostrophe." Among those you mention, "Joe's Garage" (beautiful) as you say is a much more "accessible" album. Moreover, to call an album where the compositions and musical structures are truly complex "easy" is a bit ridiculous. And if you say that "uncle meat" isn't crazy, take a walk, because besides certain puffs, you also need some oxygen.

I see that here we mostly talk about rock or hard rock guitarists or very similar genres; for example, giants like McLaughlin, Frisell, Abercrombie, Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Jim Hall, Metheny, Derek Bailey, Scofield, etc. are not mentioned. So I’ll play along, and I’m still amazed that no one has mentioned Frank Zappa (for me tied for first place with Hendrix). The others, in no particular order (these are still my top 10 favorite rock guitarists), because I’ve never been good at rankings: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton (especially with Mayall and Cream), Santana, Jimmy Page, Robert Fripp, Gerry Garcia, Tony Iommi, Mike Bloomfield.

I was referring more to the sounds and that the style you describe was already present, that’s all, no controversy, just a clarification :-)

Symbad_Bassist, I think you’re mixing up the eras because Parker and the boppers were recording since the '40s, and by the mid-'50s we were right in the midst of the so-called funk/soul jazz. With Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, Jimmy Smith, Houston Person, Ramsey Lewis, Stanley Turrentine, and the Adderley brothers among others, the sounds you're talking about were already present. If you are still interested in Adderley, I recommend: "Somethin' Else" (with Miles Davis, an absolute masterpiece), "Things Are Getting Better", "Know What I Mean?" (with Bill Evans), Nat's "Work Song" (another masterpiece), and the beautiful album "Them Dirty Blues". By the way, on the tracklist of the CD you reviewed, there are songs like "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and "Hippodelphia", which if they are live and you like them, are taken from the album "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (a good album, but not outstanding in my opinion, just to be clear). The CDs "At The Lighthouse", "Cannonball In Europe!" (just reissued, still with Zawinul), "Cannonball's Bossa Nova", and "Fiddler On The Roof" (also with Zawinul), "In San Francisco" are also good; I don’t know any others (for now). I hope I’ve been helpful.

I have other records of "Cannonball," not this one (I'm very reluctant to buy compilations), he's a great one who's been forgotten (or not remembered enough) because he passed away too soon; I also have some records of his brother Nat, and he's really a great too. Well, many of you might know "work song" (at least one of the countless versions), just to be clear. Just one thing, symbad_bassist, what do you mean by "even if these recordings were made 40 years ago, the musical level is so high and the interplay, the development of the pieces and the solos are so breathtaking and intelligent that the record seems to have been recorded yesterday and is very contemporary"?

Another truly spectacular album by Evans, the review is really great.