Jurassic 5 - Quality Control 12" Single

Side A Quality Control, Original, Instrumental, Acapella
Side B Twelve (clean), Twelve (dirty), Twelve (instrumental)

From Quality Control: "I make the pen capsize..." A great line about how much the MC writes. I always misheard this as, "I make the pen-cap size," as if he worked in a pen factory and was in charge of the manufacturing of pen caps... Someone's gotta make sure they're the right size!

So many great lyrics, classic Jurassic-5

Elvin Jones - Genesis

Jones, Farrell, Liebman, Foster, Perla

contains three card molly:

Elvin Jones - The Ultimate Elvin Jones

Whenever Elvin and Jimmy are involved, I'm interested.

Keith Jarrett - My Song

My last Keith Jarrett record. Whew. I think between CD and LP I have every recording KJ made with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. This record is with the European gang. This record has a pop quality to it, and Keith Jarrett even performed on "My Song" on Saturday Night Live.

Keith is definitely an enigma. Great musician. Annoying screech/humming/howling/singing-while-playing tendencies. Makes audiences feel small. Egotistical. All add up as parts of the equation that is Keith Jarrett.

Blog: ECM Review - My Song

Keith Jarrett - Eyes of the Heart

My review from 2010

Keith Jarrett - Survivor Suite

Survivor Suite Review

Keith Jarrett - Bop-Be

Keith Jarrett - Mysteries

The mid 1970's phase of the Jarrett US Quartet traded in their steel drums (Thank God!) for log drums. What a much nicer tone. The group created many interesting "tribal" type explorations, and I love the song "Flame," which features Jarrett on his Native American flute, Dewey on the musette, Paul Motian and Guilherme Franco presumably on log drums, and Charlie Haden doing his drone/rubber band noises on his bass. This is a superb jam, with a catchy over and under melody reminiscent of the opening bassoon melody in the Right of Spring by Stravinsky.

Keith Jarrett - Shades

I love the transition from the super jazz piece "Shades of Jazz" into "Southern Smiles." This is not my favorite KJ album, but also not my least favorite. My favorite track is definitely "Southern Smiles."

Keith Jarrett - El Juicio

WHY THE STEEL DRUMS? I really like this group, but they murdered some very magical musical moments with the most obnoxious steel drum smashing... very disappointed when that happens, but this group does find magic around nearly every corner!

Keith Jarrett - Birth

Tough call, but I think this is my favorite Keith Jarrett, simply because of "Mortgage On My Soul."