Jazz for aficionados

What-- no love for Nick Brignola or Gary Smulyan???

@curiousjim

I enjoy DiMeola’s acoustic playing. I saw RTF on the Romantic Warrior tour and much preferred the acoustic portion of the show. Wish I could have seen them early on, with Bill Connors..

For Bari, try "On a Different Level" and "Hidden Treasures"

For DiMeola, "Rite of Strings" with Clarke and Ponty is terrific.

I also favor his trio work with J McLaughlin and P de Lucia.

The live ones are better known but the studio release which I believe is simply titled Guitar Trio is also very good.

@stuartk

I enjoy DiMeola’s acoustic playing. I saw RTF on the Romantic Warrior tour and much preferred the acoustic portion of the show. Wish I could have seen them early on, with Bill Connors..

Plus 1 Bill Conners. Great guitarist not as recognized as others we have been discussing but just as good (not as good as McLaughlin though!)

I do hope Di Meola recovers 100% from his recent heart attack. From what I have read about the type of heart attack he had he is lucky to be alive.

What-- no love for Nick Brignola or Gary Smulyan???

I must say they have not received the love I give the others I mentioned but I have endless hours to listen to them both while I am driving my semi and I will do so.

@pjw8156

Hadn’t heard about his heart attack. Let’s hope this isn’t the end of his playing days.

As you probably know, Brignola doesn’t only play Bari. However, on the session with Holland and DeJohnette Bari is the sole horn. This is also the case on "Flight of the Eagle".

I agree re: the comparison between Connors and Johnny Mac. I recently picked up Connor's "Return". Have you heard it?  

Can you imagine Jaco and Al playing together in a band?  The poor drummer would spontaneously combust trying to keep up!

@curiousjim 

Can you imagine a band with John McLaughlin and Larry Young?  It was called Lifetime and the drummer was Tony Williams, who led the band... no issues of keeping up.

Can you imagine a band with John McLaughlin and Jaco? It was called Trio of Doom and the drummer was, yes, Tony Williams...again no issues with keeping up!  

Can you imagine a band with Pharoah Sanders and Sonny Sharrock?!  The drummer was none other than Elvin Jones... you know he didn't have any problems keeping up!  

The same could be said of The Mahavishnu Orchestra... Billy Cobham had things well under control.

One of the highlights for me of seeing the Dave Holland Quintet was when everyone was soloing at once and I couldn't tell where the "one" was. I was always amazed by Billy Kilson -- no matter how rhythmically complex things got, he remained the calm at the center of the storm. Of course, Elvin was renowned for the same capacity.