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On Mike Stern: What is his best work? I bought a cd of
his a while ago, didn't really care for it (don't
remember why--I'll have to listen to it again. Lots of
mention of Mick Goodrick. What is his best? (I tend to
favor acoustic sounding archtops rather than solid
body electric fusion stuff). Randy Groves

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J. Randall Groves, Ph.D. ("Rando")
Professor of Humanities
Ferris State University
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Stern's album's that I have dont really live up to what I've
seem him do live. I have an incredible bootleg i made of him
from 1985 and it's is way better than any studio albums he's
done. I wish he would put out a live one. I do like his
Standards record. Upside Downside is a little over-produced
but has great playing on it. Jaco's on a song or two.
-Mark

--- Randy Groves <bebopguitar@...> wrote:

Sounds to me Randy like you need to own a 7 string solid
body(answering both enties). I love my archtop to but even
on a big band gig usually use my solid body and put my arch
top on a stand for show. It all depends on your solid body.
I'm sure Pat Martino & Lenny Breu put a lot of thought into
that.I think a fender style with dual humbuckers is
cool.Ibanez makes a 7 sting archtop(Pat Metheny model) but
you can't even custom order a 7 string solid body with a
fixed bridge. I have a schecter 7 string (they're made in
Korea now) and it's wild having that whole set of tones down
there. I think a guitar builder out there needs to come up
with a better body style for solid bodies for jazz players(I
don't worry that much about my 7 string cause I have a belt
sander). I just haven't done it yet. >> Ross

At 12:42 PM 8/19/01 -0700, you wrote:

Lots of
mention of Mick Goodrick. What is his best? (I tend to
favor acoustic sounding archtops rather than solid
body electric fusion stuff).

Mick's done a lot of beautiful recordings. I think
sunscreams on RAM shows some of his best playing. He does
play a solid body guitar. It's not "fusion" though. Back a
while, he recorded "in pas(s)ing" on ECM. There he played a
semi-hollow body Epi if that makes it easier to listen.
Actually, his sound and touch are still very much his own no
matter what he plays. It's not Freddie Green, keep an open
ear though.

David

Standards and Upside Downside are the best as leader. Any
one of his remaining leader albums are good, but you only
need one because they are all very samey.

There is an album of trio stuff under bassist Harvie Swartz
name, which features Goddrick, Scofield and Stern on various
tracks. Mike Stern's playing on Alone Together is his best,
apart from a live off the radio recording I have of him
playing with Mike Brecker's group. He's also done great
things with Bob Berg's band, with Lew Soloff, and with Hino
Motohiko (I think I spelled that right) where he plays with
Scofield on one cracking track.

I am not sure what this fusion tag is or why it matters what
guitar you play, but I think Stern is over-exposed in the
fusion bag, and under exposed doing bop and standards. If he
is still doing the 55 Bar in New York when not on tour, this
is where you will hear his best real jazz playing. Only
Alone Together mentioned above comes close on record.

John Clarke
Basingstoke
UK

Re best Mike Stern CD, I just got back from vacation where I
was catching up on some listening. I came to the conclusion
that as well as 'Standards' you may enjoy 'Give and Take'.
Has a great version of 'I Love You' and I especially like
his chord work on 'Jones'.

Bruno is new to me. Which of his CDs should I get ?

John

--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "John Clarke" <jclarke1308@h...> wrote:

Re best Mike Stern CD, I just got back from vacation where I
was catching up on some listening. I came to the conclusion
that as well as 'Standards' you may enjoy 'Give and Take'.
Has a great version of 'I Love You' and I especially like
his chord work on 'Jones'.

Bruno is new to me. Which of his CDs should I get ?

John

I have _Like That_ with Joey deFrancesco on organ, and it's
excellent. For a more chimey two-guitar sound, check out _Polarity_
with Joe Beck. And there's a Concord CD with Howard Alden that's
great in that there's a bonus two-guitar CD from 1973 (not Bruno)
that you get for free!

Bruno is new to me. Which of his CDs should I get ?

I have _Like That_ with Joey deFrancesco on organ, and it's
excellent. For a more chimey two-guitar sound, check out _Polarity_
with Joe Beck. And there's a Concord CD with Howard Alden that's
great in that there's a bonus two-guitar CD from 1973 (not Bruno)
that you get for free!

The Concord disc is called Full Circle. Not only Jimmy Bruno
and Howard Alden, but the the mentioned "bonus disc" is Joe
Pass and Herb Ellis. THAT'S A SERIOUS BONUS
Scott Dercks