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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2765519, member: 405"]
Thank you for the tip, buddy.  That gives me another new guy to check out.  Thank you.

Yeah, Wynton was great, but once he got the Lincoln Center gig, he kind of stopped being jazzy, and started becoming more 'music historian".  You have to remember that his first big success was with a classical album, and his first jazz album was his second release.  Miles once said about Wynton, "Yeah, he's technically very gifted, but Wynton just don't swing."

I saw Wynton on a double bill at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea.  The Dirty Dozen Jazz Band was the opening act, and of course, Wynton played with them, and then had them join his combo onstage for a long encore.  This was early days, when Wynton still had Marcus Roberts and Reginald Veal and guys like that in his band.  My roommate Tom and I had 7th row center seats, and were absolutely blown away by Wynton's heart and feeling to his music.  But he seldom captured that in studio, and some of his later club-recorded live albums suffered from too much "conceptualizing" around the album.  Just blow, man!
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