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Past Reads: May 1987 – A First Encounter with Loren Estleman’s – Amos Walker!

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A Throw Wayback Post: From Dumas to Detroit
So yesterday I discovered two things:

The Amos Walker series is now up to Book 31!

And I will never again question whether an older author is still writing—Loren Estleman is a year younger than me!

Well, in honor of that realization, let’s all go…


Wait. No. Not Dumas Walker—we’re talking Amos Walker, not some honky-tonk in Kentucky, you duma-ass!

Back to the Beginning
Motor City Blue

When I looked back at my old Book Journal, I saw that the very first Amos Walker book I recorded was Estleman’s Motor City Blue, released in 1980. By then, Estleman had already published six books, but I made sure to start at the beginning.

Apparently, I wasn’t blown away, but still intrigued. Here’s what I wrote at the time:

“Amos Walker is looking for the missing foster daughter of a mobster. Estleman does well, maintaining excitement chapter to chapter.”

Pretty concise. Clearly, I was in full-on “efficient journaling” mode.

Goodreads Says…
“Amos Walker, a tough-talking Detroit detective, will delight mystery buffs. Loren D. Estleman has written a series of fast-paced mysteries which occur in the Motor City where murders are committed nightly within full view of the glittering Renaissance Center.”
— Goodreads

And Amazon Adds…
“If I see my name in tomorrow’s paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black.”
— Thus begins Amos Walker’s first case: finding Marla Bernstein, the teenage ward of a semi-retired mobster. A pornographic photo is the only lead—and it draws Walker into Detroit’s seedy underworld of blue movies and even darker secrets.
— More on Amazon

That description actually is jogging my memory! And it reminds me why I kept coming back—at least for a while.

My Amos Walker Timeline
Looking at my Goodreads shelf, I see I read eight of the first ten Amos Walker books. Then—cue the familiar refrain—a seven-year gap between 1990’s Sweet Women Lie and 1997’s Never Street. What happened?

You guessed it. My ADD brain wandered off to chase other series.

Still, I’ve revisited Amos from time to time—most recently in Book #20 The Left-Handed Dollar. I also own Book #16 Poison Blue, still waiting patiently on my TBR shelf.

Is It Time for a Return Trip to Motor City?
Maybe it’s time to reconnect with Amos Walker. After all:

He’s still in Detroit.

He’s still grizzled.

And somehow, he’s still going—thanks to Loren Estleman, who, as I said, is younger than me and still going strong.

So here’s my advice:
If you’re a fan of classic PI mysteries and you haven’t read Amos Walker?

Shame on you.

Go fix that. Immediately.

Amos Walker book shame on you!! Get reading!!

Past Reads: Blood Music – Sci Fi from one of the Best – Greg Bear

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Since 1987 I have kept track of the books that I read. From 1987 through 2004 I kept hand written notes about the books, name, title, date read and a little blurb about the book. Between 2004 and 2010, I kept track of the books at Goodreads.com. From 2010, I ‘ve  kept my bookshelf at Goodreads and also posted at this site. Since this site is about the books I read and have read, I thought that I’d go back and start posting about the older books I’ve read. This will allow me to make more complete profiles of the various authors that I read. This post is the start of  posts about older books.

Travel with me now  back to 1987 and let’s explore the books from 27 years ago, seems a lot less than that!!

The first book listed in my first “A Book Lover’s Journal is not a mystery, but a science fiction book, Blood Music from Greg Bear. I think that this is the cover of the version that I read….

blood-music

My Blurb…..strange book about intelligent cells taking over. Interesting concept about “thought universe” Is everybody we know alive in our cells??

From Wikipedia:

Blood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7434-4496-5). It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Greg Bear published an expanded version in novel form in 1985. The completed novel was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1985[1] and for the Hugo, Campbell, and British Science Fiction Awards in 1986.[1]
Blood Music deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of consciousness and of artificial intelligence. Read More

From Goodreads:

An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear’s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world More at Goodreads

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s I read more science fiction than I do today. If I had more time or read faster, I would read more from the genre and Bear would certainly be an author that I would catch up with, in fact, there is a Greg Bear book on one of my to be read shelves Darwin’s Radio.!

Links

Official Website
Amazon

Coming Next: Motor City Blues –  The first Amos Walker book and my first Loren D. Estleman book!

 

 

Tell No Lies – Gregg Hurwitz – “Simply Brilliant”? – It’s True!

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STell No Lieso in keeping with the thought that one should write short I will give you my review of Gregg Hurwitz’s book Tell No Lies using the words of Anne Rice……“Simply Brilliant!”

So check it out of the library, buy it on Kindle, now you can by it in paperback just get you hands on it and see if you like me yell at Daniel Brasher  – “Don’t do it – Wait for the police!! But you see Daniel is the kind of guy that will not do that – he has to go for it, never, is he half in, never does he sit back and rest, he needs to be out there doing. He could just be sitting back and living the life of luxury like his filthy rich mother, but no he gave that life up and became a counselor to violent criminals, a position that he is about to leave to move into private practice.

Until a letter appears accidentally appears  in his work mailbox, threatening the lives of two people, telling them if they don’t “admit what they have done they will bleed for it” After Daniel reads that the first victim has been brutally slain, and the clock is winding down to the deadline for the second victim, who lives only blocks away from Daniel’ to admit what she has done, Daniel takes off to save her life! And you the reader know – this is not going to end well! True to form it doesn’t and soon……  there are more threats, including one directed at Daniel. So many questions, so little time…… could it really be one of his patients??  how are these seemingly random victims  related?  what are they to admit to, and does it all connect to Daniel?? All questions Daniel has to answer before his time is up!!

So now that I’ve used too many words to tell you about the book, I may as well give you the whole Anne Rice quote….

“Simply brilliant. Tell No Lies is infinitely more than a thriller, yet thrilling to the last page. Psychologically rich and often beautiful…A true page turner in which every phrase, every character, every little incident counts. Stylish, elegant, and absolutely riveting! An unforgettable read.” –Anne Rice, author of THE WOLVES OF MIDWINTER and INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE.

Yep, it is that good, it was one of those books that I didn’t want to put down. The characters are great, the plot is terrific and the book works on several levels. The themes that the book addresses are real! I don’t really want to say what they are because they deal with the whole storyline!

I read my first Gregg Hurwitz book in 2004 The Kill Clause the first Tim Rackley book. I read the second Rackley book The Program and then three of Gregg’s stand-alones. It seems I read one about every three years. It also seems that has to change!! (Memo to self – get on the stick – take that Trust No One off of your to be read shelf, and get reading!!) So go grab a Hurwitz novel and get cracking and if you don’t like regular novels try Graphic Novels, he writes those to including Batman:The Dark Knight. Bye, I’m off to Trust No One…..

Book 15 of 2014

American Forces Begin “Operation Hastings” in Vietnam -July 15,1966

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Thoughts about the Vietnam War:
American Forces Begin “Operation Hastings” in Vietnam -July 15,1966

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On July 15th of 1966,  US forces began “Operation Hastings” an operation to drive North Vietnamese forces from the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam. From Wikipedia….

Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the NVA clearly did not feel constrained by the Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the NVA clearly did not feel constrained by the “demilitarized” nature of the DMZ, US military leadership ordered a steady build-up of U.S. Marines near the DMZ from 1966 to 1968.

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I was 15 in 1966 and on the cusp of caring about what was happening in Vietnam, but over the next few years, as I approached draft age, my concern would obviously, grow. Eventually, I ended up on the side that thought the war was wrong, and wanted to bring our troops home.

When I think about this period of my life, the musician who comes to mind is Country Joe McDonald….”and it’s 1, 2, 3 What are we fighting for….”  No really, it’s Phil Ochs and the song that comes to mind and really sums up for me,  why we were destined to fail in Vietnam, and with a change in countries it’s “White Boots Marching in an Arab  Land”….

PS – You know just because we were against the war, it doesn’t mean we were not for the men who fought the war. What everyone wanted more than anything was for those men to come home and no more to be sent there to die in what had become a senseless war. There’s  a scene in the classic show Taxi .

When Tony angrily confronts Jim with the bitter accusation that he fought in Vietnam so that burnouts like him could stay home and get loaded at protest rallies, the philosophical Ignatowski can only stammer a heartfelt, and utterly sincere, “Thank you.” Read More

and while I did not get loaded at Protest Rallies I also say – Thank You!

Alexander Butterfield Reveals the Existence of the White House Taping System – July 13, 1973!

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The White House TranscriptsSo as I sit here, I just opened the book Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power to continue reading, the paragraph that I began with started: H.R. Haldeman was having a dinner party... That took my mind quickly back, to what I had read earlier, about famous events that happened on this date in 1973.

The existence of the White House taping system was first confirmed by Senate Committee staff member Donald Sanders, on July 13, 1973, in an interview with White House aide Alexander Butterfield. Three days later, it was made public during the televised testimony of Butterfield, when he was asked about the possibility of a White House taping system by Senate Counsel Fred Thompson.

On July 16, 1973, Butterfield told the committee that Nixon had ordered a taping system installed in the White House to automatically record all conversations; it was possible to concretely verify what the president said, and when he said it. Only a few White House employees had ever been aware that this system existed. Special Counsel Archibald Cox, a former United States Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy, asked District Court Judge John Sirica to subpoena eight relevant tapes to confirm the testimony of White House Counsel John Dean.

The revelation of the presence of these tapes consumed the nation for the next two years, leading us to things like: the 18 1/2 minute gap, the Stennis Compromise, and the Saturday Night Massacre. Of course, the whole tragedy came to an end after the release of the “smoking gun” tape on August 5th of 1974, which lead to Nixon’s resignation three days later. The smoking gun” tape was among  42 tapes subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee in April of 1974

In late July 1974, the White House released the subpoenaed tapes. One of those tapes was the so-called “smoking gun”[17] tape, from June 23, 1972, six days after the Watergate break-in. In that tape, Nixon agrees that administration officials should approach Richard Helms, Director of the CIA, and Vernon A. Walters, Deputy Director, and ask them to request L. Patrick Gray, Acting Director of the FBI, to halt the Bureau’s investigation into the Watergate break-in on the grounds that it was a national security matter. The special prosecutor felt that Nixon, in so agreeing, had entered into a criminal conspiracy whose goal was the obstruction of justice.
Once the “smoking gun” tape was made public on August 5, Nixon’s political support practically vanished. The ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who had voted against impeachment in committee announced that they would now vote for impeachment once the matter reached the House floor. He lacked substantial support in the Senate as well; Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott estimated no more than 15 Senators were willing to even consider acquittal. Facing certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and equally certain conviction in the Senate, Nixon announced his resignation on the evening of Thursday, August 8, to take effect noon the next day. Read More

I can still remember being in a Political Science class at the University of Florida, when the tapes were first released. My professor came in slam the paper on his desk and said “Damn the son of a bitch knew all along. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but that’s gone now!”

So on this day, I like to thank Mr Butterfield for letting us know about those tapes! You know, the sad thing is that the whole mess really didn’t even have to happen. While I wished it could have been otherwise George McGovern never really had a chance to win that election anyway. H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and the rest of Nixon’s staff had though had just created an “Us against Them” mentality in the White House opening the doors for this type of action, that eventually led to their downfall.

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Newly Released Tapes Show Nixon Maneuvering as Watergate Unfolds

40 Years Ago: A Very Popular Paperback Book

Book 14 of 2014 – Crissa Stone # 2 – Kings of Midnight by Wallace Stroby

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Kings of MidnightSo yes, as listed under Currently Reading on my webpage, I am still reading Subversives!  I am now more than 65% of the way through the book, Reagan  just became governor of California, so the battles rages more fiercely! But while reading that, I am still reading mysteries, and just finished Book 14 for 2014, Kings of Midnight from Wallace Stroby.

Kings of Midnight is the second book in the Crissa Stone series, and  in it , Crissa, the criminal you root for, is battling to recover,  some of the millions, that now dead mob boss Joey Dios hid from a robbery thirty-five years ago!! Crissa needs the money after the profits of her latest heist, were lessened by a crook that was trying to launder the money for her.  Crissa needs to get back some of that money and maybe make one big score to help her boyfriend get out of prison, and to get her daughter back. So Crissa, is all ears when Jimmy Peaches sets  her  up with Benny Roth, a lower level member of Joey’s crew, who just may know where Joey hid the money. Only problem is that other mobsters are on the trail of the money too!

The book’s plot seemed rather simplistic, but Stroby’s writing style, and the characters he creates keep the action moving, and the pages turning right up until the last page of the book. Crissa is a character, that while a criminal, you still can root for her to come out on top, and this time , well actually like the last, she’s up against some pretty tough mobsters! So it was a quick fun read, and I’m looking forward to moving onto the next caper!!

Here’s what others say about Stroby’s books….

“Just when you think that you can’t be surprised anymore, a writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante” – Laura Lippman

“Another fast, taut, winner from Stroby. As for Crissa, she may be crime fiction’s best bad girl ever” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Cold Shot to the Heart.

So check out the Crissa Stone series!

Exploring the Jazz of Milt Buckner and Jo Jones! Hammond B3 and Drums, All Right!

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Among the jazz musicians birthdays yesterday was Hammond B3 organist and pianist Milt Buckner. Buckner was an influential musician on both instruments. He started out playing piano in Detroit in the 1930s.

By 1941 he had joined Lionel Hampton’s band and over the next 7 years he worked with the band as its pianist and staff arranger. Milt’s love of rocking rhythms and boogie-woogie messed nicely with Hampton;s style!.During this period, Buckner developed a uniquely percussive technique employing parallel tonal patterns, later referred to as “block chords.” Buckner’s locked hand technique would later be used by such greats as Red Garland, George Shearing, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson.

Throughout the 50s and into the sixties Buckner recorded ten albums as a leader. He spent the last eleven years of his life, which ended in 1977 at the age of 62, in Europe. His final album, Green Onions, was released in 1965, and the title track was the song I was going to use when I wrote about Milt. Any time I get to listen to Green Onions is a good time! However, this morning as I was searching through videos to play I came across this one, George Benson, Jo Jones, Milt Buckner, Jimmy Slyde in “L’Aventure du Jazz” As I was watching this video I was in all of drummer Jo Jones, whose name I didn’t recognize. My thoughts immediately went to Philly Joe Jones, who, according to Wikipedia Jo was confused with in his later years. The two drummers actually died only days apart. Anyway, I quickly went to Wikipedia to find out more about Jo…

Jo was a band leader and anchored th rhythm section for Count Basie’s Orchestra from 1934 to 1948.More about Jo from Wikipedia….

He was one of the first drummers to promote the use of brushes on drums and shifting the role of timekeeping from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal. Jones had a major influence on later drummers such as Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, and Louie Bellson. He also starred in several films, most notably the musical short Jammin’ the Blues (1944).
Jones performed regularly in later years at the West End jazz club at 116th and Broadway in New York City. These performances were generally very well attended by other drummers such as Max Roach and Roy Haynes. In addition to his artistry on the drums, Jones was known for his irascible, combative temperament.
In contrast to drummer Gene Krupa’s loud, insistent pounding of the bass drum on each beat, Jones often omitted bass drum playing altogether. Jones also continued a ride rhythm on hi-hat while it was continuously opening and closing instead of the common practice of striking it while it was closed. Jones’s style influenced the modern jazz drummer’s tendency to play timekeeping rhythms on a suspended cymbal that is now known as the ride cymbal
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So now I have two more jazz pioneers whose work I need to explore…. so while I head over to Spotify to check out Jo Jones and Milt Buckner…. you can watch another video of the two, well, primarily the amazing Mr. Jones!!

Two Eggs and Jerry Jeff: A Family Moment

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Two Eggs and Jerry Jeff: A Family Moment

So I just finished a four mile run—well, actually more like a one mile jog and a fast walk. I hate the hot weather! After I was finished, I collapsed in my chair in front of the computer and almost fell asleep. I did manage to get up and take a shower. As I was getting out, I was trying to think of what to eat—something quick and light. I settled on a fried egg sandwich.

That means two eggs on toast… which in turn leads my mind straight to Jerry Jeff Walker:

“Well, it’s two eggs up on whiskey toast…”


Yesterday we went to Surf City for the traditional July 4th potluck picnic with my wife’s mother’s side of the family. It had been rescheduled from the 4th because of the weather. This was the first time in many years that most of my children could attend. Unfortunately, Nick couldn’t make it on Saturday because of his work schedule. But the young man that everyone wanted to meet—Oliver—was there, and he didn’t disappoint.

My wife took a series of pictures of Oliver with her Uncle James Browne. Thinking about it, Jim was really the only one of our aunts and uncles around except for Kathy’s Uncle Roy, who lives in California. So here is Oliver with his grand-uncle:


Oliver with Uncle Jim

Yes, Oliver flirted with several of the women, but he was entranced by only one thing… the iPhone!


Oliver and the iPhone

That’s his dad holding him as he stares happily at my iPhone!

While I was looking for these pictures on my Facebook page, I also came across photos of my daughter Elizabeth and my wife’s mother, Ruth Browne Clarke. I knew there was a strong resemblance, but I didn’t realize just how strong:


Elizabeth and Ruth

One of my biggest “I only wish that…” moments in life is that my children never had the chance to know Kathy’s parents, Bob and Ruth Clarke. They were two wonderful people who would have had such a positive impact on our family. I know that their spirit has been passed on to our kids through Kathy, but still—it would have been nice if they could have done it themselves.

Ruth Browne Clarke died of breast cancer in 1981 at the age of 48, and Robert Nelson Clarke died of a heart attack in 1993 at the age of 60. Damn.

🎵 Related Family Moments:
Jerry Jeff’s music has popped up at other family milestones too—most memorably at Peter’s wedding, where a JJW song found its way into the celebration.

PS: Funny side note—about the only Jerry Jeff song my wife actually likes is “Navajo Rug.”
Of course, it’s not really a JJW song at all—it’s a cover of the Ian Tyson and Tom Russell tune.
But I’ll take the win—if it gets Jerry Jeff playing in the house, I’m happy!

Exploring the Music of Mads Tolling

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Mads Tolling – violin viola, and composer.Born July 5, 1980

 

Violinist Mads Tolling was born on this date July 5th in 1980 in Copenhagen,Denmark is violinist. If you think that I didn’t recognize his name on the list of jazz birthdays at All About Jazz this morning, you would be ……correct!! So

 

Mads Tolling (born July 5, 1980)[1] is a Danish-American violinist, violist, and composer. Tolling won Grammy Awards for “Best classical crossover album” as part of Turtle Island Quartet’s recordings 4+Four (2006)[2] and A Love Supreme – The Legacy of John Coltrane (2008).[2] Tolling also recorded on Stanley Clarke‘s The Toys of Men (2007).[3] He is currently first violinist with the Turtle Island Quartet,[4] soloist with bassist Stanley Clarke’s band,[3] and bandleader of his solo project the Mads Tolling Quartet.[5]

Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tolling relocated to the United States to study at Berklee College of Musicwhere he graduated Summa Cumme Laude in 2003. Tolling received Denmark’s Sankt Annae’s Award for Musical Excellence as well as grants from Queen Margaret, the Sonning Foundation and the Berklee Elvin Jones Award. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, Tolling has toured worldwide with the Stanley Clarke band and Turtle Island Quartet. Tolling has also performed with Al Di Meola, Kenny Barron, Paquito D’Rivera, and Leo Kottke. Read More

The Playmaker - Mads Tolling

 

 

So after reading the above and a quick visit to Mads website I headed over to Spotify and gave a quick listen to some of his 2009 release The Playmaker and being impressed with what I heard I downloaded to the iPhone Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty: Live at Yoshi’s (I do know about Yoshi’s now!) the Quartet’s 2012 release and the Turtle Island Quartet’s 2010 release Have you Ever Been..? for further listening today! Here’s what some folks have to say about Mads violin playing……

Mads has the amazing talent and skills that few young musicians can match. His music is both beautiful and refreshing exhibiting his superb mastery of the modern American Jazz music that is rarely seen among his peers.”
-Jean-Luc Ponty

“While Tolling is skilled at evoking a beautiful melody, he’s equally adept at filling out the sound with powerful double-stops and intricate harmonics…”
-Strings Magazine

and about Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty

Mads Tolling Quartet Fires Up Oakland Venue Yoshi’s with Furious Sound.”……… “Completely engrossed in their complex rhythmic relationships, the four seemed wholly invested in the idea that their performance went deeper than simply entertainment but entered the realm of art-something challenging, for both audience and band.”
-Daily Californian

So join me as we say Happy Birthday, Mads Tolling and spend some time today exploring the music of Mads!

Here’s the Mads Tolling Quartet performing” Lila’s Dance”by John McLaughtlin…..

 

2015 Update In listening to The Playmaker again I see that the title track is dedicated to Tom Brady.While “The Contemplater” featuring Stanley Clarke to dedicated to Zinedine Zidane, “The Risktaker” is dedicated to LeBron James and features Stfefon Harris and “Starmaker Machinery” is dedicated to John McLaughlin!!
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2014 Jazz Organ – from Jared Gold – JG3+3 = a great jazz sextet and album!

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JG 3+3Somewhere a while back I became aware of jazz organist Jared Gold. I think I first saw Jared’s name when I was searching for Dave Stryker’s album 8-Track (which I still have not found). Anyway, over the last couple of months, I’ve watched Gold’s latest release JG3+3 climb the JazzWeek Charts and have gone to Spotify to check the album out and come away empty. This week I did the same thing and this time the album was available and it has been in my jazz rotation this week and I have a new jazz organist favorite to add to my  ever-growing collection.

Gold has released seven albums as a leader on the Posi-Tone label that for the most feature guitar, organ and drum, the traditional organ trio. On JG3+3 Jared has expanded the trio to include three horns. The resulting sextet, in addition to usual trio members Dave Stryker on guitar ans Sylvia Cuenca on drums features: Patrick Cornelius on alto saxophone, Tatum Green Greenblatt on trumpet and Jason Marshall in Baritone sax. Needless to say the expanded line-up works to perfection. The group rips through the nine tracks on the album in a brisk and quickly moving 48 minutes that leaves you wanting to hear more!! The tracks on the album include some new arrangements of some well-known tunes by the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, and Dave Stryker as well as some original compositions.

So  let;s see I’ve got 6 or so other Jared Gold releases to check out. In addition I can check out Jared on  The Chaser from Jared Goldthe Dave Stryker Trio, because Jared is a part of Dave’s trio. Jared has also produced two albums with guitarist  Randy Napoleon and drummer Quincy Davis, Makin’ it and Plan  with the Oliver Lake group, Going Somewhere with the Avi Rothbard Trio Broadway Alley with the William Ash Trio, and Springloaded  with the Dan Pratt Organ Quartet. Edward, looks like “You have some esplorin’ to do!”!

Writing about Jared’ album Golden Child at All About Jazz – Mark Turner writes….

 Jazz organist Jared Gold continues to make his presence known, both in name and sonically. Energizing and free yet possessed of a comprehensive knowledge of the Hammond B3 organ, he communicates with the language of giants such as Don Patterson and Chris Foreman of the Deep Blue Organ Trio. It’s been said that “either you have it or you don’t,” and Gold’s playing bears the truth of the groove on Golden Child.

And Dan Bilawskywrites again at All About Jazz about All Wrapped Up….

When All Wrapped Up reaches its conclusion, two things are abundantly clear: this newfound quartet format hasn’t dampened or diminished the creative enthusiasm shown on Gold’s earlier releases; and the album continues the steady evolution of one of jazz’s most prominent rising star organists.

You can read the complete reviews here

Need I tell you – Check Him out – while I’m checking out all those albums I mentioned a while back!!

So let’s go into the morning with a video that showcases Jared Gold, with the added bonus of Tom Tallitsch on Tenor, Matt Davis – Guitar and David Ashkenazy – Drums

Links
JaredGoldB3
Posi-Tone Records
Wikipedia