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    Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:19

Jan Hammer is now included in PA:

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAN D.asp?band_id=2431

 please help start the reviews of Jan Hammer albums.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:13
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 08:55

Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

GREAT!!!

 

Thanks for taking me up on my request so quickly

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:32
Happy to see this great musician included and not before time. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 09:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 10:29
My favorite Jan Hammer work is his playing on Timeless, John Abercrombie's album. Magnificent.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 11:49

Originally posted by Dr. Occulator Dr. Occulator wrote:

My favorite Jan Hammer work is his playing on Timeless, John Abercrombie's album. Magnificent.

My favorite Jan Hammer album is Oh Yeah! (why hasn't it been released on cd??) but the alternative take of the Oh Yeah tune,  Red & Orange found on Abercrombie's Timeless has the edge - also Hammer provides one of those great Hammond organ performances on Timeless, when perhaps he isn't known as a Hammond-player. For another aspect of the same line-up as found on Timeless, but with the addition of Mike Brecker in stinging form, is the later ECM Records album Night

 

Seriously thinking of trying to add Abercrombie into PA, as a major jazz rock guitarist - although a lot of his albums released in the last years, have been more mainstream jazz.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 12:04

Very nice addition Dick.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 12:18
 his work with Neil schon was unbelievable
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 12:39

Originally posted by yankeerose yankeerose wrote:

 his work with Neil schon was unbelievable

 

Please feel free to add the albums and reviews

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 15:42
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

GREAT!!!

 

Thanks for taking me up on my request so quickly

You're welcome.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 04:20

If Jan Hammer is in, where is Billy Cobham?

His work is considerable contribution to fusion.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 06:26
Originally posted by pero pero wrote:

If Jan Hammer is in, where is Billy Cobham?

His work is considerable contribution to fusion.

 

 

Patience. IMHO Jan hammer has a bigger body of work and contributed to others work, more than BC. And these biogs are not dashed off in 5 minutes - 6 to 8 hours research, compilation, writing and up loading on to PA for Jan Hammer. So if you want to accelerate the process of BC's addition, start researching and writing, and I'm more than willing to help.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 17:31
What about the album he did with Jerry Goodman just after the break-up of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 18:18
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

[QUOTE=Dr. Occulator]My favorite Jan Hammer work is his playing on Timeless, John Abercrombie's album. Magnificent.


 

Seriously thinking of trying to add Abercrombie into PA, as a major jazz rock guitarist - although a lot of his albums released in the last years, have been more mainstream jazz.

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I second the motion on having John Abercrombie added to PA. His electric guitar work on some albums has definitly broken new ground and his synth-ax work is so warm and human it sounds like a natural instrument.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 19:09
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

What about the album he did with Jerry Goodman just after the break-up of the original Mahavishnu Orchestra?


Like Children - you'll find it reviewed under the 'Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer' section, which I guess will confuse when the proper Jerry Goodman section gets uploaded
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 21:49

Like Children  is awesome. Too bad it's never been issued on CD.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2006 at 21:54

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

My favorite Jan Hammer album is Oh Yeah! (why hasn't it been released on cd??) but the alternative take of the Oh Yeah tune,  Red & Orange found on Abercrombie's Timeless has the edge - also Hammer provides one of those great Hammond organ performances on Timeless, when perhaps he isn't known as a Hammond-player. For another aspect of the same line-up as found on Timeless, but with the addition of Mike Brecker in stinging form, is the later ECM Records album Night

You probably already have them but in addition to those, the Elvin Jones – Jan Hammer – Gene Perla CD On The Mountain is a must (same year as Timeless, IIRC), and Horacee Arnold's Tales Of The Exonerated Flea (with Jan) is equally kickass. I think I may prefer Elvin's, though. The two Hammer & David Earle Johnson collaborations are killer—lotsa juicy monophonic Moog work.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2006 at 05:24
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by pero pero wrote:

If Jan Hammer is in, where is Billy Cobham?

His work is considerable contribution to fusion.

 

 

Patience. IMHO Jan hammer has a bigger body of work and contributed to others work, more than BC. And these biogs are not dashed off in 5 minutes - 6 to 8 hours research, compilation, writing and up loading on to PA for Jan Hammer. So if you want to accelerate the process of BC's addition, start researching and writing, and I'm more than willing to help.

Sorry. I would try but regretably I'm not so good in writing English.

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