Super Stupor

I listened the Directions in Music cd with Hargrove, Herbie, Brecker, Brian Blade, and Patitucci last night. I would say it's Hargrove at his best. He plays some very interesting and creative things and he sounds very good with Herbie and Blade. There's a pretty amazingly different arrangement of Impressions that he just kills. He also plays really nice on Stella. After Stella, all is quiet except....is that?.... yes it is. It's Mr. Brecker Swaggering up to the microphone. This is how it went:

Mike: Hey, man check this shit out, it's real sensitive................
Yours Truly: Hey, nice. Naima right? That's cool you're doing an intro.
Mike: Yea, it is cool. Real cool. Just listen to the way I play these changes, man, it's hip as hell.
YT: Oh, sorry, man I thought we were still kinda on the melody. Well, i guess it's not that nice of a melody, anyway.
Mike: Dude, i referenced it really strongly.
YT: Oh, yea. Cool.
Mike: Yea, it is cool. But check it out man, you probably don't even know where i am in the form, do you.
YT: Well, I can basically-
Mike: Yea, well, i do, man. I know exactly where i am and playing the shit out it. Seriously.
YT: Wow, man, you sure outline those chords really, really well.
Mike: Yea, well, you know, without a rythm section you're a little more free to really let go and blow just about all the notes that fit within a chord. But check out what i'm about to do, man. You'll freak out.
YT: I bet it's nice not to have those pesky guys trying to comp for you. Like, both times you left a couple beats of space on that last tune, they practically jumped at the oppurtunity to play some shit they probably haven't even practiced. What a pain in the ass.
Mike: Hey, man, listen to me.................................................................................................
YT: Mike..........Hey Mike...........................MIKE!!
Mike: Oh, hey, man.
YT: What the hell are you talking about, man?
Mike: Oh, well check it out. For each chord I play all the way through the Coltrane subs for the relative two-five, right, which is cool, but pretty tame so after that I take that around once, well, then i start taking that whole progression and i start moving it around the diminished cyc-
YT: Mike! I don't give a shit, man. I just don't care. At all. Really. None.
Mike: Oh, well, check this out then man. It's a little different.
YT: This isn't an intro, is it, Mike?
Mike:................................................................................................................................................
YT: Oh thank god! He's parroting Coltrane's ending. He's got to be done now. Yep, here it is. This is it. One more note and we're.......................... Oh, Jesus Christ. Get OFF her, Mike, she's done. Naima just wants to go to sleep. Roll the hell over and turn off the light, for godsake!
Mike:............................!
YT: You're sick, man, sick.

I think this would be a trully great record if the Breck from Heck wasn't on it. That's my story and i'm stickin' to it.