Emmet Cohen w/ Buster Williams, Lenny White & Wallace Roney Jr. | If I Were A Bell 

Don’t you mean three legends not counting Emmet? Which of the three players don’t you consider a legend?

Wassup man 😂

@@smokemeisterbro you here too? Hahaha

Lol his parents were Geri Allen and Wallace Roney. Roney, Jr is definitely seasoned. You don’t need to comment to comment. In fact, emmet was trying his best to keep up. Roney and buster challenged him.

Difficult is a very amorphous word when you’re speaking about musical or room acoustics. Perhaps you’d like to be more specific about the balance issue that you hear? I think you’re right. Seems like Wallace’s trumpet is a bit too loud but still fantastic so it may need to be backed off a bit and perhaps a bit stronger in the base area. Lenny White sounds great no matter what he does. In this piece he’s just playing laid-back drums with a few short solos which is really not the type of drummer that he is. He was phenomenal with Return To Forever for so many years.Turn him loose and get out of the way.

@@stimpy1226 I am listening as a classical musician who did a lot of Chamber Music. Maybe the bass gets his own discrete mike in order to show off his artistry a little more! Emmet is a great Chamber musician and I know he understands what I am talking about. I hope you present my comments to him. Thank you!

I have read your reply several times and I respectfully do not agree with your sentence that each instrument needs to have the same amount of voice. When they get a solo they need to be raised up a bit and then go back slightly into the background to get proper balance. I’m basing this on acoustic jazz musicians and albums that The thousands of albums in my collection and this is my take on what makes a great jazz recording. It would probably Hold true for blues and many rock recordings as well.

I think you both make good points. However this is a small living room in a residential apartment and what we hear remotely may differ from what the musicians hear from one another in the actual space they’re playing in. But there are definitely times where I wish I could here some singers or Kyle Poole’s playing a bit more out in front.

@@jjbloyber I understand that and I agree with you about your particular issue. Emmet’s apartment is not large as I have been told. I think you should contact Emmet directly via his email and see how he responds. It’s on his website.