Eye Contact Training (2e) Robert Moore (2015)

The Sound Of Funk Volume One is a 1992 compilation released by Goldmine in conjunction with Soul Supply. All of the songs are sourced from vinyl records and its legality remains unknown but it was one way to find rare sides of soul that would be normally impossible to locate without compilations like this.

Consideration of Vic Juris’ CV reveals a career arc common to a jazz guitarist of his age and distinction. Home study on the instrument as an adolescent, avid exposure to seminal albums, teenage years spent ripening in rock bands, connections made with mentors, regular gigs as a sideman and leader parlayed into a parallel path and an educator in academia. Eye Contact is Juris’ fourteenth project at the helm for Steeplechase and he has easily another four times that in the service of colleagues. The album stands out in that veritable forest for featuring his strings in the company of just bass and drums, handled ably by Jay Anderson and Adam Nussbaum respectively.

Cercle arctique, samedi 12 août 2000. Sous la surface de la mer de Barents, le Kursk, sous-marin nucléaire lanceur de missiles – fleuron de la flotte russe –, effectue des manœuvres. À son bord : 118 hommes.
À 11 h 28, une explosion se produit dans le compartiment avant, la salle des torpilles. Plusieurs marins sont tués sur le coup. Puis de nombreux autres lors des minutes qui suivent…