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CNN Sports Ticker posted:The only jazz album I actually have and have listened to is Bitches Brew. I think I'll have to start exploring some other Miles Davis. Here are a few the top of my head: First up Keith Jarrett's improvised solo piano recording The Köln Concert is the best selling solo-album in jazz history and wonderful material overall, so you should definitely check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivo94ylmhE Thelonious Monk is one of the greats and needs to be on any list of great jazz pianists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e090gYtQiP8 While Charles Mingus is better known for his bass playing, he has some piano stuff worth checking out. Myself When I Am Real is a personal favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2AMNnrFQ For more modern piano trio stuff, here's Esbjörn Svensson Trio (e.s.t). He died a few years ago tragically at 44 in a diving accident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7j6qImrlM Jan Johansson is another legendary Scandinavian pianist, best known for his jazz adaptations of Swedish folk songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4P6m7L-4U
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Nuclear Spoon posted:Oh sweet, Marc Ribot's played with Tom Waits on a bunch of albums, too! Another notable Masada/Waits connection is Masada bassist Greg Cohen who has played bass on 7 Waits albums. As Zorn's discography is pretty daunting (there are over 50 Masada-related albums and that's just a part of his oeuvre), here are my suggestions on some albums to check out: Naked City Naked City is probably the best known of Zorn's projects and the eponymous first album is imho the best to start with. It's pretty manic stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc-7BHjwW1o Gimel You should check out some of the original Masada material to see if you like the sound because there's lots more where that came from if you do. Gimel is a pretty arbitrary pick, but I remember it being one of the ones I liked most. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YFXcFkZ2g Bar Kokhba Bar Kokhba is a double-album of Masada songs interpreted by various permutations of a chamber ensemble. Here are pianist Anthony Coleman and clarinetist David Krakauer playing Mahshav. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eab69rzHIIg Godard/Spillane The Godard/Spillane album has two magnificent fragmented tributes to Mickey Spillane and Jean-Luc Godard and a third shorter piece. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65lHVU8hc1o The Big Gundown I personally don't think this album of Zorn doing Morricone quite lives up to it's promise, but still worth checking out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Pftl5CUgs
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Nov 7, 2011 18:36
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BeigeJacket posted:Hey Pas2, where's good place to start with Charlie Mingus? Really dug that tune you posted earlier. My suggestions to get started with are Mingus Ah Um and Let My Children Hear Music (Adagio Ma Non Troppo is basically an orchestral version of Myself When I Am Real). The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady mentioned earlier in the thread is also great.
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Nov 7, 2011 20:38
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woodenchicken posted:I'm currently watching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(TV_series), and it's brilliant. The first thing that comes to my mind when someone mentions Ken Burns' Jazz is this: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/arti0201_01.htm
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Feb 20, 2012 22:19
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Ola Ugh posted:Oslo Jazz Festival is coming up. Not too familiar with most of the line-up, but based on those favorites maybe Bugge Wesseltoft could be up your alley? His latest solo album is a collection of jazz standards, which is pretty serene stuff and not very exciting, but don't know what kind of a show he's likely to play at the Festival. Here's a sample track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh0EPNdOAvs The album is on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3Qmr80hItV2ypCxk73vo89 And here's a more adventurous live solo set from last November where he mixes electronics with the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkmevd68_io
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Aug 8, 2012 08:32
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Al Di Meola didn't get to where he is by making albums with sensible covers!
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nemoulette posted:I've casually listened jazz for a while now and have unsurprisingly found stuff like Kind of Blue and Take Five to be the sort of stuff I enjoy the most. From there, I usually just click around on Spotify at will. Can anyone recommend me their five favorite live recordings that might be up my alley based on my previous experiences? Off the top of my head stuff from Spotify, keeping to the classics pretty much... Ahmad Jamal - At the Pershing http://open.spotify.com/album/7qgAYjNZeyQjPCvMiMRRKH Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard http://open.spotify.com/album/6FSgsN5ROADI1YQOieljKD John Coltrane - Live at Birdland http://open.spotify.com/album/60Y9PfPjTMTX28drYS89Go Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes http://open.spotify.com/album/2gMTsMOwF9WHh9jx9vGnPz Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments http://open.spotify.com/album/2t97V5uDRA1dRxsJeOSXa9
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Oct 3, 2012 10:08
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So David S. Ware died yesterday.  Farewell, you magnificent spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToYhjBKsTqA
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Oct 19, 2012 19:35
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Lumius posted:I'm really digging Pharoah Sanders recently , specifically Karma : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah3XiTIDHds. Its funny I am usually a bit weary of saxophone but I love how he squawks the hell out of his. Are there any other artists with albums similar to this? I know and have a few of Sanders' other albums , I also have a few sun ra albums. Some obvious connections: Coltrane's 60's stuff obviously, Pharaoh plays on some of his albums, but I actually think the albums before Pharoah joined his band are better if you're looking for stuff similar to Pharaoh's solo albums. Check out Ole Coltrane, Coltrane, Crescent and of course A Love Supreme to name a few. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qagOblqhBhk Pharoah plays on some Alice Coltrane albums that are absolutely worth checking out: Journey in Satchidananda and Ptah the El Daoud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDuNfqXnrc Leon Thomas who sings on The Creator Has a Master Plan has a few good ones: Spirits Known and Unknown and Leon Thomas Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86_zyahOW0 And some others I find similar, YMMV... The recently deceased David S. Ware is similar in style. Try Flight of I or Godspelized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx5x3ZyIJtk Archie Shepp, try Magic of Ju-ju or Kwanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT3-xXM83VM Billy Harper, Capra Black, Black Saint or Awakening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1XXVk1wCQ
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Oct 30, 2012 19:14
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LordPants posted:I had this live double album, one half Coltrane, one half Shepp and it had a tune where they banged the vibes and delivered angry sermons: "Scag ain't dope, it's death" For the curious, this is from New Thing at Newport, the track Scag from Archie Shepp's set. It's not on YouTube, but Spotify has it (disclaimer: at least Premium in my area has it): http://open.spotify.com/album/1jx29diNXAr0rcYFtj4TIS
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Oct 31, 2012 15:28
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Brubeck's legacy is probably mostly in popularizing jazz and making concepts like unusual time signatures easily approachable for a wider audience. Brubeck is kind of on a side-track going in another direction than guys like Miles, Coltrane or Ornette in the late 50's and 60's and being all white and nerdy makes it easy to leave him out of the picture, but he was still highly influential if only for getting more people interested in jazz.
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Dec 6, 2012 22:59
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Azure_Horizon posted:Checking out some Pat Metheny for the first time. Anyone got any recommendations for primarily acoustic-guitar-driven jazz? Joe Pass is one dude you should be checking out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJyqCqMxtw
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Dec 14, 2012 22:25
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Made a Spotify playlist with some of my favorite jazz releases from 2012. 2 songs per album, 33 albums featured. http://open.spotify.com/user/pas2/playlist/0k0QyviTUuygKUBO9JjKxx It's pretty Finland/Euro-centric, but I guess most of you are that much more likely to find something new to listen to.
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Dec 31, 2012 13:26
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Stark Fist posted:My bad, NPR was streaming the record for a week or two before it released. The record's loving awesome. Better than Footprints Live and Beyond the Sound Barrier, by my estimate. The centerpiece is a composition he wrote for a wind quintet and his quartet, and it's totally unbelievable. He rarely shreds like any of the younger guys or anything but the best part about Wayne is how he knows exactly when to interject and turn poo poo up to 11. His band is so receptive to every little change that you can never tell what's going to happen next. It's now available on Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/3iEfbr1YRsGDXMSF5MJN5b
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Feb 7, 2013 19:47
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Thanks for the recommendations guys, I'm listening to A Love Supreme now and liking it so far. Something about the avant-garde stuff does it for me. I've listened to Kind of Blue before and it's good but didn't hook me like bitches brew. I pretty much got into jazz just like you. Here's some stuff I got into starting from Bitches Brew (and later finds that fit into that). First of all, the early fusion albums from Bitches Brew -alumni are well worth checking out. Joe Zawinul - Zawinul Joe Zawinul was a big part of Bitches Brew sounding like it does (and a big reason imho why it's so different from the live recordings of the era) and Zawinul recorded pretty shortly after Bitches Brew has a lot of the same spirit. Weather Report - S/T Weather Report is better known for the latter Pastorius-era stuff, but I think the late 70's fusion-sound has not aged as well as earlier stuff. The first Weather Report album still has that dense murkiness of Bitches Brew and I definitely recommend checking it out even if you have heard some of the better known later WR stuff and ruled them out. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame Mahavishnu Orchestra was the most rocking of the popular fusion bands and Inner Mounting Flame might as well be labeled an instrumental rock album. Definitely one to check out if you like 70's rock and prog. Herbie Hancock - Sextant Herbie did three albums (Mwandishi, Crossings and Sextant) that I think took the Bitches Brew concept forward and deeper before the catchier Headhunters-funk broke the bank and brought Herbie back to more commercial grounds. All three are pretty good and similar in style, Sextant is just a personal favorite of the three. Return to Forever - Light as a Feather I prefer the first guitar-less incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever and Light as a Feather is my pick of the two albums they made. Might be too light listening, though, if avant-garde ends up being your thing. And some others: Pharoah Sanders - Karma Pharoah Sanders ended up being the 60-70's era sax guy apart from Coltrane that I always wanted to find since I got more interested in wilder sax playing through Zorn. Karma is a good starting point, but all of his Impulse! albums are excellent. John Coltrane - Crescent A Love Supreme is probably my single absolute favorite jazz album, but since that was already mentioned and you're digging it, Crescent is another good one from the era. As a side note, I've always found it kind of interesting that I like Coltrane's later albums from before Pharoah Sanders joined his band _and_ Pharoah Sanders' later solo albums better than the Coltrane albums that feature Sanders. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come From 1959, Ornette's Shape of Jazz to Come is a little earlier, but definitely a good starting point for getting into the avant-garde and free jazz of the 60's. Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity Spiritual Unity is the big classic Ayler album and Ayler is definitely a guy to check out. If it seems too dense for you, I myself got into Ayler through the more accessible Love Cry, so no shame in trying that. Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju Shepp's another interesting late 60's/early 70's character worth exploring. Clifford Jordan Quartet - Glass Bead Games A personal favorite in the "A Love Supreme" vein from the early 70's. If you do end up digging jazz of this era, there are lot of great albums from the 70's that are long out of print on indie labels that were run by the artists. Strata-East is one of the more legendary ones and IMHO Glass Bead Games is one of the greatest Strata-East releases.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Does anyone have recommendations for a Keith Jarrett album that's worth checking out? He's got so many albums I'm not sure where to go next. I've only really listened to "Survivor's Suite". For some other sides of Jarrett, The Köln Concert (solo piano improvisation) is a must if only for the historical significance and something from the standards-trio (with Gary Peacock on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums), for example the latest Jarrett-release Somewhere released in May.
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Jul 11, 2013 14:52
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DirtyDirt posted:I am interested in what I guess you would call 70s soul or funk jazz, particularly Donald Byrd and some of the CTI records, like Milt Jackson's Sunflower, Idris Muhammed's Power of Soul (a personal favorite), Street Lady, the Crusaders, and I am just getting into Hubert Laws. Any recommendations in that genre? The funkier or groovier the better. Sounds like you have some good starting points, but just throwing a couple out there... Donald Byrd - Black Byrd - I'm sure you have this one covered already, but it's a must for anyone else looking to get into 70's soul jazz. A big hit at it's time in 1973, it became Blue Notes best selling album of all time. Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay - It's a CTI release and probably one of the more popular ones, so maybe you're familiar with this one as well, but another core 70's classic I think everyone should check out, especially the title track. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss - Kirk's tribute to black popular music with versions of soul hits like Ain't No Sunshine, What's Going On and My Girl with some originals is some groovy stuff. The most groove oriented album Kirk ever did, but not a run of the mill jazz-versions-of-hit-songs album by any means. Yusef Lateef - Yusef Lateef's Detroit: Latitude 42º 30' Longitude 83º - Yusef Lateef doesn't get mentioned that much in soul jazz contexts, but I've always liked this soulful tribute to Detroit. Roy Ayers - Ubiquity - Vibraphonist Ayers started as more of a hard bop man, but went deep into funk/r&b in the 70's. Other Ayers albums of the same era are also highly recommended.
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Jul 13, 2013 22:05
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Devoyniche posted:Is there really anything else like Donald Byrd's "A New Perspective" album? I am in love with the jazz+choir combo going on there and have probably listened to the album like a million times. Here are a few off the beaten path European choral jazz albums to check out. Getting a copy might be difficult, but they're on Spotify: Heikki Sarmanto - New Hope Jazz Mass (1978) http://open.spotify.com/album/23A5xH19Ha6JlSbnoSVCZy Commissioned from Finnish composer/pianist Heikki Sarmanto for the opening of Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in New York. Features Heikki Sarmanto Ensemble with some of the top guys from Finland at the time with vocals from soprano Maija Hapuoja, Gregg Smith Vocal Quartet and Long Island Symphonic Choral Association. Novi Singers - Torpedo (1970) http://open.spotify.com/album/2xSvywyOvb0Kabgq9f9paP A polish vocal group founded in 1964. Here backed by some of the hipper polish musicians of the time.
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Devoyniche posted:Is there really anything else like Donald Byrd's "A New Perspective" album? I am in love with the jazz+choir combo going on there and have probably listened to the album like a million times. Here's another one on this topic: Max Roach - It's Time - Max Roach's sextet with a choir. I especially like the big drum sound Roach has here. It's on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7aLORVJgrIJypmIDCiYfyw Title track on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFUgEbaz64A
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farmtrill posted:crossposting this from the recommendations thread. i'm on the verge of joining a jazz forum to have this filled but i'm lazy and i have faith in you SA: i want stuff that sounds like ahmad jamal's outertimeinnerspace. the songs have an almost psychedelic quality that is missing from most of the jazz i know, but really i dont know anything 70s jazz and beyond. Here are a couple of nice early 70's pianist-driven albums that hopefully hit the same notes: McCoy Tyner: Extensions McCoy Tyner: Sahara Joe Bonner: Angel Eyes Stanley Cowell Trio: Illusion Suite And you probably know this, but Ahmad Jamal's Freeflight has the rest of the same concert Outertimeinnerspace was recorded at. Impulse! put out a lot of great stuff in the early 70's so you can find a lot of nice stuff from that period just poking around their discography.
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Space Hamlet posted:This is my new favorite thing, anyone know anything else along these lines? The electronics are appreciated but not mandatory. Reminded me of Finnish jazz drummer Olavi Louhivuori's Existence -solo project where he mixes acoustic percussion with fairly minimalist electronic music. Whole album is on Spotify or check this live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t4lxHuxCc
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