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AnimeIsTrash posted:What are your favorite jazz albums? Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kQYj5i1cwes4L8KXklwy4glkBtW0C-t14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsx4kCnwAc This is the jazz album that I find myself listening to front-to-back most often. This is also one of a series of albums where Peterson plays songs from composers in the Great American Songbook, all with the same style of paintings as the cover. There's another, similar series of Peterson albums that cover the same or similar composers, all with a cover of the silhouette of a man playing a piano, but the sound quality in modern platforms is much lower. Also a big fan of Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder, but I find that one harder to have playing in the background while I'm working on something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHN6-yWFKPc
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Norah Jones put up a video last month of her playing with Brian Blade, just guitar and drums. Norah's on drums, though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6IBeJMtpzY
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drat. RIP. Shorter's Wikipedia page is wild. He did so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvJFW0DHbU
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Intense and chaotic as descriptors makes me think of "free jazz" or "avant garde jazz". A lot of musicians fit into these categories, including Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, among others. I don't think "hard jazz" is a recognized subgenre. There's "hard bop", but that isn't very chaotic in comparison. Clifford Brown was active at the beginning of hard bop (died in a car accident at 25). Many popular jazz musicians were associated with hard bop from the mid 50s through the mid 60s.
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Jazz is great/awful: Emily Remler is a jazz guitarist I just recently discovered. Died at 32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjjkywlSMXU
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Jazz Marimba posted:anyone got recs for jazz by women instrumentalists that aren’t the four everyone names? (alice coltrane, dorothy ashby, mary lou williams, lil hardin armstrong) Joanne Brackeen? Played with Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Stan Getz, and others, but also put out a fair amount of her own stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dGknsJ0G_8
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I struggle to think of a record that came out before 1950 that actually sounds decent now. However, for a record by someone that was in their prime before 1950, I would pick Ellington and go with The Duke Plays Ellington or Ellington at Newport (both "mild", I would guess). Also... what are we doing with calling "Blue Rondo à la Turk" the stand out track off Time Out? That could be the track you like the best or think sounds the most interesting, but "Take Five" is the one that stands out. In addition to being popular, it was the only track Brubeck didn't write.
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Two other (nominally?) tenors: Wayne Shorter passed away last year after an extremely long and broad career. I don't think he played much that would quicken your pulse as much as Pharoah Sanders could, but it would take a long time to listen to all of his stuff. He played on a ton of recordings over 60+ years: more than 20 releases as a band leader, on the albums for other greats, in jazz fusion group Weather Report, and also just as a session musician in a range of mainstream stuff. He played the minute long saxophone feature on Steely Dan's "Aja". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9CiB1Tu24 Rahsaan Roland Kirk moved past just challenging conventions into being, frankly, unbelievable. The convention he was most famous for challenging was the idea of playing saxophones (or flutes, or recorders, or whatever) one at a time. I have no idea how you would describe him musically. Frank Zappa cited Kirk as an influence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYDec_2B1o
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