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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:37 am
by deepfiend
Firky wrote:
I see your Sketches and raise you one better Miles album

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:48 am
by magma
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:48 pm
by Coppola
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:49 pm
by vivace
Sold my soul and siblings to jazz.
Thanks for the cool links!! Always hunting the planet for new jazzy jazzness..
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:59 pm
by uncle bill
I'd strongly recommend 'The House That Trane Built' to anyone interested in modern jazz.
It's a 4CD compilation of tracks from Impulse Records' back catalogue featuring John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders, Keith Jarrett, Archie Shepp etc. Awesome booklet and cover photos too.
For the beginner...go and listen to some Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. All mindblowingly awesome.
Nice to see a recommendation for Polar Bear on this thread. 'Held On The Tips Of Fingers' is an incredible album.
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:08 pm
by vivace
This floats my boat:

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:12 pm
by magnetron_sputtering
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:46 pm
by bandshell
I like mellow stuff but I like lively stuff too, can't beat a bit of lively Thelonious Monk. Oh and Django is just breathtaking, that guy had talent!
Nice one on the suggestions, Obviously I know Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus etc but some of the others I haven't so big up!
I thought I should start a thread with some sort of depth for once.

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:49 pm
by adikt
Magma wrote:John Coltrane, My Favourite Things
this was one of the first jazz songs i ever played on my alto saxophone back in 9trh grade. We played the original music for the one you prolly have at home(its like 10-15 minutes, right?) ...fucking madness for a 14 year old to be doing. After that i was pretty obsessed with syncopation.
which led to my deep love for avant & improvised jazz. a list of my favorites:
Kaoru Abe (heroin addict free jazz from 60s/70s Japan!!! my personal idol)
Billie Holiday (my <3)
Johnny Gilmour (sax player for Arkestra/gave lessons to John Coltrane)
Sun Ra & his Arkestra (anyone who ever played with Ra!)
Rashaan Roland Kirk (omfg)
Ella Fitzgerald (my other <3)
Muddy Waters (for me, this is what the word Grimey means)
also a list of newer jazz bands that i love:
Tortoise
Yako Kanno (did the Cowboy Beebop Soundtrack)
Flat Earth Society (!)
Medeski Martin & Wood (i dig their early stuff only)
MADLIB!!!!!!
also see: Quasimoto - Jazz Cats lyrics
"there's plenty more that i could name but ya'll wont put em to use"

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:49 pm
by ahier
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:51 pm
by unlikely
Ornette Coleman gets overlooked a lot in these discussions and is badman
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:02 pm
by deepfiend
unlikely wrote:Ornette Coleman gets overlooked a lot in these discussions and is badman
Thats because most people equate his music to incomprehensable honking and farting
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:05 pm
by adikt
unlikely wrote:Ornette Coleman gets overlooked a lot in these discussions and is badman
fucking indeed. some of the original badmen can be found in this thread, i think

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:05 pm
by unlikely

I was actually being tired and stupid and was thinking of Art Tatum

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:07 pm
by defekt
Ahier wrote:
I have this! I never would have thought it would be posted on this forum lol.
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:14 pm
by Pi-Krust
Miles Davis "In a Silent way" - If you don't like this album then you have no soul IMO
Alice Coltrane "World Galaxy"[especially for the acidic organ cover of her hubby's "A Love Supreme"
Archie Shepp "Attica Blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRVfNRVoHaE
Brother Ahh "Sound Awareness"

[truly tripped out cosmic space jazz]
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:16 pm
by adikt
Adikt wrote:
Kaoru Abe (heroin addict free jazz from 60s/70s Japan!!! my personal idol)
intro to madness via alto saxophone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvVKhcy ... re=related
may not be what many of you are into...but trust me when i say that it is not merely squeaks & shit. Abstract Harmonics are the most difficult thing you can master on a saxophone, or pretty much any instrument for that matter. John Coltrane took lessons from Gilmour very late in his career to learn these techniques...and this guy Kaoru Abe was as good as either of them with no lessons at all. This guy is fucking insane. Like if Japanese Noise had their own Kobain, lol. He even overdosed when he was 28. He would have changed the way jazz was heard had he lived, imo.
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:25 pm
by hurlingdervish
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:27 pm
by Pi-Krust
Adikt wrote:Adikt wrote:
Kaoru Abe (heroin addict free jazz from 60s/70s Japan!!! my personal idol)
intro to madness via alto saxophone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvVKhcy ... re=related
may not be what many of you are into...but trust me when i say that it is not merely squeaks & shit. Abstract Harmonics are the most difficult thing you can master on a saxophone, or pretty much any instrument for that matter. John Coltrane took lessons from Gilmour very late in his career to learn these techniques...and this guy Kaoru Abe was as good as either of them with no lessons at all. This guy is fucking insane. Like if Japanese Noise had their own Kobain, lol. He even overdosed when he was 28. He would have changed the way jazz was heard had he lived, imo.
Cheers for posting this it's fantastic.
Don't suppose you've seen the "My name is Albert Ayler" doc?,the footage of him playing at J Coltrane's funeral is one of the most amazing pieces of live footage i've ever seen.[Here's some audio from it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO9UCV5APPA]
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:29 pm
by hurlingdervish
another MMW trip hop song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twAeppZO ... re=related
they got bass and dub lines for days