The Jazz Thread.

[shades of blue]

[wobbles]

Looking for some good ass jazz
I trust u guys before anyone else
Releases or artists idc
Thanks for halp

[RightOnTime27]

Except for the Miles Davis joint these are some of my favorite charts that I've been lucky enough to play.

[Soiree]

I have a special box of rare first editions, from Atlantic and Impulse.
I'm really into Alice Coltrane too, she is amazing.

[hayze99]

[hifi]

john coltranes cool

[3za]

Plus everything eles on Blue Note.

[wolf89]

[upstateface]

[big_lurch]

Yeah, Coltrane for sure. His 4cd box set "Live in Japan" is great. Also check out Albert Ayler, and The Necks.

[Motorway to Roswell]

sun ra, john coltrane, miles davis, thelonious monk, chet baker, pharoah sanders, mingus

the jazz thread - http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=103251

[wobbles]

good looks

[Hircine]

No Naked City?

[scspkr99]

I think there's some classic albums you shoud check out, like there's so many different elements it may help to nail down the sounds you prefer, tbh I'm kinda old and wooly so I think you shoud start with some of the classic Jazz albums

Miles Davis - Kind of blue is one of those timeless albums that makes everyones intro list to jazz, this isn't an accident it's wonderful if not particularly challenging.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme one of the best albums of all time period.

Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come, this is probably the most challenging on the list but less challenging that Free Jazz, it skirts and invents that Free Jazz sound but remains more coherent than his other stuff.

Charles Mingis - Mingus Ah Um, I love this but then I love Complete Town and Country which gets bashed. This is generally considered his greatest album.

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Coners, not only is this great cos it has Monk but it has Sonny Rollins who later goes on to record Saxophone Collosus which almost made this list in its own right. He's a don

So a brief and kinda safe intro to the bebop hard bop stuff of the 50's / 60's that I found recently enough and grew to love a lot. Like I had tried with Jazz previously and found it harder work to listen to, now it's fucking incredible stuff

[Electric_Head]

Miles Davis - Bitches brew sessions

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[leyenda]

@scspkr Isn't The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady usually considered Mingus' best? Trio on that along with Carla Bley's 'Overture' off EOtH are my favourite jazz tracks.

Anyone here into Spring Heel Jack? They started as jungle/DnB, then over time started to incorporate more and more jazz into their sound. Eventually they just dropped the jungle/DnB and made stuff like this:



I think Disappeared is still my fav album of theirs though which is the release with the most equal balance of both genres.

[scspkr99]

Yeah I think there's a debate as to whether Mingus Ah Um, which makes one of the Jazz forums top 10, and The Black Saint and Sinner Lady which gets referenced a lot as well. Personally I prefer Mingus Ah Um both they are both very good.

It's funny I tried listening to Jazz about 15 years ago in proper hipster style thinking it was cool rather than good and I just couldn't get into it, I've grown to love it as much as any other form of music, it's weird I guess because it was the urban (not strictly urban I guess but close enough) dance music of the day and I wonder how those debates would have gone had they been conducted on the internet.

I've only listened to Versions by Spring Heel Jack so I'll be checking that out when I get home, cheers

[leyenda]

Yeah I think there's a debate as to whether Mingus Ah Um, which makes one of the Jazz forums top 10, and The Black Saint and Sinner Lady which gets referenced a lot as well. Personally I prefer Mingus Ah Um both they are both very good.

It's funny I tried listening to Jazz about 15 years ago in proper hipster style thinking it was cool rather than good and I just couldn't get into it, I've grown to love it as much as any other form of music, it's weird I guess because it was the urban (not strictly urban I guess but close enough) dance music of the day and I wonder how those debates would have gone had they been conducted on the internet.

I've only listened to Versions by Spring Heel Jack so I'll be checking that out when I get home, cheers

This is my fav of theirs and my fav DnB track. Madness that they're so underrated.

[scspkr99]

Sonny Clark seems less well known that some of the other names mentioned but Sonny's Crib is one hell of a record. Like it's got John Coltrane and Donald Byrd on it, it properly swings, it's a top record and at the more accessible end of the spectrum



Ornette Coleman shows where he's going with the The Shape of Jazz to Come, . I posted this in the tune of the day thread a while back it's a wonderful tune



Dolphy's Out to lunch i. This is a 12 minute tune written around his saxophone, check it at about 9m it just becomes this minimal experimental jam before kicking back in. It's a glorious tune



I feel about Jazz the way I feel about stuff I've been listening to for the last 20 years and I imagine it becoming something to get really interested in.

[dickman69]

Anyone get this new Ahmad Jamal album? Blue Moon



dudes 81 years old, still plays like the greatest ever

probably my favorite jazz artist of all time, doesn't hurt that he's from the Burgh