Jazz Thread
 

Big Band Avant-Garde Free Cool Be-Bop Scat Ragtime Hard Bop Vocalist Acid Traditional Dixieland Fusion.

Discuss your favorite artists, albums and record labels on this here jazz thread.

Thelonoious fucking Monk bitches.

I'm doing foldback for Herbie Hancock next week when he is in town to play with my states symphony orchestra, im excited as a mother fucker

hankcock is my all time jazz fav, followed closely by dolphy and blakey

unfortunatley it's the largest photo i could find of Sam, and i only found 3 total


and of course..........

Dr Funk

Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Later period Miles Davis, Later period Coltrane, Eddie Gale, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Brotzmann, Kaoru Abe, Masayoshi Urabe, Otomo Yoshihide, Roland Kirk. Plus other things. Sorry, it's late. Too tired for detailed analysis right now.

My fave jazz albums are Ascension (best free composition ever), The black saint and the sinner lady, Free jazz and Les stances à Sophie (best jazz-soul tune ever with Thème de yo-yo).
Not very original but I'm really into 60s' jazz.

I love Roland. Entirely absurd, entirely brilliant.

I saw a great jazz band last night, and as per usual, entirely neglected to get their name. Bunch of old guys, great guitarist, everyone being polite with their solos and a home-made bass... nice.

The first jazz album I fell in love with was one by Alice Coltrane. I don't know the title of it now and I think it was kind of a compilation, if this can be possible. I fell in love with it while listening to it at the library. Another amorous jazz experience in the library dealed with Sun Ra's Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy, especially the song "Moon Dance". This one is kind of an alltime favorite song of me.

Another favorite jazz album for a few years of mine was Dizzy Gillespie - live at Manteca (or something). Haven't listened to that one a long time. And another Dizzy Gillespie album comes to mind (I think it has something to do with soundtracks)

Charlie Mingus - Blues and Roots

and a few others. But all in all I'm not that much of a jazz aficionado.

Sun Ra and Coltrane have changed my life.

It will be even more so when I see Sun Ra Arkestra in a week.

If you don't already have it, then you'd love this:




page at Impulse!
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/produ...=list&pid=9513

Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is still one of my fave albums of all time.

 

The best of John Coltrane:

1 My Favorite Things (Atlantic, 1960)
2 Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960)
3 Africa/Brass (Impulse!, 1961)
4 Coltrane (Impulse! 1962)
5 Lush Life (Prestige, 1960)
6 A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964)
7 Crescent/Impressions (Impulse!, 1964 & 1965)
8 Coltrane (aka First Trane) (Prestige, 1957)
9 Live at Birdland (Impulse!, 1963)
10 Blue Train/Soultrane (Prestige, 1957 & 1958)


Honorable mention:
(not specifically a Coltrane album, but The Avant-Garde was recorded by
Coltane, Cherry, Charlie Haden, Percy Heath and Ed Blackwell in 1960, and finally released by Atlantic in 1966.)


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The best of the later 'Trane:
(some of these were recorded years before being released)

1 Living Space (Impulse!, 1967)
2 Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse!, 1967)
3 Ascension (Impulse!, 1965)
4 Live in Japan (Impulse!, 1966)
5 Om (Impulse!, 1965)
6 Meditations (Impulse!, 1965)
7 New Thing at Newport (Impulse!, 1965)
8 Live in Seattle (Impulse!, 1965)
9 Sun Ship (Impulse!, 1971)
10 Interstellar Space/Stellar Regions (Impulse!, 1974)

Honestly I'm suprised there wasn't a regular thread about jazz...

Far as Coltrane goes,I fancy his output on Impulse (what Atari has as the later Coltrane) my favorites are probably Cosmic Music EP, Interstellar Space, A Love Supreme, Africa Brass, Giant Steps.

Mingus is one of my favorite artists. Too bad his releases weren't as prolific as they could have been.....

Thanks, I'll try to check it out.
I have to hear this one-hour version of "My favorite things".

I like smaller jazz groups myself. The big orchestral groups can be cool, but I like a simple piano, bass, drums set up, and then a good sax or trumpet or something. Like some Thelonius Monk/Art Blakey type stuff.

top 20 (w/ no artist "repeats")

1 My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
2 Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
3 Live At The Plugged Nickel - Miles Davis
4 The Best of the Pablo Solo Masterpieces - Art Tatum
5 The Scene Changes - Bud Powell
6 We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach
7 The Black Saint & Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
8 A Descent into the Maelstrom - Lennie Tristano
9 Empyrean Isles - Herbie Hancock
10 The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner
11 Monk's Music - Thelonius Monk
12 Spiritual Unity - Albert Ayler
13 Atlantis - Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra
14 Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
15 Release Record, Send Tape - Warne Marsh
16 The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
17 The Avant-Garde - Don Cherry & John Coltrane
18 Hub-Tones - Freddie Hubbard
19 Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor
20 Art of the Trio, Vol. 3 - Brad Mehldau

where's derek bailey?