Jazz Classics
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- dMullins
I have found liking Jazz more and more these days, and I am looking for recommendations for seminal albums/songs from yesteryear, and even modern day stuff.
Here's some stuff I am listening to currently that I'd like to find more music that is similar to: Curtis Mayfield (Short Eyes), John Coltrane (Blue Train) , John Coltrane (First Meditations), John Coltrane (Stardust), Poets of Rhythm (What Goes Round), Sun Ra (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra), Thelonius Monk (Thelonius Himself), Miles Davis (Bitches Brew).
Thanks, appreciate it.
- lukus_W0
I like Charlie Mingus: I've got the birdland broadcasts and pithecanthropus erectus - both are good.
- mikotondria30
I saw the doc on Miles the other day, featuring him at the Isle Of Wight festival in '70, picqued my interest in the Bitches Brew - it really caught me off-guard and I've been trying to slowly digest pieces of it since...it often appears to be progressing sideways until it becomes aware of you listening to it, then scrurries off.
Be interested too in any real responses you get to this..
- comicsans0
KInd of Blue - Miles Davis
Koln Concert - Keith JarretDuke Ellington
- +1 on KolnBaskerviIle
- +1000000000 for Kind of Bluevisual_infection
- monoboy0
Love this one...
- creez0
cool jazz:chet baker
jazz rock:miles davis-in a silent way
drummer: art blakey and the jazz messengers
- dMullins0
Thanks for all the recommendations so far, my internet is chugging along now, lol.
- Bluejam0
plus check out these blogs
http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com…
http://blackclassical.wordpress.…
- desmo0
listen to anything by grant green or wes montgomery. great jazz guitar
- harlequino0
Old school hard bop:
Studied with Jackie for a while. Great player, and he was a real advocate for bringing together jazz and classical musicians to learn from one another. We had a long conversation about Stravinsky once in his office. Was sad when he died a couple years ago.
Some new school:
Went to college with Jimmy. Helluva horn player and the nicest guy on the planet.
- BaskerviIle0
I was going to write all the albums here but, I've just put a whole bunch onto a collaborative Spotify playlist, so far it's just some really famous 'must own' albums that I love, but feel free everyone to add to it:
http://open.spotify.com/user/jos…
so far:
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, Miles Smiles, In a silent way
Coltrane: Giant Steps, A love supreme
Thelonius Monk quartet with john coltrane at carnegie hall
Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Chick Corea: Now he sings, now he sobs
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out
Herbie Hancock: Cantaloupe Island, and headhunters stuff but it's not on spotify
Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life
Keith Jarrett: Köln Concert
McCoy Tyner: The real McCoy
Thelonius Monk: Rhythm-A-Ning, Monk's Dream
Wayne Shorter: Speak No EvilThat list is limited by spotify's catalogue, I've kept it pretty old school for now, since a lot of those guys are required listening, but literally 100s more guys I'd recommend, lots of older guys (parker, gillespie, mingus) and even more newer guys.
just everyone keep adding, I feel like some new jazz to listen to
- Thanks, this is what I was really looking for -- a sort of definitive best-of.dMullins
- non0
- Don't be fooled by Alice Coltrane cheesy cover. Its a masterpiece. If you ever listened to cinematic orchestra.non
- You realize where they come from after listening to this.non
- Been listening to a lot of Alice lately.harlequino
- Amazing artist. The songs are so rich in musical colour and texture.non
- Cheesy!? That album cover is awesome, lol.dMullins
- Awesome if your a hipster.
;)non - +1000 on african brasseffort
- +1000 for Alice Coltrane.CyBrainX
- non0
- non0
- Yeeeahhhh, great stuff.harlequino
- Used to see Braxton play at Weslyan all the time.harlequino
- harlequino0
Strictly speaking, not a 'classic' album. But it's my favorite album of all time hands down and it's a bit o' genius.
"Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Migus" is reinterpretations of Charles Mingus' music by a number of musicians. They utilize instruments built by Harry Partch (an American composer who rejected 12 tone diatonic systems and created his own micro tonal systems). Absolutely stunning and epic. Also features cameos by Elvis Costello, Chuck D, Henry Rollins, Dr. John, and more.- THAT was an amazing album I once had... miss it...vaxorcist
- JayCee0
Prepare yourself Jazz is not only music but a lifestyle. next thing you know your hooked on scotch and cigars.
- An authentic lifestyle would include getting hooked on junk.harlequino
- in my experience getting your junk hooked on anything is rather painful7point34
- Yeah, in the 1950s especially, heroin was the drug of choice.CyBrainX
- and all your clothes itch and smell like cigars and stale alchol and cigarettesvaxorcist
- or at least some of the old jazz musicians I met in the 80's in Chicago smelled like that....vaxorcist
- lukus_W0
live jazz is maybe my favourite type of live music - I used to listen/watch pretty regularly, but haven't for a couple of years... (jazz clubs without smoking seems pretty wrong)