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Given that you have started leading me toward being a jazz music lover, you are @LinearLineman 👍
It's really creative and intense. I wish there were more recordings of Cosey. I've looked but found very little.
Bill Shatner?
A few obscure ones, on the off chance that you missed them:
https://melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/phree-dem-downloads
https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/the-rites-butch-morris-conductions-inspired-by-stravinskys-le-sacre-du-printemps
https://akirasakata.bandcamp.com/album/fishermans-com
My short list:
Sun Ra
Joao Gilberto
Stan Getz
Thelonius Monk
Chet Baker
Sonny Rollins
Madlib (yes Madlib)
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Django Reinhardt
Recently listened to Colosseum II - some pretty out there fusion stuff that’s still accessible (I think).
Finally, someone says 'Chet Baker'!
Throw Art Pepper in along with him.
@MadeofWax, that really makes me feel good… to know I opened the Jazz door for someone. In fact, it so inspired me that I outdid myself tonight on the next track to be posted. Keep an ear out and thanks!
So glad to read that many of you like jazz and musicians I’ve listened to daily and constantly throughout the years. Here is my contribution:
Clifford Brown
Nicholas Payton
Roy Hargrove
Ambrose Akinmusire
Freddie Hubbard
Lee Morgan
Kenny Wheeler
Woody Shaw
Clark Terry
Avishai Cohen
Wallace Roney
Enrico Rava
Kenny Garrett
Sonny Stitt
Charlie Parker
Sonny Rollins
Lee Konitz
Wayne Shorter
Joe Henderson
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Sullivan Fortner
Thelonious Monk
Herbie Hancock
Robert Glasper
Nate Smith
Roy Haynes
Tony Williams
Buddy Rich
Max Roach
Christian Mc Bride
Jaco Pastorius
Victor Bailey
Victor Wooten
Ella Fitzgerald
Blossom Dearie
Cecile Mc Lorin Salvant
Joe Williams
Kurt Elling
Louis Armstrong
I could go on and on….
I haven't heard these, at least that I can remember before I go listen. I'll go listen today. Thanks!
Bird, Miles, Trane. Everything else builds on that.
It surprises me that no one mentioned this amazing sax player. Kamasi Washington
Gogo Penguin is another band worth mentioning. They mix different styles with jazz
And last but not least from Iceland ADHD. Another band that I have been listening to a lot
And there is this label called Ninja Tune that has helped me discover new bands. Amon Tobin, Bonobo, The Cinematic Orchestra, Jaga Jazzist, Modeselektor. Here one song from The Cinematic Orchestra
You have to add Armstrong, IMO. He was there before everyone.
Jeff Lorber
Chick Corea
Duke Ellington
Current:
Veronica Swift
Emmet Cohen
Sun Ra
Don Cherry
Alice Coltrane (astonished that no one has mentioned her yet! Apologies if someone has and I missed it)
Alan Silva
Milford Graves
Idris Ackamoor
Lloyd Mcneill
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Larry Young
Eddie Gale
Art Ensemble of Chicago (again, mind blown that no one has mentioned AEC yet). Check them out!
Sunny Murray
Steve Lacy
Chris Corsano
Archie Shepp
Oliver Lake
Mingus (obvs)
Trane (obvs)
Miles (obvs)
Ornette Coleman!
Jacques Coursil Unit
Max Roach
Peter Brotzmann
etc....
Wayne Shorter
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Marshall Allen
Stuff Smith
Lester Young
Alice Coltrane
Finally starting to get into Clifford Brown of late
We are three pages in and I don't think anyone has mentioned Dizzy Gillespie yet. But, yeah she's pretty wonderful. I really love her track on the Charlie Haden album "Closeness" Duets where she plays harp.
My favorite Alice Coltrane record is the posthumous “Ecstatic music” album. The synth portamentos are outrageous. I caught her public access tv show on the air a few times back in the 80s. At the time I thought she had gone bonkers, but now I wish I had joined her ashram:
Yeah, I would probably put Armstrong and Parker in separate category, as earlier seminal figures. For the "big four" of modern jazz (late 1950's on) I would have Miles, Monk, Coltrane, and Mingus.
But I would also say that this thread has lost some of its helpfulness for someone wanting direction in starting to learn about jazz. The lists have become too long. Yes, mostly all excellent jazz players are being listed. But so many, and so different, that it's hard for someone new to sort things out.
These long lists can be unhelpful in kind of in the same way that an ABF thread is unhelpful when someone asks for the "best" virtual analog synth, and the thread ends up with people making suggestions, eventually ending up with almost every VA synth getting a mention.
One resource for learning about jazz that's actually really helpful is the "Discover" jazz genre section at allmusic.com. You can surf in there for hours. Read biographies, album reviews, click on 'Related' tab to discern connections between artists/albums, get a decent feel for which are considered the important albums and artists, and easily click to listen to the music: https://www.allmusic.com/genre/jazz-ma0000002674
Anyone mentioned Domi and JD Beck yet?
Brad Mehldau
Fred Hersch
Shai Maestro
I’ll just list a few of my fave jazz records that might not hit the headlines too often but are, IMO, among the best out there:
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro, Big Fun, Black Beauty
Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner, Mwandishi
Coltrane - Complete Live at Village Vanguard 1961, Crescent, First Meditations
Woody Shaw - Blackstone Legacy
Larry Young - Unity (this is an acknowledged classic but don’t think it’s been mentioned yet. It’s the one jazz album that I’d be suspicious of a self-professed jazz-lover not owning!)
Ornette Coleman - This is our music
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land, the Last Session
Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
Keith Jarrett - El Juicio, Expectations, The Melody at Night with You
Pat Metheny Group - Travels
Joe Henderson - Mode for Joe, Double Rainbow
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Grant Green - Street of Dreams
George Benson - Beyond the Blue Horizon
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Larry Coryell - Spaces
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
(Yeah it’s not all 60s&70s music!)
Mingus - Black Saint & Sinner Lady (also an obvious choice but too good to not mention)
Max Roach - Members don’t get weary
Alice Coltrane - Ptah the el dhaoud
Trio Beyond - Saudades (a tribute to the original Tony Williams Lifetime)
Chick Corea - Return to Forever
The Complete Atomic Basie
Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
Art Blakey - Buhaina’s delight
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Gary Burton - Ring
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen
Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi’s
Mathias Eick - Ravensburg
John Handy Quintet - New View
Wayne Shorter - Speak no evil (another classic but can’t leave it off and often forgotten about in lists of great jazz albums)
I could list many more but that’s already too many.
Miles Davis is the obvious one. Charles Mingus is up there. Coltrane. Monk. Vince Guaraldi Trio. Herbie Hancock. Bill Evans. Django. I’m sure I’m forgetting a ton.
Mingus is probably my favorite though. Followed closely by Miles Davis. I’ve realized over the last couple years just how much influence I’ve had from some of the more experimental jazz cats. A lot of my stuff verges on free jazz/avant-garde.
I’m more from Jazz / Rock / European leaning so…
John Mclaughlin - Extrapolation (absolutely) + Birds of Fire and all the original Shakti albums
John Surman (played on Extrapolation) + Westering Home and Citadel room 315
Al Di Meola, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke
Terje Rypdal (Morning Glory with John Surman)
Ralph Towner (Solstice)
Keith Jarrett (Koln)
Jan Garbarek (both these last two on Arbour Zena)
Kenny Wheeler (Gnu High)
Jean-Luc Ponty (Enigmatic Ocean) with…
Allan Holdsworth (Wardenclyffe Tower)
Nope. Bebop is where it got serious. Bebop through fusion. Mid 40s - mid 70s. Everything else, Dixieland, Swing, etc.. fun foundational, but less important.
No.
Wait... this just in @michael_m did.
I find their musical excursions to be engrossing. For anyone that hasn't seen their stuff yet:
Try telling trumpet players that Satchmo wasn’t important…