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Good Jazz Recordings
Tam
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After listening to what NPR and the local Jazz station have to offer over radio, I realized that my entire Jazz library sucks pipe.
So where can I find the good recordings of the earliest stuff up to John Coltrane? I realize few, if any will be the original artists, but I'll take anything better than the tinny stuff I've got now.
So where can I find the good recordings of the earliest stuff up to John Coltrane? I realize few, if any will be the original artists, but I'll take anything better than the tinny stuff I've got now.
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Man, you don't have to tell me who Thelonious Monk is. I'll check out the album.
I went to the half price book store today and they had Jazz at Massey Hall.
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach, and Bud Powell all in one place. I'm listening to it now and it's awesome.
e: Oski- will check it out.
Enjoy!
"No.. I was wrong. This must be what going mad feels like."
Miles Davis.
Go out and buy bitches brew
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I really don't enjoy 'Bitches Brew' that much.
If you want 70's Miles Davis, get 'A Tribute to Jack Johnson' or 'Get Up With It'.
Also, I went and listened to the Jim Cullum jazz band here in San Antonio. Hot damn.
'Money Jungle' especially because Mingus is on that one and its the most contemporary sounding of Ellington's stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNAxjeaT0Kk
Yeah, this is basically indisputable.
You must listen to them.
Once that's done, look into Pharaoh Sanders, Gary Burton, and Freddie Hubbard.
On the Corner is probably my favorite album from that era.
Big Fun is really good too.
Although I don't think that's what you're looking for.
Root Down and Stay Loose are great but I reccomend anything else by him as well.
Been into a guy named Baby Face Willette big time recently.
Sonny Rollins and Way out West I think is the title of one of his awesome albums.
Richard Groove Holmes
Kenny Dorham
and the crazy way out Sun Ra are all excellent.
YES money jungle. Amazing album. Three amazing musicians all with a distinct style. You can hear the tensions in the album, especially in some of the give and take between mingus and ellington.
Mingus's complete atlanta recordings is good.
if you dont have kind of blue, buy it, buy it now.
Chic Corea, light as a feather is good, but hes defiantly heavy on the synth stuff, which may be a turnoff.
Check out some Art Ensemble of Chicago and Don Cherry as well.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is very close to being my favorite album of all time. So many good tracks on that album.. a local Calgary DJ spun it remixed with some other jazz-influenced hip hop and tribal beats one time and I mentally ejaculated in my pants.
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Its awesome.
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue/Birth of the Cool
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Those are some classic albums. If you want more current stuff try these:
Hiromi: Another Mind (She's a crazy piano player, you'll love her if you liked Monk)
Yoko Kanno: Cowboy Bebop OST (Some FANTASTIC acid jazz on this one, great anime too)