Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:09 pm Posts: 10839 Location: metro west, mass Gender: Male
A friend of mine introduced me to Jazz. I've always looked at jazz as a quality genre of music with so much beneath the surface. Complicated song structures or complete improvising.
The record he played me was Miles Davis' "Live Evil". This is actually a genre called "jazz fusion", which just means it adds elements of rock to it.
For the past couple weeks, I did some reseach online for the best jazz albums. I started by downloading the two best selling jazz albums of all-time:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
I liked both albums, but they were a little quiet for me. The first thing I noticed about Time Out was the 9/10 time signature and melodies I recognized immediately.
This is what I have so far:
Miles Davis
-Kind of Blue
-Bitches Brew (fusion)
-Live at the Filmore (fusion)
-Live Evil (fusion) <-awesome!
-Jazz at the Plaza (cool jazz)
Dave Brubeck Quartet
-Time Out
John Coltrane
-A Love Supreme (cool jazz) <-my fav studio record
Thelonious Monk
-Brilliant Corners
Can anyone reccomend me jazz, cool jazz, jazz fusion, or other jazz-related albums or artists?
Thanks in advance.
Btw, this is the best music to listen to while at work or while surfing the net.
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I'm not very good at labelling music, but have you tried gypsy jazz (Django Reinhardt, Bireli Lagrene, Rosenberg Trio...) or things like Medeski, Martin & Wood (acid jazz maybe) ?
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:48 pm Posts: 863 Gender: Male
Definitely check out Coltrane's Blue Train. It's my favorite jazz album of all time.
Some other recommendations:
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
John Scofield - Up All Night
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
I could recommend a ton more albums too, depending on what you like. If you're into fusion check out Herbie Hancock (Thrust and Headhunters), John Scofield, and Scott Kinsey.
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Naked City's Torture Garden is a pretty great out there jazz album. Pretty much hyper-jazz from the year 9000.
But Zappa's Hot Rats is a great fusion album.
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Check out Herbie Hancock's Thrust, Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire, and more recently Chris Potter's Underground for some classic fusion type stuff.
For other jazz a few of my absolute favorites are Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard and Jackie McLean. Check out Charles Mingus' Town Hall Concert album (the one from '64 with two tracks). Not only will it allow you to hear Mingus, Byard, and Dolphy all in one album but the song Meditations on Integration (labeled praying with eric on the sleeve for some unknown reason) is i think the single greatest song jazz has ever produced, a sweeping masterpiece of uncanny proportions.
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BlueNote wrote:
Echoes wrote:
But Zappa's Hot Rats is a great fusion album.
Check out Herbie Hancock's Thrust, Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire, and more recently Chris Potter's Underground for some classic fusion type stuff.
For other jazz a few of my absolute favorites are Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard and Jackie McLean. Check out Charles Mingus' Town Hall Concert album (the one from '64 with two tracks). Not only will it allow you to hear Mingus, Byard, and Dolphy all in one album but the song Meditations on Integration (labeled praying with eric on the sleeve for some unknown reason) is i think the single greatest song jazz has ever produced, a sweeping masterpiece of uncanny proportions.
Good recs, bluenote... that Mahavishnu Orchestra album is top notch
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:15 pm Posts: 25452 Location: Under my wing like Sanford & Son Gender: Male
Try Miles Davis' "In A Silent Way" for some more fusion and Bill Evan's "Sunday at the Villae Vanguard" for some cool jazz. I also reccomend "Mingus Ah Um," phenomenal album.
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Joined: Mon May 30, 2005 4:47 pm Posts: 3677 Location: Newfoundland Gender: Male
If you're starting to listen to Miles, pick up "Miles Smiles". That's one of my favourites of his.
Generally, I'd suggest you start off with the classic cool Jazz artists and go from there: Davis, Coltrane, Parker, Gillespie, Mingus, Monk etc.
Since I just mentioned Coltrane and Monk, I suggested the Coltrane/Monk "At Carnegie Hall" album in the other Jazz thread awhile back. I can't reccommend that one highly enough.
Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 2:06 pm Posts: 2539 Location: France
If you liked Coltrane, get some :
Sonny Rollins albums (Now's the time and Our man in jazz for example). Wonderful sax sound, less experimental than Coltrane but really cool to listen to while driving in a city at night (really "jazzy" atmosphere)
I also recommend you to lend an ear on Charles Mingus "tijuana Moods" which is a great album with spanish influences all over it.
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