Human Bass loved Michel Camilo's Latin jazz trio:

Saturday and sunday mornings = Dave Brubeck time.

This weekend try Michel Camilo for breakfast. Human Bass put a video into the Classical Music thread.

I'll see if I can scrap some of his stuff. Piano-based jazz (a la Monk) isn't my cup of tea for some reason.

brubeck isn't going to change that. check out more interesting players like andrew hill and jaki byard.

You could also try Robert Glasper.



Jazz with a little hip hop and funk thrown in. And he's a technical dynamo.

i'm fond on be-bop and/or musique actuelle - i despise fusion, maybe because i don't understand it, but since i have no plans on understanding it in this lifetime...

here's Jack Kerouac's Charlie Parker eulogy:


and The Bird - Charlie Parker (with Dizzie Gillespie):

Thanks Mastaflatch. That Kerouac tribute was very cool. And of course who doesn't like Charlie Parker?

I understand what you're saying about fusion. For a long time, I took it as a very bland form, but lately it's so diverse that you can hardly figure out what it is. I first started listening to stuff labeled fusion through Jaco Pastorius and branched out from there. Any genre that includes someone as trippy as Jaco can't be all bad.

Jaco from 1978:

Just got into the group pachora, it's got chris speed on clarinet, brad shepik on guitar, skuli sverrisson on bass and jim black on drums. kind of has a middle-eastern/balkan feel to it. good stuff, recommended.

guys, i enjoy up tempo, instrumental jazz featuring piano and/or sax heavily. give me something...

Andrew Hill- Black Fire


Rahsaan Roland Kirk- Rip Rig and Panic


If you don't love them immediately you will after a few listens, sax quartets do not get any better than these two right here.

The great Wayne Shorter with McCoy Tyner. This is one of my all-time favorite jazz recordings.

Speak No Evil



On a completely different note. Ornette Coleman is as brilliant today as he was 40 years ago. An interesting quartet, ornette (on sax, trumpet and violin), two basses and drums.

Sound Grammar


And like Bluenote, I have a soft spot for another saxophone quartet, The World Saxophone Quartet. It's not instrumental only, and the lyrics are political and tough, but I absolutely love this recording. Discontent is finding its way into every corner of society, and I'm feeling the need to be part of it.

Political Blues

Phineas Newborn - Theme For Basie

awesome band

speak no evil isn't exactly up-tempo but it is great. sound grammar is amazing, and that's from someone who's not a fan of ornette's celebrated quartet.

Yeah, sorry. But it's just so good.

Do you like Ornette in other contexts? Do you like Free Jazz? Listening to Free Jazz and Sound Grammar back to back is really interesting.

I'm really surprised nobody mentioned Tony Williams yet.

I love the golden circle concerts, that's by far my favorite ornette work. science fiction is great too. free jazz is ok but i'm not big on it, would rather listen to ascension or something like that.

Bumping this thread again. After making my mix for the christmas mix thing I got into jazz a bit again.

Charles Lloyd - Sangam
Charles Lloyd - Jumping the Creek
Peter Brotzmann Quartet - Machine Gune
John Abercrombie - The Third Quartet (still)
Keith Jarrett - My Foolish Heart
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (real cd for once lol)
John Coltrane - Ascension
Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There
avishai cohen (trumpet)-after the big rain
Piazzolla, Astor & Kronos Quartet - Five Tango Sensations

Any more suggestions for someone? My favourite is probably Sangam (sax combined with interesting drums/tabla). I love jazz music with really unique drumming (Joey Baron for a lot of Tzadik stuff for example). Any more suggestions?

The Third Quartet is still my favorite album that came out this year. I know it so well that it's what I go to when I want to relax and not have to concentrate on something new. Joey Baron is my favorite drummer. I love his style. And I don't know how easy it is to get hold of this album, but it's a real treat for his fans.



It's called Down Home. It features Arthur Blythe on sax, Ron Carter on Bass and Bill Frisell on guitar. Joey wrote all of the tunes. Ron Carter is one of my favorite bass players. He knows when to lock into the groove, when to play over it and when to walk it. It's a fun record.

I have a question for Easthastings or anyone who wants to answer it. What do people think of Paul Motian?