JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

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guys im enjoying the debate/arguing it's fun so please continue but please quit the personal attacks, k?

now the TOP TEN

10 Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (1970) 2774 Points, 20 votes, One #1
http://www.eximagen.es/image.php?id=5092_4B292F53
http://open.spotify.com/album/2mqMMupKZi5wBf7bXiqDR5

Sometimes, plebes like us just like expressing enthusiasm for music and don't feel the need to prove some sociological point. That's what normal, irl, non-Aspies do on a day to day basis.

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how does your pt about how i probably dont like jazz harpists because they have vaginas fit into the aspie -> plebe spectrum

That's what normal, irl, non-Aspies do on a day to day basis.

Yeah, but they also don't run top 250 album count-downs.

― _Rudipherous_,

and my 2nd previous post especially goes for you

I haven't listened to Alice Coltrane in that much depth (though I think I've heard most of her albums at least a couple times, some much more than that) but I divide her work between accessible/semi-mellow-spiritual and apocalyptic freakout.

I guess Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane for me are a little like the jazz equivalent of backpacker rap -- like a lot of it is really good, but if you're like "THIS is the real shit, not that boring mainstream jazz" then I find you very suspect.

WHY?

This is what I have never understood. WHY WHY WHY? What the fuck grounds do you have for saying this shit? So if someone likes 'record collector' or 'nerdy' stuff more than mainstream stuff they are immediately looked at with scorn? WTF? It's one thing to say that it is a good thing to have a handle on the history of genre, another to say that you are "suspect" (FFS) for preferring a certain style.

I mean, I hold my hands up. I'm a record collector. And I'm a nerd. So fucking sue me.

D-40, Oh, because I do genuinely feel if Alice had a penis people wouldn't give her shit. Brilliant John, lesser Alice. But I don't want to derail this thread any more. Go on.

I mean, I hold my hands up. I'm a record collector. And I'm a nerd. So fucking sue me.

"heretic I cast thee out" etc

and my 2nd previous post especially goes for you

That was not a personal attack! I think the point is just the often-stated one that ILM is inherently a bit of an "aspie" place to begin with and anyone posting on this thread is probably implicated in that.

what do u think of mary lou williams

Oh, because I do genuinely feel if Alice had a penis people wouldn't give her shit.

John Coltrane coming out as gay def would have been interesting in the jazz world

imo shes >>> alice coltrane but xp

never heard that herbie. is it more em isles or more hh fusion? it is placed firmly in the middle of 'herbie i love' and 'rmde'

I mean, I hold my hands up. I'm a record collector. And I'm a nerd. So fucking sue me.

― emil.y, Friday, September 2, 2011 2:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I mean, I hold my hands up. I'm a record collector. And I'm a nerd. So fucking sue me

yes OWN THAT SHIT

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi  

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thanks sam!

IDK, I've just never met anyone who actually had a very good handle on jazz and preferred sun ra to other jazz. Also especially with Sun Ra so much of the enjoyment is about the total package of his narrative, persona, costumes, craziness etc. and all that stuff just seems like it doesn't have much to do with the music being jazz, which is why I couldn't help but be a little rankled if Sun Ra topped a jazz poll. All that stuff is great, but to me it's more like performance art or something.

how does your pt about how i probably dont like jazz harpists because they have vaginas fit into the aspie -> plebe spectrum

Probably goes back to discourse elevating penis size speculation.

I think the real issue is why isn't there any Hampton Hawes on this list.

With the formation of his great electric sextet, Herbie Hancock's music took off into outer and inner space, starting with the landmark Mwandishi album recorded in a single session on New Year's Eve. Ever the gadgeteer, Herbie plays with electronic effects devices -- reverb units, stereo tremelo, and Echoplex -- which all lead his music into spacier, open-ended directions very much influenced by Miles Davis' electric experiments, rendering it from post-bop conventions. There are just three tracks: the insistent 15/4-meter Afro-electric-funk workout "Ostinato (Suite for Angela)," the inquisitive "You'll Know When You Get There" with its ethereal Hancock voicings, and trombonist Julian Priester's "Silent Way"-influenced "Wandering Spirit Song," which eventually dips into tumultuous free form. Eddie Henderson emerges as a major trumpet soloist here, probing, jabbing, soliloquizing; Bennie Maupin comes over from Lee Morgan's group to add his ominous bass clarinet and thoughtful alto flute; and Buster Williams' bass and Billy Hart's flexible drums propel the rhythm section. Santana's José Chepitó Areas and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler also add funky percussive reinforcement to "Ostinato," along with guitarist Ron Montrose. The group's collective empathy is remarkable, and Hancock had only begun to probe the outer limits with this extraordinary music.

Also especially with Sun Ra so much of the enjoyment is about the total package of his narrative, persona, costumes, craziness etc. and all that stuff just seems like it doesn't have much to do with the music being jazz, which is why I couldn't help but be a little rankled if Sun Ra topped a jazz poll. All that stuff is great, but to me it's more like performance art or something.

this is pretty disingenuous - all music is performance art and comes with a complete package. Ra's is just shinier and stranger than most.

mary lou williams is so dope. going to use this as an excuse to post a link to her wikipedia page lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams

dave douglas also did an awes album tribute to her back in the late 90s i think called 'soul on soul'

this is pretty disingenuous - all music is performance art and comes with a complete package. Ra's is just shinier and stranger than most.

― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 2, 2011 3:25 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THIS is pretty disingenuous.

Also, I never said D-40 didn't like harp because of that. I meant that that sort of thing would probably be more accepted if it had been done by guys. If Charlie Parker had fucked with the harp like Alice did, we wouldn't hear the end of how brilliant and unparalleled that was.

Does Shelly Manne even drum on any of these albums? This list is racist.

charlie parker is easily one of the two or three most influential jazz artists in history. saying alice coltrane is on that level is p nuts imo

i have to be honest, i bought 'shelly manne and his men at the manhole' purely bcuz of the title

THIS is pretty disingenuous.

how so? pretending like a guy wearing a stylish suit and presenting an air of sophisticated upper-class black aesthete is somehow less of a performance than a guy wearing a hat from Egypt is total bullshit. they're both performances.

shelly manne plays on way out west

fwiw i dont think hurting or myself are claiming not to be nerds

Playing an unusual instrument in jazz isn't usually considered "brilliant" or "unparallelled." There are all kinds of forgotten records of jazz banjo, jazz accordion, jazz bagpipes, etc.

I mean even by men.

good catch, tylerw. x-post

this thread is getting "retarded"

IDK, I've just never met anyone who actually had a very good handle on jazz and preferred sun ra to other jazz. Also especially with Sun Ra so much of the enjoyment is about the total package of his narrative, persona, costumes, craziness etc. and all that stuff just seems like it doesn't have much to do with the music being jazz, which is why I couldn't help but be a little rankled if Sun Ra topped a jazz poll.

I don't have a good handle on jazz and I love Sun Ra more than anyone else in jazz (so there you go), but I think you gloss over another possibility which is that there is something else that he is doing musically (at least a lot of the time) that is what someone like me might like about him. If anything, I find myself wishing I could filter out more and more of the packaging. It may not be about the music being jazz, but it is about the music (for me). The fire-eaters are nice though.

I think it's fair to say that Alice both benefited from and suffered from being in John's shadow. otoh being his widow gave her unprecedented and highly unusual exposure in the jazz world, but it also allowed people to just dismiss her as his crazy wife etc

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so none of y'all fuck with "Thrust" huh

Hurting 2, oh, totally. I just think what Alice did is genuinely as great as what a lot of her male contemporaries were doing.

She's also sampled like crazy. I'd say if anything time has been pretty fair to AC.

i mean, some of u probably dont like how ive approached this argument in this thread which, ok, sorry, but i also just get the distinct sense that some ppl think we shouldnt even be having this discussion which, well, i just disagree.

I fucks with Thrust, really fun record

i do

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xpost I love Thrust. Fucking Mike Clark. It's a total instrumentalist geek album though.

threads winning now haha
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hats be working

IDK, I've just never met anyone who actually had a very good handle on jazz and preferred sun ra to other jazz. Also especially with Sun Ra so much of the enjoyment is about the total package of his narrative, persona, costumes, craziness etc. and all that stuff just seems like it doesn't have much to do with the music being jazz, which is why I couldn't help but be a little rankled if Sun Ra topped a jazz poll.

Hm. I could sort of see this. A lot of the stuff I like walks on the boundaries of genre (not necessarily in jazz, and this is a bit of a generalisation, but it'll work in this context). However, I think you're doing down Ra - the music really is the main thing, and it very clearly belongs to the jazz world.

like the story in Thrust's liner notes of how, upon seeing Mike Clark enter the club or whatever venue, other drummers would flip the "Palm Grease" beat as a tip of the cap. /drum dork