Did you like Bitches Brew at first? I remember coming at it from jazz, I found it hard to listen to. There may also have been something flat about the remaster I had. Then one night I was driving around with a friend and he put on one of those Complete Bitches Brew Sessions discs, and the whole thing totally opened up for me. The non-BB material kind of helped me enjoy the BB stuff more. But the whole thing also sounded more open and had more sonic depth than I remembered.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - side by sideget this for the sweets edison solo on 'stompy jones'
― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Re Miles, I'd suggest In a Silent Way (xpost -- more ambient) and Jack Johnson (more rocking) as really accessible points of entry.
100% cosign.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 21 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you like Bitches Brew at first?
I didn't. I bought it and Kind of Blue on cassette, in close proximity, when I was about 14-15, and hated BB. Didn't "get it" until years later.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i finally found 'tribute to jack johnson' on vinyl and omg mclaughlin's dirty dirty guitar!!!!
― "crut" copy (diamonddave85), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
also davis was late to the recording and mclaughlin and the bassist were just jamming and about two minutes in, he shows up and just throws down an amazing solo. the best part is that you can totally 'hear' davis entering the studio by what the musicians are playing. a++++ would recommend
― "crut" copy (diamonddave85), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked it okay but not as much as I'd hoped. It wasn't quite what I expected -- I was probably looking for something more like Jack Johnson or Agharta.
― Brad C., Friday, 21 January 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the ellington/mingus/roach trio record might be a good entryway to duke if yr not ready for big band stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
big band like 30's big band or big band like Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Globe Unity, etc.?
― sarahel, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry - missed the word "duke" in your post, Tyler
― sarahel, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
but the thing is, the phrase "if yr not ready for big band stuff" just strikes me as weird, because that stuff is what pop music used to be, what dance music used to be, and now we have software and samples to replace all those instruments, but i have trouble understanding how ellington's big band music would be something that's hard to get into, that you have to get ready in some way to appreciate.
― sarahel, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Keep in mind I'm approaching jazz from the standpoint of loving stuff like krautrock, psych rock, "weird" folky stuff that gets a bit drone-y at times.
this makes it really easy to understand how big band wouldnt be immediate...
― 69, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, but presumably ilxor has heard pop music and seen old movies?
― sarahel, Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
man i just spotted this thread
hey dude
this thread shall be rad
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i know you've already got a list of recs a mile long but if i can just toss some pennies in the hat
-Giant Steps: this is the first jazz record that really got me by the throat, and in retrospect I think it's because the music was so fast & complex that it kind of melted all the harmonic information into gibberish and I just heard these bright luminous noises like dude was blowing sparks out of his horn
-Meditations: Easily my favorite jazz record. iirc I'm in the minority for even noticing it, but McCoy Tyner's piano playing on this record totally opened up piano jazz for me.
-Complete Art Tatum: See Giant Steps
I see Mats & The Thing have already been mentioned, I just wanted to shout out "Fire!," a collabo Mats was involved with that is suuuuuuuuper krautrocky at points. One of my fave records of the last few years, have a feeling it's right up yr alley.
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so this is sorta a ridiculous deal if you don't have this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBHCQO/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d1_i4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=116E9TAM4WERR3FHKPMN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939291&pf_rd_i=507846$3.99 for two CDs of monk/coltrane
― tylerw, Saturday, 22 January 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
man i just spotted this threadhey dudethis thread shall be rad― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:16 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― HOOS the master?? STEEN NUFF (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:16 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, man, i second that emotion.
― Ioannis, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Cheers everyone, I took a breather from this thread but I've been listening to lots of jazz, including several recommendations in this thread that I picked up yesterday (in exchange for, oh, $50 less in my wallet...).
HOOS, I picked up Giant Steps used for $4 -- definitely will play soon. I saw Meditations, I think the CD issue on Impulse but in a jewel case. Is there a new, remastered version I should watch for instead? I've seen a lot of Impulse stuff in digipaks...
Seriously thinking about picking up that $3.99 Amazon recommendation, I have an order to place there today regardless. Anyone else heard it?
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw, the description of Coltrane blowing sparks out of his horn is the BEST possible recommendation ever. Sounds incredible!
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the monk/coltrane 2 cd is a great deal - only real issue is that it's one of those things where multiple takes are sequenced together, which always kinda bugs me. but you could get it and sequence a playlist yourself so that it followed this album: http://www.amazon.com/Monks-Music-Thelonious-Monk/dp/B000000Y52/ref=pd_sim_m_35, which is great.
― tylerw, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Well thanks for telling me after I placed the order. ;)
j/k
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
what tylerw said
you'd want to refer to the sequence on this album too: http://www.amazon.com/Thelonious-Monk-John-Coltrane/dp/B0038M61B4/ref=pd_sim_m_59
hard to beat getting both plus alternative takes for $3.99
― Brad C., Saturday, 22 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, you need this. now!:
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-In-Satchidananda/dp/B000W06V6A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295733577&sr=8-1
― Ioannis, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm definitely keeping an eye out for Alice. Saw a used one the other day... not Journey, though; let me look up the name.
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Ptah the El Daoud -- think it was on Impulse.
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
That one's great too-- as are Universal Consciousness & World Galaxy.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
THat's a great one too plus awesome sleeve
ha xp
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
my recommendations:
in a silent wayget up with itcreator has a master planpangaea/agarthalet my children hear music
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"he loved him madly" is an incredible piece of music
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah so fucking good...crazily intense.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^yeah, "He Loved Him Madly" (from Get Up with It) is one of the saddest pieces of recorded music evah! and it slithers and morphs for more than 30 minutes, too. was a big influence on ambient Eno as well, apparently.
xps haw!
― Ioannis, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"Rated X" is pretty intense too. nearly blew the head off me when i first heard it.
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxpost re: Ascension. like or loathe, it's the greatest example of a classic 1960's Free Jazz session if ever there was one. Don Cherry - complete communion being my #2 pick over Ornette - Free Jazz.
count me in the small group that doesn't really get the bitches brew and on the corner popularity (except on the corner has that killer cover; and i guess they were both well marketed in the day). Especially if you compare those to the godheadlikeness that are Jack Johnson and Agharta
― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
that whole album is crazy eclectic, too; "inconsistent" in the best way possible.
xp
― Ioannis, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Might be interesting to set up a Listening Room where ILXors can play a bunch of these recommendations for ilxor so he can take a taste before he purchases.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i like big fun a lot as well though it is a bit inconsistent, listened to that on a bus through spain in roasting hot weather at night before, amazing.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
count me in the small group that doesn't really get the bitches brew and on the corner popularity
yeah they still havent clicked with me either. maybe some day....
― the Chinese firewall of the heart (Michael B), Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening Room wasn't working for me when I tried it a week or so ago.
Anyway, I prefer the idea of diving headlong into albums I've never heard and committing myself to them. Jazz doesn't strike me as a "hear one song once, know if you'll enjoy the album long-term" type of genre.
― ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
my recommendations:.....let my children hear music
.....let my children hear music
Good one.
― sonofstan, Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i love adagio ma non troppo from that record. is such a big hearted song...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 22 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
other problem w/ the listening room is that jazz tracks can be really damn long
― *gets the power* (deej), Sunday, 23 January 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Listening Room works best when people are bouncing different things off each other, it's a different thing to concentrating on a single album.
― Can your monkey do the Bot? (seandalai), Sunday, 23 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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http://qblog.ws/images/uploads/tmgmm-cover2.jpg
― communist kickball (m coleman), Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://selectism.com/columns/benjaminferencz/files/2009/10/miles-davis-workin-with-the-miles-davis-quintet.jpg
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm276/El-Flippo/Thumbs%202/SteaminWithTheMilesDavisQuintet1956front.jpg
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http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/122/122889_1_f.jpg
― communist kickball (m coleman), Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Sonny Rollins & Dexter Gordon were my gateway drugs to saxophone addiction. both project enveloping warmth & audible sense of humor
― communist kickball (m coleman), Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i've no idea about ilxor's preferences, but all six of those records are absolutely essential stuff m coleman. the bonus tracks on the Monk reissues are like the best bonus tracks ever...and on the Rollins tip Clifford Brown & Max Roach (with Sonny) is another one i'd highly recommend. CB is the greatest trumpet player ever(imho)
― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 23 January 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone recommended coltrane's blue train yet?
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-John-Coltrane-Blue-Train.jpg
following what worked for a columnist, this was one of the first pieces of music i listed to after 09.11.01. the clean horns sound so strong, optimistic, and full-of-life.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 January 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
I would not have recommended this as a starting point. I prefer Other Planes of There, which seems to be working around some of the same material or ideas, but isn't so modern classical stiff about it. Anyway, there are lots of worse entry points.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I missed the Sun Ra overkill that already happened. Never mind.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 23 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Just read the Sun Ra thread where everyone disagrees with everyone else about what the best albums are.