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

this next one is a beauty of an album

Bitches Brew was once THE canonical electric miles

surely it's On the Corner now...?

on the corner was the pop miles album right? i know that was like the lester bangs one

31    Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land (1964) 1836 Points, 12 votes
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http://open.spotify.com/album/6NmykD5FJftiDWqjWlwKfr

yes yes get the 'too low' shouts in. It's going to happen with (almost) every album from now on isn't it?

xp pop miles album? not quite. i know miles had some weird idea that on the corner was going to really appeal to black kids, but miles was crazy.

i wonder how many lee morgan albums will make it? im assuming 'sidewinder,' what about 'cornbread'?

I can see Lester digging OTC, but that's news to me. It may have been Miles' "attempt" at a funk pop record but it fails so hard on that criteria - it's way too harsh

xp

A Love Supreme:Coltrane's prior work is not really a good analogy to Bitches Brew:Miles's prior work imo. I mean really A Love Supreme sounds like much less of a departure from the work of his past few years. I mean what's the big deal, he sings on one track? A couple of the movements would be at home on pretty much any Coltrane Impulse record. He had already done arguably 'gimmicky' stuff like My Favorite Things and Inch Worm, not to mention Ballads or the Duke Ellington record, and A Love Supreme gives you a lot to dig into compared to some of his material from the period.

I don't know if it's the BEST Coltrane record, but it's really pretty and really heavy too, so I don't particularly mind it being the favorite.

xp pop miles album? not quite. i know miles had some weird idea that on the corner was going to really appeal to black kids, but miles was crazy.

― tylerw, Thursday, September 1, 2011 5:37 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont mean pop in a dissing it sense, just as a crossover

i know miles had some weird idea that on the corner was going to really appeal to black kids, but miles was crazy.

yeah he may have been closer to the pulse of the (well, mostly white) youth with Bitches Brew but by the time of On the Corner dude was obviously *really* disconnected from the pop market. also: cocaine.

i mean, Bitches Brew crossed over a lot more than OTC. I don't think that album was a hit.
bangs wrote about on the corner -- i'm not sure whether he * liked * it per se.

Bitches Brew was once THE canonical electric miles

surely it's On the Corner now...?

― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, September 1, 2011 6:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This on the other hand does actually kind of annoy me, just because On The Corner is sort of an outlier album even among the electric stuff. It's a great record but it feels really vastly apart from the rest of his electric period. Like if it's your favorite electric miles record fine but to my mind that just means you don't really like electric miles.

oh i didnt mean to compare the miles & trane pop vs spiritual hat vs. 'real jazz' or w/e they both have totally diff & complicated relationships w/ audiences & discourses etc -- was just wondering where 'a love supreme' stood in your personal canon xps to hurting

Like if it's your favorite electric miles record fine but to my mind that just means you don't really like electric miles.

oh come on. it stands out but it's of a piece with stuff that came after, some of which included pieces cut from the OTC sessions.

In re popularity, I think that's also just the result of timing and a marketing coup -- around when Bitches Brew came out, Miles and/or his management had the great idea of having him play all these big hippie venues like the Fillmore and various festivals and such, and the music was just connected enough to what the kids were listening to at that moment, and the zeitgeist was very "let's EXPAND OUR MINDS" so I think there was a window where people were open to it. OTC probably just wasn't timed/destined to meet that same kind of openness.

what do you think sets it apart so much from Agharta... or Get Up With It? I guess a bunch of the "songs" are shorter, but then they're all mixed together.

xp

i know that at the time, on the corner wasnt considered a huge success, i mean 'pop miles' in a more contemporary sense fwiw -- its definitely an 'intro to miles' record for a lot of people in the past few years (which surprised me bcuz its so different from the miles eras i was introduced to)

The other electric records retain much more of a sense of a bunch of musicians improvising together -- OTC sounds more composed (or at least more heavily edited) and is more repetitive imo. It's mostly beats and themes with variations. They're all groove-oriented, but OTC is much moreso.

30    Archie Shepp - Fire Music (1965) 1896 Points, 13 votes, one #1  
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huh, i would not pick OTC as an intro to miles tbh. it's a pretty challenging record. electric miles is best approached via in a silent way i think. might even just be best to go chronologically from there.

huh, i would not pick OTC as an intro to miles tbh. it's a pretty challenging record. electric miles is best approached via in a silent way i think. might even just be best to go chronologically from there.

― tylerw, Thursday, September 1, 2011 5:47 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what if youre into, like, the boredoms or can or faust or something? idk thats the context i see it in typically

Yeah I'd say Silent Way too, but it depends which direction you come from.

ive never heard that shepp record

it's a great record, I voted for it.

I find Bitches Brew pretty accessible (it was my way into electric Miles), but yeah I still find OTC not so easy-listening.

i've introduced quite a few people to miles through jack johnson. "rock" people that is...

Would probably rate a few of the others over it though.
xps

In A Silent Way is definitely the best intro to electric Miles for non-jazz types. Eno loves it!

It's a good one. I think Shepp is one of those musicians who made about 50 mediocre records and four or five brilliant ones, and this is definitely one of the brilliant ones. xp

what if youre into, like, the boredoms or can or faust or something? idk thats the context i see it in typically

yeah i suppose that makes sense.

29 Herbie Hancock - Crossings (1971) 1898 Points, 14 votes One #1
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i remember moving in reverse like -- i was into miles, and that miles album wasnt one i loved but got into that kind of kraut stuff in reverse (after seeing it compared to later miles) & finding it a bit 'simple' (lol jazzism) for me at the time ... like, i think i didnt get the appeal of the motorik style or w/e until later, i was used to the appeal of jazz soloists operating w/in the context of the groove rather than the groove existing for itself

dont know that herbie album at all either

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/h/artist-herbie-hancock/album-mwandishi-the-complete-warner-bros-recordings/cd-cover.jpg
re: herbie, this is very much worth your $10

doing weather report covers in jazz band initially scared me away from fusion ... i thought stuff like 'birdland' was sooo corny

which explains why i missed a lot of later herbie

yeah WTF with this Herbie record?!

little surprised to see it so high, but it is great. again, get that 2 CD warner recordings thing! it is the best.

It's the same group that did Sextant, right?

just odd that I know the albums before and after this one, but never came across it. cover is very odd, kinda ugly...?

yeah more or less same band as sextant.

mwandishi band is all time

yes
can i just
http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-enough-live-herbie-hancock.html

oh didnt realize this was that early. yah i like this era

This album does tend to get overlooked yet is very highly regarded, but most people (rock crits/record collectors) go for sextant but dont delve into anything else from this period. Apart from the obvious big album that i wont mention incase it does/doesn't make it.

gonna assume both headhunters and sextant will show up here

i probably voted for/own the entire top 30(or beyond) but i cba checking and instead i'll post the next one

one of my fave ever herbie anecdotes is from an old wire article on the mwandishi years where patrick gleeson was talking about trying to mix synths/keyboards into the band's sound for the first time and how he kept getting the mean mug from buster williams all night until someone finally took him aside and said "no one plays LOWER than buster in this band."

artwork looks like it should be on the side of sun ra's chevy van