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What are some jazz albums that you think are underrated or under-discussed?
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Carter Nelson
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William Hall
>What are some jazz albums that you think are underrated or under-discussed?
Most Miles records get attention. I'm sure most of ye have heard about this but I don't think I've seen many people mention how unusual this record is.
I mentioned this in another thread, but pic related unironically could have spawned it's own genre. A lot of Miles' early fusion stuff was kind of made in this space where nobody really knew what "jazz fusion" would come to mean and these early experiments have a kind of directness in the application of the term "fusion" that you don't really hear in a lot of later stuff.
Fusion became a kind of style rather than an idea/approach. This record on the other hand is very clearly an answer to the question "what if we fused blues rock with jazz".
Mason Nelson
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Adam James
Andrew Long
What the FUCK is that glorious distorted organ that comes in around 15 minutes on this? Sounds like a Farfisa or a Vox.
Connor Williams
Email Herbie. Maybe he'll tell you. Can't find anything in personnel /credits with a quick google.
Thomas Taylor
honestly anything by joe harriott. if you dig Coleman's avant-garde stuff ('shape of jazz' and 'this is our music'), this shit sounds like an outtake session from Coleman and it's damn fine at that too.
Jayden Miller
Tfw been trying to get into jazz for years, still find the improvs so boring I just listen to the theme and skip to the next track
On one hand it's based because I've been able to go through a ton of jazz albums very fast
James Murphy
listen to jazz-funk
Dylan Hall
bruh the improving in kinda the point
the statement of the theme is pretty much just there for a point for the improvs to go from (and come back to), to provide the skeleton for the improvs to flesh out
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Xavier Phillips
Can you really not hear how the improvs relate to the composed themes? Try singing the melody behind the solos to keep track of the form.
Carson Campbell
Im more interested in jazz themes because I'd wager they're better composers than later jazz fusion dudes, but I do like jazz fusion too
Idk I just don't enjoy them at all on any level, I like solos but improvised stuff just puts me to sleep
Well they relate because they're usually on the same/similair chord progression as the theme and they sometimes reference the theme in their licks, this kind of stuff doesn't really interest me or give me any enjoyment but I like the themes a lot
Jayden Turner
Grover Washington Jr is a great option here: he’s always very melodic, even in his improv. I think he gets unfairly lumped into the Sanborn/Kenny/smooth-jazz arena when he’s more complicated and interesting. Check out black frost:
Gabriel Campbell
Sun ra - angels and demons at play
Wyatt Green
Do you like classical music? How do you feel about the themes vs their development in classical composition?
Christian Miller
Yeah but I'm still a tourist in it too, I mainly just note any beautiful melodies, chord progressions I hear so I can analyse them later, haven't heard much that made me amazed specifically by how a theme developed yet, but I guess I like classical more cause I just have a distaste for improvs
Kayden Martinez
Pitchfork's review of the complete sessions box says it's a Farfisa (that Herbie hadn't played before)
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Cooper Rogers
Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis made jazz-funk. Listen to Head Hunters
Nolan Gutierrez
Yeah I have, only like the first track on it
Mason Diaz
who here /criss cross/?
Charles Ortiz
I never understood the appeal. I guess their stuff is highly regarded by people who play jazz themselves so maybe I’m missing something.
Chase Powell
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Owen Rodriguez
I'm a Jazz newbie. What are some good bass players to check out? (except the super known ones like Mingus, Pastorius, Wooten)
Fusion would be great but awesome upright bass players also welcome.
Adam Price
Scott La Faro
Dave Holland
Paul Chambers
Ron Carter
Cecil McBee
Charlie Haden
William Parker
Richard Davis
Steve Swallow
Nicholas Bennett
roll
Joseph Evans
Jimmy blanton.
Nathaniel Kelly
Not a huge fan of it, but it's an okay record. 7/10. A bit too rock in the jazz-*rock* for my taste. At times a bit too much Hendrix influence
Julian Morales
A lot of their catalogue is pretty boring but when it's good it's really good. But even still that's really only if you like the sound of live performance, but recorded in the studio.
Joseph Wood
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Luis Morris
>Sam Rivers - Fuschia Swing Song
Reminds me of Eric Dolphy Quintet’s Outward Bounds. It’s Post-Bop played loosely and freely. This is Unlike Rivers later Experimental Big- Band compositions,
Ian Watson
I’ll roll
Carter Morales
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Evan Taylor
Steve Lehman is the only jazz artist I care about right now. Other than Marius Neset.
Isaac Richardson
Listen to ECM
Kayden Perez
Lehman is based but there are others. Check out Rudresh Mahanthappa
Henry Torres
What's this chart about?
Isaac Sanchez
I miss the /blindfold/ threads lads but I'm too lazy to start them up and run them myself.
Nathaniel Ortiz
Adrian Ward
The ECM record label. They’ve got some good Jazz
Kevin Nguyen
Jason Cox
Any more jazz label charts?
Jaxson Green
Sorry, that’s all I got.
Charles Kelly
Nathaniel Powell
Sebastian Thompson
Ryan Gonzalez
William Davis
Luke Martinez
these are the only ones you posted that don't completely blow
Jaxon Wilson
I used to play alto sax and want to get back into it, what's some good albums with heavy alto sax?
Josiah Williams
why
Hudson Phillips