Jazz

One of my favorite bands ever since my brother introduced me to them as a kid. I remember I traded someone for a VHS performance way back in the day. I worked at a video store and I would play this on a Sat night over the five TVs we had around the store. I would have people come up to me and be like what hell is this? It's amazing!!

Mahavishnu Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcYw2QTPzM
 
All you crazy stoners who think Sun Ra is acceptable music, and that Miles Davis is a music legend, are all the same. Can't listen to anything with any form or structure, can we? =D

Herbie Hancock is great for all of his little surprises. It's amazing how humble he is and then he cranks out some mind blowing music.
BTW That Gil Evans song that was posted in the first reply is awesome.
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
All you crazy stoners who think Sun Ra is acceptable music, and that Miles Davis is a music legend, are all the same. Can't listen to anything with any form or structure, can we? =D
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You know that other Davis music exists that isn't "Bitches Brew" right?
 
^That's an awesome find, where did you hear of him?

Mile's bebop wasn't all too special.... well let me rephrase that, it was extraordinarily special that he got to learn under one of the greatest Jazz musicians of all time, Charlie Parker, but his actual work with bebop was underwhelming, but Im not criticizing him too much because it's hard not to be slightly daunted at the fact that he's taking over for Dizzy Gillespie and playing next to Fats Navarro, two of the absolute best trumpeters in American history.
His early solos were rushed and he was clearly trying to invoke the licks used so effortlessly by his mentor Parker. His solos just drag certain tracks down.
I'm talking about the "Bird and Miles" compilation CD in particular which had tracks from the 40s before Miles innovated anything. I think he learned quickly to be himself and he also realized that he could do much better in other genres, which he did.
BTW talking about "Miles Davis" is hard because he's had so many different eras and such radically different musical qualities in each. I wish he and Jimi Hendrix had more time together. FUCK Michael Jeffery! Sorry....

And just FWI I love Bitches Brew and I was just kidding because it's so typical for stoners to be into ridiculous avant garde jazz. Sun Ra, I'm surprised anyone else even heard of him. I have his discography but I haven't been through it in some time now. He's like the Walt Whitman of music.
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
it's so typical for stoners to be into ridiculous avant garde jazz. Sun Ra, I'm surprised anyone else even heard of him. I have his discography but I haven't been through it in some time now. He's like the Walt Whitman of music.
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Sun Ra is probably one of the better known avant-garde jazz artists, if only for his eccentric personality. Digging a little further you have Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman . . . I'm not going to pretend I completely get Out To Lunch.

Anyway, bump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUlOkpQMWs

Rahsaan, you so dirty.
 
what an album

coltrane is the the biggest musical loss in history

well thats what i feel when i listen to him play, but there are so many creative losses that statejent was to definitive
 
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We already have a jazz thread, but personally I like Blue Train better. I'd like to get more into his later avant-garde years but struggle to connect with it the way I do with Blue Train or even Giant Steps. Which is odd because I'm a fan of free jazz like Dolphy's Out to Lunch or Ayler's Spiritual Unity. Give me Coltrane's hard bop anyday, though.
 
We can either merge this with the jazz thread as the gentleman above me mentioned or make this the official John Coltrane thread.
You decide...

Edit: well I guess since no one said anything we'll just merge it with the jazz thread.
 
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Eric Dolphy is great. Some of my other favorites are John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, and Dexter Gordon.
 
Love that mellow, bordrline prog, borderline classical, borderline doom jazz, non-shronky stuff as of late. :)

The OP and that Miroslav Vitous: Purple track were great finds from this thread, for my persoanl taste at least.
Thanks a lot. Cool jazz, I guess it's called. I dunno.


Pan - Stan Getz
Totally not cool jazz, I don't think, more like a jazz-classical mutant. Love it.
'Night Rider', from the same album, is also a trip.


Lastly, this weirdo little minimalist, spooky bit of nothingness:
Rainbow ~ Terje Rypdal
Reminds me of 3Am coming down and sorting out the pieces, listening to the 'universe outside the window'.

I love stuff like that. I could listen to, and watch that type of thing for hours. lol.
Can anyone more knowledgeable about this genre PM or suggest to me more music like that last one?

That'd be swell.
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