Jazz

Yes, this was recorded in 1976.

No, I do not know what drugs George Duke was on.

Yes, he is channeling his inner Sun Ra.

No, I've never been able to sit through the first four minutes without skipping forward to Billy Cobham's drum solo at the end.

Yes, it is FIRE.

 
i had a seriously heady experience a couple weeks ago with some good LSD and some coltrane records. definitely throw on some giant steps or some a love supreme when you're in that kind of headspace. i would say something more but i don't really have words to communicate an experience like that.
 
^^ I went through a period last year when I questioned whether I wanted to listen to anything else but Coltrane. Of course it didn't last long but it was a couple of weeks of non-stop jazz, and mainly Coltrane.
 
Roger&Me said:
so the question is:

50's Miles, 60's Miles, or 70's Miles?

listening to some Miles at the fillmore, March 7th 1970, right now... and this stuff is so delightfully non-musical that it makes a full revolution back around to hyper-musical. i dig it intensely, but i can see how some people just wouldn't get it, or might even despise it.

like for example, he just jammed for like 10 minutes on a sort of anti-mode where every note was totally dissonant, but the phrasing was timed and resolved in such a way that it ended up sounding very coherent, but totally mad at the same time. there's deep genius in his stuff from the 70's, but its absolutely labyrinthine and definitely less accessible than his earlier work.
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Much love for Miles. Personally, i've been on a big Milestones kick for a while now. Such a lively, colorful record.

As a big fan of experimental 20th century classical music, I adore his late 60's/early 70's fusion with a passion, but even I have to admit that On The Corner is one of the least accessible records ever made. I'm also struck by how many different tones and moods his fusion records had to them. In A Silent Way was cool and ambient, Bitches Brew was hot, crowded, sweaty and unpredictable, while On The Corner was downright violent in its dissonance and polyrhythms.
 
Best advice? Just browse this thread and pick at a few tunes. What's good to me might not be good to you. To really discover music that you grow to love may take some effort but the reward is worth it.

Kurt Rosenwinkel anyone?

 
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Max Power said:
Blue Train is best Trane.
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I have different faves at different times. At the moment it's Traneing In. For quite a while before that it was Love Supreme.

I'm going to put on Blue Train and see if it takes the mantle.
 
Cheers for the suggestions, they're all flowing oh so nicely into my ears.



Freddie Hubbard, The.
 
Nice work, Max.

Recently bought Lee Morgan's Sidewinder, Horace Silver's Cape Verdean Blues and Wayne Shorter's Juju. Needless to say, it's been fairly jazz heavy at home the last couple of months. Amazing albums.
 
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