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Post by Nikan on Jul 16, 2023 20:56:30 GMT
What is your take on the genre? Favorite artists / pieces / experiences? I never got into it outside of a few exceptions... so recommendations would be appreciated  |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 16, 2023 21:11:42 GMT
Like any other genre, the majority of it is absolute crap, but I do have some artists/albums I've enjoyed. I'll use vague words (edit: or no words because I forgot) that mean little because I don't have a music vocabulary. A couple that come to mind as excellent and off the beaten path:
Maki Asakawa
Yoshiko Sai
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 16, 2023 21:22:29 GMT
Melanie De Biasio is also utterly brilliant and one of our best performers. Stripped back and dark, mixing drone and post-rock elements into her seductive web of sound:
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 16, 2023 21:37:06 GMT
The Swinging Globes are a two man piece that haven't really gotten off the ground, but their jazz mixes of everything from The Avengers to The Legend of Zelda has been some of the most exciting, easily listenable music from the past decade:
Art Ensemble of Chicago is generally avant-garde and experimental, but those cats could *swing.* I'm posting their most well known (and least avant-garde) songs, but it is well known for a reason: this thing is sexy as fuck.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 16, 2023 22:15:36 GMT
* I tend to only like guitar based music - so trumpets and saxophones tend to leave me cold.......I am a simple man - simple minded you could say  - I like backbeats and drums (and yet I know many drummers and can't stand many of them - life is funny!) even in Rock or Pop it's rare I listen to a Synth Pop artst say (like Molly Nilsson etc) and never an f'n Rick Wakeman album (um) or an artist not using guitar primarily....... and finding that in Jazz can be tough so I stay away ...... I know why Miles Davis, Chet Baker and John Coltrane are great - really great - but it's rare I sit and listen to them. Nowadays I guess that applies a little to Kamasi Washington etc. * Since I come at it like a true vulgarian - from the POV of Rock guitar - the stuff I like best is stuff that approximates Rock (or fusion) - I consider Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow and Wired to be Jazz.....and I love those.......I like Al DiMeola (Return To Forever) a great guitarist, John McClaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra) ..... Still some things are part of a canon of Arts you have to know to be even remotely well versed in things in Life - which given ths boards lack of knowledge of the Bible ffs - and jerking off to the Barbie movie apparently is not remotely a priority.......sigh: Miles Davis "So What" ......all of Kind of Blue........the one Jazz album people who don't like Jazz own to be cool ........some Jazz vocalists........um........this song.......etc: |
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Post by Nikan on Jul 16, 2023 22:47:54 GMT
Miles Davis "So What" ......all of Kind of Blue........the one Jazz album people who don't like Jazz own to be cool ........some Jazz vocalists........um........this song.......etc: This thing of beauty is one of my "exceptions" for sure... |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 16, 2023 23:45:09 GMT
Baker is incredible, of course - I especially like a lot of his later work, which most people don't seem to go for - Miles Davis is perfect for cold winter days, Mingus has fire and pizzazz.
Brubeck's Time Out is an obvious choice for great jazz, experimental and weird (those time signatures!) while never losing sight of the enjoyment one should get in listening to music.
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Post by countjohn on Jul 17, 2023 3:37:26 GMT
I am probably one of our bigger jazz fans here. Not an expert but I like the big guys like Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, exc. Coltrane's My Favorite Things, Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme were the top three on my 60's album ballot. Some songs since people are posting examples- Coltrane's My Favorite Things- Springsville by Miles Davis- I'm an Old Cowhand by Sonny Rollins Moanin by Charles Mingus- Ramblin' by Ornette Coleman Audrey by Dave Brubeck (written for the actual Audrey Hepburn pre fame when she was in the original production of Gigi across the street from the club where Brubeck played at the time)- |
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Post by Nikan on Aug 3, 2023 17:03:50 GMT
What a distinguished gentleman...
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- I like backbeats and drums (and yet I know many drummers and can't stand many of them - life is funny!) even in Rock or Pop it's rare I listen to a Synth Pop artst say (like Molly Nilsson etc) and never an f'n Rick Wakeman album (um) or an artist not using guitar primarily....... and finding that in Jazz can be tough so I stay away ...... I know why Miles Davis, Chet Baker and John Coltrane are great - really great - but it's rare I sit and listen to them. Nowadays I guess that applies a little to Kamasi Washington etc.
