All that Jazz

[fatbastard]

I would have scrubbed floors at Blue Note for Alfred Lions, just to watch all of the people who came and went over the years.

[sydaud]

Wow... this is one of the worst stories ever... and you've managed to insult one of the greatest musicians ever and didn't even know it.

Here's a stack of Blue Note albums that will make me forget the last post and helps to support the argument that Blue Note was and is the greatest jazz label of all time. Just a small taste.

Not knowing who Jimmy Smith was is not the end of the world. Threads like these are meant to be informative...I just missed the boat on one. Now I know...

Go ahead and pour yourself a nice, tall glass of hyperbole.

[higgybaby23]

More Blue Note love...with the main man Rudy Van Gelder


Gotta love Verve too!!
Here's a great one...

[higgybaby23]

Higgy's jazz of the Day...some of the junkies of jazz...

Chet Baker


Gerry Mulligan


Stan Getz

[higgybaby23]

Holy overkill Batman!!

http://pitchfork.com/news/36287-garg...s-box-set-due/

[fatbastard]

Just finished listening to Duke Ellington's Carnegie Hall Concert. Moving on to this. I just need a stiff drink and a bowl of peanuts and I'm there.

[Alligator Bogaloo]

It's a proven fact. Duke and his band can make blonde white women lose all control and dance in ecstasy.

[Still-ill]

woohoo!

[higgybaby23]

woohoo!

I saw the surviving members of the Arkestra led by Marshall Allen a few years back. It was a good performance although the crowd seemed confused by the band's eccentric head wear.

[TallGuyCM]

This thread needs to stay bumped and relevant, more jazz! Has anyone listened to anything recently that they would recommend?

[TallGuyCM]

This thread needs to stay bumped and relevant, more jazz! Has anyone listened to anything recently that they would recommend?

One more attempt to get some jazz dialogue going...anyone? I'm gonna put on The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady in a bit.

[Anonymous]

What do you wanna know? {retty much everyone starts with Mingus. Bop is really good starting point because it is easily digestable. Try listening to this record.

[Anonymous]

What do you wanna know? Pretty much everyone starts with Mingus. Bop is really good starting point because it is easily digestable. Try listening to this record. Its not Bop though.



These are my 10 essential non free jazz records that you must have in you collection. I've getting into really soulful jazz saxophonist like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins.

Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"
Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus"
Sonny Clark "Cool Struttin"
Lee Morgan The Cooker"
Horace Silver "Song For My Father"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
Dave Brubeck "Take 5"
John Coltrane "Giant Steps"
Freddie Hubbard "Open Sesame"
Gil Scott Heron "Winter In America"


Here are ten entry level jazz records people just getting into jazz get recommended by people who are into jazz
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"
Albert Ayler "Spiritual Unity"
Herbie Hancock "Headhunters"
Charles Mingus "Black Sain"
Eric Dolphy "Out to Lunch
Billie Holiday "Lady in satin"
Grant Green "Grantstanding"
thelonious monk misterioso
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Blacknuss
Chet Baker Sings

here are 10 recommendations from someone really real with jazz. Not like a cool dad like if John Hammond had picked you 10 jazz album. John would pick some records from the 1st patch but will omit them in thid list.You should listen to all these records.

Ben Webster Soulville
Eddie Cano Brought Back from P.J.s
Bill Evans Waltz For Debbie
Wayne Shorter See no evil
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
Jackie Mclean on adlib
Dexter Gordon Blow hot and cool
Hank Mobley blue note 1568
Dave Burell Echo
Peter Brotzman Machine Gun

[daxton]

I completely disagree. When I lived in San Diego my friends and I used to get dressed up every now and then and head downtown to the Onyx Room for "Jazz Night" on Tuesdays. Everyone looked very sharp, drank expensive drinks, and it was a blast. Extremely talented musicians every week, one of my better memories of SD. We probably went 5-6 times back in the summer of '03.

I am super late in the conversation, but I just wanted to say that sounds like a blast to me. I need some live jazz in my life. And I definitely need to start getting some records too.

[RageAgainstTheAoki]

I need to stop reading the NY Times. It just makes me jealous of my NY friends. If you're in NY, The Mingus Orchestra is playing a free show in Washington Square Park.

[WhyTheLongFace]

Been driving to this all week



01. Hi feat. Ghostra Nostra
02. One Take
03. Static (Dwayne McDuffie Tribute)
04. Phantasm feat. 2mo’key
05. As Time Goes By feat. Ghostra Nostra
06. EZ Does It feat. Sónin’
07. Depart At 545
08. The Meditation (Relax)
09. Montara
10. EZ Does It (Instrumental)
11. As Time Goes By (Instrumental)
12. Hi (Instrumental)
13. Lightly Heavy
14. Live Life & Love
15. Take It EZ feat. Supreme Sol
16. Acrylics (Bonus Track)
17. Eternal Peace Pt. 2
18. Take It EZ (Instrumental)

[BoardsofCoachella]

Jackie Mclean

[ods..]

Listening to nothing but Zorn for the last few hours. So good.

[fatbastard]

I've been ripping music all week. A friend is lending me his external in exchange of his pick thru my collectiion. My collection is in mp3 format. He wants everything lossless due to his fancy stereo system. He selected all my jazz. The music has been perfect with the weather these past couple of days.

[jeffp1717]

This is fantastic. I got the LP on a whim a while back and was revisiting it today. It's all solo piano work from, I believe, 1965 (the back is all in French.) I'm on the lookout for some mp3s to add to that collection if anyone can point me in the right direction. This is from about fifteen years later if I have the date right, but it gives you a good idea of the sound.

[jeffp1717]

In listening to some great jazz albums made this year--Austin Peralta, Colin Stetson, Matthew Shipp, and Peter Evans Quintet--I started to wonder what else might be out there. Most of the talk in here (and about jazz in general) is focused on the glory days, and I was just curious if anyone had any good recommendations of albums made recently that could one day sit among those classics in jazz discussions.

[jeffp1717]

Having an all-jazz day today. Anyone want to join in the fun? In the queue, which should probably get me all the way through the working day, I've got..
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stance A Sophie
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Charlie Haden - Dreamkeeper
Grant Green - Green Is Beautiful
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

(Sorry to triple post, but come on! Let's talk about some jazz!)

[RageAgainstTheAoki]

I need to stop reading the NY Times. It just makes me jealous of my NY friends. If you're in NY, The Mingus Orchestra is playing a free show in Washington Square Park.

Mingus Dynasty is playing UCLA's Royce Hall Friday March 16th. Only $20. So there.

[greghead]

I'm not so familiar with current jazz, but my musical tastes skew to the 50s and 60s anyway. I have, however, had the pleasure of watching Austing Peralta play on two separate occasions and he's great. The last time was a free jazz set he did with Thundercat last June. Guy is really good on the keys. Subtle.

Most recently I've been listening to a lot of Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Roy Eldridge, and a 3-LP Time-Life set on Lester Young that I picked up a while back for $6. Highly enjoyable. Roy Eldridge kills me, though, that guy was so good.

[Robin]

I have to post this. I came across an article on MSN about a jazz cover of Cee Lo's "Fuck You." It kinda makes me smile.

[java-do]

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Ah, nice seeing this bumped. Is anyone else going to the Duke Ellington Orchestra show at the 'Bowl in a couple weeks?

[java-do]

Is anyone else going to the Duke Ellington Orchestra show at the 'Bowl in a couple weeks?

It's a shame I just heard about this,too bad I'll be in SF for outside lands.

Also this rules

[fatbastard]

I've mentioned Michel Petrucciani on this board before.

Over the years, I've attended 7 Playboy Jazz Festivals. The festival back then wasn't as diluted as it is now. Most of the artists playing were jazz artists. What does Ozomotli have to do with jazz? Anyways,one year I'm drunk and talking and sharing food and this guy starts playing. 15 minutes in, almost everyone stopped talking and were fucking mesmerized. He actually sobered me up a bit, he was that good.


This is the best CD one I've heard from him.

[cansei de ser sexme]

I saw that Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman are playing concerts in SF this year. I'm a fan of a lot of their work, but didn't know how they were holding up these days. Anyone know?