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kittybriton .. seems to me you have begun......
80% big and established - no one has mentioned the indispensable - listen to Charlie Parker in small groups with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and his work with strings, far better than the slagging off for being commercial; listen to Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus is a quartet with Eric Dolphy, but listen to as much Mingus as you can - Tijuana Mooods, Ah Um, Blues & Rooots; listen to the Modern Jazz Quartet - and John Lewis piano and ensemble recordings; listen to jimmy Giuffre; as mr i says all Miles davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins as well as Coltrane and Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans too....etc etc
20% off the wall and serendipity - Ran Blake, Martial Solal, are old but very under acknowledged masters that i would sugggest, but check out texas tenors, the Brooklyn Jazz Underground and anything else you can find, George Lewis clarinettist, Braxton etc etc
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« Reply #32 on: 16:28:06, 04-06-2008 » |
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Thanks KK. For anybody who's as obssessed with the dots as I tend to be, this is a great site! |
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« Reply #33 on: 19:27:51, 04-06-2008 » |
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« Reply #34 on: 17:54:18, 05-06-2008 » |
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Jelly Roll Morton - Complete Recorded Works (an ultra-cheap boxed set)
Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives and Sevens (ditto)
Count Basie - The Count Basie Story (ditto)
Duke Ellington - Masterpieces 1926-1949, and also Black, Brown and Beige
Benny Goodman - Live at Carnegie Hall: the Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Art Tatum - Piano Grand Master
Charlie Parker - A Studio Chronicle 1940-1948
Miles Davis - Workin, Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Charlie Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Bud Powell, Bouncing with BudThelonious Monk, Straight, no ChaserEric Dolphy, Live! at the Five SpotArchie Shepp, Fire MusicJoe McPhee with Survival unit II |
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« Reply #35 on: 18:00:47, 05-06-2008 » |
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joe mcPhee eh?
he used to be one out geezer
he's a bit gutbucket bluesy now isnt he?
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« Reply #36 on: 19:32:11, 05-06-2008 » |
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gutbucket bluesy?
not sure hwaet that means, i only know his early work
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« Reply #37 on: 22:24:12, 05-06-2008 » |
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See what you all make of this, it's where I began with jazz, the sort of music that got me into jazz 30-odd years ago CornfedAs a test, see who can identify the instruments played. Not a trick question, just a wee test. The recording was made at the HMV studios in Hayes, Middlesex (UK) on 29 Nov 1927 by a mix of British/American/Italian-American/Canadian studio group, the solos are in the main improvised but the general music arrangement was recorded by several bands in the US during earlier months that year. John |
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« Reply #38 on: 23:14:45, 05-06-2008 » |
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Can I suggest a slightly different approach, forget buying albums for a while and visit your nearest jazz club - I hope there is one reasonably close-by. Fine jazz artists are notoriously underpaid for their music and can be seen and heard live throughout the UK at relatively little cost. I live in Suffolk, not exactly the world's hub, but in recent months for example, I've heard Lianne Carroll and Jackie Dankworth in concert together, both amongst the finest vocalists/musicians jazz can offer; Martin Taylor and Jack Emblow in utterly captivating form and Alan Barnes playing the socks off almost anyone you care to name. None of these cost me more than a full price cd and all were virtually guaranteed to please anyone coming fresh to jazz. They all record, as do most jazz artists these days, on their own or on friends labels and their cds can be bought at their concerts.
That apart, the jazz greats are so freely available on cd that you can more or less pick at random once you know what you like. I started with big bands - catch one of the good ones live if you can eg the Woody Hermann band still occasionally tours and is the real deal. I went on to piano players and enjoy so many but would suggest, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett and Earl Hines to start, but there are so many whose recordings are worth listening to. There is so much else...Jazz Record Requests on R3 is always worth a listen.
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Thelonius Monk - Genius of Modern Music I & II
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« Reply #40 on: 12:07:01, 06-06-2008 » |
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Up very early Doge....No-one seems to be putting up any GB stuff....any ideas....or even the South Africa connections....I'd have Mike Westbrook Orchestra or Brotherhood of Breath in there just for a different perspective....How about Labyrinth by Ian Carr and Norma Winston....that should have cross-over interest for Kitty....I mean surely she wants to be entertained as well as schooled....
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« Reply #41 on: 12:12:27, 06-06-2008 » |
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While Kitty's digesting all this, a question for you jazzboffins: I've long been meaning to reacquaint myself with Stan Tracey, whose recordings a flatmate would play endlessly, years ago. Trouble is, I can't remember them well enough to know which ones are to be recommended and which aren't. Any tips?
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« Reply #44 on: 15:37:57, 06-06-2008 » |
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Stan Tracey
The Return of Captain Adventure - a Quartet featuring Art Themen
Alice in Jazzland -Big Band record
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