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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: wwwes on November 29, 2008, 02:34:41 AM
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I say Yea.
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I'm picky but I like a fair amount. Mingus, Blakey, and Alice Coltrane are my favorites.
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Yea.
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Yea, in measured doses.
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At large, I'd probably say "Nay," but I guess that wouldn't be fair because I really like a few artists (about 5 or 6 Miles albums, Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelly, Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet).
I just remembered the John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman album. I change my answer to "Yea."
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YEA!
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yea. not if there's any fusion involved, though.
what's everyone's vote for the best jazz era? personally, i keep going back to the 1920's hot 5's style stuff right up to early bebop, but i don't have a huge appetite for much beyond that. listening to coltrane or late miles always feels more intellectual than visceral... though i feel like a luddite (or a marsalis) for saying that.
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I don't know if I'd say it's the best, but I'm a sucker for the cool west coast sound. Early Miles Davis (with Quintet especially), Oscar Peterson Trio, Chet Baker, even some Stan Getz. I love Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and Art Blakey, but I'll put on Cookin/Relaxin/Workin/Steamin more often than I will Sketches of Spain or even Kind of Blue.
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I love all the greats: Us3, Digable Planets...
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volunteer slavery by rahsaan roland kirk!
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Yea.
I challenge any rock fan to give Coltrane's Afro-Blue from Live at the Village Vanguard, and tell me that it's anything but hard-fucking-core.
you also can't beat Mingus for sheer badassness. His cat toilet training program (http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html)is a testament to this.
(http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_toilet.jpg)
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Yea. Miles, Wayne Shorter, Thelonius Monk, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Terence Blanchard, Omar Sosa, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, all of these are faves. I could never get into Mingus, for some reason.
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Post-1933: Nay
Pre-1933: Yea.
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I used to have a few Mingus albums during my college days but I can't remember much beyond the track "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting." Holy moly is that a good cut.
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Yea.
mos: try "the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady."
(http://991.com/newgallery/Charlie-Mingus-The-Black-Saint-A-339544.jpg)
As a matter of fact, I'm going to put this on! I oughta cross-post this to the "What are you listening to right now" thread.
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Yea. Although my knowledge is limited.
My favorites so far:
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(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WSK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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The Far East Suite is supoib. Money Jungle is even better.
I'm one of those dudes who likes a ton of jazz yet still can't even really find a quick and easy way to get into his head exactly what "modal" means. I am also one of those dudes who thinks it is perfectly acceptable to have shreddin' gee-tar in your jazz (see: Billy Cobham's "Stratus"; John McLaughlin's "Dragon Song"; Tony Williams Lifetime's "Red Alert"). Plus, you know who is wonderful? Rahsaan Roland Kirk, that is who is wonderful.
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Yea. Including bloated, over-indulgent 70s fusion stuff.
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NAY!
Those ridiculous time signatures are impossible to mosh to!