Jazz thread

[Fredrick]

There's an old one floating around somewhere BUT I DON'T CARE look at his left hand

[Pizza The Hut]

[Bjorny]

Originally Posted by Fredrick

loving it!

[Izak MD]

i love the jazz!

[Fredrick]

Albert Ayler is great. In fact, I think I'm gonna listen to his Love Cry album right now.

[Izak MD]

i became very proud when i reintroduced my dad to albert ayler.

he heard me playing that album (live in greenwich village) in the living room one day when i was visiting home and he was like "who is this guy??? he's playing with muscle! he's blowing out the whole room!" and then i told him it was ayler. he got all nostalgic and was like "i first heard ayler in college in the 1970s, and i had no idea what he was trying to do, because i was so obsessed with anything that sounded like coltrane, nothing else would work for me."

anyhow that was a great day, i actually got my dad to expand his musical horizons. it has never happened before or since. he wound up buying a bunch of ayler stuff and he even still occasionally plays the refrain to 'spirits rejoice' on his tenor sax when practicing.

[Damage Jackal]

[Pizza The Hut]

omg...best game ever made

[Fredrick]

Originally Posted by Izak MD

i became very proud when i reintroduced my dad to albert ayler.

he heard me playing that album (live in greenwich village) in the living room one day when i was visiting home and he was like "who is this guy??? he's playing with muscle! he's blowing out the whole room!" and then i told him it was ayler. he got all nostalgic and was like "i first heard ayler in college in the 1970s, and i had no idea what he was trying to do, because i was so obsessed with anything that sounded like coltrane, nothing else would work for me."

anyhow that was a great day, i actually got my dad to expand his musical horizons. it has never happened before or since. he wound up buying a bunch of ayler stuff and he even still occasionally plays the refrain to 'spirits rejoice' on his tenor sax when practicing.

That's a nice story. I try to push my dad into new territory as well, but he was never that much into jazz in the first place, so I doubt Albert Ayler would work.

Nice little piano piece:

[Fredrick]

Another sax legend

[Fredrick]

4:50, when Mehldau whips out a cigarette, favorite part

[Izak MD]

yeah archie shepp!! his Fire Music was a pretty big part of my teenage years

my favorite django reinhardt:

[Bjorny]

Originally Posted by Fredrick

4:50, when Mehldau whips out a cigarette, favorite part

psss brian blade's solo is killing

[Fredrick]

[McJuicy]

[Izak MD]

keep this thread going

[Bjorny]

[Izak MD]

[Bobby Swisha]

top 5 jazz albums?

[Allergic 2 Life]

Originally Posted by Fredrick

There's an old one floating around somewhere BUT I DON'T CARE look at his left hand

VERY NOICE!

[Izak MD]

my favorite jazz albums. this is hard because i basically just would listen to a few random comps over and over when i wsa young because the older guys didnt release proper albums, it would all be individual 78s. i tend to do "top" lists based on stuff that personally impacted me, not what's historically important or whatever

1. john coltrane - a love supreme
2. sidney bechet - blues in thirds (compilation)
3. john coltrane - stellar regions
4. albert ayler - live in greenwich village
5. sun ra - nothing is (if you download this, you need to make sure the first track is 'sun ra and his band from outer space' because everyone on the internet switches the A side and B side)
6. django reinhardt - djangologie (2 CD comp)
7. cecil taylor - conquistador
8. louis armstrong - best of hot fives and hot sevens
9. ornette coleman - ornette!
10. yamashita yosuke - clay

[Bjorny]

dude a love supreme is amazing

[Pizza The Hut]

I tihnk Ascension is a smidge better

my favorite of all time is Robert Glasper - Canvas

[Izak MD]

if i were to go 11-20, ascension would definitely be there, along with sun ship (the last album featuring the classic quartet), and probably interstellar space (a duo, just coltrane and rashied ali being better than everyone)

a love supreme still sends chills down my spine every time i listen to it, especially the second cut, and i just cant find words that do the whole thing any justice. the truth is, john coltrane was just phenomenal on a level that no one else really could reach and probably never will, and all of the hype directed towards him is 100% justified. he was the absolute best.

[Allergic 2 Life]

Originally Posted by Izak MD

my favorite jazz albums. this is hard because i basically just would listen to a few random comps over and over when i wsa young because the older guys didnt release proper albums, it would all be individual 78s. i tend to do "top" lists based on stuff that personally impacted me, not what's historically important or whatever

1. john coltrane - a love supreme
2. sidney bechet - blues in thirds (compilation)
3. john coltrane - stellar regions
4. albert ayler - live in greenwich village
5. sun ra - nothing is (if you download this, you need to make sure the first track is 'sun ra and his band from outer space' because everyone on the internet switches the A side and B side)
6. django reinhardt - djangologie (2 CD comp)
7. cecil taylor - conquistador
8. louis armstrong - best of hot fives and hot sevens
9. ornette coleman - ornette!
10. yamashita yosuke - clay

nice list. SUN RA is amazing.