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Can anyone help me hash out Louis Prima's album discography? I listened to The Wildest recently and really liked it, so I looked up his discography online but, like a lot of artists from that era, he seems to have recorded with a bunch of different credited identities (i.e. as a duo with his wife du jour, with his Las Vegas band, as a soloist) and I'm having trouble straightening them out. Any help would be appreciated. 
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I've been on a bit of a jazz kick lately. I happened across Allen Toussaint's album The Bright Mississippi and it's amazing. Listening to some James Booker right now thanks to this thread. I'm looking for similar piano-heavy New Orleans-style stuff. Any recommendations?
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Oct 26, 2015 12:02
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Paper Clip Death posted:I've been on a bit of a jazz kick lately. I happened across Allen Toussaint's album The Bright Mississippi and it's amazing. Listening to some James Booker right now thanks to this thread. I'm looking for similar piano-heavy New Orleans-style stuff. Any recommendations? Jelly Roll Morton.
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Oct 26, 2015 17:21
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I just picked up Brad Mehldau's Ten years solo set. I've been a huge fan of his for years. Seen him live three times and grab everything of his I can. This though? Holy gently caress this is good. 
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Nov 2, 2015 06:46
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I am an idiot and don't know if this is a jazz song. Does anyone know the name of the song playing in the background of this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54RYi6gcD-I
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Nov 7, 2015 01:25
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Sounds like some royalty free junk that would come packaged with a second-rate video editing suite! Anywhoo it's kinda Ska, to my ear
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Nov 7, 2015 01:45
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On Terra Firma posted:I just picked up Brad Mehldau's Ten years solo set. I've been a huge fan of his for years. Seen him live three times and grab everything of his I can. This though? You should listen to Mehliana if you hadn't already, it's a different side of Mehldau, and it's *amazing* (assuming you enjoy fusion). Here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnH27mxW0KM
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Nov 9, 2015 22:51
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babua posted:You should listen to Mehliana if you hadn't already, it's a different side of Mehldau, and it's *amazing* (assuming you enjoy fusion). Yeah I have Taming the dragon as well as a bunch of recorded live sets. His work with Chris Thile is also ridiculous.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:28
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On Terra Firma posted:His work with Chris Thile is also ridiculous. I'm going to check this out, thank you!
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Nov 11, 2015 18:24
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babua posted:I'm going to check this out, thank you! Here's a good start. Good luck tracking down recordings of the shows themselves. They're all bootlegs at this point. This is just loving ridiculous though. His improvisation at around 5:30 is probably one of the craziest I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9k7NHX-sU
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Nov 11, 2015 18:48
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On Terra Firma posted:Here's a good start. Good luck tracking down recordings of the shows themselves. They're all bootlegs at this point. This is just loving ridiculous though. His improvisation at around 5:30 is probably one of the craziest I've ever seen. Dime a dozen has had a bunch of those shows up there in the past. They're easy tapes to find.
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Nov 12, 2015 03:23
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BigFactory posted:Dime a dozen has had a bunch of those shows up there in the past. They're easy tapes to Yeah I've pulled everything off there that I could find. I keep checking back hoping someone will throw up another recording of those two but nothing has come up since last year.
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Nov 12, 2015 05:13
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On Terra Firma posted:Here's a good start. Good luck tracking down recordings of the shows themselves. They're all bootlegs at this point. This is just loving ridiculous though. His improvisation at around 5:30 is probably one of the craziest I've ever seen. Started with this the other day, and I'm glad I did Thanks again for the heads-up.
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Nov 14, 2015 12:39
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I'm enjoying Eric Dolphy's album Out To Lunch right now. Are there any other classic albums featuring the vibraphone?
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Dec 12, 2015 16:26
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busfahrer posted:I'm enjoying Eric Dolphy's album Out To Lunch right now. For something somewhat more recent, the Chick Corea/Gary Burton album Native Sense - The New Duets is aces. Don't know if it counts as `classic' though but whatever.
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Dec 12, 2015 16:43
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Sunflowers is another good Milt Jackson record. More fusion-y, but not out there. Freddy Hubbard's on it.
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Dec 12, 2015 18:25
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Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett's eponymous album is great too.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:10
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busfahrer posted:I'm enjoying Eric Dolphy's album Out To Lunch right now. I want to recommend Lionel Hampton but I'm primarily familiar with him on a song-by-song basis rather than any of his albums. Johnny Otis played a lot of vibraphone but he's probably not as well known for his jazz playing - he was one of the late swing era guys who switched to playing R&B in the 1950s. It was good stuff, though.
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Dec 12, 2015 20:24
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busfahrer posted:I'm enjoying Eric Dolphy's album Out To Lunch right now. Take a look at Bobby Hutcherson's other appearances as leader and sideman in the 60s because most are mega-classic post bop. Andrew Hill, Jackie McLean, Tony Williams, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green, etc all used what was basically the Blue Note out staple lineups he was in. And get the other Dolphy records he's on!
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Dec 12, 2015 21:30
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busfahrer posted:I'm enjoying Eric Dolphy's album Out To Lunch right now. Like Funkcroquet said Grant green uses it, specifically on Idle Moments which is my favourite record of his.
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Dec 12, 2015 21:36
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Speaking of Grant Green and favorite records of his, I just recently started hearing his stuff and was blown away by Feelin' the Spirit, a series of bluesy jazz interpretations of spirituals (even though I don't really know much/listen to spirituals/gospel/blues). Herbie Hancock also plays on it, if you need further incentive to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yVPWY7Kx-M
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Dec 27, 2015 01:45
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Machado de Assis posted:Speaking of Grant Green and favorite records of his, I just recently started hearing his stuff and was blown away by Feelin' the Spirit, a series of bluesy jazz interpretations of spirituals (even though I don't really know much/listen to spirituals/gospel/blues). Herbie Hancock also plays on it, if you need further incentive to check it out: This is really good. The groove kind of simmering under everything going on is so nice.
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Dec 27, 2015 06:37
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Machado de Assis posted:Speaking of Grant Green and favorite records of his, I just recently started hearing his stuff and was blown away by Feelin' the Spirit, a series of bluesy jazz interpretations of spirituals (even though I don't really know much/listen to spirituals/gospel/blues). Herbie Hancock also plays on it, if you need further incentive to check it out: This is great, I'm not sure how I haven't come across it before (probably laziness on my part) -- thanks for sharing. Lovin herbie's improv. Lumius fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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Dec 27, 2015 20:14
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As a Christmas present, my mum got me this Gordon Goodwin songbook with transcriptions of the alto saxophone parts for some of the Big Phat Band pieces. I assume it's her way of implying I need to practice more (which is true). Anyway, I was having a look at them and it's all the swing numbers, and they're all something like 250 bpm which is pretty insane. It's like when I tried some of the Charlie Parker songbook - I just can't fit my fingers around it at all. I'm nowhere near dexterous enough.
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Dec 27, 2015 20:53
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Another great album by Grant Green is "His Majesty King Funk!," it even has a groovy version of "That Lucky Old Sun." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSj2X_JGts
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Dec 29, 2015 03:44
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Just got into an ECM mood the last few days. Oh boy, here goes many many hours of listening to relaxing music
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Dec 29, 2015 22:57
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So the jazz albums I used to own are long gone and I've just recently decided to fill my collection up on iTunes. For now, I'm focusing on hard bop and this is what I've either bought already or have on my wishlist:
Are there any other hard bop titles that I could add? (keeping in mind that hard bop can often intermingle with other genres, like modal jazz or even fusion)
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Dec 31, 2015 20:08
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You've got a lot of Coltrane on there as is, but I'd put Giant Steps in over Love Supreme for what you're going for.
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Dec 31, 2015 20:31
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Seventh Arrow posted:So the jazz albums I used to own are long gone and I've just recently decided to fill my collection up on iTunes. For now, I'm focusing on hard bop and this is what I've either bought already or have on my wishlist: I could go on with more suggestions seriously biased toward tenor players if you'd like. Edit: to remove titles you already listed, because I apparently can't read
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BigFactory posted:You've got a lot of Coltrane on there as is, but I'd put Giant Steps in over Love Supreme for what you're going for. I've already got A Love Supreme, so I might as well add Giant Steps to the list. SubG posted:If you're talking specifically about hard bop I'd say Dexter Gordon's Go! and Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus are essentials. I'd also add Miles' Walkin' to your list of Miles albums---I think Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is the better album, but Walkin' is one of the defining albums of the subgenre. I'd also add Mingus' Ah Um if you think it counts as hard bop or Blues & Roots if you think it doesn't. I'm not sure if Ah Um is hard bop or not, but it's one of the first jazz albums I ever bought (along with Kind Of Blue), so it has a lot of sentimental value. And yes, feel free to suggest more tenor titles!
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Does anyone have any recommendations for solo piano along the lines of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUDVWIVVkQ I already have just about everything Keith Jarrett and Mehldau have done since they're all that springs to mind.
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On Terra Firma posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for solo piano along the lines of this? Try McCoy Tyner's albums on Milestones from about 70-80, and in general you can dig through the 70s stuff on the label Strata East (also Black Jazz and Tribe) for this kind of sound, and the contemporaneous discographies of the other record labels for which the performers on Strata East recorded edit: sorry, didn't notice you only wanted solo piano. This kind of language is more typically found in piano trios or quartets from that time, IME as someone who dug through the typical kozmigroov lists a while back, so you might want to broaden your search a bit, though there are still probably some solo records in those labels' discographies. funkcroquet fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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Jan 2, 2016 21:26
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For the last few months I've been listening to John Coltrane's Africa/Brass and I absolutely adore it; I think what's really noteworthy for Africa is how despite, on paper, it's kind of like regular modal jazz in terms of intro-solo-solo-solo-solo, etc, the ensemble returns to the main theme in between the improvisation passages, and in the case of Greensleeves, does so in a slightly different way each time. What other jazz is kind of like this, where there is improvisation that keenly follows a dynamic backdrop provided by a large ensemble? (Frank Zappa's album Imaginary Diseases has a lot of this, in particular, the song Montreal-- He improvises for 9 minutes but the ensemble behind him lays down different backings that he plays around with).
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So I've had the Charlie Parker Omnibook for a while now and it's been quite handy in learning how to play over jazz chord progressions; but now I've found out that there's also a Miles Davis Omnibook, a John Coltrane Omnibook, a Joe Pass Omnibook and now a Cannonball Adderley Omnibook is on its way. I know people say you should transcribe stuff yourself and they're right - I still transcribe stuff that's of interest to me, but there's no way I still have time at my age to transcribe so many solos from these iconic jazzmen. I wonder else would be cool? Maybe a Wes Montgomery Omnibook? Dizzy Gillespie Omnibook?
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Jan 9, 2016 22:01
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There's been an advert on TV in the UK that has actually caused me to buy something - Jazz at 33 1/3rpm! Starts at 4.99GBP for the first issue, 9.99GBP for the second and then 14.99GBP for all subsequent issues. No idea how long they intend to carry this on for but it seems interesting. The first three issues are "Kind of Blue", "Blue Train" and "Lady in Satin" - I own them all on CD of course, but I have always wanted to have a Jazz collection on vinyl.
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Jan 21, 2016 16:59
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Feeling Quantic's new album with the Western Transient. Basically he locked himself in a room with a bunch of musicians and a notebook of compilations and this is the output. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQQ0W2LPV68
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Jan 22, 2016 01:36
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Oh man I would love some 33's. I really wish more records were sold as 33's
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Jan 22, 2016 01:45
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dik-dik posted:Oh man I would love some 33's. I really wish more records were sold as 33's What are you talking about?
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Jan 22, 2016 03:22
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I'm dumb I meant 45s ignore me.
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Anyone know a podcast or radio show that's more about young composers/performers, or more on the progressive side of things? I used to listen to ABC Jazz Up Late, but that got cancelled last year.
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