Been listening to 4 generations of miles from mike stern and the gang and Essential Standards by Bill Evans, love a bit of bill

Loving the **** out of Mingus Ah Hum. This is the first jazz album I have paid any real attention to. I have been missing out on dat good ****.

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus

All really great minimalistic noir jazz

Henry Threadgill ... ZOOID
Anthony Braxton ... 7 standards volume 2 1985
Ornette Coleman ... Sound Grammar Live
Ronald Shannon Jackson ... Decode Yourself!

Noah Howard's The Black Ark and Bill Evans' Crosscurrents.

A Sunday morning Coltrane spree.

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John Coltrane ~ A Love Supreme

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John Coltrane ~ Lush Life

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John Coltrane ~ My Favorite Things

I've been listening to the Genius of Coleman Hawkins lately... it's good for when I'm after some more relaxing and less schizophrenic jazz. I'm surprised he never gets mentioned here actually.

miles davis - sketches of spain

Just listening to Ronnie Jordan - the Quiet Revolution atm

Ella swings gently with nelson.

im nostly listening
 

im mostly listening to miles davis and john coltrane

ben williams..... worth a look for sure!

Yesterday I listened to "Fathers and Sons" by Muddy Waters. Enjoyed it quite a bit.

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He was simply the best hard-bop trumpeter in my eyes. Such a satisfying listen from start to finish this.

love paul desmond,pure desmond 10/10.

Oscar Peterson's album The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks where he plays songs by Cole Porter is a delicious listen. As a "cover/tribute album", I didn't expect it to e as good as it turned out!

Great piano player :)

Been checking out one of John Zorn's 2011 releases, At the Gates of Paradise



Really nice and mellow for a Zorn work.

Also digging into the 2 hour 10 minute (2 disc) Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White: Forever

Good bunch of Return to Forever live stuff...

Corea, Clarke & White | Forever

Space Circus and After the Cosmic Rain are my favorites but there are plenty of good'uns.



I miss Al di Meola, what HAPPENED? He's obviously still alive and kicking, he's apparently got an album out this year. And worked with these fellas in '09. Where's Al?

Edit: Found my answer on the above article's comments:

Yeah... About that :D

Thought it was a Blues/Jazz thread...

Both great albums, Mrd00d! :)

At this moment I'm listening to disc 1 of The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings by John Coltrane.
Working my way through the entire box set.
I've heard it all before, but Coltrane never gets old or stale.

Last Jazz album I listened to
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You are really showing off your deck aren't you ;)

I listened to this on the way to work today:

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Far too cool for it's own good.

Haha, nah not really. I post these on facebook (it's really three seconds work with a Blackberry) so it's easier for me to show the same image here, than to find an image of the record cover on Google :).
Truth be told, this is the record player in my hobby room. Wait till saturday when the new one in my living room arrives. That's really something to show off :D.

Love Morphine by the way :)

Been listening to E=MC2 by Count Basie all day long.
Definetly one of my favourites.

Currently listening to Jazz Sahara by Ahmed Abdul-Malik

last i heard was Mingus' The Black Saint and Sinner Lady

pretty good, though i wished it was longer

also working through Miles Davis' early 70s stuff

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Art Tatum - The Chronological Classics

Listening to the 1934-1940 ones now, but will go through it all because they are just so damn good.

I have that same set. Great stuff there!

That sounds mighty fine. Gotta love Tatum.

Should we merge this thread with the Jazzstravaganza thread?

Sometimes, I think Tatum gets a little too fiddly for my tastes. It's like he's too good at playing the piano :p:

Just an example, here's famous standard Time On My Hands with Chet Baker and, I'm 95% sure, Bill Evans on piano in the background :



And here's Tatum playing the same song :



It's the busiest version I've heard!

I used to feel the exact same way about him, but a some point he just clicked with me.

I actually love Tatum's ridiculous over-the-top playing style. You can tell he loved what he did, and the way that he's always doing every possible fill and riff that he can just shows the crazy amount of skill he possessed. Plus, though there are many genres that I think simpler is better, jazz is just not one of them.

I don't know, I'll happily listen to a lot of complex Jazz, but I'd never think more complex or more fiddly automatically equals better jazz. And I'd take Chet Baker and Bill Evans version of Time On My Hands up there over Art Tatum's any day!

I'm not necessarily saying that "more complex = better," I just personally think that for Tatum, it works. It's not a hard and fast rule by any means.

I've been getting into Miles Davis a lot recently and have bought a handful of his albums (Blue Period - Bags' Groove). I'm also interested in Jazz artists such as Lee Morgan, John Coltrane and Art Tatum. I don't listen to Jazz that often but a lot of Miles Davis's early work amuses me.

Listening to:
 

Nujabes - Modal Soul!!!!

I've never been a big jazz person, but the last year or so I've gotten into a lot of Avant/Free jazz, so I've decided that I should explore the more traditional names of the genre.
What i have liked:

Dave Brubeck - Time out
Miles Davis - the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions
Charles Mingus - Ah Um

I'm kind of torn on
John Coltrane - a Love Supreme
Bill Evans - A Portrait In Jazz
Art Blakey - Moanin'

And I didn't care for:
Dizzy Gillespie - Live at Newport
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
Getz\Gilberto

Yeah, I'm with you on Dizzy. I have to admit he's never really done it for me (though I'm open to suggestions if anyone wants to try to change my mind).

Blakey, on the other hand, has produced some of my favorite jazz albums. I'd highly recommend giving at least A Night in Tunisia a listen if you feel like giving him another try.

I'm a big Dizzy fan, but he was one of the guys that got me into jazz, so I'm biased. Honesty, I haven't even heard much from him, besides the one album that I own.

As far as Art Blakey, I would definitely listen to more than just Moanin'. As great as it is, I think Tunisia is better. As Jansz said, he's pretty damn good, especially if you like good drumming.

And if you are more into the experimental side of jazz, and aren't enjoying A Love Supreme, I would look into Coltrane's later work. In the late sixties he really started getting into free jazz, and it shows. I would try Ascension, Meditations, and Expression.