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Hot diggity damn that album is awesooome!

Miles Davis- Miles Ahead
Chick Corea- Trilogy
Snarky Puppy- Chucha Vulcha

A longtime favorite of mine...

Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down (1966)

When jazz musicians get more nervous

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When jazz musicians get more nervous

You're not embedding videos correctly and it's just showing us a white box mate. This is the correct way to do it.

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Freakin' awesome, right?

For Musicians Only by Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sonny Stitt. Ima be in jazz's case for a while, and I think I'm really going to enjoy this bebop buzz.

If you can get down with modern classical, Zappa's The Perfect Stranger is pretty dissonant and awesome. It's probably in my top five Zappa records.

Lalo Schifrin mix ~ Bullitt

A mix made from the Bullitt soundtrack by Argentinian jazz musician & composer Lalo Schifrin.

"We want you to come on and go with us on this trip"

One of my favorite live jazz albums...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments (1973)

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John Coltrane | My Favorite Things

Is this regarded as his best? The fucking La La Land soundtrack put me in full on jazz mode.

Can't really go wrong with Coltrane, but I think A Love Supreme is his highest regarded album. My favourite is Sun Ship.

Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat

(1975)

SPECTRUM ORCHESTRUM

It's a strange jazz/ Progressive rock band from France.

Saw them live this week end.

Kendrick Scott Oracle - We Are the Drum
It's an amazing album!
The title track blows me away every time:

What Jazz album would you suggest to a beginner? I've never really listened to jazz but I want to listen to something new.

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John Coltrane | My Favorite Things

Is this regarded as his best? The fucking CENSORED soundtrack put me in full on jazz mode.

I would say this, A Love Supreme (as Frown said), Giant Steps, and Ascension are most frequently cited as his best work. He also played on Davis' Kind of Blue which, obviously, is very highly praised.

The best case for My Favorite Things is he kept building on it obsessively throughout his career. Every sound he ever made is sacred.

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What Jazz album would you suggest to a beginner? I've never really listened to jazz but I want to listen to something new.

The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz is a great starting point.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1857874)

Can't forget Sun Ship. Or any of his other albums.

Anyway, I read this article recently and this is as good a place as any to post it, it really reflects the perfection of Coltrane: The Story Of 'A Love Supreme' : NPR

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Lewis Porter heads the masters program in jazz history and research at Rutgers University-Newark. He's the author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Porter says that simple idea culminating in the first movement with an unprecedented verbal chant by Coltrane forms the foundation of the entire suite. It's a theme Coltrane consciously uses in subtle and careful ways throughout A Love Supreme. For example, toward the end of part one, "Acknowledgement," Coltrane plays the riff in every key.

"Coltrane's more or less finished his improvisation, and he just starts playing the 'Love Supreme' motif, but he changes the key another time, another time, another time. This is something very unusual. It's not the way he usually improvises. It's not really improvised. It's something that he's doing. And if you actually follow it through, he ends up playing this little 'Love Supreme' theme in all 12 possible keys," says Porter. "To me, he's giving you a message here. First of all, he's introduced the idea. He's experimented with it. He's improvised with it with great intensity. Now he's saying it's everywhere. It's in all 12 keys. Anywhere you look, you're going to find this 'Love Supreme.' He's showing you that in a very conscious way on his saxophone. So to me, he's really very carefully thought about how he wants to present the idea."

In all his music and even more so as he gets further along in his career and thus more avant-garde, people might think it's random but what he's actually doing is running a central theme through cycles and extremely complicated but very systematic rearrangements. He does this at such incredible speeds that other composers can only mimic what he was doing with computers. At the same time, he wasn't bothered with any sort of acrobatics but rather exploring the natural patterns of the universe through an auditory medium. He's worshipped as a God because what he created has more in common with nature than art.

Listened to A Love Supreme by Coltrane this morning.

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Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Nomadic (2014)

Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Nomadic (Full Album) (2014)

It's a psych/jazz/drone kind of thing. Bass, drums, sitar, & sax.

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Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Nomadic (2014)

Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Nomadic (Full Album) (2014)

It's a psych/jazz/drone kind of thing. Bass, drums, sitar, & sax.

Very cool!

This is wonderful, recently discovered.

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Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid (1966)

The second solo album from drummer Stanton Moore...

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Stanton Moore – Flyin' the Koop (2002)

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle (1973)

The sixth album from former professional skateboarder turned musician; Tommy Guerrero...

Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats and Follies (2011)

Brazilian percussionist Pedro dos Santos only solo recording...

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Pedro Santos - Krishnanda (1968)

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Herbie Mann - Stone Flute (1970)

This is as much an ambient album as a jazz album. Perfect music for a lazy afternoon.

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Rabih Abou-Khalil ‎– The Cactus of Knowledge (2001)

14th album from oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil.

Parts of this sound like a New Orleans brass band mixed with eastern instruments. Might be the most jazz I've heard in an album by him.

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Gilles Peterson Presents Sun Ra and His Arkestra: To Those of Earth... and Other Worlds (2015)

Gilles Peterson Presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds

Nice compilation of Sun Ra's music compiled by Giles Peterson. Available as a download, double CD, or double LP. The download is the biggest bang for your musical buck, though, because you get nearly 5 hours of music with that option.

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Sonny Simmons - Staying on the Watch (1966)

The debut album by saxophone player Sonny Simmons. An all-time favorite of mine.

The new album from Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids.

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Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - An Angel Fell (2018)

Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus (2016)

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Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty (1979)

Another one of many great albums by Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra. Recently re-released by Art Yard Records.

Good one, keep it up and coming.