GODDAMN I LOVE THAT ALBUM.llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:10 pm Speaking of Duke Ellington, I learned about his mid-60s Sacred Music concert from the Miles Davis autobiography, which is also crucial.
For some reason this lp sounds really, really good on my tube receiver thru old JBLs. I like listening to that system anyways, but that record in particular jumps out of the speakers.
Yeah Man I voted Hot Jazz without having to think too hard about it. And I love a lot of jazz. Those Hot Fives and Sevens, Django Reinhardt and Stephanie Grappeli, Bix Beiderbecke. These guys made music that punches me straight in the fuckin' head. Funny, wild, bursting at the seams. Love it so much. Get the Penguin Jazz Guide, find any record in the 20's and 30's , I'm having a great time.gotdamn wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 3:40 pm Plenty of great music in the "hot" 20's, but it'd be odd to prefer that to the later evolutions of the quintet etc. I remember being astounded by Louis Armstrong's playing in the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, especially having grown up knowing his vocal stuff (which is great music, but weirdly sounds older than his 20's material!)
Every song featuring Eddie Lang on guitar is fire.
There's a real sweet spot in the late 1910's and early 20's where country music and jazz music share the same primordial soup. Emmett Miller to Jimmie Rodgers to Hank Sr. isn't even a stretch - maybe that's too "musicologist" based to enjoy for its own merits, like one would the 50's-70's stuff, but it's fascinating listening nonetheless. After the development of the phonograph, American culture evolved quickly and covered its tracks. It went from minstrel show 78s to what Lee Morgan called black classical music within a generation!
ABSOLUTELY.gotdamn wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 3:46 pm
That first outbreak of bebop is as exciting as early death and black metal or the first hardcore punk bands, you can hear the hunger and the vision coming out of the speaker. Dies off pretty quickly after that, but everything was about to get so much better anyways. Shoutout Miles Davis' Collector's Items for bridging the gap.
Yes!!Tree wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 8:20 am My favorite jazz album ever is Science Fiction by Ornette Coleman, which I think is loosely considered free jazz, even if it's pretty structured and accessible to my ears.
I mostly hate fusion outside of the Herbie stuff. Fusion guitar, that slightly distorted but totally clean-sounding tone, man. Just one of the worst sounds.
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