adriansnergleman wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:16 pm This album is in really poor taste, but I love it anyway. Like if the members of Funkadelic took the Limitless drug in a flowery green field:

Yes, that album is very "bad taste" music and not really "true" Mahavishnu music IMO but I find it their most *entertaining* record in spite of everything. The beginning in particular is great. HUGE WF for the songs with Chick Coreas scientologist wife singing lead and the attempts at funk sound silly too. Actually, a good half of this album is truly awful but for some reason, the whole mess is better than the parts... quintessential "guilty pleasure" music to me

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Thumbed through Art Pepper’s autobiography after somebody recommended it and what in the ever living shit who was this motherfucker? Of course I am going to read the whole thing but jesus christ. It was like fast forwarding through Salo.

My favorite shit is early free era... Art Ensemble, later Miles and Coltrane, Mingus, etc. Classic bop might be better empirically?

Hot jazz is hella underrated, get on your old school ellington

Ace K wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 3:03 am Hot jazz is hella underrated, get on your old school ellington

A couple favorites from Ellington’s 1920s hot era:

Let freedom squawk... Gimme Ayler, Ornette, Brötzmann, Abe, even Borbetomagus, if you can call the latter "jazz."

Fusion—before it turned into a slick, rubbery, easy-listening suckfest for yuppies—comes in second, I suppose.