What Jazz album are you listening to?

Psy-Fi · 03-04-2017, 10:24 AM

"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)

Justthefacts · 03-06-2017, 12:24 PM

John Coltrane | My Favorite Things

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

**Frownland** · 03-06-2017, 12:31 PM

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

Akai · 03-28-2017, 08:08 AM

Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat

(1975)

scumflesh · 06-25-2017, 01:13 PM

SPECTRUM ORCHESTRUM

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

Saw them live this week end.

~~MicShazam~~ · 06-25-2017, 02:31 PM

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

Madame Wu · 07-22-2017, 11:28 AM

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

OccultHawk · 07-22-2017, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Justthefacts

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.

OccultHawk · 07-22-2017, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Madame Wu

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.

**Frownland** · 07-22-2017, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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.

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."

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Can't really go wrong with Coltrane, but I think A Love Supreme is his highest regarded album. My favourite is Sun Ship. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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scumflesh Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France Posts: 119	SPECTRUM ORCHESTRUM It's a strange jazz/ Progressive rock band from France. Saw them live this week end. __________________ MORE THAN SOUNDS Blogzine: https://morethansoundszine.blogspot.fr

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Akai Godless Ape Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Britannia Posts: 1,255	Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat (1975)

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Kendrick Scott Oracle - We Are the Drum It's an amazing album! The title track blows me away every time:

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Madame Wu Groupie Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: UK Posts: 5	What Jazz album would you suggest to a beginner? I've never really listened to jazz but I want to listen to something new.