bluzman61
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My favorites include Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis, Take Five by Dave Brubeck and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. Coltrane is my favorite jazz artist all-time.
What are some of your favorite jazz albums?
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I don't listen to a lot of jazz.
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Mostly Big Band myself. Count Basie "April In Paris", CBO "Live At El Morocco", Buddy Rich "Swinging New Big Band"
Time Out - by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
My father built a Heathkit stereo system back in the late 1950s and I listened to this album obsessively, sitting on the floor between the two big speakers he built. To this day, I know every note of piano, bass, saxophone and drums. The greatest jazz album ever. Period.
Jack Johnson by Miles Davis - I don't remember a lot of this album but I loved it at the time. I probably should listen to it again. Not a huge Miles fan but this album was excellent.
I think.
And then, there's Heavy Weather by Weather Report.
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bluzman61
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I like Time Out as well. "Take Five" is actually part of the album, NOT the album name. My mistake!Time Out - by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
My father built a Heathkit stereo system back in the late 1950s and I listened to this album obsessively, sitting on the floor between the two big speakers he built. To this day, I know every note of piano, bass, saxophone and drums. The greatest jazz album ever. Period.
Jack Johnson by Miles Davis - I don't remember a lot of this album but I loved it at the time. I probably should listen to it again. Not a huge Miles fan but this album was excellent.
I think.
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I liked Land of the Midnight Sun, better.
I've done it many times. Take Five was THE iconic cut from the album.
I would concur.
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You are opening a very loaded topic. First of all, there are many kinds of jazz. Everything from Dixieland jazz to hard jazz-rock fusion and chamber punk.
I tend toward the Fusion end of jazz as the natural progression of / and marriage with hard rock. First of all, most every great jazz artist of the modern era has John Coltrane somewhere in the back of his curriculum vitae, so that's a given.
Out of that and him came a whole new era of fusion including:
- Filles de Kilimanjaro - Miles Davis
- In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
- A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
- Devotion - John McLaughlin
- Visions of the Emerald Beyond - John McLaughlin
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Ahem, I have several Heathkits, all heavily modified. They are barely surpassed, even today.
I still have an excellent copy of the record.
That one album went a long way in popularizing jazz fusion to a lot of people.And then, there's Heavy Weather by Weather Report.
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Al was great when he teamed up with Paco deLucia and McLaughlin to make a jazz trio, I saw them live, I got a good picture of Al with my girlfriend's Honeywell Pentax all manual camera.
You are wise, my friend.
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You are wise, my friend.
No, just very lucky to have had a few brushing experiences in the industry. But thanks anyway.
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I saw them too in Berkeley. We sat on the ground just above the seats. Watched the sun set over SF Bay. and then the music started. The recording is "A Night in San Francisco" of one of the concerts in the area. Great Concert.
Also great , the "Nigerian Market Place" album by Oscar Peterson. We had excellent seats at a live performance at a winery. Wonderful.
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Forever and Always these three:
