This site needs more Jazz love. I've been listening to alot of recordings off the Blue Note label lately and I've just been floored by the quality and emotion they represent.
Here are a few of my favorite Blue Note recordings:
I've been such a huge fan of that Hard-Bop sound since my dad and I used to go to Jazz shows in the city together. Fond memories.
Niiiice. I love hard bop. Big Wes Montgomery fan here. Favourite album? "The Wes Montgomery Trio" - just Wes with organ and drums. Really soulful and organic.
Hank Mobley is another favourite. "No Room For Squares" and the two "Workout" albums are amazing. (SEE AVATAR)
Also, Blues & Roots by Mingus is an absolute classic. "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" is one of the best hard bop tracks I've ever heard. It's so dynamic and lively and bluesy.
This site needs more Jazz love. I've been listening to alot of recordings off the Blue Note label lately and I've just been floored by the quality and emotion they represent.
Blue Note is one of the most reputable Jazz records around. They only take the best on their label and have been realy ingenuative in recording techniques and such over the years. I'm got into jazz drumming a few years back and imo is the best kind of music around.
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Niiiice. I love hard bop. Big Wes Montgomery fan here. Favourite album? "The Wes Montgomery Trio" - just Wes with organ and drums. Really soulful and organic.
Hank Mobley is another favourite. "No Room For Squares" and the two "Workout" albums are amazing. (SEE AVATAR)
Also, Blues & Roots by Mingus is an absolute classic. "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" is one of the best hard bop tracks I've ever heard. It's so dynamic and lively and bluesy.
I've been away from the forum for months and when i come back what a pleasant surprise it is to find out this topic! I see people are into a lot of blue note artists, some hard bop names, that's great!
To tell you the truth i am a John Coltrane Fanatic (A Love Supreme, most beautiful album ever imo), and i love jazz from the late 60s (when people were experimenting with free jazz ideas). Pharaoh Sanders, Ornette Coleman, and specially Coltrane himself with albums like Ascension (with a lot o great musicians) and Interestellar space (Coltrane on tenor and Rashid Ali on drums).
Anyone into Sun Ra? He was a pioneer in the use of synthsizers, playing synths on jazz since the 50s btw! A very special character.
Anyone into Sun Ra? He was a pioneer in the use of synthsizers, playing synths on jazz since the 50s btw! A very special character.
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Sun Ra is fucking awesome. Bit of an acquired taste but absolutely amazing regardless.
I can't get into his music that often because it's so abstract and follows so many different trains of thought, it's never found in the same place and always moving outward.
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terence blanchard
jason moran
ravi coltrane
the benevito-russo duo
robert glasper
charlie hunter
brian blade and the fellowship band
the dirty dozen brass band
oh and my personal modern favorite Espiranza Spalding-amazing double bass with great female vocals
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Sun Ra is fucking awesome. Bit of an acquired taste but absolutely amazing regardless.
I can't get into his music that often because it's so abstract and follows so many different trains of thought, it's never found in the same place and always moving outward.
Still, an original voice (to say the least).
He always moved outward because he already knew, long before many of us, that SPACE IS THE PLACE I really don't know how this guy came up with his incredible music, more than 200 records, most of them self produced and very spontaneous, for him and his Arkhestra there were no difference between life, universe and music itself. All that without the aid of psichedelics. Not to mention his very strange sci-fi movies.
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I really don't know how this guy came up with his incredible music, more than 200 records, most of them self produced and very spontaneous, for him and his Arkhestra there were no difference between life, universe and music itself. All that without the aid of psichedelics. Not to mention his very strange sci-fi movies.
