/jazz/ quarantine edition

>Piano trio
Andrew Hull - Invitation
>Horn trio
Goncalo Almeida - Live At Bimhuis
>??? Trio
Michael Formanek - Even Better
I'm really digging his playing so far. Saw he died young on Wikipedia, real shame.

this guy is nice.
Because I am an idiot. I am constantly amazed that someone with such undefined musculature could display great precision and control for a long period on an instrument as active as drums.

I am not as familiar with jazz as I am with other musical forms. But I just uploaded an album that I thought was worth preserving. A free-ish duo prominently featuring fender rhodes and a wah pedal.
youtu.be/w6rwoOCVNQM
lomaxwrigley.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-an-unerring-bow

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Listening to Last Exile. Ronald Shannon Jackson is a beast.

playing drums doesn't really burn a lot of calories, especially when you have learned to play efficiently which you can tell Jeff Watts does. He's able to play a lot with a small range of motion.

Jim Rotondi - New Vistas (2004)
>post-bop, organ jazz, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=36QXB8PLb5s
download: mega.nz/#F!rR81yYCA!uB9HEYu3p3yZd-NKmOTkqw

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David Binney - The Time Verses (2017)
>modern jazz, post-bop, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=sczG2xnfsAI

download: mega.nz/#!KA9SkRBZ!F3eqnD_1BodfqLo_Nvv4J3zElB20dfni5f8W9Y3NcKc

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Orrin Evans - Captain Black (1998)
>post-bop, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=PNt1OIgY2BM

link: mega.nz/#!zFFUWJYA!echPAu9w9gRhpxCuFsDoP5bA4SQLN68uDxCbMULN8sw

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Alex Sipiagin - Moments Captured (2017) [FLAC]
>modern jazz, fusion, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=v78gsvSr0Hw

download: mega.nz/#!WY0m3CgZ!PO2LQbV_qDPqvJAR3gM4D4KyIS4Un0iNFIwG2CvTYQs

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Lage Lund - Unlikely Stories (2010)
>modern jazz, post-bop, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=XVoTGlCtrXI

download: mega.nz/#!HN1nlBwI!d9cNYriSImFpdzQBIWg0ftO8My22pEuLpxa1aHOnnnM

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Jeremy Pelt - Insight (2003)
>post-bop, criss cross

Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=PkXfyAF3lTw

Download: mega.nz/#!3Z8VGIzS!MRZKWYnkP107d5ZIVls2whotxLKb4v_oEIltRysvsVc

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David Kikoski - The Maze (1998) [FLAC]
>post-bop, criss cross

mega.nz/#F!rRdDAQpR!6wN7mkCla-7Js2ZVy0uSnQ

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=ug2ZtUxLuaY

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Currently listening to a bit of bitches brew, Why is Miles fusion so different from most of the other fusion that was inspired by him? I feel like a lot of fusion goes in more of a structured direction and is a lot cornier with big rawk riffs and all that whereas you an tell Miles always kept his performances very rooted in jazz improvisation. Mahavishnu orchestra is often hard for me to stomach because mclaughlin's brutally unpleasant piercing guitar tone on that album.

Are there any fusion albums out there that are more reminiscent of Miles' fusion period rather than the rest of the fusion genre?

Roberta Piket- Unbroken Line (1997)
>post-bop, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=P7Co8Nb-7AY

download: mega.nz/#!XEsDwKKY!oGbOsFw0a0xeXCXOBlBUATkgWI8J99j1F38pKW6H7JE

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Conrad Herwig - Obligation (2005)
>hard bop, organ jazz, criss cross

sample: youtube.com/watch?v=krSzthZ10yA

download: mega.nz/#F!iFsimK6Y!JRw4-DjmSEmAxiKktMVUMg

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Pulled this out from my record collection today that I haven't listened to in forever

Incidentally it might along the lines of what you're looking for

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this is a pretty great free jazz trio from 1960s Poland

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I have thought about this so much. I crave the careening electric harmonics paired with intense polyrhythmic grooves. But he was the best. These other albums were the closest I've heard for my tastes:
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Les McCann - Invitation to Openness
Donald Byrd - Electric Byrd
Embryo - Rocksession
Weather Report - Sweetnighter

I'll definitely check this out.

Here's another solid one if you haven't heard it

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I don't like that one.
But Larry's work on Love, Cry Want is good.

Are these meant to have a common feel to the Blue Note records that the covers imitate? I get that this one has prominent guitar playing but it has a very different atmosphere to me than Idle Moments. Though I like both.

this is fantastic so far.

>Gonçalo Almeida - Live At Bimhuis
both his works with Rodrigo Amado under The Attic trio are also really worth a listen: 2017's s/t and 2019's Summer Bummer, both on NoBussiness Records

>What are you spinning today?
Gerry Mulligan's Night Lights. It's a bit of a bittersweet day for me, place's getting evac'd due to 2019nCov, and I'm the last one to leave. There's a bittersweetness of being the guy who closes everything and turns off the lights that's just heartbreaking.

>Who are your favorite jazz drummers/albums with great drumming?
Kevin Shea! God, I love anything that man touches, even though he's an absolute spastic. youtube.com/watch?v=pPnWRG_SykY

I feel they're just homages to it.

Paul Motian is an underrated drummer imo. It seems like everybody likes the drummers who have a huge sound or who play a ton of extra fills and stuff but I think Motian a lot of the time brings a minimalist feel that is a nice change and a unique sound.

Any other drummers who bring a minimalist approach?

I think he's underrated because he's overshadowed by evans and lafaro or jarrett and haden

Agree, this is really fucking good

about half of it is up there with electric Miles.
the other half is post-bop inflected with spiritual influences. Really good playing, but not what I'm looking for.

>Jeff Tain Watts
downloading thanks. you've got the wrong sample link tho

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I wanna transcribe some dolphy solos but I dont know much about jazz theory, Im good at transcribing but at the same time feel like it would be pointless cause I probably wouldn't be able to figure out what's going on theoretically. How do you even get started with learning jazz if you're not interested in the early swing stuff?

Transcriptions of improv is too much of a headache I'd assume

Try transcribing Dolphy playing a standard or something where you can basically look up and see the changes he was playing over. And just get as close to the notes that Dolphy plays as you can.

criss cross sucks lmao

Not every release is great but there's some gems. The art is very endearing imo

jazz sucks

Transcribing improvised solos is one of the very best ways to learn to improvise. It can be hard at first, but like almost anything, as you do it more it gets exponentially easier.

Joe Morello in the Dave Brubeck quartet, live at Carnegie Hall.

I feel like the Elvin Jones is particularly strong in Bill Stewart here, especially in the solo
youtube.com/watch?v=38lWhTQtiT8

Fuck, this is good guys
youtube.com/watch?v=Gx9U5cWWFK4

I'm listening

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Motian is goood! Here with Jarrett and Haden
youtube.com/watch?v=xdrQpEYmhoQ

lol I haven’t seen this one before

Based is the color

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Yeah I wouldn’t normally think about Bill Stewart as being all that Elvin sounding but I hear it here

Dope. God this guy could kill it

Olatunji level japanese free jazz (and it's not weeb shit, it's genuinely good musicianship here) youtube.com/watch?v=UO1p16ih7rs

Meant to attach the killer album cover too

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Is “soulless” a legitimate criticism of music?

Plastic Soul is very real

Eh, most people that say it are usually dumb, "soul" usually comes down to the artist just having good taste in phrasing or songwriting

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