re: The Jazz Thread.

from the last twenty years -
these are worth checking out:

Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Masada - Live in Seville 2000
Wayne Shorter - Footprints Live!
Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
James Carter - Chasin the Gypsy
McCoy Tyner - Quartet

Also check out the Book of Angels Series. lots of good stuff, Cyro Baptista, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Pat Metheny, Jamie Saft, etc, etc.

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Love this album

I'm no Jazz expert and haven't picked up my trumpet since I was a teenager, but based on what I do know, I find Hard Bop most consistently enjoyable. Love Cool Jazz too though... aw hell, I really have no idea. I tend to get lost in some of the looser more "artsy" jazz; although I'm sure I'd appreciate it more if I played or were more educated.

Here are a few of my go-tos (excluding Miles Davis):

Bill Evans Trio - Gloria's Step (Sunday at the Village Vanguard)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee

If any of you are LSU students, do yourself a favor and take History of Jazz. It was my favorite class as a student.

"Better Get It In Your Soul"



"Blue Rondo A La Turk"



"Shhh-Peaceful"



"Sivad"



"The Sidewinder"



"Moanin'"

What a thread !

I had no idea that we have so many Jazz fans around here.

I've considered all of the worthy suggestions, and, I've decided, for my Jazz purchases, to go with "Feels So Good" by Chuck Mangioni and "On Broadway" by George Benson.

Benny Goodman - "That's A Plenty" (1928)

Benny was nineteen when he cut this

I tend to enjoy fusion more than the other types. Such as Weather Report, Return to Forever, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. And the albums Head Hunters and Thrust by Herbie Hancock.

Return to Forever - Duel of the Jester & the Tyrant (Romantic Warrior)

Weather Report - A Remark You Made

Béla Fleck & The Original Flecktones - "Sinister Minister"

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon (live, 2006)

Herbie Hancock - Palm Grease

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In a Jimmy Smith mood today

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Always. Almost no mention of him in the thread

1. Tuition Blues

2. Midnight Special

3. Blues in the Night

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What a thread !

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Dude, this thread is like a time warp back to my History of Jazz class during my freshman year at LSU...except without that dickhead we had as a teacher. Good work!

A great one from Donald Byrd - Slow Drag from the self titled album. A 1967 release on Blue Note.

Jazz at Massey Hall, 1953 album featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach




Getz/Gilberto is a jazz-bossa nova 1964 album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring composer and pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim. Its release created a bossa nova craze in the United States and internationally. It brought together Stan Getz, who had already performed the genre on his LP Jazz Samba,



Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by American jazz musician Herbie Hancock, released October 13, 1973, on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place during September 1973 at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco, California. Head Hunters is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz funk.



These 3 have been running with me for about a month now. I enjoy my Coltrane and Miles (Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain) etc.. Jazz is a moody type of vibe I want every once in a while. I usually listen to a complete record a few times then move on. I'll come back to a record again eventually but I'm that way with jazz, it's a weird relationship.