Jazz Poll Vol. IV - 1965-66!!!!
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Topic: Jazz Poll Vol. IV - 1965-66!!!!
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Subject: Jazz Poll Vol. IV - 1965-66!!!!
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 19:24
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Counting great albums albums I had to leave outside of the poll 65-66 is seemingly the strongest two years of jazz yet. There's albums by Archie Shepp, Giuseppi Logan, Wayne Shorter, Albert Ayler, Tony Williams, Cecil Taylor, Duke Pearson, Donald Byrd, Bill Evans and more titles by Sun Ra, Yusef Lateef & Herbie Mann I could have included here instead of the ones I've selected. But these 24 are my favorites among the ones I know, among those here's a top 5: 1. Anthony Williams - Life Time 2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 3. Ahmad Jamal - Extensions 4. Andrew Hill - Point of Departure 5. Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue But even my 24'th favorite is a fourstar essential
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 19:29
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..6. Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff 7. Sonny Simmons - Staying on the Watch 8. John Handy - Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 9. Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land 10. Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra - The Magic City -------------
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Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 19:35
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Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage is one of my favorite jazz albums of all-time, so it easily beats out all the albums on the list. ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 19:38
Claiming that you've heard them all I presume? -------------
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Mirror Image wrote:Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: June 17 2014 at 22:04
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A Love Supreme, my favorite jazz album, and my favorite album of the 60s.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 00:27
Now this is better...multiple Ra albums.  However...A Love Supreme is here. This is perhaps the greatest jazz album ever. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 18 2014 at 05:20
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Forgot the "other" option this time and it can't be edited in. But anyone with the slightest of interest in jazz should be able to pick a favorite. Even for you poor souls out there who claims to "not like jazz" there's no excuse for not hearing the greatness of A Love Supreme (but for those of you seriously into jazz its obviously valid to have other preferences) ... The original Gentle Giant and multiinstrumentalist Yusef Lateef was a major influence on John Coltrane and I would have liked to have included my favorite album by him Live At Pep's Volume 2, which is the rest of the set not included on Live at Pep's. Amazingly the leftovers are stronger than than the material on the original album. But it was recorded in '64 and released in '99 so it didn't really fit in. Why am I writing about this? I don't know probably because I want to post this stunning tribute by Yusef to Brother John who obviously had inspired him back. How can you shelve a performance like this? (vid. works on safari)
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 19 2014 at 05:40
| Yeah, for me Maiden Voyage is actually much better than the rest here. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 09:15
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Paul Bley every time.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 20 2014 at 10:15
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^Nice to see a Paul Bley-fan. Love all the albums I've heard. He is perhaps a little overlooked? -------------
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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 03:08
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damn, saper, i'd have to agree, a really strong two years. if really pushed these would round out a top six (i couldn't find a reason to leave Don Cherry out of the equation). Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (1965) Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff (1965) Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (1965) (tho' my favourite Sun Ra album is probably Other Planes of There) Don Cherry - Complete Communion (1966) outside of what's listed, Sonny Rollins title track from East Broadway Run Down is stunning (imo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE925niyOWw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE925niyOWw (video embedding is not working for me either) |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 05:30
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I'll have to vote for the obvious one this time. A Love Supreme it is with some shout outs to Magic City and Point of Departure. I'm hungover at the moment, so I'm keeping myself to psychedelic music. I may reach for Karma a little later on, if I want to get jazzy. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 05:50
Seems like the years we agree on the most favorites as well. Except for Coltrane that is, but I know he's no favorite of yours. As with Cecil Taylor I don't seem to enjoy him as much when they more or less completely leave tonality and structure but I love them when they combine musical intellect or radical ideas with an experimental & improvised approach (if that makes any sense). Although I have no difficulties enjoying "abstact or atonal music" guess I'm just less (and less) interested in the full, free blowouts version of atonality. If this somehow can be seen as the difference between avantgarde-and free jazz I prefer the former.
another one I have to look for
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 21:33
Perhaps, but a lot of great players are. I find it criminal that Kenny Drew is hardly ever talked about  ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 21 2014 at 21:57
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Cool little side note. I've jammed with Kenny Drew Jr. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 22 2014 at 03:43
Of course most great jazz players are overlooked by default. -------------
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