Classic US Jazz: 1959 (2) |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Another day, another poll... A revamp of the previous "Jazz Fusion" poll with a profusion of even more jazz with all of the great suggestions added, including Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Abbey Lincoln & Jimmy Smith and many more, filling all 25 available slots - and I even remembered to post the poll in the correct forum this time too. 🗣️ 🎉 🎵 🎶 💃 🎤 🎸 🎊 🕺 🥁 1959: Chet Baker - Chet - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_miwoQXDKm6WVpQwC9iXwAZN5bcmaRPYXU 1959: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB52202568D57088E 1959: Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lZG0m1KL-bAtvkB78le_8LUpfBcncZvdg 1959: Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBJenJIJrq0wejI3ijg7QmTMzjx4i2Hc4 1959: Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpf99MZQhIM 1959: Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow is the Question - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mQTBzKOZ3Mlnw_EyCHuCYutCNtohUr4Nw 1959: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kLtBpVbGac_7xgJC4x9cRpeiLfjt9T1Pk 1959: Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nBh1nSe0BJzVZDaDbjddclPkB-U-7xxkE 1959: Gil Evans Orchestra - Great Jazz Standards - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kwtyoHU3ZhMiFdBrqJH-IAa_CKNHUwYts 1959: Chico Hamilton Quintet - Gongs East! - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzRFMVY_paplQ3cWbZZpTP423dz62Sb8a 1959: Quincy Jones - The Birth of a Band - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_loOEjnm2fN7KsDcKD1ui3XCWxWCCIaVY8 1959: Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyHn3f7-9IUKjZe_hXSSUPaGc5YDBBEQI 1959: Yusef Lateef - The Dreamer - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mavXNVVnv_j6xJ-4yhcCoTtY5vm6Sttc4 1959: Abbey Lincoln - Abbey Is Blue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lkD88VeYvjHnB2GVZrGy5H1_zMTj05PVs 1959: Ahmed Abdul-Malik - East Meets West - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k12frrzw1Z7HpivoA4d48mPzcG63nO0Ak 1959: Herbie Mann - Flautista - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKLPE6Ph1xZrFaspKiDdRt-YHluwRJENn 1959: Herbie Mann - African Suite - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2CzePKSjYnWjzkNoypdq94XKucgz1VLw 1959: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiN-7mukU_REK9zBMvZoNERNvhovxnsE5 1959: Wes Montgomery - Wes Montgomery Trio - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lqmuyWvGpApRHKyNWeAwvIIRadjPAnCmQ 1959: Wayne Shorter - Introducing Wayne Shorter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSJTyUsv_bQ 1959: Horace Silver Quintet - Finger Poppin' - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTSb0j0UgJTNcZkioZp5CErybLs8whr_0 1959: Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZx--4UKv7wrt5FLGM3r_TcuZC48lVsO 1959: Jimmy Smith - The Sermon! - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llF0kqOJKQEQxs4YgDSLVdhi09xpjEpUQ 1959: Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lctekKEklQxJxZtozE-Blm7ckJZdRyNtU 1959: Cecil Taylor Quartet - Looking Ahead! - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAzHladAmkCTHhXqJWbD9bBL9Fe3jy2Gb
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Many will pick KoB, which is a masterful album for sure.....but for me Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers is the epitome of hard bop during this period late 50s to mid 60s.
Moanin' is a brilliant record.
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It's still Coleman for me. Honourable mentions go out to Mingus, Davis, Taylor, Brubeck and Sun Ra.
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Psychedelic Paul
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I'd be Kind of Blue if Miles Davis doesn't win this again, but it'd be nice to see some votes for the sixteen (mostly) requested new entries in the poll.
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Saperlipopette!
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When there so many albums I love dearly, I can never select one
over the others (but it would be one of the three frist I've listed). Btw: I think two stars will be the highest rating you'll ever rate a Cecil Taylor album. Looking Ahead! is
his "Easy Listening" album:). I struggle with most of his later
releases myself, and find his solo piano albums largely unlistenable.
But I love this kind of abstacted jazz with plenty of breathing space -
that still sort of swings. But I think you don't enjoy any music that
doesn't doesn't feature distinct melodic lines? Here's my ten favorites from the other poll with five additional, great albums (and the correct Ahmed Abdul-Malik-title):
I haven't heard the Donald Byrd, Chet Baker or Jimmy Smith albums. I suppose I should at some point. *and so is The Wes Montgomery Trio
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Psychedelic Paul
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[QUOTE=Saperlipopette!]
When there so many albums I love dearly, I can never select one
over the others (but it would be one of the three first I've listed). Btw: I think two stars will be the highest rating you'll ever rate a Cecil Taylor album. Looking Ahead! is
his "Easy Listening" album:). I struggle with most of his later
releases myself, and find his solo piano albums largely unlistenable.
But I love this kind of abstracted jazz with plenty of breathing space -
that still sort of swings. But I think you don't enjoy any music that
doesn't doesn't feature distinct melodic lines? [/QUOTE=Saperlipopette!] You're absolutely right! I like to hear melody and harmony in my music. After all, the dictionary definition of music is "sound that's melodic and harmonious" and I struggle to listen to anything distinctly edgy that's labelled as Avant Prog - with the rare exception of Samla Mammas Manna. |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Corrected!
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Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette |
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Saperlipopette!
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...Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content... I still enjoy listening to artists that are blessed with the gift of creating strong, memorable melodies. I much prefer good songcraftmanship to "weak" (but who wouldn't). Banal singalong melodies tend to rub me the wrong way though. I also love music that uses atmosphere/space - and perhaps in jazz I'm more interested in "themes" over "melodies" (but I don't have to choose one over the other). Besides I just like to experience gifted musicians improvising (moreso in jazz than in rock) freely. |
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Certainly the best year for "classic" forms of jazz and the year where future forms of jazz will happen (Free, Modal/New Thing, JR/F, spiritual, etc...)
Still missing: John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Max Roach's Quiet As It's Kept I would also have included a Duke Ellington and Satchmo & Ella, though I don't know if what they released in 59 is iconic or not.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Psychedelic Paul
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John Coltrane's Giant Steps will be the first album I add in the upcoming 1960 poll, and having used all 25 available slots this time around, I simply didn't have room to include Duke Ellington, Satchmo or Ella.
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Mingus did surprisingly well in the previous 1959 poll (picking up six votes), bearing in mind I only included his Ah Um album as an afterthought, after a lot of Um-ming and Ah-ing.
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and my vote goes still to Mingus Ah Um. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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So you've planned to listen to tons of serious Jazz, Paul, even I don't know when you reckon to reach the year 2000. Something else, I reckon you've been joking about Mingus Ah Um but to be sure, it is one of the very much appreciated classic Jazz albums.
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Same choice as in Jazz 59 (1°
Dave Brubeck Time out |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Yes, I've already catalogued all of the Jazz Fusion albums from 1967 through to the year 2000 on ProgArchives and I have hundreds of serious jazz albums in my CD collection too, including some not-so-serious jazz, such as Kenny G for instance.
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So you don't think of this serie of polls as a widening of your Jazz horizon, which I reconed?
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Still no Eric Dolphy... Wow.
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https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024
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Psychedelic Paul
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Yes, definitely! Welcome back, by the way. The only album I'd listened to previously in this poll was Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, so I've just widened my jazz horizons by another 24 albums, not to mention the 41 years of classic jazz albums still to come in future polls from 1960 through to the year 2000.
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