Giant Steps

Abraxas wrote: Matt wrote: Blue Train for me.  My Favourite Things next.  I don't like his later ones much like Ascension, Transition etc. I love his quartet or quintet stuff from Impulse the best. Live at the Vanguard, Africa, Chim Chim Cheree, Crescent, up to Sunship. Yeah me too. There's the ocassional surprisingly good album from the free era, say 'First Meditations' is very restrained from squealings and pure chatoic moments, unlike the original 'Meditations'.  'Stellar Regions' and 'Expressions' also have some pleasant moments, even a track with Coltrane on flute all through.

After getting Ascension Pablo that was it. I have kept away from his last stuff. I have listened to samples from the later Avante ones but just not me. I either love an Avante style album or it is the exact opposite. Like Threadgill, Don Cherry. Chicago Art  Ensemble but Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor drive me nuts. They have to keep that thread of structure at least.

Abraxas wrote: ^like I said, I'm with you, I'm no avant-garde/free jazz fan either, just a couple of stuff that really isn't "free". Say those samples I passed you from Archie Shepp or mostly Pharoah Sanders which is amazing for me.

After Hearing that Archie Shepp one when I was ordering Hiromi there was one from Archie which I ordered as well. Thought why not, liked that tune heaps you put up 

So far, my favorite's Ascension, but I have quite a lot to hear.  A Love Supreme is right up there with it, followed by Giant Steps and Blue Trane. 

Matt wrote:

is that Julie Newmar?  Lookin' hot !

might review GS soon, quite a challenge me thinks

 ^ I don't know if I'd say there's a best song per se, it's more of a totality