Just a few pretty tracks
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Topic: Just a few pretty tracks
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Just a few pretty tracks
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2011 at 8:40pm
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Sorry, don't know if I should have done this here since I noticed names here that are not in the database, but I didn't see the place to make music polls outside of this forum. Deliberately, just a very short list (first that sprang to mind). Please choose the one you enjoy the most, and please recommend me other music based on these. Thanks. EDIT: Posted the wrong track off of B.H's Cirrus before -- corrrected. I do hope such music appeals to people in this community since such music means a lot to me. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
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Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2011 at 11:48pm
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Loved the Janko Nilovic piece - wow. Having trouble recommending something similar. Select songs from The Cinematic Orchestra come to mind for some reason, but that's not quite right. I'll keep thinking...and have a listen to some others here ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 5:54am
| I just listened to the first two, that's nice music, I'll have to check out the rest later. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 11:27am
I like what I've heard of The Cinematic Orchestra. The Nilovic album that's off (it's an album I had really wanted on a certain other site we both belong to) is a favourite of mine. Here's a more applicable to this site track off of it, which I think brilliant (one of my all-time faves) I uploaded it to youtube long ago , and had rather messed up slitting the track I think (had to put it one in two parts due to the lenght), so expect some repetition.
I hope you and others of this community enjoy, at least, most of them. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
dreadpirateroberts wrote:Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 11:41am
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I guess you know that "Mindbender" is a collection of library music by various composers. If you check the Last FM site for the album you can get some of the composers, who probably all work with a variety of film and background music. I like music like this and seek it out, library music collections and Italian soundtrack (60s,70s) collections are a great source. There is an indie rock, trip-hop band that had a string section that you may like, I'll try to look up there name.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 11:48am
I have all of the albums these tracks are off and a lot of related music. And I have a fair amount of music by all of the Mindbender composers -- there are some great related albums. I adore 60's and 70's Italian soundtrack composers, and have a lot of library music. I was thinking about including some Morricone in this list, but couldn't decide on which track. I kind of did this topic as a bit of a litmus test, to be honest. Because this kind of music is so important to me, I wanted to see if others share my passion at this site. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 12:17pm
| The band I was thinking of is Zero 7, I have their album "Simple Things". I haven't listened to it in a long time, but as I recall, their music is similar to soundtracks and library music. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 12:45pm
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I listened to a bit on youtube, maybe not the best stuff cause it didn't do much for me.. For some reason I thought you were going to mention St Germain. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:30pm
| Of the tracks you provided, I went the Herbie Mann track. Which album is that from? I have a bunch of his albums, but I've never heard that one. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:35pm
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It's off his Stone Flute. It's been a favourite album of mine for some years.
------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:43pm
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By the way, I would expect there a few fans of that Bobby Hutcherson album at this site, but tthese are such greats tracks that i want to share more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoqPOw6fzs" rel="nofollow - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoqPOw6fzs Such a magical album. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:45pm
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Yeah, I need to get "Stone Flute" someday, that Hutcherson sounds nice too. We're going to add Nilovic to Exotica, I've been listening some of his music, fun stuff. Do you listen to Flying Lotus?
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:47pm
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I haven't heard a lot of Flying Lotus, but it is one I've come across and enjoyed.
------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 1:59pm
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Gald to hear you're adding Nilovic -- I may have push, pushed for it and Herbie Mann for Stone Flute a bit at another site, but it is better suited to this one. Sorry if I turn this poll into sort of a blog of some of my favourite music, but being such a small community, I don't expect many to comment on the poll, and this is a way for me to share some of my tastes and get recommendations. This is a '68 track I adore (I have the soundtrack album): ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 3:04pm
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Here's another from an album that someone at another turned site me onto that I adore: Love to have some similar recommendations. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 3:26pm
| Yeah, keep posting stuff, I'll definitely be checking it out. Lately I've been working like crazy, day and night, but I still get a few minutes here and there to check out some music. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 3:31pm
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Thanks. This is not my fave off Don Harper's Homo Electronicus, that would be the eerie Cold World's, but I do so love this jazzy Doctor Who track (been into Doctor Who since I was a toddler -- Pertwee being my particular fave). ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 3:50pm
Generally I'm not a big acid jazz fan, but this St. Germain's album really works ( in fact, for me this album is the best acid jazz I ever heard). BTW, Tourist (it's album's name) was extremely popular around all Europe during few years after it was released
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 3:57pm
I love acid jazz generally. Tourist is a great album, I think. It's one of my favourite nu jazz/ acid jazz/ lounge albums. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 6:53pm
I remember a similar good response in Australia, it had an almost 'underground' status for a while, only the very hip seemed to know about it, but then it slowly reached more and more folks, and, deservedly got some more recognition.
Years later when I worked in a CD store (a very top40 kinda store, it was tough) any time I sold a jazz CD of any sort I was happy, and I actually remember selling Tourist to four people in five years (though the store itself sold more by the other workers of course) and in that particular CD chain store, in that particular town, to personally sell that many copies was significant - it wasn't exactly a jazz hotbed  ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 3:16am
| We just added Mirouze. What is Raphael's full name? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 12:22pm
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Phil Raphaël.
------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 12:35pm
| tanks |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 1:00pm
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No worries. In regards to the poll, I'm surprised to see see so few votes. No votes for Even Later (Zuri Dance is a particular fave of mine off Cirrus), I would have thought Cirrus a popular enough album in jazz circles to get some votes, not to mention, of course, Alice Coltrane -- I think that's a terrific track off of a wonderful album. Perhaps Rosewood off of Cirrus would have gota few votes -- fantastic track. I know there's a Woody Shaw fan here other than me, and this was arranged by him. ------------------------------------------ Anyway, here's a tarck off a great album that someone who knows my tastes even better than me recommended to me some time ago. Hope someone here enjoys it. It's The Spanis Suite from Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 8:50pm
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Re Raphael: Some people might say that the well-known cult favorite soundtrack to the Lesbian Vampires movie is similar to Raphael's work, but I think Raphael's music is much more sophisticated and less campy than Lesbian Vampires.Once again, Flying Lotus has some similarities to Raphael, but not his piano work.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 12:19pm
| Wow, that Alice Coltrane track surely is beautiful (and intriguing, sounding almost like some krautrock). Thanks Greg. I saw your poll with it on PA but didn't get around to checking it out. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 12:27pm
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I'm a bit disappointed that only two people liked any of the music enough to vote over several weeks. Like any other musical forum, I'm obviously going to be very much in the minority here as well -- though at least here, I do love the big jazz names. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 12:30pm
| I wouldn't be too disappointed, its still a small site and what few people are here may not have seen this, as for me, I thought a lot of this music was very interesting and we ended up adding some artists and albums for artists already here. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 1:06pm
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I don't really mind -- I was only very mildly disappointed. I think many more people must have seen this topic than posted since I have seen a fair amount of activity here (though mostly before in the What Are Listening To? thread) and there weren't a lot of new topics to bury this one -- though i guess not everyone like me keeps their eyes on the new posts section). I wouldn't expect many people to bother with it. It's hardly a riveting topic title, nor did I choose exciting pieces, I went for quite lovely with the poll choices, and such lovely music is a dime-a-dozen. Not everyone would like to take the time to check out random youtube tracks by some kinda new forum guy, or by anyone. Still, I do appreciate the interest of those who have posted in this topic and don't mean to belittle my appreciation there. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 1:15pm
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Next time if you want more attendance , you should try some jazz related rock/fusion/AG.. By the way, there's nothing wrong in being in minority. ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 1:41pm
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What, you mean like my Mwandishi related albums poll? I don't really care about attendance. That may have got twice as many votes as this one, but it also has less posts, and I care more about posts than votes, since I make polls to talk about music with people. I also responded to a lot of other topics here in a short time since I like and know a lot of the music being discussed at this site. I was just hoping that more would enjoy this kind of music (it's hardly the only music I listen to). I don't want to talk about Fusion that much here -- generally I'd rather talk not rock related jazz, because I belong to a progressive rock site where I talk about jazz-rock Fusion often and don't need replication of the same kind of music and topics I'd talk about more there here. At this site I'm hoping to learn far more from jazz aficionados than I would at a site full of philistines ;) who tend to listen to more rock than jazz.. This community happens to share a lot of the same members as that site, of course, and I said the last sentence with my tongue-in-my-cheek. Anyway, just for fun, maybe I'll try this poll at the allaboutjazz forum. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 1:51pm
| I think he was being sarcastic and kidding with you. A lot of the people here are mostly into jazz-rock and/or avant-garde, but that's not everybody. Some of us like a lot of other things as well. |
Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 1:54pm
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No sarcasm here, just observation of reality. seven out of ten reviews on front page are jazz related rock ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 2:08pm
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^it's not surprising since this site is a sister site of a Progressive Rock site, and Metal site, and how many of this community came from ProgArchives? So it's not your typical jazz community. I love fusion/ electric jazz (discovering Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and related was revelatory to me), and of course I love avant-garde music. Unlike with Prog generallyy, I do love the big names as well. I'm listening to John Coltrane right now, and I find the popular jazz lists have very engaging music for me. Take this amazon one: http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/05/greatest-jazz-albums-of-all-time/" rel="nofollow - http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/05/greatest-jazz-albums-of-all-time/ I'll take that top ten over PA''s any day. Shape of Jazz to Come, A Love Supreme, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, those are all-time fave albums of mine and have been for decades, and I see those on many popular jazz lists (haven't checked out JMA's yet). So I'm more mainstream in a jazz community than with other forms of music such as rock (well, I love a lot of mainstream classical music too). PS. That top five albums at JMA doesn't make me feel like a loner. I love Crossings and In a Silent Way (though my favourite Davis studio fusion albums are Big Fun and Get Up With It). ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 2:13pm
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No need to justify yourself, I'm not mainstream in jazz and I feel fine with it
------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 2:24pm
| I like mainstream jazz and avant-garde, maybe I'm not supposed to, ha. See you guys later, I'm off to work. |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2011 at 7:02pm
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I think John's right, as a youngish site we have less votes on polls, but more discussion - definitely a plus. And I too liked this post in general, Logan - especially Janko - been saving him for my next big Amazon order, very keen to get a hold of that album (among others you posted!)
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Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2011 at 7:28am
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That piece from Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble is ace too. Added to my ever-growing list of albums to hunt down
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 2:36pm
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I liked the Herbie Mann tune, Ive always enjoyed his music. What album is that from?
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 2:48pm
It's from "Stone Flute".
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