Yesterday's/Today's Specials?
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Topic: Yesterday's/Today's Specials?
Posted By: EntertheLemming
Subject: Yesterday's/Today's Specials?
Date Posted: 02 May 2013 at 8:49pm
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I'm a relative latecomer to Jazz but want to broaden my palette a bit from the usual suspects(Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Django, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan etc) Can anyone recommend something(s) that include: eastern european folk music, Prog textures and instrumentation/electronica, quirky 'Monkish' melodies and harmonies, real drivin' beats plus an orchestral/symphonic approach to arrangements BTW I'm not that excited by classic fusion (apart from the Mahavishnu Orch) and I heartily LOATHE airy and spacey ambiances and free jazz 'fire in a petshop/strangling balloon animals' stuff OK?  |
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 02 May 2013 at 9:07pm
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If you like T Monk, let me highly recommend Herbie Nichols. they don't sound a like, but they have similar appeal. I think our Nichols page should have a video with some music, I would add more videos, but unfortunately our video fetcher is not working right now.
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Posted By: EntertheLemming
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 12:28am
Thanks, will hunt down the Nicholls critter pronto  |
js wrote:Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 12:43am
sounds like description of some Tzadik releases, I'll return with more detailed suggestions
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 1:07am
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Posted By: EntertheLemming
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 2:46am
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^ Liked most of these (but loved the Jamie Saft tracks hugely) many thanks.
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 03 May 2013 at 4:56am
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alternatively you can check Polish yass/nu jazz: |
Posted By: EntertheLemming
Date Posted: 04 May 2013 at 1:03am
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^ Yowza, I just hit the mother-lode with Contemporary Noise Quarter/Quintet/Sextet (and never was a band so inappropriately named) Major thanks for all the suggestions  |