I intend to eventually own the most important jazz albums, and I was wondering which album would be the best introduction to the more adventurous side of jazz? Something representative but still listenable since it'll be my first album in this category (unless the words avant-garde/free jazz and listenable contradict each other ).
Miles Davis/bitches brew...it's quite boring but is a good example (27minutes long). It Aint Necessarily so Flamenco Sketches Blues Minor (Coltrane/Davis) especially this one is excellent there's also the Jazzanova (coffee talk, tres bien, atabaque and introspection) which is kinda like trance and chill-out...tripping music. i find it avant garde Also theres this Turkish guy Mercan Dede (Arkin Allen) who has an album called SU (water) i guess Pat Martino is also superb other than that, Yard Birds Suit Lullaby of Birdland Take five Walking Cherokee Slow Boat To China Love for Sale Stella by Starlight Afternoon in Paris are some real cool jazz standards played so diversely by different (even the same sometimes) musicians...worthwhile also check out www.allaboutjazz.com
Avant Garde Jazz is not necessarily hard to listen. Any of the following albums will help you get started: Dave Holland - Angel Song Bill Frissell - Blues Dream (highly recommended) Keith Jarret - Koln Concert Jan Garbarek - Twelfe Moons Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba - The Montreal Tapes Carla Bley/Gary Burton - A Tong Funeral Anything published by the German Jazz Label ECM Records is worth a listen. Good luck.
if you want jazz like youve nevcer heard it before...check out bola sete (brazilian) he plays jazz with a classical guitar...absolutely beautiful, and also i would check out the jazz mandolin project. jazz bass lines with a jazz drummer and a really cool mandolin touch. very interestying sutff, not your traditional jazzy stuff with horns and stuff, but man are they awesome.
these 4 albums i think are good: John Coltrane - Ascension John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
I cannot stand free-jazz... not music to me, too crazy. Or at least, I can't stand most of it, since once we were listening to something together and I loved it and you told me it was free-jazz but I forgot what it was!
If you don't have any Jimmy Bruno or his trio in your collection your missing out. Maybe find some Joe Pass too. Bob
If you're looking for free-jazz, don't underestimate the influence that Ornette Coleman had on the genre. The Shape of Jazz to Come is the only one of his that I've heard more than a few times- it's ace.
i'm a huge fan of the dave holland quintet (check out conference of the birds) and eric dolphy... much love to the bass clarinet.
