JAZZ

[Mike Moth]

This track is just dripping with atmosphere. Ethiopian Jazz is a world unto itself.

[soarloser]

my favorite jazz album is definitely Spy vs. Spy: John Zorn plays the music of Ornette Coleman

[goldofthetigers]

[Mike Moth]

I love how simultaneously subdued/atmospheric and intensely active this performance is:

[gambali]

Miles, Eric Dolphy, Coltrane, Ornette and all the other heavy hitters... so great.

I have a fondness for a lot of music from the ECM label. Some of their releases veer a little close to new-age cheese, but when the balance was right between austere beauty and earthy rhythm they were so good.

My favorite is the Gateway Trio featuring Jack DeJohnette on drums+piano, Dave Holland on bass and the late great John Abercrombie on guitar, whose use of delay and other effects seems almost proto-ambient or post-punk or something?

[andrewwerdna]

Aug 13, 2024 8:34:48 GMT -5 Mike Moth said:

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Berlin 1976

Ah, that was great! And that Gateway 2, and the others! I like jazz but am very unfamiliar with it.

[Stéphane F.]

A few unsorted tracks :



That Sun Ra track somehow reminds me of Angelo Badalamenti.



I have been loving Glenn Miller since I was a teen and used to use it as an inspirational background for writing pseudo-Kingesque horror short stories, or play Call of Cthulhu TTRPG with friends.



Last but not least, that incredible Coleman album

[goldofthetigers]

Aug 13, 2024 17:14:39 GMT -5 gambali said:

Miles, Eric Dolphy, Coltrane, Ornette and all the other heavy hitters... so great.

I have a fondness for a lot of music from the ECM label. Some of their releases veer a little close to new-age cheese, but when the balance was right between austere beauty and earthy rhythm they were so good.

My favorite is the Gateway Trio featuring Jack DeJohnette on drums+piano, Dave Holland on bass and the late great John Abercrombie on guitar, whose use of delay and other effects seems almost proto-ambient or post-punk or something?

I greatly like ECM and the ECM style as well. I happen to have an inordinate fondness for new age cheese so even those releases have something for me. The label frequently featured one of my favorite jazz musicians, Palle Mikkelborg frequently.

Here's a non-ECM release in the same vein, also feature Mikkelborg:

It's music that instantly puts me in a calm and contemplative mood, maybe a little wistful. As you say it is very forward-looking music in its use of effects and synthesizers. The first Rypdal and Entrance here are from '77.

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[goldofthetigers]

Beautiful composition by Serge Perathoner