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08-08-2007, 07:01 AM
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I just downloaded Tony Williams Lifetime LP "Believe It"
Has to be one of the best Instrumental LP's ever. I really miss Tony's playing. I saw the tour for "Believe It" as well. Talk about an amazing show!
Alan Holdsworth at his peak, in my opinion.
Other ones I would say the same for are King Crimson's Red, Billy Cobham's Spectrum, Jeff Beck Blow by Blow & Wired & Return To Forever's Romantic Warrior.
Anyone have any more current recomendations?
It's hard to find many of any genre of music today with every song being near brilliant |
08-08-2007, 07:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | This isn't real recent, not to mention it's out of print (or was, last I heard) but I've always been partial to Michael Manring's Drastic Measures. Never a dull moment on that CD.
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08-08-2007, 08:12 AM
| | | I sure do agree with all the above, although it's hard for me to listen to the old fusion stuff at this point. However, back in the day, I lived with those albums.
Lee Ritenour's 'Festival' somes to mind. There are a few 'Brazilian' vocals, but it's some of Marcus Miller's finest playing... great tunes and grooves.
Back Street by David Sanborn and 'Rainbow Seeker' by Joe Sample are also classics of the smoother jazz side of things before the smooth jazz thing descended into smarminess 
For harder edge stuff that fits more with your current faves, the John Mclaughlin live disc with Trilok and Kai is about as good as it gets.
Finally, Heavy Weather.... ! |
08-08-2007, 08:32 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | John McLaughlin's "Industrial Zen" is just incredible! Very fresh, though the last track features some rather sparse vocals, I think you'd really like it!
As for other amazing instrumental records, man, I could go on all day! Ars Moriende (no real "singing"), Elegant Punk, Temporal Analogues of Paradise, Personae and Abstract Logic by Jonas Hellborg are all awesome too! |
08-08-2007, 08:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | | I Believe It!!!
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Originally Posted by Barkless Dog  I just downloaded Tony Williams Lifetime LP "Believe It"
Has to be one of the best Instrumental LP's ever. I really miss Tony's playing. I saw the tour for "Believe It" as well. Talk about an amazing show!
Alan Holdsworth at his peak, in my opinion.
Other ones I would say the same for are King Crimson's Red, Billy Cobham's Spectrum, Jeff Beck Blow by Blow & Wired & Return To Forever's Romantic Warrior.
Anyone have any more current recomendations?
It's hard to find many of any genre of music today with every song being near brilliant | +1,000,000! That Tony Williams album is STILL a huge favorite of mine to this day, great grooves, Holdsworth just tearing it up and doing things with guitar that were before then unheard of.
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08-08-2007, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | | The First Back Door album is a stunner for sure, even over 3 decades later, just bass, drums and sax, it was groundbreaking, good 'ol Colin Hiodgkinson! It was like Ornette Coleman, Funk and Delta Blues havin' a party!
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08-08-2007, 09:52 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | That Back Door album along with most of the albums listed blew my mind way back when. One of my faves: Weather Report 'Mysterious Traveler'......good times, good times. 
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08-08-2007, 10:00 AM
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08-08-2007, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada | | | Gordian Knot's "Emergent". Lots of guests on it and I just love the compositions. And of course Heavy Weather is what turned me onto jazz. |
08-08-2007, 02:31 PM
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Alan Holdsworth-Road Games.
Weather Report-Heavy Weather.
The Dregs-Night of the living Dregs.
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Inner Mounting Flame.
Miles David-Kind Of Blue. |
08-09-2007, 04:58 AM
| | | | Modern lp's?
No newer modern stuff?
I forgot- Happy The Man |
08-09-2007, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rochester NY | | | how about Extraction by Grew Howe, Victor Wooten, and Dennis Chambers?
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08-09-2007, 09:13 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Thats one I'm going to need to pick up! |
08-09-2007, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Barkless Dog Other ones I would say the same for are King Crimson's Red, Billy Cobham's Spectrum, Jeff Beck Blow by Blow & Wired & Return To Forever's Romantic Warrior.
| Red? Fallen Angel and One More Red Nightmare should eliminate it from an "instrumental albums" list as they both have vocals. |
08-09-2007, 10:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Babylon, NY | | | I still love "The Right of Strings"
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08-09-2007, 10:32 AM
| | | | agreed
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ed? Fallen Angel and One More Red Nightmare should eliminate it from an "instrumental albums" list as they both have vocals
| I agree, taken off. No singing kinds of pigeon holes Jazz/Fusion & electronic music |
08-09-2007, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Duke City | | | Not real current (1999, 2000) but Jeff Becks' "Who Else?" and "You Had it Coming" (some vocals there) are pretty cool. |
08-09-2007, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by peterpalmieri I still love "The Right of Strings" | how bout the Rite of Spring?
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08-09-2007, 11:10 AM
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and I really like Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s stuff... |
08-09-2007, 01:27 PM
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