Sickest Jazz Song or Cd!!

[metalguy2]

Here post names of obscure jazz music that kicks ass. Forget milestones like Giant Steps, Jaco Pastorius, or Bitches Brew, Weather Report. Forget Victor Wooten exists, and that Stu Hamm was ever born. Steve Smith was never in Journey.. Who is Medeski Martin and Wood?! Allan Holdsworth who?
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Don't forget to link me to MP3's

[Adam Barkley]

Mount Everest Trio. Link

[Syeknom]

I'm seriously digging the work of a band called Esbjörn Svensson Trio, but i'm relatively new to jazz outside of the legends =P

[pauljacksonfan]

Originally Posted by Syeknom

I'm seriously digging the work of a band called Esbjörn Svensson Trio, but i'm relatively new to jazz outside of the legends =P

EST is the shiznaz (or something like that). You just gotta love Dan Berglund's bowed, distorted upright parts. And the interplay is simply amazing. Catch them live, if you haven't already, you won't regret it.

I like them cause they're so far from the standard jazz trio. You could apply Weather Report's old slogan "we always solo and we never solo" to them.
Definitly a +1 on this one.

[Lewis7789]

I heard Lunar Crush a couple of years ago and the bassist, Fima Ephron, really opened my mind to the "stoopid" style of bass. You mentioned MMW, and Medeski plays on this disc, but without Chris Wood and Billy Martin.

Track 6 is a good one.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product....936&from1=QUIA

[jerry]

+ 1 for Fima Ephron! He has a great original voice on his instrument Matt Garrison is another....just plain deep!
I'm old.....I don't do MP3's.....I go to used C.D. shops

[DWBass]

I realy wouldn't consider it as really obscure and I know The Rippingtons are considered Jazz 'light' but they did a song called "Curves Ahead" that I consider genius! I've never heard a song like it before nor since!

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Lewis7789

I heard Lunar Crush a couple of years ago and the bassist, Fima Ephron, really opened my mind to the "stoopid" style of bass.

Really? How so?
I haven't played Lunar Crush in about a year...I do recall a lot of it to be Rockin'.
Ephron's bass playing on his other projects(SHT, Hasidic New Wave, Lost Tribe, his solo disc, etc) take some 'thinking', IMO.
"Stoopid" bass, to me, would be something like Chris Wood on Scofield's Ago-go album.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by metalguy2

Here post names of obscure jazz music that kicks ass.

Not sure just how 'obscure' they are anymore-
John Zorn's Naked City...& check out the tune called "Asylum". The definition of 'sickness' being played by 'Jazz' players, IMO.

[superbassman2000]

anyone heard of jacob fred jazz odyssey? i dunno how popular they are, but i saw them once on BET jazz live at the knitting factory, and they are really good...everyone in the band is just plain amazing, and the bass guy uses a whammy! how cool is that?! after hearing them, i have a whole new perspective on music!

[jerry]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

anyone heard of jacob fred jazz odyssey? i dunno how popular they are, but i saw them once on BET jazz live at the knitting factory, and they are really good...everyone in the band is just plain amazing, and the bass guy uses a whammy! how cool is that?! after hearing them, i have a whole new perspective on music!

I like them very much! I also saw them on BET, and went out and bought a few of thier C.D.'s.............I was not disappointed.

[Syeknom]

Originally Posted by pauljacksonfan

EST is the shiznaz (or something like that). You just gotta love Dan Berglund's bowed, distorted upright parts. And the interplay is simply amazing. Catch them live, if you haven't already, you won't regret it.

I like them cause they're so far from the standard jazz trio. You could apply Weather Report's old slogan "we always solo and we never solo" to them.
Definitly a +1 on this one.

Awesome!
If they ever come to the UK then I may well try and catch them, they're wonderful.

[Alan Vorse]

Originally Posted by superbassman2000

anyone heard of jacob fred jazz odyssey? i dunno how popular they are, but i saw them once on BET jazz live at the knitting factory, and they are really good...everyone in the band is just plain amazing, and the bass guy uses a whammy! how cool is that?! after hearing them, i have a whole new perspective on music!

You stole mine!!! These guys are like a hyper-active MMW.

[Alan Vorse]

Originally Posted by Lewis7789

I heard Lunar Crush a couple of years ago and the bassist, Fima Ephron, really opened my mind to the "stoopid" style of bass. You mentioned MMW, and Medeski plays on this disc, but without Chris Wood and Billy Martin.

Track 6 is a good one.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product....936&from1=QUIA

I will submit any project David Fiuczynski is connected to for a topic that has the words "Sick" and "Jazz."

[The Owl]

Here's some gems:

Fusion 80 - A one-off project with 4 members of Magma that just kicks ass! The participants:

Didier Lockwood - Violin
Christian Vander - Drums
Benoit Weidemann - Keys
Janick Top - Bass

Gateway I - Killer ECM release from 1975 with John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Abercrombie gets this positively SPOOKY tone!

[werbo1]

dirty dozen brass band