Ten Great Contemporary Jazz Albums

[Pieterland]

As I promised, here t is the list I’ve made of my favorite contemporary jazz recordings… in no specific order.


1. Simple Acoustic Trio - Trio
2005, Poland. Jazz piano trio with a modern approach. Includes a very powerful version of Bjork's song "Hyperballad".

2. Maria Joao e Mario Laginha - Fabula
1996, Portugal. Magic. You've never heard anything like this… MAGIC!

3. Pink Freud - Sorry Music Polska
2002, Poland. Mystical and mysterious acid jazz... I've seen them live, and they are really wild, one of the bet shows I’ve been to... almost psychedelic.

4. Cheiro de vida – Vivo
1988, Brasil. A live show… an unknown band… and the greatest bass player (I mean it)… this one it’s really hard to get, but try to track it down, you won’t regret.
And if you don’t find it, search youtube.

5. Paolo Fresu - Rosso Verde Giallo e Blu
2007, Italy. Just to name one. I loved every album I’ve heard of him. A great contemporary trumpet player that won’t disappoint even to the hardest listener.

6. The Crimson Jazz Trio – Songbook Volume 1
2005, England/United States. Classics of the great progressive rock band played by an astonishing group of musicians that will blow your head away…

7. Benavent, di Geraldo, Pardo – El concierto de Sevilla
1995, Spain. Another trio. But this time it’s bass sax and drums the ones in charge to cast the spell… flamenco/jazz. Live album.

8. Cinematic Orchestra – Every Day
2002, England. Another acid jazz pearl. Dark, urban, modern, eclectic. This album may be in the boundaries of jazz, but I wanted to include it in the list anyway,.

9. Claude Bolling – Jazz a la Francaise
1987, France. God plays the piano. Lovely fusion between ragtime, early jazz, and classical music in Bach’s code. Glamorous, definitively French.

10. Jaques Loussier Trio – Vivaldi, The tour seasons
1997, France. Another great jazz piano trio. The all-time classic Vivaldi concertos played in very peculiar way.


I hope you can find them, and listen them…

[chadds]

Ya got yer, Kenny G. does Miles.
Kenny G. does Coltrane.
Kenny G. does himself.
Kenny G. reevaluates his playing.
Kenny G. gets a haircut.
Kenny G. the sax lesson.

These albums have a flow from nowhere to extreme self awareness.
Not for the timid.

[Bruce Lindfield]

All of my top 10 would have Double Bass and not BG!!

[Pieterland]

most of these has double bass on them...

[Bruce Lindfield]

So why are we in BG rather than DB?

[Pieterland]

it should be in both (BG and DB)
maybe i put it here because i play bass guitar, and i only wanted to share what i think are ten great unknown albums, so you can search it in you tube...

[Nasnederis]

Originally Posted by Pieterland

it should be in both (BG and DB)
maybe i put it here because i play bass guitar, and i only wanted to share what i think are ten great unknown albums, so you can search it in you tube...

Thanks for the post pieterland. I only know pink freud and crismon jazz trio which are awesome but I have to check the rest of the bands.