What have you been listening to lately?

[Junk420]

Bucketheadland 2 album is amazing

Space Ship One by Paul Gilbert I haven't taken out of my cd player in the car for nearly a week

[slobake]

Jimmy Thackery, The Blind Boys of Alabamba, Misty Edwards. Couldn't pick just one.

[ugly_bassplayer]

Ornette Coleman: This is our Music
Paul Chambers : 8 cd box set
Joey Bada$$: 1999
Killer Mike: R.A.P Music
Slave: Just a Touch of Love
Kendrick Lamar: Section 80 and good kid mAAD city

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Trayster2

Lately, I've been wanting to check out Yes. Any good places to start?

Originally Posted by Hamlet7768

Fragile all the way. Close to the Edge if you have time.

Early '70s time frame-
I started with Fragile, too. Why? Because the cover looked cool. Then Close To The Edge...then The Yes Album & Relayer. Then I began a big interest in Jazz...recently, I added their 1st two albums...
For Xmas, I picked up a Yes DVD...The Lost Broadcasts. Very cool...much (all?) can be seen on youtube. I have always liked their Richie Havens' cover.
Live, Squire's bass is a bit grating. Bruford is Bruford (great)...Peter Banks is very, very good...but Steve Howe is ridiculous.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Atoz

Captain Beyond.

Cool.
40 Xmas ago (1972) I got that debut album & my 1st bass...it all seemed so mysterious & impossible back then!

[JimK]

Originally Posted by SlowMike

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (hat tip to TBers for suggesting this to other people curious about jazz)

Trying to hear what the big deal "real jazz" is all about. So far I really like listening to it (love So What and All Blues) although I probably have no idea what's going on musically. "OK here's the deal, we start off with a catchy tune, then you, tenor sax guy, play a solo, then it's my turn, then the alto sax guy goes, and finally the cat playing the piano takes a shot." Seems as formulaic as your average rock song even if the music itself is way over my head right now.

"So What" & "All Blues" do have a definite form...
"So What" (Form = AABA)...has only 2 chords...in D Dorian...more about Modal Jazz than "harmonic/chords" Jazz.
Coltrane's "Impressions" follows the same form & cahnges...at a brisker tempo.

Sorry, got KO'd offline-
"All Blues" may follow a 12-bar Blues form...except it's in 6/8 & instead of going up to the IV chord...it goes to Gm...or instead of 4 bars of G7 into C7...it goes G7 (4 bars) into Gm...then there's the turnaround.

[lhdiz14]

Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones (over and over)

[zfunkman]

Originally Posted by zachoff

For some reason I've really gotten into honky tonk sorta Texas country the last couple years. Started w/ Townes Van Zandt and now it's moved on to guys like Ryan Bingham, John Prine, Hayes Carll, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark... It's nuts, man. I've been a punk rock/metal guy my whole life and always hated (and I mean hated) country... Damn near as much as dance music, but not quite. Anyway, that's it. Totally getting into country now and it's weird. Good, but weird.

Brand X - Percy Jones is amazing.

[Atoz]

Originally Posted by JimK

Cool.
40 Xmas ago (1972) I got that debut album & my 1st bass...it all seemed so mysterious & impossible back then!

I'm envious. I wish I'd discovered them much earlier in my life. Great songs on that first album. Bobby Caldwell and Lee Dorman were a particularly strong unit.

[pica]

Originally Posted by nortonrider

Los Lonely Boys

A very talented trio!

Very good band. I saw them with Los Lobos about two years ago.

[mpace]

Jonathan Wilson -Gentle Spirit- well produced and played, nice mellow sound
Miles Davis - Pangaea, Agharta - Pete Cosey in particular is my new all time favorite guitar player, this band had such a dense, rich sound.
Grateful Dead - anything from 1976 - a really underrated year, but sonically different than most. Slower jams with a middle eastern vibe.
Any good place to start with Ornette Coleman?
Saw Los Lonely Boys a while back and they were very impressive live-
Los Lobos Kiko is amazing! I've been listening to the reissue.

[ugly_bassplayer]

Originally Posted by mpace

Jonathan Wilson -Gentle Spirit- well produced and played, nice mellow sound
Miles Davis - Pangaea, Agharta - Pete Cosey in particular is my new all time favorite guitar player, this band had such a dense, rich sound.
Grateful Dead - anything from 1976 - a really underrated year, but sonically different than most. Slower jams with a middle eastern vibe.
Any good place to start with Ornette Coleman?
Saw Los Lonely Boys a while back and they were very impressive live-
Los Lobos Kiko is amazing! I've been listening to the reissue.

where you asking me about Ornette Coleman??

[bootsyc2001]

Sunken Condos - Don Fagen
HBC - Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin, Dennis Chambers
Human Element - Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison, Gary Novak, Arto Tuncboyaciyan

[portlandguy]

M83, Tycho

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Atoz

I'm envious. I wish I'd discovered them much earlier in my life. Great songs on that first album. Bobby Caldwell and Lee Dorman were a particularly strong unit.

Here's what sucked, though...around 1977 I lent that LP (with the cool hologram cover) to a friend...he relocates to Italy for a couple of years...comes back & has no recollection he borrowed it. It was decades before that LP made it onto a domestic cd release. Granted, I was a Jazz Nazi for many of those yeras...still, that album has always been a favourite.


Bobby Caldwell really drives that band (Check out Johnny Winter And Live)...I was upset the following Xmas when he wasn't on Sufficiently Breathless.
Dorman just passed away last week, too.

[kellyrojo]

ornette's most well known/seminal recording is "Shape of Jazz to Come" I believe. Pretty bad ass calling your album "here's is where music is going next"..and then the music goes there next!

I have been listening to:
A bunch of different versions of Ladybird cause i am learning it
Fapy Lafertin
Kendra Morris
Brian Blade: Momma Rosa---totally nonjazz album by a jazz beast
Brown Bird
Pandora: Hank Williams station---awesome old school country vibe
Lots of Doc Watson


and a bunch of other crap!

[PaulMacCnj]

Tool - 10,000 Days
Seether - Karma and Effect
Grateful Dead - August 6th, 1974 @ Jersey City, NJ

[Solarmist]

Originally Posted by geoff_in_nc

Personally... there's no better place to start than Yessongs.

+1

Yessongs (live) is the best IMO as well.

[Solarmist]

Since my wife died 2 1/2 years ago - I've been listening to rock/metal bands with female vocals to help fill the void.

METRIC, Lacuna Coil, In This Moment, Evanescense, Flyleaf, and even Paramore.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by SlowMike

"OK here's the deal, we start off with a catchy tune, then you, tenor sax guy, play a solo, then it's my turn, then the alto sax guy goes, and finally the cat playing the piano takes a shot."

Soemtimes this is called a blowing session. A 'catchy tune' (could have been a Pop tune of the day that was reharmonized) is called...the head (melody) is played through...then each soloist gets their spot.
Example: "C Jam Blues" from Mingus At Carnegie Hall.

Seems as formulaic as your average rock song even if the music itself is way over my head right now.

I used to belong to a site with two camps-
Those into "real Jazz" (Swing, Bebop, Cool, Hard Bop, some Post Bop)...Jazz that hadda "swing".
Those into "Free Jazz"...especially things a lot more recent than, say, 1960.
The "Free Jazz" camp were anti-formula & seemingly anti-Swing...could be you are looking for something more "out" than Kind Of Blue?

I know a lot of people always recommend Kind Of Blue as a 1st-taste of Jazz album...I always recommend something like Point Of Departure by Andrew Hill. Considered Avant-Garde when it was released (1964?)...it has stellar compositions & the line-up is a Who's-Who of Modern Jazz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_o...rew_Hill_album)




If you're really into adventure, there's always Ascension (1965) by John Coltrane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascensi...Coltrane_album)

Wiki sez "...it is often considered to be a watershed album, with the albums released before it being more conventional in structure and the albums released after it being looser..."