Jazz for Jack Law
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I'm not as crazy about it after track 12 - not sure if this is just a pavlovian response by now or if it goes somewhere that I don't like as much as the first 12 tracks?
I'm listening to the horace silver track you just added now and that fits the initial 12 tracks vibe more maybe?
I'm listening to the horace silver track you just added now and that fits the initial 12 tracks vibe more maybe?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
For you both
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Ah won’t embed, but the link should work
Add https://www.discogs.com/artist/254990-The-Modern-Jazz-Quartet
Add https://www.discogs.com/artist/254990-The-Modern-Jazz-Quartet
Benny Bunter
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Craner's got some sweet spotify playlists
What do you think of Miles' electric period, Corpsey? (In A Silent Way onwards) That seems to be a lot of people's way in to jazz, especially dissensus types like us.
What do you think of Miles' electric period, Corpsey? (In A Silent Way onwards) That seems to be a lot of people's way in to jazz, especially dissensus types like us.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Not really familiar with it. I've heard some of it, but I couldn't pick a track out if of a lineup.
As craner has noted in order to create this list, I have a musical sweet tooth which means I'm much more receptive towards melodic stuff and as a general rule the more atonal and "free" jazz gets the less I like it.
Saying that I think I've heard and enjoyed some pretty adventurous stuff like Bitches Brew. I just don't feel compelled to listen to it again.
pattycakes_
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Benny Bunter
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One thing thats really remarkable about Miles later stuff is that while its certainly 'out there' and experimental and more loosely/uncoventionally structured, its not generally (to my ears at least) 'atonal' and cacophonous either - indeed I think he was pretty contemptuous of free jazz, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler etc. He found a 'third way' of sorts in the mid to late 60s into the 70s. In A Silent Way is actually really pretty, and then you've got all the rhythmic funk rock influence and studio trickery in stuff like Bitches Brew and On the Corner that more modern ears can relate to.
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jenks
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That’s pretty much how I found my way into jazz - Miles late 60s stuff as a gateway from psychedelic rock. I then just followed up by listening to people who played with Miles - Herbie, Jarrett, Evans, it was a useful Mark of distinction and I didn’t go far wrong and then I was in and explored further afield. However, I still find some of it beyond my ears - years ago I bought a Matthew Shipp lp that had a rave review in the Wire, I just could not get anything out of it - to my ears it sounded like a piano being dropped down a mineshaft.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I have a necessarily slightly blurry memory of listening to this while high as a kite once and the squawky aggressive freak out section actually freaking me out (not unpleasantly):
As far as I understand it weed (or 'grass' or whatever it was called then) was actually a key element in jazz. I don't think jazz has the instant association with weed that reggae does but weed certainly seems to put me in a more receptive place for jazz. (Of course it makes all music sound better, so maybe that's not saying much...)
As far as I understand it weed (or 'grass' or whatever it was called then) was actually a key element in jazz. I don't think jazz has the instant association with weed that reggae does but weed certainly seems to put me in a more receptive place for jazz. (Of course it makes all music sound better, so maybe that's not saying much...)
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Indeed it is
Leo
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My older brother had "Big Fun" when I was a kid, still have fond memories of it and bought my own copy years later. I'm not a Miles fanboy but that, "Get On It" and "On The Corner" are my fav electric albums of his.
Benny Bunter
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Benny Bunter
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But yeah, Craner knows what Corpsey likes
version
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The one where he liveblogged listening to it on acid?
mai lyst
ok. maybe not 100 though. but only if you and corpsey and crowley do too Here you go sweetness, I got a bit carried away. https://sadmanbartyblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/first-blog-post/ your turn corpse. Here's part 2...
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