i'd suggest picking up madlib's project "yesterday's new quintet" on stones
throw. it is a really great album, and is a great in-between for hip-hop and
jazz. i feel like a lot of the time when people try and mix the two, it
winds up turning out corny...
if you want just straight-up great jazz, miles davis quintet with hancock,
tony williams, ron carter, and wayne shorter is the shit. any of those
albums is great: sorcerer, nefertiti, esp, filles de killimanjaro. most
anything miles did was incredible, from his early be-bop stuff, cool jazz
(check birth of the cool), modal stuff like kind of blue, cinematic albums
like sketches of spain with gil evans, early fusion- bitches brew, in a
silent way, miles in the sky, agharta, pangaea, live-evil, etc. etc. etc...
of course john coltrane- check out transition, a love supreme, and giant
steps for classic songs.
herbie hancock- after leaving miles- made a lot of great albums with more of
a fusion feel: headhunters, fat albert rotunda (and the other stuff he did
with mwandishi), sextant, thrust, etc.
ornette coleman, anthony braxton, don cherry, sun ra... there's a lot of
people who did or who are doing real sick free jazz and intense
compositions, just stretching everything out, you know?
there's so many incredible albums, it depends on what kind of jazz you are
looking for. personally, i'd stay away from some of the newer stuff that
tries to blend jazz and funk and shit cause, most of the time, it sounds
like some bad brand new heavies or horrid acid-jazz.
zak.
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>From: Jason Cole <Jason.Cole@DigitalMediaWorks.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [idm] Jazz (OT)wasRE: [idm] Yo Guys and Gals---Help on this o
>ne.....
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:00:12 -0800
>
>Hey all. I don't know if this was brought up. But is anyone into the
>Greyboy
>Allstars? Killer hip-hoppy jazz stuff.
>Jason
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Moore [mailto:number1138@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:27 PM
>To: roberbil@earthlink.net
>Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] Jazz (OT)wasRE: [idm] Yo Guys and Gals---Help on this
>one.....
>
> >As for people working now check out susie ibarra. She's a great >drummer
> >but I don't know if she ever learned how to keep time. She >just puts up
> >these wild walls of sound with a just a drum kit. I don't >know of any
> >recordings of just her solo playing and the album she put >out on tzadik
> >has hardly any of her drumming but she has a live album out with some
>other
>
> >drummer that i've heard good things about.
>
>I've seen her play twice, she probably is the most talented drummer playing
>now. I first saw her last year at noisepop in chicago (playing for yo la
>tengo) and then again with Pauline Oliveros' New Circle 5. She brings a
>bands sound together so well. I talked to her in New York and she
>supposedly has an album released on Tzadik last month.
>
>As for Elvin Jones (also mentioned) I think his playing on Sun Ship (John
>Coltrane) is brilliant, he's a mad genius. Also he was recently on an
>album
>
>by Bill Frissell with Dave Holland (Bill Frissell was in Naked City i
>believe, and Dave Holland was the other part of Coltrane's later rhythm
>section), but i haven't had a chance to listen enough to say whether this
>album is worth while or not yet...
>
>David
>
>
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