Listenin' to Jazz and Conversation

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Lonson, Sep 1, 2016.

  1. Islands

    Islands Forum Resident

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    Can anyone recommend great 80s/early 90s jazz and fusion albums?

    Particularly looking for stuff that came out between roughly 1983-1994. Stuff that's similar to John Scofield, Pat Metheny Group, Steve Khan, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Elements, Marc Johnson Bass Desires, Don Grolnick, and the albums they put out during that time.
     
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  2. 420JJJazz666

    420JJJazz666 Hasta Siempre, Comandante

    This one would be late 90s, but I'm pretty partial to John Scofield - A Go Go, featuring the great Medeski Martin and Wood.
     
  3. Islands

    Islands Forum Resident

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    That's a great album, and one of my favorites by Scofield and MMW but that's outside the timeframe and style of what I'm seeking. Scofield's 80s albums like Still Warm, Electric Outlet, Loud Jazz, etc... are more the style I'm looking for. I'm looking for 80s sounding drums, airy keyboards, ethnic influences, drenched chorus on the guitars, etc...
     
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  4. Keith Taylor

    Keith Taylor Senior Member

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    Listening to one of the few great recordings released by Emily Remler.

    Emily Remler – Catwalk (Concord Jazz 1985)

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  5. frightwigwam

    frightwigwam Talented Amateur

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    Do you like Bill Frisell? Something like Have a Little Faith?

    There was a 1995 Graham Haynes album called Transition w/ Vernon Reid on guitar that I used to play quite a bit, but it's been awhile. Same with David Fiuczynski & John Medeski/ Lunar Crush. The President (Wayne Horvitz & Bobby Previte)/ Miracle Mile, another old favorite. Charlie Hunter's debut was in 1993....
     
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  6. Islands

    Islands Forum Resident

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    I've only heard Frisell's ECM albums, and the Bass Desires albums. I haven't checked out anything after that.
    I enjoy Charlie Hunter's work. Actually listened to that first album earlier today.
     
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  7. Lonson

    Lonson I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues Thread Starter

    "The Complete Verve Tal Farlow Sessions" Mosaic Records, cd 1

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  8. Bradd

    Bradd Now’s The Time

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    David, thanks for posting the article, much appreciated. As an attorney, I’m astonished how he got away with selling rights to some of the material he taped without paying royalties.
     
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  9. frightwigwam

    frightwigwam Talented Amateur

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    Do you like Steve Tibbetts? The pair of Safe Journey and Exploded View might interest you. I also like his earlier Yr album from 1980.
     
  10. fingerpoppin

    fingerpoppin Senior Member

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    Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
    via disc 2 trks 1 to 13 Of
    Miles Davis & Gil Evans The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings

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  11. Islands

    Islands Forum Resident

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    Yes! His music is amazing and goes beyond Jazz imo. I love every one of his albums I've heard.
     
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  12. ATR

    ATR Senior Member

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    I’m listening to it now and have been since yesterday. The release was curated by Zev Feldman who did the remarkable Nat Cole Trio set Hittin’ the Ramp a few years ago. Revelations is not nearly as simple and laid back a listening experience as the other music I’d heard from the Fondation Maeght recordings, but neither is it as paint peeling as Greenwich Village or Slug’s Saloon. Simply great AfroFuturistic sound.
     
  13. ATR

    ATR Senior Member

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    By that time the action was moving toward harmolodic music and Black Rock Coalition. Ornette Coleman Prime Time, Ronald Shannon Jackson Decoding Society, James Blood Ulmer, the hard edge Jazz fusion super group Last Exit. Pat Metheny briefly united with Ornette which produced the Song X album and tour. The album had second life with additional tracks and remix as Song XX, even better. Jack DeJohnette, who was in Song X, also had some enembles with a fusion focus and amplified instrumentation. Also see if you can find music by Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar or Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt.
     
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  14. Mike6565

    Mike6565 Hyperactive!

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  15. Bill007

    Bill007 Forum Resident

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    I remember buying this as a big Pat fan but just wasn’t ready for such a radical departure from his more sedate music.
     
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  16. Keith Taylor

    Keith Taylor Senior Member

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    This is one of my fav ECM titles, a bit earlier than your timeframe and perhaps more avant garde, but worth a listen if you are not familiar with the title. Great drumming by Jon Christensen and guitar by John Abercrombie.

    Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim And The Stars (ECM 1975)

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  17. dennis the menace

    dennis the menace Forum Veteran

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    Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (Blue Note/Analogue Productions CBNJ-84115 SA)

    Another Jazz evening, this time starting with Freddie Hubbard on Blue Note from 1963. Great band playing on this one. I love the combination of Hubbard and James Spaulding plus the rhythm section of Hancock, Workman and Clifford Jarvis,

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  18. KCLizard

    KCLizard Forum Resident

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    If you are around Montreal on September 15 th 2022, this might interest you.

    Kurt Rosenwinkel at Jazz Upstairs.

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    I have booked the second set.

    Calendar - Upstairs Jazz
     
  19. KCLizard

    KCLizard Forum Resident

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    An idea follows another

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  20. Lonson

    Lonson I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues Thread Starter

    This is the only Pat Metheny album I own any longer. ;)
     
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  21. dennis the menace

    dennis the menace Forum Veteran

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    I saw him at Upstairs a few years back. No regret...
     
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  22. dennis the menace

    dennis the menace Forum Veteran

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    Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off (Blue Note CDP7 46506Z-2)

    Is there a better debut album than this one ?

    If there's one unreleased XRCD that I'd like, it's this one.

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  23. Sorcerer

    Sorcerer Senior Member

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    I saw Rosenwinkel with his standards trio at the Bimhuis a few years ago. I wish I could have seen his Star of Jupiter quartet instead. I would have liked more of that band.
     
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  24. Lonson

    Lonson I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues Thread Starter

    It really seems as if they are going to release this soon. I'm beginning to think it will happen.
     
  25. KCLizard

    KCLizard Forum Resident

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    Montréal
    Do you live in Amsterdam?
     

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