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Straight-ahead jazz! 1955! Horace silver on piano! Art blakey on drums! Engineered by Rudy van gelder!
Feb 22, 2024
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I love the first 3 tracks from the 1957 album Drum Suite. It will help you zone out or lock in. One Discogs user noted that the way it's recorded makes it feel like the musicians are in the room with you. This would sound great on some fancy speakers.
Jan 24, 2024
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Always good, sometimes great.
Jan 28, 2024
It's a totally cliche recommendation EXCEPT
There's a reason why it is widely considered one of the best jazz albums ever recorded
and has been certified 5X platinum (which is probably many multiples more than its next jazz competitor).
It is just jaw droppingly great.
Davis is joined here by saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderly (legends both), pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Miles led many great ensembles but that's pretty much like having the jazz hall of fame in your band. I think I've probably listened to this album all the way through like a thousand times and I still find new things to pick out every time it spins.
All the more amazing when you consider that Davis was basically creating a whole new jazz form here ('modal jazz' vs. bebop which was the mode du jour), the album was recorded to three track in just two sessions on two different days in 1959 and that the musicians had almost no rehearsal prior to these sessions -- Davis had given them only sketches of scales and melody lines around which the band improvised. "Flamenco Sketches" is actually a first take.
Apr 21, 2024
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The production on this track, with the orchestra swells and the little plucky guitar solo, gets me every time
Feb 22, 2024
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Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead's side project released a new album this month and it's basically a new Radiohead album.
Feb 22, 2024
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if Billy Strings and his Quintet come anywhere within 3 hours of you this summer, absolutely go and see them.
If you like bluegrass, country, folk, rock, or just generally a fan of improvisational jam music, Billy Strings will blow your mind.
Feb 23, 2024