this'll prolly brick but the idea is to respond w/ a label name & under that list albums from the label

ill start w/ some prominent/obvious ones & yall can take it from there if anyone cares

the GOAT

from Point of Departure to Speak Like a Child...classics

It's very overlooked, just like Wayne Shorter's "Schizophrenia" and "Supernova"; it's a sick album IMO...

Anyway, as for more "overlooked"/obscure Blue Note shit (my favorite label too):
Eddie Gale-Black Rhythm Happening
Andrew Hill-just pick one. Seriously, "Andrew!"
Don Cherry-Where Is Brooklyn? (SICK! With Pharoah Sanders)
Sam Rivers-Dimensions and extensions. Obviously, all his albums rule
Grachan Moncur III-Some other stuff ("Evolution" is even better but I think it's generally considered a classic)
Jackie McLean-Demon's dance (Woody Shaw!!!), It's time, Action, Old and New gospel
Cecil Taylor-Conquistador! (possibly my favorite album of all time alongside Sly's "TARGO")
Bobby Hutcherson-Components

Lots of other dope ones as well

point of departure is an andrew hill album

i meant TAKIN OFF smh

I/D, Maiden Voyage $ Speak Like a Child are his untouchable joints to me

...do you ever mess with that Blue Note app on there? Man, that alone makes me not want to drop Spotify to mess with Google Music. That app can be overwhelming with the amount of material on it.




Since 1976

if u can stream reliably

$1.98/mo for a trove of classics & good variety from earlier stuff like Monk & Powell to hard bop to free to soul-jazz

not just in Herbie's catalog, but of all time. The concept/execution -- even if I don't think many of the songs in that set are included in the canon aside from "I Have A Dream"

Say, from The Sidewinder to Live at the Lighthouse

Highlights:

•Sidewinder (64)
•Search for the New Land (64)
•Rumproller (65)
•Gigolo (65)
•Cornbread (65)
•Delightfulee (66)
•Procrastinator (67)
*Live @ the Lighthouse (70)

looks like Spring was hated on but i liked both a lot

don't ever sleep on this album

but i still havent given "out to lunch" a listen

like i shouldve done that 20 years ago or some shit hahaha

damn! haha! get on with it then!
and while you're at it, check out 'Last Date' by Dolphy too. it's been issued on various labels, not blue note tho.

there's this CD at the locall spot (which also has Out to Lunch RVG version for $12 too) ive been sleeping on

it's from '61, a twofer that's under Dolphy's name now but are actually Prestige albums led by Ron Carter (Where?) & Mal Waldron (the Quest)

>get on with it then!

i love Bobby Hutcherson yo

...be sure to check out Jackie McLean's "One step beyond" and "Destination out" as well as Grachan Moncur III's "Evolution".

All those records feature Hutcherson alongside mcLean and Moncur and Tony Williams plays drums on two of these ("Destination out!" has Roy Haynes instead which of course is dope as well but a bit more conventional and "steady" rhythmically). Additionally, "Evolution" has Lee Morgan as a bonus. AMAZING albums and they match "Out to lunch!" in vibe (no pun intended); I feel Hutcherson was in a specific zone in those years which you can also hear on his first couple of solo-albums and his stuff with Archie Shepp ("New thing at Newport" and the underrated "On this night"; neither are mongst Shepp's best but still nice partially because of Hutcherson) and Andrew Hill ("Judgement" and "Andrew"-both PERFECT albums!) that he kind of left behind later when he became more conventional and "pretty" in his playing and less jagged and percussive (still dope though, I dig Hutcherson's albums with Harold Land too but his early-mid 60's shit is the best IMO).

Oh yeah, another GREAT record with Hutcherson in that zone: Prince Lasha&Sonny Simmons "Firebirds"; one of my all time favourites and really underrated, had it come out on Blue Note rather than West Coast jazz label Contemporary, "everyone" would talk about it...

thank u for this reference point

the awesome thing is i can feel the passion & love for this music in your typing/writing & that's really wassup, im kinda late & catching up but i am loving this journey of discovery w/ this music

Some of Ornette's "happiest" playing.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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The Atlantic-stuff is the most classic of course in terms of amterial and groundbreaking style but the Izenson/Moffett rhythm-section is EASILY the most spontaneous and fluid one he worked with IMO; interplay all over the place even if I sometimes miss Haden's sense of melody and drive in the bass-lines.

Anyway, I love those records as well as the Town Hall concert on ESP with the same line-up but my favorite of all those is a fairly obscure one originally called "An evening with Ornette Coleman" that was originally released on some major label (RCA I think) and then been given cheap, ugly reissues on numerous labels and with different tracklists/song-selections. One entire side is a pretty dull "song" composed by Ornette for a symphony-orchestra but the remaining three sides? SO fucking good!!! I wish more live-material from this band will become released because the small handful of records/material available is just too little.

Not too fond of the (little) studio-material this band did though; I have only ehard the soundtrack to the wacky Chappaqua-movie that wasn't even used! That one doesn't work too well IMO with useless orchestral overdubs(?, maybe they were playing next to an actual orchestra). I don't think I've heard any other studio-material from that particular group ...

Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 & 2
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge
Tony Williams - Life Time

i'm kinda a Grant Green stan too, from his early 60's stuff (Green Street is a fave) to his later funk stuff (the live albums from that period are where it's at)

also...Shorter's stuff, Mobley's stuff of course, Bobby Hutcherson, etc etc

Lonnie Smith & Lou Donaldson had some great soul-jazz albums w/ good hard bop elements to them too of course, Turning Point & Alligator Boogaloo are personal faves (Idris is that guy of course when it comes to funky jazz drummers)

picked this album up randomly like 2 years ago for 4$

dope pianist

it from 75 i think on Steeplechase, but i have the inner city reissue

its got Charlie Rouse (Monk guy), Sam Jones, Al Foster...

nice LP iirc

I also picked it up for the same reason (on the cheap) and was pleasantly surprised. Stan Turrentine (a player I'm not usually a fan of) steals the show, though Duke's originals are all great.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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from later in his career

he did some things in his earlier days

I was all about Milt Jackson when I first started digging jazz in my late teens, so I picked up Cherry because of the co-billing to Milt. Side one was alright. Flipped it over, heard this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3fOC4oRdM

So, y'know. I can't be all that mad at Stan Turrentine.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
—Henry James
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Kind of like Ben Webster's run right before he died, Ike just mellowed out and started playing these long, gorgeous melodic lines in his solos. A lot of the albums were not meant to be done as all ballads sessions, but ended up that way because Ike was just playing the shit out of everything in that mode. Blue and Sentimental is literally saving the very best for last. As much as he tries to steal the show, Grant Green can't even mess with Ike on that album.

And one more thing, even though it's not a proper album, The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions is essential for providing proof that Ike could cook in those days just as much as anybody. I couldn't find anything on YouTube, but even if it's a two disc set, it's just completely killer all the way through. Highly recommended.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
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>the GOAT

http://www.discogs.com/label/287655-The-Blue-Note-Re-Issue-Series

these are GOLD

i have Circling In (Corea w/ Circle plus the He Sings... outtakes w/ Vitous/Haynes) and Cecil Taylor In Transition, plus the Booker Ervin & Randy Weston joints ...

Work Time --> Sonny + 4 --> Tenor Madnes --> Saxophone Colossus

I mean, it's a label many jazz fans value, but it's also fairly easy to find their records at thrift stores and garage/yard sales, simply because many people bought their albums. Some of my picks:

Louis Bellson & His Orchestra-Skin Deep
Johnny Hodges–Creamy
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Willie Bobo-Spanish Grease
Willie Bobo-Feelin' So Good (featuring one of my favorite versions of "Sunny")
Willie Bobo-Juicy
Willie Bobo-A New Dimension
Walter Wanderley-Rain Forest
Jimmy Smith-Bashin'
Jimmy Smith-Hobo Flats
Jimmy Smith-The Cat
Jimmy Smith-Got My Mojo Workin'
Jimmy Smith-Peter & The Wolf
Jimmy Smith-Respect!
Jimmy Smith-Stay Loose
Jimmy Smith-Groove Drops
Jimmy Smith-In A Plain Brown Wrapper
Jimmy Smith-Root Down
Jimmy Smith-Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith-Portuguese Soul
The Mothers Of Invention-Freak Out
The Mothers Of Invention-Absolutely Free
The Mothers Of Invention-We're Only In It For The Money
Frank Zappa-Lumpy Gravy
Cruisin' With Reuben & The Jets-s/t
Velvet Underground & Nico-s/t
Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat
Phil Woods-Round Trip

There's so many. A bunch of Wes Montgomery albums.









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funny cause as im flipping thru records to see if i missed any labels the verve i saw were, you guessed it, Jimmy Smith records

ill shout out the very well known Getz/Gilberto (a dope album to me no matter how popular)...i like Big Band Bossa Nova too...also gotta say i need to get Samba 68 by Marcos Valle after getting schooled on him recently

that Tom Jobim/Stan Getz album is serious

Was listening to this very recently and is fantastic!

this label is a goldmine in general, taylor & thiele as producers for many...

(The big ones I guess would be Coltrane, Mingus, Sanders and Oliver Nelson)

Archie Shepp-Everything up until-and including-"the way ahead"; after that he went commercial soul-jazz which is nice too but not as good. I'm partial towards the debut "Four for trane" myself but "Fire music" is the classic I guess... The way aheasd is a banger too...

Marion Brown-Three for shepp. I love this guy and while I don't think this album is as good as his ESP-disk record "Why not" (GREAT record) or even the utterly obscure "Juba-Lee" or his best album "Porto novo" or the ECM record, it's still killer...

Alice Coltrane-Ptah! the el doad. I'm not a big fan of this girl who's jazz was a bit too much on the spiritual hippie side of things, even more so than Pharoah who I'm not a big fan of either even if I dig him. Still, this album is a killer with Joe Henderson, Sanders and Ron Carter. I don't know if it was a fluke or something but it's stellar...

Max Roah-Percussion bittersweet. Eric Dolphy! Abby Lincoln! Booker Little! This album is overshadowed by "we insist!" from the same year but it's just as good IMO even if it may lack the standouts.

All the Sun Ra reissues of obscure self-released records from the early 70's; Nubians from plutonia in particular is a very fun-and accessible!-record...

i used to have a CD of that Roach album too

some others:

Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer
Michael White - Land of Spirit & Light
Oliver Nelson - the Blues & the Abstract Truth
Chico Hamilton (Larry Coryell's first jazz date i think) - The Dealer
Dewey Redman - Coincide
Keith Jarrett - Death & the Flower

Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Mingus Plays Piano

You can tell get a great understanding of what Mingus was about musically - what he had done, was doing, and would do - with those three albums in that one year.

at the village vanguard boxset

i am so fucking happy

I got it for Christmas when I was 18. Still one of my favorite things in my library.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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that live version of namia man

goddamn

The European Tours seven disc set on Pablo (yeah, I know what you're thinking — ughhh, Pablo). It's this guy:
http://www.discogs.com/John-Coltrane-Live-Trane-The-European-Tours/release/3455365

Some Dolphy appearances on it, so yeah. It's most likely just an official release of previously bootleg-only shows, so the quality varies, but it's pretty cookin' stuff.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
—Henry James
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Psychicemotus
the Golden Flute

and Eastern Sounds (that's on Prestige tho)

Both in the sense that there's some wacky stuff and in the sense that they're all very good.

The title track from Psychicemotus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8TBtyez7U

James Black playing the drunkest funk shuffle ever.

Yusef is one of those guys where it's like, if I see an album of his that I don't have, I'm buying it, doesn't matter. I know it's going to be good. It just is.

His playing in the Cannonball Adderley group was fucking scorching in the early 60's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPKvGFGl-o

His birth name was actually Bill Evans.

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
—Henry James
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>The title track from Psychicemotus:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8TBtyez7U
>
>James Black playing the drunkest funk shuffle ever.
>

^^yes!

that + the flute on that track, whew!

>His birth name was actually Bill Evans.
>

ha!

yeah he was on that Eastern vibe even before Trane & them really made it prominent

>
>yeah he was on that Eastern vibe even before Trane & them
>really made it prominent
>

Most people know AAM from his time in Monk's band, but all of the albums he did as a leader are fucking awesome. Most of them I wouldn't even count as jazz, really. More like "world music" (which is a categorization I hate, but it gets the point across). This two-fer on Prestige is great: http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-sounds-of-africa-mw0000023394


'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them."
—Henry James
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>
>Most people know AAM from his time in Monk's band, but all of
>the albums he did as a leader are fucking awesome.

Gato Barbieri-Chapter 1:Latin America. KILLER fusion of jazz and argentinian folk music; much better than the "Last tango in apris"-shit that would make him a relative star...

Charlie Haden-the Liberation music orchestra; All-star band and great songs with-again-a world music vibe

Ornette Coleman-Crisis. This live has never been re-released to my knowledge which is strange since it was on impulse and Ornette being a fairly big name. It has him reuniting with Cherry and Haden but Dewy Redman is there too and (somewhat unfortunately), Ornette's kid son on drums. Still, it's dope, one of my top 5 Ornette albums...

>Gato Barbieri-Chapter 1:Latin America. KILLER fusion of jazz
>and argentinian folk music; much better than the "Last tango
>in apris"-shit that would make him a relative star...
>

i've been passing over Chapter 2 at my favorite vinyl spot in favor of other stuff for a minute...allmusic's review says its great tho

i like El Pampero (on flying dutchman) & truly LTIP sdtrk has some vibes on it too, i sampled it years ago for a little fruity loop or two

I love that label, they put out a lot of great music from a pretty varied roster

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

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All of 'em.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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Eicher is a G

Eberhard Weber Colours-Silent Feet
Eberhard Weber–Later That Evening
Chick Corea–Return To Forever
Steve Reich-Music For 18 Musicians
Steve Reich–Octet • Music For A Large Ensemble • Violin Phase
Jack DeJohnette–New Directions
Art Ensemble Of Chicago-Nice Guys
Sam Rivers-Contrasts ‎
Meredith Monk-Dolmen Music
Pat Metheny Group-First Circle


and definitely:
Eberhard Weber-Chorus




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>Eberhard Weber Colours-Silent Feet
>Eberhard Weber–Later That Evening
>Chick Corea–Return To Forever
>Steve Reich-Music For 18 Musicians
>Steve Reich–Octet • Music For A Large Ensemble • Violin Phase
>
>Jack DeJohnette–New Directions
>Art Ensemble Of Chicago-Nice Guys
>Sam Rivers-Contrasts ‎
>Meredith Monk-Dolmen Music
>Pat Metheny Group-First Circle
>
>
>and definitely:
>Eberhard Weber-Chorus

thanks for these, Nice Guys is a great record, i'll add on

Jan Garbarek-Afric Pepperbird
Kenny Wheeler-Gnu High
John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack Dejohnette-Gateway
Steve Kuhn-Trance
Bennie Maupin-Jewel in the Lotus
Dave Holland-Conference of the Birds
Lester Bowie-All the Magic!

and on & on

ive barely scratched the surface...

>Dave Holland-Conference of the Birds

For other good shit on the label:
Marion Brown-Afternoon of a georgia faun
Old and New Dreams (the OG Ornette Coleman quartet minus ornette but with Dewey Redman instead)
Circle (=Chick Corea, Holland, Rivers and Anthony Braxton)-Paris Concert

that first one is already on my wishlist

>For other good shit on the label:

Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, love


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Do you know that one? Like it? Are you a Bley fan?

I recently found a copy and bought it immediately because I knew it as one of the only ECM albums that still remains unreleased in America (and that's immediately interesting for dorks like me).

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world."
—Henry James
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I haven't listened to much Bley outside of his early live-recordings with Ornette Coleman and his two albums on ESP ("Barrage" is bland as hellfreebop even if the band is dope outside of the trumpeter, "Closer" was probably his first album in his "mature" style and is really nice). I always wanted to check him out more though.

BTW, have you heard the sole Lowell Davidson album (aslo on ESP)? It's quite avantgarde due to the rhythm-section with Milford Graves and Gary Peacock but Davidson himself is very different from the likes of Cecil Taylor or (early) Don Pullen or Dave Burrell or whatever; his temperament is more like Andrew Hill's. Not sure you'll dig it but give it a shot; it's vERY underrated IMO...

>Marion Brown-Afternoon of a georgia faun

and i mean that in the best way possible...just some wild great sounding & challenging originality

>Old and New Dreams (the OG Ornette Coleman quartet minus
>ornette but with Dewey Redman instead)

i have this on my list but i did cop the Black Saint LP (their first) off itunes & its spectacular

>Circle (=Chick Corea, Holland, Rivers and Anthony
>Braxton)-Paris Concert

need this too, all these guys are great

It's quite different from his earlier stuff which was first more post-Coleman and then more post-Coltrane. A lot of "modern jazz" in that era followed various general trends even if that aspect manifested itself differently than it does in pop/Hip-Hop/rock/whatever due to the commercial aspect being more-or-less irrelevant (most of those "out"-guys made money on teaching or session-gigs rather than records or even tours/concerts in their own names) and this one seems to me that it's been inspired by the then fresh Chicago-scene with Art Ensemble of Chicago and Anthony Braxton and those guys in the sense that the music has less of a continously driving, agressive "pulse" (which characterized Brown's earlier albums) and instead relied more on "ambience" and percussion as a texture (if even there at all) etc.

He was very early on picking up these things though and did something great with it; he was never really a guy who had an extremely personal sound for the band/backing but rather a dude who was extremely/personal distinct in *himself*, as a musician if that makes sense (IMO of course). Therefore, it doesn't really matter which context you put him in, it always sounds like him and is generally dope with the caveat that there are some obscure german released records with him that I haven't heard and that *might* be kind of obnoxious (I doubt it though).

the cool thing was in the liners he encouraged musicians to put non-musicians "with a sense of rhythm & melody" on their records

I love all those albums he did on ECM.

I'd like to drop mention for Jon Hassell's Power Spot.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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...just kidding, but hells yeah Eberhard, Pat, & Chick are the ones I will always buy without giving a second thought, cause everything those three have done on that label is pure gold (for listening and sampling).

Also Keith Jarrett's & Gary Burton's stuff on ECM is dope too.

I had taken a chance on Eberhard Weber one year, heading to a Goodwill down in Hermiston, Oregon. Bought it because it was ECM, played it and was completely blown away. I think there's enough good stuff to keep people wanting to hear, and hopefully explore to hear more.


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edit: that said, i find it most rewarding to find a new record/album via going into an actual store & getting ur fingers dusty...theres something about finding a gem urself thats very rewarding

since i started digging for MUSIC TO LISTEN TO though, instead of bein focused on sample material, ive found SO MUCH MORE than i ever thought was out there

to this day!

from 69-NOW they've released quality...

two 2012 releases i love:

billy hart - all our reasons
masabumi kikuchi trio - sunrise

great CD, his sax is mixed a little too loud imo but still great

drummer is killer & two pianos on this too, one is a "prepared" piano with some ill sounds

Amazon has most priced at 7.99 on *CD*

for less than $30 picked up Ralph Towner - Solstice, Colin Walcott (backed by Gateway) - Cloud Dance & Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette

DeJohnette has quickly become my favorite drummer

only have heard the DeJohnette one but they look like nice packages all around

really enjoying this right now...the track w/ vocals is kinda bugged but nice album overall & i LOVE the coverart on this one so much

i found Drum Ode on wax which led me to get Lookout Farm on itunes, both great

w/ Ethan Iverson, Ben Street & Mark Turner

also Vijay Iyer released his first ECM album, never listened to him, what's the consensus?

I'll come back later to add a bunch

is they get flack for the cheese factor, which does apply to *some* of the releases

but the label has TONS of high quality music & so many great ppl recorded on the label

. . .my favorite (right now anyway) is Jim Hall's Concierto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6k2E61ABY

The lineup on the album is just insane.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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Bob Thiele Emergency-Head Start
Tom Scott-Hair to Jazz
Duke Ellington-My People
Leon Thomas-Spirits Known and Unknown
Gato Barbieri-The Third World
Peter Hamill-Massacre at Mai Lai
Peter Hamill-Murder at Kent State University
The Esoteric Circle-s/t
George Russell-Othello Ballet Suite/Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1
Gil Scott-Heron-Small Talk at 125th & Lenox
Groove Holmes-Onsaya Joy

and my two favorites:
George Russell-Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
Larry Coryell-Barefoot Boy





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Leon Thomas
Oliver Nelson
Gato
Lonnie Liston
Gil Scott

gotta get my ears on that Coryell, i have this Fairyland joint that has the FD logo on it that's fucking GREAT

Essential

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Walter Bishop Jr.-Coral Keys
Walter Bishop, Jr.'s 4th Cycle–Keeper Of My Soul
Doug Carn-Infant Eyes
The Awakening-Mirage
Henry Franklin–The Skipper
Cleveland Eaton–Plenty Good Eaton


my favorite:
Chester Thompson–Powerhouse

I also think Doug Carn's ADAM'S APPLE is interesting, partly because of the covers of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Mighty Mighty".




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But I really feel like these two are essential jazz records:

Clifford Jordan — Glass Bead Games
Cecil McBee — Mutima

Very diverse and awesome sets, both of them.

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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Rudolph Johnson's two albums on Black Jazz are outstanding though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hvevSIzKs


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also there's a dope Theo Parrish comp/selection from this label that released recently

one of okp's favorite MC's very close relatives figures prominently

Holding Together <-----a-fuckin-mazing
the Prophet
Clevont Fitzhubert
Expandable Language

Buying the boxset of his recordings on Soul Note last year was seriously one of the best music purchases I've ever done. He's now one of my GOATs.

Of course, this is avantgarde stuff but it is dark, moody, introverted and heavily composed avantgarde and very different from the general perception of free jazz; dude was the shit IMO... RIP!!!

soul note/black saint has, in general, some very nice ones

Oliver Lake really shined on the label

a real nice soul note is Fred Houn & the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble

Is a fav of mine

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or Arista Freedom

...a lot of the stuff they put out was reissues of stuff from small european labels (think Albert Ayler, Cecil's "Nefertiti..." etc.).

Anyway, if we ignore that, Cecil Taylor's "Nefertiti" is the big one but if we take stuff that was initially released on the label, I'd go with Cecil there too:SIlent Tongues; a solo piano record that's just dope beyond words.

Also:Noah Howard:the Black Ark. INCREDIBLE album...

This was a dope label and I've heard some rumors that it was Quincy Jones that partially put an end to it by being narrow-minded and assholish at a dinner party...

EDIT:I might mix it up with some other label but I think it was this subsidiary...

thanks again for contributing to this post

here's 3 good ones i can name

roswell rudd - flexible flyer
stanley cowell - brilliant circles
oliver lake - heavy spirits

not sure if u mentioned shepp but he had some

lots of those on itunes, haven't checked any out quite yet

The OG freedom was strictly 70's and a primarily reissue sisterlabel to Black Lion-who after Freedom was bought by Arista and then just left for dead-reissued a lot of those records. Iv'e seen a lot of Black Lion reissues of Freedom stuff with ugly covers and questionable mastering.

EDIT:Basically:Freedom_original label. Black Lion=also old label but those records were originally on Freedom. After looking it up on wiki, it turns out that Black Lion *originally* specialized in british jazz whereas Freedom was the US stuff. Because of the Arista-thing, freedom ceased to exist and I guess the rights to those recordings went back to the now active company which is Black Lion. That doesn't explain why a lot of the *original*, non-reissued freedom-stuff remains unissued. Maybe Arista (or whatever majorlabel that owns them now) got the rights to that stuff and it is just rottoing away in the vaults

Forget the post above; after checking this out more on discogs, it turns out that a lot of the freedom-stuff was reissued in Japan (assumedly limited and rare as fuck) with the Freedom-logo.

Whatever, every reissue *I* ever seen of the 70's freedom-shit is on Black Lion or-in extremely rare cases-some other label; the altter presumably if it's a newer reissue (see:Revenants stellar reissue of Cecil's "Nefertiti" from the late 90's or the hipster Noah Howard reissue)...

have cheapo looking covers on itunes w/ Black Lion as the label

edit: yep all 3 that i named above are like that on itunes

In case anyone wonder and to clarify myself:

Freedom: dope 70's free-jazz label who primarily reissued-and I guess bought the rights to- obscure or OOP free-jazz albums from the 60's but also dropped some new shit in the same category. Was somewhere along the line bought up by arista and then just dropped and left until I guess the rights for the licenses returned to the OG owner which I guess is...

Black Lion:another label with the same adress/owner/whatever that released stuff that I guess fell outside of the US free jazz Freedom specialized in. Nowadays (?)-and for the past, um, 25 years or so, they have reissued much of the stuff originally on freedom that I assume has fallen out of the hands of Arista with hideous black&white covers and often at budget prices...

as well as "Reflections"

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w/ Dave Holland AND Elvin Jones

Shamek Farrah "First Impressions"

Dick Griffin "The Eighth Wonder"

Stanley Cowell "Regeneration"

The John Betsch Society "Earth Blossom"

Brother Ahh "Sound Awareness"

Clifford Jordan "Clifford Jordan In The World"

These are some of my faves, but catalog overall is pretty solid.

lots of forgotten heatrocks came from that label

in my searches for physical product anyway

but I don't think it's up now
shame too because most of it is waaay out of print

And boy do I love me some Stanley

correct. him and charles tolliver

^^^cosign

I've got a couple handfuls of SE albums that I really like and always keeping my eye out for more when I have the money (because they always seem to cost) but since hearing it I have always liked this particular recording/arrangement of Stanley Cowell's "Abscretions" - big and brassy and so funky besides:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbAJi2aJWH4

There's a solo piano version on Cowell's Musa that I think is better-known via being sampled, but I didn't realize that at first; it's just a stand-out piece... still, it's cool to hear something I was used to as arranged work just as well stripped down - keeping the big rhythms that make it so driving...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUDVWIVVkQ

Nate Morgan "Retribution, Reparation"

Dadisi Komolafe "Hassan's Walk"

Creative Arts Ensemble with BJ Crowley "One Step Out"

Linda Hill "Lullaby For Linda"

One of my favorite late 70s/early 80s jazz labels. Most everything is decent but these above along with a few more are top shelf spiritual jazz that hangs with the best of strata east and tribe.

I've looked at these and want to hear them as well as more from the label in general - I have a couple of Horace Tapscott from them but that's about it.

>Dadisi Komolafe "Hassan's Walk"
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see: MMS 8

When I'm digging for vinyl when I see an album on Inner City, it's instant coppage cause I know it will not be a disappointing album at all, yeah a few albums had some average material on it but overall each album will have at least two or three dope jazz songs on them guaranteed.

I think the first album on Inner City I bought was titled "The Three" with Joe Sample, Ray Brown, & Shelly Manne ( http://www.discogs.com/Joe-Sample-Ray-Brown-Shelly-Manne-The-Three/release/2229406 ), I bought this in the dollar bins, of course me being a fan of Joe Sample I knew it couldn't be bad and I was right, and I've been seeking out anything on this label ever since.

they seem to have done a lot of reissues too, but super quality stuff

Ken McIntyre - Home
Dollar Brand - Children of Africa
Charles Sullivan - Genesis <-------this one tho?

all reissues of some sort but great LPs that im glad ive come across

I will surely learn something from this post.

I knew a ton about diggin' for vinyl and jazz artists and labels but when Discogs started to do other genres of music, finding about labels and jazz artist's collaborations/groups/alias really open my eyes up on a few small/indie jazz labels; cause before I would just hunt down records by musicians I knew from previous records I owned and remember those names when diggin' and if their name is on a record by some artist I've never heard then I would pick it up, but no everyone can or will go that route to find good jazz tunes.

I've just never paid attention to labels. Never really approached music buying from the standpoint. It's interesting to see how people do.

the recent boxset of the live in Europe 1969 w/ Shorter/Corea/Holland/DeJohnette is awesome

Outside of all the Miles Davis, you have a healthy dose of Dave Brubeck's discography. Herbie Hancock's time with the label. Ramsey Lewis. A healthy dose of fusion jazz. Duke Ellington.


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Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross

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He only did a few albums for Columbia, but the Bill Evans Album (1970) features Bill's trio of him, Marty Morrell and the severely underrated Eddie Gomez. Bill doubles on acoustic and Fender Rhodes electric piano (it's one of only a handful of album where Bill used the Rhodes for more than just tonal color — he actually plays the heads and some solos on it for this album). He plays a lot of his most popular tunes on it and, over the years, as I've gotten to know Bill's catalogue forwards and back, it strikes as maybe not his best overall album, but definitely his most representative.

Here's 'Waltz for Debby' from the album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwv4jU6e_o

'choons:
"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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Being a big Bob James fan, when Bob decided to form his own imprint, Columbia Records basically let him do what he was doing with previous labels such as CTI and Kudu but with his direction, so you got some great albums from such artists as:

Mongo Santamaria
Wilbert Longmire
Mark Colby
Richard Tee (who can't sing to save his life but a great guitarist)
Steve Khan
Joanne Brackeen
and of course Bob James himself

A lot of these artists would be featured on each others' releases including artists that Bob has worked with heavily in the pass on CTI & Kudu as well; too bad his label only lasted for four years.

I think I got quite a few releases on this label but it's not a whole lot since the label wasn't around for a long time but the jazz music on it was pretty wide from traditional to fusion to disco/funk. Not sure why A&M Records wanted to put only some of thier jazz artists on this label when they still had bigger names signed directly to their label but I guess it was a money issue and not just a genre situation but here's a few artists that came out with albums on this label.

Dave Brubeck
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Thad Jones
Seawind
Neil Larsen

The Jim Hall live album on that label is so fucking good. Just. . . goddamn it's good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X_3CkOwUPk

'choons:
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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its got so many ppl on it too (Lake, Redman, Holland etc)

the Larry Coryell, Oregon & Elvin Jones records on the label make it deserving of mention

Kind of interesting to see which-if any-records on that groundbreaking, legendary (and vERY freaky and free and, at times, hopelessly dated and "hey, it's the 60's; let's drop out and do acid") label people dig.

The big ones (excluding their rock- and folk-stuff) are obviously Ayler and Sun Ra and perhaps Ornette's "Town hall concert".

For the lesser ones, these are *my* favorites:

New York Art Quartet-s/t
Noah Howard-both, especially "At judson hall"
Marion Brown-Why Not?
Frank Wright-Your Prayer
Lowell Davidson-s/t (as mentioned above)
Steve Lacy-the forest and the zoo
Sonny Simmons-Staying on the watch
Frank Lowe-Black Beings
Ayler, Cherry, Tchicai etc.-New York Eye and ear control soundtrack

Sun Ra - Nothing Is...
Sun Ra - The Heilocentric Worlds, Vol. 1 & 2
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone

...I just feel that that labels entire status as a jazz-label almost solely rest on Ayler and Ra with everything else just kind of being there but a lot of the other stuff is dope too.

I dig that Charles Tyler-record too (his first one on the label as well), my library actually used to have it back in the early 90's which was really cool to hear records like that for free.

BTW, have you seen the vastly expanded reissue of "Nothing is" called College tour 1966" or something? It is SO good...

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>BTW, have you seen the vastly expanded reissue of "Nothing is"
>called College tour 1966" or something? It is SO good...

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-Nothing-Is/release/2150958

And it indeed kicks many butts and takes equally as many names.

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"soul in isolation." http://bit.ly/159yQaK
"jacques snicket." http://bit.ly/14iU9Xs
"pushed by wind." http://bit.ly/164IZGB
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>BTW, have you seen the vastly expanded reissue of "Nothing is"
>called College tour 1966" or something? It is SO good...


no, but i'll have to get this asap. thanks!

>Steve Lacy-the forest and the zoo

>Marion Brown-Why Not?
>Ayler, Cherry, Tchicai etc.-New York Eye and ear control
>soundtrack

there's also one called Vietnam by the Revolutionary Ensemble, looks real interesting

looks like the founder of the label still runs it & most of the catalog is available in some form

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>New York Art Quartet-s/t
>Steve Lacy-the forest and the zoo
>Ayler, Cherry, Tchicai etc.-New York Eye and ear control
>soundtrack

its really incredible

all of these are great

ive also heard:

paul bley - barrage and closer
marzette watts & company
bob james - explosions
revolutionary ensemble - vietnam

>paul bley - barrage and closer
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Barrage is kind of generic and vanilla free jazz but oCloser, he really came into his own, dope

>marzette watts & company

LOVE this one, marzette himself cant play for shit but his ideas and compostions are nice and the band is AMAZING, like dude got the top names in the underground to appear, probably because he owned the hippest loft in that era from what Ive heard...

>bob james - explosions

This one is SO not like his later stuff, LOL. I couldnr get into it honestly but whatever, its interesting I guess,,,

>revolutionary ensemble - vietnam

Never heard this one but it should be great based on personel, one day I\ll peep it...

i also ended up getting Giuseppe Logan Quartet (Vietnam was OOS on CD, but i still got the digi for free & replaced it w/ that in my order)

Logan isn't the best player though he makes some cool sounds but imo the songs & supporting cast (Pullen, Gomez, Graves) make it a great listen

this label has tons of good stuff, both old and new. here are two extremely dope albums.

Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Quartet - School Days
Sven-Åke Johansson - Six Little Pieces For Quintet

>Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Quartet - School Days

Really cool idea to cover Monk without piano and it sounds great too!

I haven't heard any of Sven-åke's records for some reason but I know he played on "Machine Gun" (Brötzmann) so I suspect it's pretty damn weird stuff. I must check him out more one day...

>>Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Quartet - School Days
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>Really cool idea to cover Monk without piano and it sounds
>great too!


also it was recorded 1963(!)



>I haven't heard any of Sven-åke's records for some reason but
>I know he played on "Machine Gun" (Brötzmann) so I suspect
>it's pretty damn weird stuff. I must check him out more one
>day...


the record that i mentioned is actually pretty "free jazzy". really good! check it out!

looks promising

newer label with mostly new york musicians/groups.

Steve Coleman - The Mancy of Sound
Steve Lehman Octet - Trevail, Transformation and Flow
Fieldwork - Simulated Progress
Fieldwork - Door
Henry Threadgill Zooid - This Brings Us To, Vol.2

ive seen some stuff under this name on itunes

Paul Motian released a lot of great albums on this label. One of my favorites is Motian in Tokyo with his trio.

other good ones are

Marc Ducret, Tim Berne & Tom Raney - Big Satan
Tethered Moon - Chansons de Piaf

there are lots more.

i mean there's this, Blue Note w/ Lion/Wolff & ECM ...

they know jazz it seems

in fact, lol, the old ww2 axis countries seem to do well w/ Jazz as Black Saint/Soul Note (which really is a pretty incredible label overall) being Italian & the Japanese jazz scene being as amazing as it's been for decades & decades

but yo, Paul Motian (RIP) is that guy, speaking of Black Saint & ECM...my next amazon purchase has GOT to be his CD boxset on ECM w/ 6 albums priced at $40, ive held off on copping Conception Vessell bc i dont wanna buy it twice...there's a great looking Black Saint set for him too (amongst many other boxes they have for the artists that recorded for them), the Story of Maryam is a GREAT album

A lot of the records on this label were just chaotic allstar-jam sessions to my ears (Shepp's albums are particularly disappointing IMO) but the following ones I dig a lot:

Don Cherry-Mu 1 and 2
Jimmy Lyons-Other Afternoons (possibly my favorite)
Art Ensemble of Chicago-Reese and the smooth ones
Grachan Moncur III-New Africa
Arthur Jones-Africanasia (mandatory for people into "world-music"/spiritual inspired shit), Scorpio
Alan Silva-Seasons (a two and a half hour long triple-album free-jazz symphony with the most OTT ending ever; it's killer up to that though)
Steve lacy-Moon

Paul Bley - Footloose

i like it

>Alan Silva-Seasons (a two and a half hour long triple-album
>free-jazz symphony with the most OTT ending ever; it's killer
>up to that though)

haha!

26 tracks of almost 4 hours of great tunes from the likes of braxton, cherry, burrell, shepp, wright etc & a cool digital booklet

VERY nice compilation

funny thing is it led me to find Daevid Allen's Banana Moon LP the next day after i got ot while record shopping, even tho the track on the comp was one of like 2 "rock" songs on there

that is all

& artists to check out

so i gotta also give a huge thanks to everyone participating & adding on

this is Erroll Parker's label

http://www.discogs.com/label/Sahara%20Records

i really just wanted to post this album lol

http://www.discogs.com/Errol-Parker-Tentet-The-Errol-Parker-Tentet/release/2747150

steve coleman & stanton davis are notable names on it

found a real goid Chico Freeman record called Tradition in Transition on this label, in the dollar bin no less

the insert to the LP shows a ridiculous amount of releases by big timers on the label

Tony Williams on drums. Bill Evans (the sax player). It's a good early 80's mainstream bop session. Nothing remarkable, but worth checking out if you see it for cheap.

I want to say there's a John Klemmer session on the label that's worthwhile, though I don't have it.


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looks like it's Arista affiliated, later RCA/BMG

Henry Threadgill - X-75
Steve Lacy - The Door
Amina Claudine Meyers -Amina (ive had this CD for months, should prolly listen to it bc i havent yet lol)

Album is crazy, considering what JK was doing otherwise at the time. They play a lot of standards and the tunes where it's just John and drums harken back to his Chess/Impulse days when he was playing in that noisier post-Coltrane mode. It's the John Klemmer album to play for people who think he was schmaltzy smooth jazzer.


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I have Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus (which is 1960; peak Mingus and Dolphy), but nothing else.


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Cecil Taylor-World of Cecil Taylor: Even if you don't like his later, more physical/chaotic music, this one sounds very different and is more like quirky post-bop (still more dissonant than the norm though) with steady drums and all; GREAT album but I'm a stan... Still, I tend to view it as his creative breakthrough in a way for a variety of reasons and unlike his later stuff, it is quite accessible by "objective" standards.

Max Roach-We Insist!: This is the one with Freedom Day and those tunes with his wife Abby Lincoln going at it, classic album.

Booker Little-Out front: GREAT album; this also sounds a bit more like a mid-60's post-bop session on Blue Note several years before they occured. Great, rich arrangements and you get Eric Dolphy as a bonus!

Booker Ervin-That's it!: This is of course the super-bluesy, soulful saxophonist who played with Mingus and here you get Horace Parlan as well for more of that era's Mingus-vibe. very very nice hardbop if you like Ervin's style even if I wouldn't call the music original "groundbreaking" or anything-just dope..

Curtis Fuller
Barry Miles
Jack Wilkins
Morgana King

Gene Perla's label, if u haven't heard Some Shapes to Come by Steve Grossman, keep an eye out

legends recorded for that label

Trane
Mingus
Roach
Yusef Lateef
Charles Lloyd
Les McCann
etc

Donald Byrd is the man!
and Lansana's Priestess is my favorite song of him

this philpot guy knows what's up