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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_sHiOQMVY&list=PL91E6EB3BD02A35C1&index=2
And, in true 'Jazz Club' style, Polar Bear...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyyUxM2CyGo
Nice :>
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Bad Plus - that's pretty generic Piano/Bass/Drums (good nonetheless) - anything from 1950s onwards, it's not really THAT modern. Listen to Keith Jarrett and/or Brad Mehldau for that kind of stuff
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You have to figure out what you like. You might hate Art Blakey but love other musicians from the same era.
Here is what I like:
Wynton Marsalis (from Standard Time Vol 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80PSXB5688s
Oscar Peterson. (Needs to be heard loud. With the double bass shaking the furniture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9FfXQs4-A&index=15&list=PL0BF7FA4B497B5617
Patricia Barber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EkwcB3TKg&list=PLoEGsQZk_UKGt4EZq4y7F1YyX_An7XvyT&index=97
John Scofield
Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrel
John Coltrane, Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
... and if you wish to approach your jazz from the bluesy end, John Mayall's Jazz/Blues Fusion and Moving On records, with Freddy Robinson on guitar
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Thanks guys - nice!
It's great. Really great....
For more modern stuff, check out some Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Strange Place For Snow or Live in Hamburg are probably good places to start.
I like John Coltrane's Giant Steps and A Love Supreme very much too. Amazing stuff.
I reckon those blokes working there in those rooms were almost- but not quite- as good as the crew at Abbey Road in their prime.
Here ya go. This is an obvious jazz track but it sounds absolutely stellar. Of course it's wonderful for the playing, especially the wonderful Paul Desmond on alto, but just listen to that natural reverb. That's the sound of a great room and great players being recorded by experts.
:-B
Now here's another Miles Davis track, On Green Dolphin Street, cut with the same band who played on Kind of Blue, but not playing a modal tune but a standard. If you get to like Miles Davis, just make sure you make a point of listening to everything this band with Bill Evans on piano put down on tape. There's not much but it's right up there as one of the greatest jazz bands ever. All recorded in that same lovely room as the Brubeck track track I think. Jesus, I could don my cardigan, Hush Puppies, lean back and puff on my pipe and talk about this stuff for days... I mean the drumming on this track. Jesus Christ, just listen to it. I mean really listen to it. Total command of the instrument or what?!
Here's one more for you. Bill Evans a few years later, this time in a piano-bass-drums trio. This is called Jade Visions. This is another good example of 'modern' jazz, i.e. 60s stuff before the free jazz and rockier elements came more to the fore. This is getting pretty abstract, I guess, but it's beautiful and remains wonderfully accessible.