What JAZZ are you listening to?

Galactic - Mountain Aire Festival 1999

Theryl DeClouet - vocals
Skerik - saxophone
Robert Mercurio - bass
Stanton Moore - drums
Jeff Raines - guitar
Richard Vogel - keyboards

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne

Jimmy Giuffre "Emphasis & Flight 1961", "Free Fall"

This a jazz/bossa nov/Cuban day...Cal Tjader, Dizzy and Machita, Getz w Jobim and Gilberto with the wonderful sexy voice of Astrud.

Wadada Leo Smith "Lake Biwa"

Michael Moore "Tunes for Horn Guys"

Anthony Braxton "Trio (London) 1993"
Evan Parker
Paul Rutherford

I've finished reading a book titles "Jazz" by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux.

It provides a unique variation to jazz history in that it focuses on how jazz eveoved into the various movements and the major players involved in that evolution. Very good, I believe.

Wadada Leo Smith "Luminous Axis"

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble "Toward the Margins"

King Ubu Orchestru "Trigger Zone"

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble "Drawn Inward"

The Bsc "Good"

Mimeo / John Tilbury "The Hands of Caravaggio"

Saw the Jazz Generations band last night. Featuring Jimmy Cobb (drummer on Kind of Blue) and Jimmy Heath (played with everyone). Sure these cats are old but they still got chops. They played All Blues in which Cobb was the drummer on the recording...magical. They had a trumpet player named Terrel Stafford who was quite impressive as well.

Terence Blanchard "Jazz in Film"
A Streetcar Named Desire
Chinatown
The Subterraneans
Anatomy of a Murder
The Pawn Broker
Taxi Driver
Degas' Racing World
Man with the Golden Arm
Clockers

Archie Shepp / Horace Parlan "Trouble in Mind"
Choose Me

Krzysztof Komeda "Soundtracks from Roman Polanski"
Knife in the Water
Two Men and a Wardrobe
When Angels Fall

Miles Davis "Ascenseur pour Lechafaud"
Lift to the Scaffold

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Terence Blanchard "Jazz in Film"
A Streetcar Named Desire
Chinatown
The Subterraneans
Anatomy of a Murder
The Pawn Broker
Taxi Driver
Degas' Racing World
Man with the Golden Arm
Clockers

Archie Shepp / Horace Parlan "Trouble in Mind"
Choose Me

Krzysztof Komeda "Soundtracks from Roman Polanski"
Knife in the Water
Two Men ...[text shortened]... Angels Fall

Miles Davis "Ascenseur pour Lechafaud"
Lift to the Scaffold

Originally posted by badmoon
Archie Shepp, huh. Take those screaming avante garde players in moderation.

John Butcher "The Contest of Pleasures"
Xavier Charles
Axel Doerner

Polwechsel / Fennesz "Wrapped Islands"

John Butcher "Guerrilla Mosaics"
Miya Masaoka
Gino Robair

Polwechsel "Archives of the North"

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Actually, there was a lot more to Shepp than a "screaming avant-garde" player.

You can listen to excerpts of both "Trouble in Mind" and "Goin' Home" here. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Just hit "preview all songs". I have a preference for "Goin' Home", but they both feature some beautiful playing.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R9AXIG ...[text shortened]... =UTF8&parent=B002RA604G

BTW, did you ever track down Miles' "Plugged Nickel"?