Dysterhet wrote:

soil&pimp sessions
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Keiko Matsui

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N3croyeti wrote:

Most of this is fusion, post-bop or free jazz, but should serve as a decent introdution since purists would label half this stuff college-kid jazz. Still, you should like the majority of this stuff based on your music taste.

Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and Sinner Lady, Mingus Ah Um, Blues and Roots
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Pat Metheny and John Scofield - I Can See Your House From Here (one of my personal favourite albums)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Gong - Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg
Soft Machine - Third
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way, Sketches of Spain
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Interstellar Space
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters


And, I know its not what you're really looking for... but heres some nu-jazz/smooth jazz/jazz-hop/avant-garde music if you want to experiment a bit:

Hiromi Uehara - Spiral
Naked City - Naked City, Grand Guignol
Koop - Koop Islands
Jazzanova - In Between
Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance
Fourplay - Fourplay
Nuspirit Helsinki - Nuspirit Helsinki
Kyoto Jazz Massive - Spirit of The Sun
Arts The Beatdoctor - Transitions
Guru's Jazzmatazz - Vol. 1
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
The Kilamanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - s/t
Bohren und der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Stinking Lizaveta - Scream of The Iron Iconoclaust

(By the way, you should also be aware of so-called jazz metal bands such as Atheist, Cynic, Ephel Duath, Aghora, Frederik Thordenal's Special Defects etc, if you want something a little closer to your current tastes)

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Richardthegreat wrote:

Thanks to both jmccnz and dysterhert I shall check out your recomendations.

@ N3croyeti, thanks for the huge list I will atempt to listen to as many as possible.

Also I'm a very big fan of Painters Pallete by Ephel and I also really enjoy Unquestionable presence by Athiest, but I will check those others out!!

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Scarius wrote:

The Rosenberg Trio makes awesome gypsy-jazz.

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Geburstag wrote:

You might try Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski (solo or in his quartet) - he/they recorded some great albums for the "Polish Jazz" series.

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thineacidpolice wrote:

Where to start really depends on how far you're willing to go, but I like to start people out with a few classics like Sonny Rollins's Saxophone Colossus and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil. Those two are the best first jazz albums to get.. At least I think so, but then I really like sax. And once you have some people you like, find out who influenced them to play the way they do. Go way back in the day to the big band stuff like Stan Kenton and early innovators like Louis Armstrong so you can see where everything comes from. If you're not into that try some lighter piano trio style shit like Ahmad Jamal. It's also a good idea to check out some of the fusion stuff and the free jazz just to see how far jazz can go.. Check out some Indian fusion like Trilok Gurtu and George Brooks or some crazy shit like Sun Ra. Check out some funky stuff like Charlie Hunter Trio. Then if you like what you hear just go look at your similar artists column and check out everything that's in it.

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