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Scandanavian War Machine:
i've been listening to mouse on the keys pretty much nonstop lately.
that's about as jazzy as i get.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: godinpants on 28 Sep 2009, 00:00 ---I really like the Iiro Rantala New Trio, and Esbjorn Svensson Trio(though they can't exactly make music anymore)
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One of my friends tried to get me into the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, but it was just a little too slick and fusion-y for me. It just seemed like he was playing notes (and way too many of them!) rather than melodies. This is, of course, during his solos. As for the first group, I looked some stuff up on youtube and it was just too disjointed for me at the beginning. I'll compare it to a lot of prog rock out there in that it was always changing into something unrelated to what they had just played or no reason I could discern. Then, when the solo started, the beatbox was just "playing" waaaay to heavy for me.
--- Quote from: Misereatur on 28 Sep 2009, 07:00 ---If you're into piano and free-ish sort of Jazz I'd recommend Matthew Shipp.
Of course Erik Truffaz if you guys like hip hop. And Tom Harrell is still making records, which is always good news.
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Matthew Shipp just didn't seem, to me, to have the vibrancy of improvised music and as such I would rather just listen to somebody from the second Viennese school if I want to listen to atonal music. The second track was just way too heavy on the drum machine for me to take. The second Erik Truffaz tune was pretty cool, but I just couldn't get into the first one. As for Tom Harrell, yes it's being recorded now, but it's the same thing that was being played over 50 years ago! I'll just listen to Bird.
--- Quote from: BlakeJustBlake on 28 Sep 2009, 07:20 ---you guys are completely forgetting about roy hargrove and rh factor, it's some of the best current work in jazz I've ever heard.
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I'm not so sure. Roy Hargrove is pretty much the only reason to listen to that group. The rest of the guys aren't that great.
--- Quote from: BlakeJustBlake on 28 Sep 2009, 07:20 ---As far as current big band music though, the school jazz bands for unt are some of the best around, The one o clock and the two o clock lab bands.
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Dave Holland Big Band. But the format of a big band tends to be an archaic one. You just can't get a group that big to be as dynamic. Though, yes UNT (providing we're talking about North Texas) is a great jazz program.
--- Quote from: pinkpiche on 28 Sep 2009, 10:10 ---HAVE SOME IBRAHIM ELECTRIC :lol:
http://www.myspace.com/ibrahimelectric
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They just seem to be lacking any subtlety. Aside from that, not bad.
So, I'm getting on that whole uploading albums tomorrow (hopefully). You'll get two. The correct Chris Potter and a surprise that I haven't mentioned (i just remembered about them when they came up on my playlist).
BlakeJustBlake:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 28 Sep 2009, 21:09 ---Dave Holland Big Band. But the format of a big band tends to be an archaic one. You just can't get a group that big to be as dynamic. Though, yes UNT (providing we're talking about North Texas) is a great jazz program.
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yes, north texas. I agree the big band is not my prefer method of being delivered jazz. I've seen a lot of amazing combos around here, but they're just made up of random students and no names that I could throw at you that you'd recognize.
Bastardous Bassist:
Yeah. I was trying to agree with you on that point. Hell, even in my school there were some really good musicians (I was on the fringe of that group, so I got to play with pretty much all of them).
JayJayD:
Some of my favourite contemporary Jazz(y) music that hasn't been mentioned yet includes:
* Joe Lovano - next to his own albums he plays with Paul Motian a lot, and on a recent Coltrane tribute album by pianist Steve Kuhn.
* Charles Lloyd - all of his ECM albums are highly recommended!
* Everybody should check out Masada, even if you otherwise don't like John Zorn.
* A lot of interesting stuff mixing Jazz with electronic/dance music comes from Norway: Nils Petter Molvaer, Eivind Aarset, Wibutee, Bugge Wesseltoft. In a similar direction goes the german Tied + Tickled Trio, a Notwist side project.
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