Any jazz fans passing through this thread wanna hit me
up with some recommendations? Being such a huge genre, I feel kinda embarrassed that I know nothing of it.
If you liked Sun Ra you should try Orrnete Coleman's Free Jazz album. 47 minutes of collective impovasetions by a double quintet directed by Coleman. Also try John Zorn's Nake City, and his Orrnete tribute album, Spy Vs. Spy.
Also, Miles Davis' Birth Of The Cool, the album that started the Cool Jazz period after Bebop. Another good album by Davis is Kind Of Blue, an album the pretty much started the Modal Jazz period (composition that uses a single modal scale insted of chord progressoion, a lot of Free Jazz was based on it). As you can see Miles was pretty much ahead in every new Jazz gener (he also started Jazz Rock with Bitch's Brew and In A Silent Way, And there is an album called Miles Ahead).
For more modern Jazz artists I'd recommend Medeski, Martin & Wood. Their The Dropper album is a pretty good start with the band, they also recorded with DJ Shadow.
If you track back in the forum you can find some threads about Jazz (there was a thread about Coltrane a while back).
This should cover some of it, I just dont want to derail the thread any more.
Wait, what happened to BB? he could do this better then me.