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Joseph:
I picked Cool jazz, ie. Miles Davise era.  I love Davis, Monk, and the jazz of that time over all other styles of jazz, though that's not saying that the other styles are bad in any way.

La Creme:
@Inlander: They got lumped together because their genesis(s?) occured close to eachother, and they both utilize larger bands, multiple horn lines, and swing-time. I know they are not the same. Also, having favorite types of jazz is not a bad thing. I love Hard Bop more than anything, but that doesn't mean I don't love jazz (if not just the general statement of 'music') in (almost) all its forms. Jazz (and music) snobbery is caused solely by a person being an asshole, which I am not. Also, if you don't like fusion, check out these three songs:

Miles Davis - What I Say
Herbie Hancock - Watermellon Man (the cut off of Headhunters)
Weather Report - Birdland

@Chuck: I said post-1985.I guess I should've called the choice Nu-Jazz/Experimental Jazz, but whatever.

@Sam: Sun Ra is sometimes free jazz, sometimes ultra-spazzy hard-bop, always experimental, and totally fucking mad. SUN RA IST KREIG!

@Tago Mago: Where is the Ornette in your free jazz? THE INVENTOR! THE INVENTOR!

Tago Mago:
Oh, I love Ornette! I read an absolutely devastating biography of him recently. He was actually beaten up on several occasions for playing his music in such a radical style.

Here, I've uploaded a killer jazz piece that everyone should hear. "Theme de Yoyo" by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. It's kind of a soul-free jazz thing.

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2QQ7VP1X1GMYK29CYLEAD2JCDF

Inlander:

--- Quote from: La Creme ---@Tago Mago: Where is the Ornette in your free jazz? THE INVENTOR! THE INVENTOR!
--- End quote ---


Mingus might have a word or two to say about that . . . You know, if he wasn't dead.  Pithecanthropus erectus, anyone?

Bunnyman:
Why must you make me choose between Jazz subgenres?  Why?

I did choose bop, because Bird, Dizzy, and Thelonious are amazing.  Swing is a close second, if only because no one can come close to the Duke.

Though one of my homeboys had me listen to some Joao Gilberto over the weekend, and I admit that Bossa is a definite contenda.

Any of you guys ever listen to much Cannonball?  Good stuff.

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