Jazz for aficionados

Thanks O for taking the time to think about what my preferences might be! BUT it's like my daddy used to say to me, "I taught you everything I know, and you still don't know nuthin'".  Just kidding.  re me and New Age...that isn't what I would have picked, though I can see how the Towner/Solstice album might have got you thinking that way (along with a couple other things we've shared in past communications).  New Age has two strikes against it for me just based on the stereotypical connotation of that category name.  Of course, there are exceptions...Shadowfax has some good music.  Penguin Cafe is another.  I guess you could consider Ralph Towner and esp. Oregon New Age-ish...though again, I like post-Oregon Towner but not too much of Oregon.  If you asked ME about my "jazz preferences" (along with some Be-bop and some Hard Bop), I'd give the edge to  "Fusion" and certainly NOT everything there.  As an example of what I do like, that Chick Corea "Time Warp" is EXCELLENT and you are missing out on some great music by dismissing because it is outside your normal groove....just saying.  Another good one by Corea is his Elektric Band II "Paint The World".  Alan Pasqua's "Antisocial Club" is more excellent music.  I hope you and others will check these out.  I could go on in a Fusion kind of  way, but won't.  Gotta run.  Hope you have a great day.  Ciao.

o10, that was fun.  Being the resident old fart in this group I'm sure I was the easiest to pick for. ;^)  Yes, I love most anything by Silver.

However my "classic jazz" preferences for recordings from the '50s and '60s are not exclusive.  This is sacrilege to many but I'm not a fan of Ellington for example.  I respect his songs and performances but there is hardly anything I ever want to pick out to listen to.  Basie is an entirely different story.

But there was much from the '70s I love to hear as well.  Could that be a carry-over from the rock which I also like?  Maybe so, since a favorite was and is Mahavishnu Orchestra, which included John McLaughlin and Jan Hammer.  That made it an easy step to enthusiasm for Weather Report.

And I certainly didn't reject Miles when he released "Bitches Brew", although I'll admit after a couple of follow up albums everything began to sound the same to me.  Here is a delightful exception -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qfuqXuqkI

Lastly, I don't feel "frozen" with my preferred music.  I can reach backward to music my dad loved (as suggested here a few weeks ago) and forward as well.  It's just that I don't enjoy listening to what I consider to be basically rehashes of what went before.  I'd rather view a work of art in person than see it in a book or on a video any day.

I want everyone to know that I didn't recommend anything that's not already in my collection, or that I don't consider "boss".

Ghosthouse, I leave it to others to categorize the music, I only listen and determine whether or not I like it. In the case of Shadofax, I have several albums by them; "A Thousand Teardrops" is one of my favorite cuts. I didn't think of it as "new age".

I knew you didn't like most jazz, consequently I didn't even touch that category, maybe that's what kept me away from fusion; but I like a lot of fusion.

Chick Corea "Return To Forever" comes to mind; I especially liked Flora Purim's vocals; also "My Spanish Heart", that's two albums.


                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJtfSFn7W4


Now that I know that "fusion" is your favored category, I'll remember that.





                 

Pryso, the only thing in your entire post that I disagreed with was Miles, our collections would be quite similar. I bought Miles out of habit, until I discovered I didn't like what he was doing after "Bitches Brew", but he made so many albums, that now I'll have to wade through them, and see what I should have bought.

I think "Kenny Garret's" solo is quite special, I wonder if Miles complained about how long it was? ( his biggest complaint with "Trane")

That "Senor Blues" is quite special to me for the reasons stated; that piano solo is longer than on the record, and they were really into the music. Sometime live music is so fantastic, that the group couldn't repeat it if their lives depended on it.

Pangaea by Miles is the only album worth listening after Bitches Brew. There were also a few good tracks, though, Time After Time is definitely one of them.
Mahavishnu Orchestra at their best were and are incomparable. Not to mention that no-one can play a guitar like McLaughlin.