#modal jazz

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Hard Bop #Modal Jazz #Post-Bop #Spiritual Jazz #Avant-Garde Jazz #Free Jazz #1960s #1970s #USA #poll

[canmking]

J o h n C o l t r a n e

#john coltrane #hard bop #modal jazz #free jazz #avant garde jazz

[soop-musical-fool]

Ok I said I would make a pin full of music so here it is

First off, I mentioned KNOWER. It's a long project that started a really long time ago, but their best stuff is probably coming out like right now. As in, they are just about to release a new album, KNOWER FOREVER. The singles on it are incredible, like I'm The President just comes right out the gate with the fattest walkdown I've ever heard from a horn section. The B section makes it feel like I'm enjoying a song like I would a multiple-course meal. Then Crash The Car just transfixes you. Yes, yes, you should listen to those, but don't neglect the fire they put out in 2017 because you owe it to yourself to watch the live sesh of Overtime:

Oh god this post is gonna make viewing my blog super annoying isn't it

Anyway the next thing I gotta mention is Vulfpeck. These guys are famous for scamming Spotify, basically. They released an album full of 30-second tracks of pure silence, just absolutely nothing, titled Sleepify. They got online and said "Yo guys, help us raise money for a free concert by listening to this on loop while you sleep." What they were actually doing was exposing a loophole in the way Spotify calculated royalties, and before they could pull the album (citing "content policy violations," of course), Vulfpeck had already bagged around $20,000, so they put on the completely admission-free Sleepify Tour, which was incredibly fucking based of them.

Vulf went on to become several spin-off projects, all entirely independently released and full of some of the stankiest funk fusion that I cannot stop listening to.

My favorite of these projects, The Fearless Flyers, is headed by Cory Wong, with a guitar idol of mine for 5+ years Mark Lettieri and of course the government subsidized active bass of Joe Dart, but the keystone of the group is no doubt Nate Smith on drums. Dude makes a three-piece set onstage sound like a full kit.

Like just look at what they can do with the added power of sax:

And yeah, I could just talk about those guys, but let's get weirder.

I'm talking modal. The kind of stuff that makes my choir-trained mother cringe inward at the dissonance. Let's talk about the crunchiest, most feral fucking harmonies and keyboard solos that make you question what you thought you knew about chord progressions and key centers.

Obviously anyone super into this stuff will have already heard of Jacob Collier, so I won't show him. But THIS:

I listened to this the first time and it was just.. too much. I put it in its own specific playlist titled "very complex shit" immediately. When I went back to it, enough time had passed and I had learned enough that after way too many listens I can actually follow along with this insanity. This track blew my fucking mind, dude. I have never heard a chorus use so many of the 12 chromatic notes and still sound heavenly. The groove changes add so much texture. The flute solo goes off way too hard. The slower final section is just disgusting syncopation when the drums come back in. Everything about it is incredible, and this album came out in 2007. I am staring back at years of my life I spent not listening to this and ruminating my lack of music theory knowledge. And when I wanted to see if some kind transcribing jazz grad student like June Lee had uploaded anything of System, I found a 2020 reboot with 24 musicians playing System for over twice its original runtime, and guess who did the showstopping final solo??

JACOB FUCKING COLLIER.

Look him up if you don't know. The other musicians I obsess over inspire me. This guy makes me want to quit.

#196 #r196 #rule #music #jazz funk #modal jazz #free jazz #jacob collier #music nerd #infodump #like massive autistic infodump #sorry again for this #oh btw #did you notice the four grammys behind him? #yeah

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Shhh / Peaceful • In A Silent Way • It's About That Time

Spotify ♪ YouTube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: miles davis #language: instrumental #decade: 1960s #Jazz Fusion #Modal Jazz #Avant-Garde Jazz #Ambient

[musicollage]

John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane. 1961 : Atlantic.

#jazz #hard bop #modal jazz #john coltrane #1961 #atlantic #reggie workman #mccoy tyner #elvin jones #1960s #1960s jazz

[reckonslepoisson]

Daguri, Kosuke Mine Quintet (1973)

Trawling through the ages of Japanese jazz, one often hears a country utterly adoring of the genre, with countless musicians that undoubtedly respect it in ways that many far closer to the music’s homeland do not. And while it is rather easy, in any mid-size Japanese city at least, to find exceptional players of hard bop and post-bop, it is far less common to come across records of those styles that are bona fide classics (the avant-garde here is deliberately not mentioned – Japan has far more than its fair share of exciting jazz experimentalists, past and present).

When one does stumble upon one of those classics, a record that truly captures even the most miniscule slither of the country’s vast, awesome jazz scene, needless to say it’s joyous. And that’s the case with Daguri, a 1973 work by the Kosuke Mine Quintet. Far more than imitating the post-bop fusions of the spiritual and avant-garde seen in the US of the period immediately prior, one gets the impression that Mine – with this muscular, pretty, ambitious work – was not just compositionally and stylistically inspired by the likes of Coltrane, Dolphy and Shepp but also influenced in terms of attitude, approach, spirit.

Pick: ‘Thirsty’

#daguri #Kosuke Mine Quintet #jazz #avant-garde jazz #modal jazz #post-bop #spiritual jazz #1973 #music #review #music review

[ril-ard]

Milestones - Miles Davis (1958 Review)

One of the three Miles Davis albums I have heard, we'll get to another one of those albums much later, Milestones was a transitional album for Davis in 1958. It was still showing him in his Bebop and Hard Bop phase, but he was also showing hints of his newfound knowledge of "modal jazz", where you Improvise not over chord changes, but modes. Davis would perfect this album on his seminal album Kind of Blue a year later, but since that's not part of the "10s" Revisited series it's gonna be a while before I review that album. Though the one time I did hear the album back in 2021, it has a really good stereo mix for 1959. Anyways, the album case in point. We start off with the opening track. Dr. Jackle, which I thought was just fairly average fast bebop. A rare moment other than the 1984 New Edition self-titled where I though that the opening track was the weakest on the whole album. But back to the song, all I can say about this song is that the double bass, played by Paul Chambers, sounds like the strings are being bowed rather than fingerpicked when played really fast. Much like on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, the second track is a complete contrast from the previous in terms of speed, this case being the song Sid's Ahead. This is the longest song on the album at 13 minutes. Because it's at a slower speed, the improvisation is much more noticeably melodic, and I like how much minimalism the backbeat of the bass and drums are backing the horn solos before the piano, played by Red Garland, joins in during the second half of the song. The speed picks back up with track 3, Two Bass Hits, for some reason I can see the melodic intro and outro of this song somewhat fitting as background music in the scene of an 90s or very early 2000s anime. Unlike Dr. Jackle I actually enjoyed the Improvisation here a lot more, It's not as in your face and all over the place, but there are some melodic elements still there. Not a bad song for the side one closer. Side 2 is the golden run of this album, back to back home runs. It starts off with the albums title track, Milestones(originally called Miles). What I said about the background music in an anime applies here a lot more. This song is also one of the earliest noticeable hints showing Davis's experimentation with Model Jazz that he would later perfect on albums like Kind of Blue a year later. Moving from between G Dorian or A Aoliean. The next song, Billy Boy, is a beautiful sounding song with Red Gardland fronting in the song. Just a piano, bass and drums, no horns. The album closes with Straight No Chaser, another long song at almost 11 minutes long, which is also my favorite "long song" on this album. With each member giving time to improvise in their solos, everyone sounds remarkable. The only other similarity this album has to Saxophone Colossus, is that both albums are exactly 9 out of 10s

Listen to the album here

#music #music review #album review #album #music album #jazz #miles davis #modal jazz #1958 #bebop jazz #50s jazz

[musicandotherdelights]

Daily Listening, Day #1,090 - December 25th, 2022

Album: Ready For Freddie (Blue Note, 1962)

Artist: Freddie Hubbard

Genre: Hard Bop, Modal Jazz

Track Listing: 

"Arietis"

"Weaver Of Dreams"

"Marie Antoinette"

"Birdlike"

"Crisis"

Favorite Song: "Birdlike"

#Ready For Freddie #Freddie Hubbard #Blue Note #Hard Bop #Modal Jazz #1962 #Early 1960s #1960s

[nofatclips]

Polyphonic and Adam Neely on how John Coltrane broke My Favorite Things

#music #video essay #polyphonic #noah lefevre #adam neely #john coltrane #modal jazz #oscar hammerstein ii #richard rodgers #the sound of music #jazz #julie andrews #mary martin #rodgers and hammerstein #elvin jones #steve davis #mccoy tyner #miles davis #george russell #Typography #essay

[ominous-synths-records]

In A Sentimental Mood - Milestone Jazzstars

Milestone Jazzstars is a trio consisting of Ron Carter, Sonny Rollins, and McCoy Tyner

#Ron Carter #Sonny Rollins #McCoy Tyner #post bop #modal jazz #music #audio #lost media #1970s music #70s jazz #jazz

[jazzdailyblog]

Nefertiti: Miles Davis' Enigmatic Exploration of Modal Jazz

Introduction: In the vast landscape of jazz music, certain albums stand as milestones that push the boundaries of creativity and redefine the genre. One such groundbreaking album is “Nefertiti” by Miles Davis. Released in 1968, “Nefertiti” is a masterpiece that showcases Davis’ musical vision and his relentless pursuit of innovation. With its hypnotic melodies, intricate harmonies, and…

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#Classic Albums #Herbie Hancock #Jazz History #Miles Davis #Miles Smiles #Modal Jazz #Nefertiti #Ron Carter #Sorcerer #Tony Williams #Wayne Shorter

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Post-Bop #Avant-Garde Jazz #Hard Bop #Jazz #Modal Jazz #1960s #USA #poll

[stillunusual]

Miles Davis - So What? (1959)

#Spotify #miles davis #kind of blue #so what #jazz #modal jazz #1959 #1950s

[arterrorist]

It’s the drummer’s session and you can hear it right from the start, but Haynes’ stellar playing never goes in the way of the song and the mood of the music. It’s much more than just a show off. Booker Ervin is another star here. Wonderful album.

#vinyl #vinyl records #records #jazz #hard bop #modal jazz #roy haynes #Booker Ervin

[musicollage]

Yusef Lateef — The Golden Flute. 1966 : Impulse! A-9125.

! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !

#jazz #post bop #modal jazz #jazz saxophone #Yusef Lateef #1966 #impulse! #multiinstrumentalist #jazz flute #oboe #rudy van gelder #van gelder studio #1960s #1960s jazz

[iamlisteningto]

Alice Coltrane's Journey In Satchidananda

#alice coltrane #journey in satchidananda #impulse! #music #jazz #free jazz #avant garde #modal jazz #world music #available to listen where all good music is of course