never get enough of christian lillinger
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Just got myself a bargain turntable (Pro-Ject Essential III with acrylic platter for £40!) and went digging through my vinyl to find some to set it up with. Most of it is electronic but I found this buried within. Ideal for the purpose intended and also ideal lazy Sunday morning music.
Good one - and thanks for the background info. - I didnt know Marcus Miller had been a horn player. It starts to make more sense to me now how he was able to connect so well with Miles Davis very early on in his career.
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Discovering John Blake Jr. Somebody asked him what he did to make his electric violin sound like a synth. 
Also some discussion of live music evolving in an electronic direction
Nice overview of Herbie Hancock’s 70s work
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Dave Brubeck Quartet, Mingus, Marcus Miller, Sylvain Luc, St Germain, Theo Parrish, Philadelphia Experiment, Detroit Experiment, Bugge Wesseltoft… damn Blue Note, Atlantic…
yeah I like jazz. Maybe not conservatory jazz, the elitist or festival kind… but the lesser-known piano jazz with a trio or quartet — that, I’d say yes to.
Note: i also love afrojazz
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Sure I do. Not exactly a connoisseur, but like other categories of music it has it’s moments for me. I’m more into the…let’s call it ‘late night jazz’, some of the more fierce pieces sometimes are too chaotic and ‘all over the place’ for me, but I appreciate them having that much control over their instruments.
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Ethio Jazz
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Definitely ! Try Arat Kilo and Black Flower. Both my favourites right now !
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For me the finest moment was Kawaida - I can listen to that on auto-repeat all day long:
https://www.discogs.com/master/163798-Kuumba-Toudie-Heath-Kawaida
just read the title while skimming threads…
Ive been playing piano for round about 25 years and I could never not like standard stuff like take five or cantaloupe island, those were my first standards that tought me how to improvise, mostly cantaloupe island, I can play like 700 funky variations over that.
anyway, to this very day this is my alltime favorite jazz album/concert:
its one of the best and most dynamic recordings I ever came across and I know a shitton of music.
number two is probably oscar peterson playing the cole porter song book:
this is also huge if you like a pinch of syncopation:
tl;dr
yes
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a gem that is to be found on the “finally…the first farewell tour” dvd from phil collins, imho the most groovy and musical interpretation of pick up the pieces:
sax solos are increasinly insane!
I really love local Aussie trio The Necks, who are improvisational / experimental. So they don’t play the same thing twice, which creates this amazing tension when you see them live (‘will this suck / be Meh? or will it be transformative?’ - I’ve experienced both ends of that spectrum). Their gigs are typically 2 x ‘sets’ of 40-75 minutes, each consisting of a single piece.
My favourite recording of theirs is Quay, from their Atheneum, Homebush, Quay & Raab quadruple live LP: https://youtu.be/q_u-JJIK3BI?si=z50tn8fgwV6Y4PrL&t=5526
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So good!
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