(Part 2) Best bebop music according to redditors
We found 222 Reddit comments discussing the best bebop music. We ranked the 152 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Wes Montgomery's Full House
Robert Glasper. This album has more jazz than hiphop, but it's really tasty when he does hip-hoppish stuff.
This might be the record for you - the only record for you:
Herbie Mann - Great Ideas Of Western Mann
>The immodest title of this one carries a double connotation; it was probably the first album of jazz in which the leader recorded entirely on bass clarinet and, less significantly, the first Riverside album recorded on the West Coast. The first achievement -- which Mann and producer Orrin Keepnews thought of three years before Eric Dolphy broke out his bass clarinet on records -- ought to be more widely known, but the usual prejudices among critics regarding Mann's subsequent popularity among record buyers have decreed otherwise. In any case, Mann phrases on the bass clarinet pretty much the way he does on flute, with a definite personality, plenty of swing, and a airy outlook that makes the instrument sound less sinister. Stylistically, this is strictly a mainstream West Coast bop blowing session, with a young Jack Sheldon offering up splendid, in-the-pocket open and muted trumpet. Jimmy Rowles (piano), Buddy Clark (bass), and Mel Lewis (drums) comprise the swinging rhythm section.
IIRC the other Stockholm stuff is from the later tour with Sonny Stitt and not nearly as interesting. (EDIT: No, I think there're a couple more tunes from this tour as well - two sets that night with repeats of So What and one other - All Blues?)
There are, however, at least 3 or 4 other recordings from the tour with Trane - Zurich, Paris, Scheveningen...maybe Amsterdam, too
http://www.amazon.com/All-You-Last-Tour-1960/dp/B00N42F4EI/
http://www.amazon.com/Legendary-1960-European-Miles-Davis/dp/B004WJRJJK/
I do, fine sir. There is a CD/book from Robert Crumb entitled Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country. Fascinating original recordings from the 1920's onwards. The jazz songs are old yet you can't find more authentic and swampy, to my opinion.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0810930862/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1319037085&sr=8-1
I might add, Allen Toussaint's the Bright Mississippi. A masterpiece of the New Orleans jazz music.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001PSQGQI/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1319037496&sr=8-1
It is the best I can do. Hope you enjoy it!
Some greats that fly under the radar. Some of my all time favorites;
(these link to the amazon page for the CD, but have the options for Vinyl)
edit: added list format and links
Bud and Jazz you say? How 'bout Jazz Side of the Moon?
http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Side-Moon-Music-Floyd/dp/B0012IWIMW
Just a few:
Takin' Off - Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon - Check out Watermelon Man
A Night at Birdland Vol 1 - Clifford Brown & Horace Silver
A Night at Birdland Vol 2 - Clifford Brown & Horace Silver
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Lausanne 1960 Part 1 - Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Lausanne 1960 Part 2 - Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter
Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers
The Big Beat
Quicksilver
Soul Station - Hank Mobley
A Caddy for Daddy - Hank Mobley
Hank's Shout - Couldn't find the album, but here's Youtube
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner
The Complete VJ Sessions - Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter - You might have to torrent this one
Milestones - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley
This is from http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Icons-Charles-Mingus-Live/dp/B000TNJIJM/ and totally worth buying.
So many good pianists, where to begin? Have you checked out the Maybeck Recital series? The concert by Stanley Cowell is one of my favorite albums, Toshiko Akiyoshi really good as well..
Right now I'm listening a lot to Pastorale by Steve Kuhn, and a few albums by Enrico Pieranunzi (1685: Plays Bach, Handel and Scarlatti is superb. I'd say it's my favorite, but it is from 2011 so it hasn't yet stood the test of time. Trio: Dream Dance, Plays Morricone, Seaward and many more).. Eddie Higgins is good.. Ray Bryant's Somewhere in France is nice.. Fred Hersch plays Jobim is great. En Vivo piano solo by Ernán López-Nussa is also worth a listen.
Brad Mehldau as mentioned by someone else is of course the obvious recommendation for a modern jazz pianist, not obscure at all but brilliant. Live , Live in Marciac and Highway Rider would be my picks. One trio, one solo and one more ambitious undertaking (with his regular trio + Joshua Redman and a Chamber Orchestra)
When i was 17, i bought my first Pat Metheny Group album. Eventually I would be exposed to Spyro Gyra and then to Gene Ammons, Bill Evans (this song makes me cry every time i hear it), Cannonball Adderly, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, etc... and a couple of albums by Wynton Marsalis that burrowed deeply into my noodle Black Codes (From the Underground) and Levee Low Moan, Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol 3.
Pat Metheny/ Lyle Mays were a staple of my music for many, many years- especially Secret Story (sans one particular track), As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls and eventually The Way Up.
By the time i was 30, i had all but abandoned lyrics in my music.
After a particularly brutal breakup in 98, I found my fear of dancing evaporated and I would eventually fall in love with House music, then i would fall in love with the bass nectar stylings of Jungle (particularly LTJ Bukem) and then i got to the point where i finally understood Drum n Bass.
shoutcast.com and winamp were my go-to tools for exploring music for many years. I still look for stuff on shoutcast- but it's not the same anymore. I use Winamp every day for streaming music. From those came my exposure to stations like sleepbot, proton radio and then somafm.com. somafm.com has changed my life- and that's not hyperbole.
With Somafm, my favorite streams are:
Groove Salad, Beat Blender, Secret Agent and for when i need to relax, Space Station Soma, Drone Zone and sometimes, just for fucks sake, Illinois Street Lounge.
Lately, i've been exploring what Sonic Universe has to offer.
But the most interesting stream they have, in my opinion, is Mission Control. MC is ambient music that's layered with conversations between NASA and the space missions over the decades.
A couple of years ago, i came across Dragon's Eye Recordings. Some of their stuff i just don't get but sometimes, just sometimes, they produce something like An Occupied Space and it fits in my noodle like a warm glove.
So there. =)
edited for linky links.
There are a lot of styles you should check out. Some you will like and grow to hate. Some you will hate and grow to love.
Guitarists:
Barney Kessel
Django Reinhardt
John McLaughlin
And you can check out other awesome musicians. Charles Mingus on upright bass, Thelonius Monk on piano, Sidney Bechet is a swing type clarinet player, and Oscar Peterson - This album is awesome
Just explore it and learn more about the artists you like. It will lead you to other people you haven't heard yet.
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|name|Robert Glasper|
|about artist|Robert Glasper was raised in Houston, Texas. His mother was his first and strongest musical influence. Mrs. Glasper not only played piano and sang gospel music in the family's church, she led a band that worked the city's jazz and blues club circuit as well. By the age of twelve, young Robert was playing piano in that church. "Gospel music is built on emotion and spirituality; you go to church and leave crying," he smiles. "It definitely just gave me that sensitivity and knowing how to reach people and knowing how to be in tune with your feelings and the emotion of the music. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Robert Glasper))|
|album|In My Element, released Mar 2007|
|track|J Dillalude|
|about track|Jass musician Robert Glasper plays a tribute arrangement of a classic J Dilla aka J Dee track. Jazz meets experimental hip-hop. Gorgeous.|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|wikipedia, allmusic, discogs, official homepage, youtube, twitter, facebook, mp3 on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|jazz, instrumentalhiphop|
|similar|Robert Glasper Trio, Robert Glasper Experiment, Robert Glasper Featuring Lupe Fiasco and Bilal, Robert Glasper Featuring Musiq Soulchild and Chrisette Michele, Robert Glasper Featuring Shafiq Husayn / Mic Check|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 89,981, lastfm plays: 1,000,868, youtube plays: 11,434, radd.it score: 8|
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The Hawk Flies High is my favorite Coleman Hawkins album. Check it out if you haven't already!
I may love it too much....got a massive photographic print of the cover above my bed at home...
Dave Holland, Conference of the Birds would be fitting but not as phrenetic as some of the excerpt shown. Uri Caine Bedrock 3 (album) has some pretty bad ass stuff that you might like as well. After that, I would go with The Bad Plus... hope you like these!
Check out [Standard Coltrane] (http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Coltrane-John/dp/B001QAZAQC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408920335&sr=8-1&keywords=standard+coltrane)
I listen to my fair share of both. Just today, I picked up a Thelonious Monk album along with a used 4-disc compilation of Bach. My wife picked up a similar set of Tchaikovsky a few days ago. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is on the way and I just picked up Stanley Turrentine's Pieces of Dreams last week for a few dollars.
The classical I put on quite a bit when I'm studying, the jazz is for relaxation and beer time. Not that it's related, but I'm also big into Sinatra and Bennett for my staring-at-the-wall time.
Ah, check and mate, well done.