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  • Album recomendations

    We have a lot of different styles of music represented here, so this thread is gonna be a little weird if it gets off the ground.
    Anyway, post an album you recommend and why.

    Mine: Peter Brotzmann-- Machine Gun.

    This is often considered the first "European Jazz" record, certainly the first such free jazz record, and it's a battering ram. An octet recording featuring one of the highest-energy "blowers" in the history of sax in Brotzmann, and also featuring the astounding Evan Parker. Han Bennink plays drums. This is not pretty. It's named well, a relentless attack of free jazz and R&B noise... and blows me against the wall at any volume, making most "hard rock" or other free jazz sound incredibly tame.

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    Focus - Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter

    The entire concept of this album and how well Getz pulled it off gives you an idea of what an incredible musician he was. Basically, Sauter composed a bunch of string music and left "gaps" for Getz to fill in on his own. Getz is so lyrical and inventive that he does it in an incredible fashion.

    Many think of this as just "Stan Getz with Strings," but it's so much more than that. I think it's Getz' best album, and that's saying a lot considering that I think of Getz as the closest thing to the "perfect" tenor saxophone player we'll ever see.

    The best tracks are the first two: "I'm Late, I'm Late," based on the allegro from Bartok's music for strings, percussion and celeste (if you haven't heard that, you should), with incredible drum work by Roy Haynes, who along with Dannie Richmond is for my money one of the most overlooked drummers in the history of jazz.

    The other great track is "Her," which features what has to be tied for the best tenor saxophone ever played by anyone in the history of the instrument. About a minute twenty in, Stan Getz trills between high Bb and high Eb. I've talked to many pro sax players about this trill and none of us have any idea how he did that.

    Finally, Getz's tone was at its best on this album. For a guy whose nickname was "The Sound," that's saying a lot.

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      so what the hell is Sauter doing here, if the best track on the album is based on Bartok's work?
      I simply hate people who take the genius of classical music and change its tempo or add one of those soundless modern instruments to it thinking they're being creative...
      just compose your own damit...

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