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dholliday said:
went on a Miles Davis completist bender, ordering some albums i haven't heard yet: Get Up With It, Nefertiti, Water Babies and the posthumous-release Rubberband.

He's the master, no question. despite enjoying jazz from all over the shop i most often come back to his Sketches of Spain, In A Silent Way and especially the incredible Bitches Brew.
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I'm a massive Miles fan and have every recording from the Birth of Cool to 1964 but I have no interest in Miles from then on.
 
Bumping this thread as I've been listening to a couple recently. "Mingus Ah Um" & Coltrane's "Giant Steps" - not exactly obscure stuff but I'm very much a learner.

Started after I've got into the habit of charity shop CD buying. Now I've got loads by people like the above and Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Smith, Charlie Parker. Also artists I've never heard of like Peter Scharli, Greg Osby & Benny Green. All bought because the CDs were in good nick and the covers looked jazzy, cool and "Blue Note-esque" for the most part.
 

jazzy said:
I'm a massive Miles fan and have every recording from the Birth of Cool to 1964 but I have no interest in Miles from then on.
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My range goes up til 1975, as I love the stuff from his second quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie, etc., such as Nefrititi, ESP, Miles in the Sky. I also like--but understand why others don't--the fusion stuff like Big Fun, Bitches Brew, Pangea/Agharta, etc. Miles was a huge influence on me, thanks to my trumpet teacher in 5th grade handing me a copy of Kind of Blue and telling me to listen to it.
 
verreauxi said:
My range goes up til 1975, as I love the stuff from his second quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie, etc., such as Nefrititi, ESP, Miles in the Sky. I also like--but understand why others don't--the fusion stuff like Big Fun, Bitches Brew, Pangea/Agharta, etc. Miles was a huge influence on me, thanks to my trumpet teacher in 5th grade handing me a copy of Kind of Blue and telling me to listen to it.
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ESP I can just about listen too everything after that, no thanks.
 
jazzy said:
ESP I can just about listen too everything after that, no thanks.
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It's interesting you think like that as I'd say a lot of modern jazz and dance his heavily influenced from Bitches etc and you like some of that that a few of us post (not a criticism obv, just find it interesting)
 

Been listening to a Trad Jazz compilation tonight with a few names I'd heard but never really listened to such as Chris Barber, Kenny Ball and the like.

One pleasant surprise was Acker Bilk. I'd always had the image of a silly hatted novelty act doing cabaret jazz-lite hits of the day probably owing to the hundreds of compilation records you see knocking around charity shops and boot sales. But the songs on this compilation all seem to be 1958-1961 stuff and I really enjoyed it.
 
coollino said:
It's interesting you think like that as I'd say a lot of modern jazz and dance his heavily influenced from Bitches etc and you like some of that that a few of us post (not a criticism obv, just find it interesting)
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It's a difficult one.
I'm a Miles Davis purist.
For me he is the greatest ever jazz trumpeter.
I like Chet , I like Lee Morgan but Miles was special. Not technically great like say Wynton Marsalis but he played with an empathy, spacial awareness and vulnerability that no other jazz trumpeter can come close to.
So.he didn't need the big sound , the gimmicks and the rock fusion. It diluted his genius.
However that's not to say that I don't like some of that music ( Herbies Headhunters is a favourite) and what that spawned.
Does that help?
 
jazzy said:
It's a difficult one.
I'm a Miles Davis purist.
For me he is the greatest ever jazz trumpeter.
I like Chet , I like Lee Morgan but Miles was special. Not technically great like say Wynton Marsalis but he played with an empathy, spacial awareness and vulnerability that no other jazz trumpeter can come close to.
So.he didn't need the big sound , the gimmicks and the rock fusion. It diluted his genius.
However that's not to say that I don't like some of that music ( Herbies Headhunters is a favourite) and what that spawned.
Does that help?
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Yep, I thought it would be something along those lines tbh
 
jazzy said:
It's a difficult one.
I'm a Miles Davis purist.
For me he is the greatest ever jazz trumpeter.
I like Chet , I like Lee Morgan but Miles was special. Not technically great like say Wynton Marsalis but he played with an empathy, spacial awareness and vulnerability that no other jazz trumpeter can come close to.
So.he didn't need the big sound , the gimmicks and the rock fusion. It diluted his genius.
However that's not to say that I don't like some of that music ( Herbies Headhunters is a favourite) and what that spawned.
Does that help?
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Agree with all of that.

If not already done so, Roy Eldridge, is well worth checking out.

Much underrated horn player.

 

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