Comments on: 10 jazz albums that should be in every music lover’s collection http://www.bretpimentel.com/10-jazz-albums-that-should-be-in-every-music-lovers-collection/ Saxophone, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, folk and ethnic woodwinds Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: sam chell http://www.bretpimentel.com/10-jazz-albums-that-should-be-in-every-music-lovers-collection/#comment-298 sam chell Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:23:02 +0000 http://www.bretpimentel.com/?p=1717#comment-298 Nice list of 10 indispensables. I'd agree with 60% of them (unusual), and the acumen of selecting "Giant Steps" ahead of the cultish and very popular "My Favorite Things" or "A Love Supreme." Weather Report and Ornette for illustrative purposes. "Song for My Father" is Silver's most successful, but it changed Silver from a potential Ellingtonian composer to a mere riff master. "The Jazz Messengers" on Columbia (not Blue Note) is Horace's best arranging, making a 5-man group sound like a big band (dig "Ecarole") and with monster tunes like "Nica's Dream" plus the redoubtable, untouchable Hank Mobley (1955-1965), not the harmonicist or pyrotechnician that Coltrane was but an extemporaneous, responsive melody-maker of the first order. Or on Blue Note, "Further Explorations" is also Horace at his best, with Art Farmer and Clifford Jordan plus compositions like "Moon Dreams." Admittedly, for educational purposes, "Song for My Father" gives kids something they can all play. Nice list of 10 indispensables. I’d agree with 60% of them (unusual), and the acumen of selecting “Giant Steps” ahead of the cultish and very popular “My Favorite Things” or “A Love Supreme.” Weather Report and Ornette for illustrative purposes. “Song for My Father” is Silver’s most successful, but it changed Silver from a potential Ellingtonian composer to a mere riff master. “The Jazz Messengers” on Columbia (not Blue Note) is Horace’s best arranging, making a 5-man group sound like a big band (dig “Ecarole”) and with monster tunes like “Nica’s Dream” plus the redoubtable, untouchable Hank Mobley (1955-1965), not the harmonicist or pyrotechnician that Coltrane was but an extemporaneous, responsive melody-maker of the first order. Or on Blue Note, “Further Explorations” is also Horace at his best, with Art Farmer and Clifford Jordan plus compositions like “Moon Dreams.” Admittedly, for educational purposes, “Song for My Father” gives kids something they can all play.

]]> By: Beginner Sax http://www.bretpimentel.com/10-jazz-albums-that-should-be-in-every-music-lovers-collection/#comment-239 Beginner Sax Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:55:18 +0000 http://www.bretpimentel.com/?p=1717#comment-239 Impressive list... some of them are already a part of my collection. I really appreciate the notes you made with each selection. They were informative and entertaining and I enjoyed reading them all. The little gold nugget I'm leaving with which is now on my list of 'next to get' is “The Quintet”: Jazz at Massey Hall. I can't believe I never heard of it before. Thanks for putting the list together! Impressive list… some of them are already a part of my collection.

I really appreciate the notes you made with each selection. They were informative and entertaining and I enjoyed reading them all.

The little gold nugget I’m leaving with which is now on my list of ‘next to get’ is “The Quintet”: Jazz at Massey Hall. I can’t believe I never heard of it before.

Thanks for putting the list together!

]]> By: Bret http://www.bretpimentel.com/10-jazz-albums-that-should-be-in-every-music-lovers-collection/#comment-237 Bret Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:59:56 +0000 http://www.bretpimentel.com/?p=1717#comment-237 Hmm, good point, Geoff. Also: John Coltrane = "Trane" Hmm, good point, Geoff. Also: John Coltrane = “Trane”

]]> By: Geoff Allen http://www.bretpimentel.com/10-jazz-albums-that-should-be-in-every-music-lovers-collection/#comment-236 Geoff Allen Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:39:23 +0000 http://www.bretpimentel.com/?p=1717#comment-236 Nice list. I might have chosen a different 10, but I can't argue with these, either. One thing you forgot on "How to sound smart..." when talking about Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Always refer to Parker as "Bird" and Gillespie as "Dizz". "Man, Dizz really tore it up on that last chorus." "Oh yeah, Bird is smokin' on this one!" Geoff Nice list. I might have chosen a different 10, but I can’t argue with these, either.

One thing you forgot on “How to sound smart…” when talking about Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Always refer to Parker as “Bird” and Gillespie as “Dizz”. “Man, Dizz really tore it up on that last chorus.” “Oh yeah, Bird is smokin’ on this one!”

Geoff

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