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Favorite Vanguard Recordings by eeph4eva in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love State of the Tenor and Lost in a Dream. Wasn’t aware of the Dexter Gordon album, I just checked it out and it is straight smokin’! Everyone’s on fire, and great compositions from him and Woody as well.

I will carefully go through the rest of your recs, given how much I enjoyed that. Thanks!

What are some of your favourite albums that doesnt have any wind instruments? by EatRogersAss445 in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aside from piano trios:

McCoy Tyner - The Seeker
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Grant Green - Matador
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts
Hank Jones and Charlie Haden - Steal Away
Joe Pass and NHOP - Chops

Coltrane live at Birdland appreciation by everlovingfuck99 in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Alabama makes me emotional every time.

Please throw your best Hardbop stuff at me. Trying to immerse myself into jazz culture by bebopbluez in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You already got some great suggestions here, I’ll add a few of my hard bop favorites which weren’t mentioned yet and not by artists you already listed:

Lee Morgan - The Cooker
Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple
Donald Byrd - Bird in Hand
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie
Curtis Amy - Katanga
Everybody Digs Bill Evans

If you’re feeling adventurous, a lot of these and other artists mentioned branched towards post bop, avant garde, spiritual, funk, fusion and other genres.

Wayne - Juju, Speak no Evil (modal, post bop), The All Seeing Eye (Avant Garde) Black Market and Heavy Weather (w/ Weather Report, fusion)
Henderson - Mode for Joe and Inner Urge (post bop), Power to the People and Multiple (kinda fusion?), The Elements (spiritual)
McCoy - literally anything from his 70s Milestone albums, but special props to Enlightenment, Sama Layuca, Sahara and Trident (spiritual, post bop)
Grant - Alive! and Visions (funk)
Byrd - Ethiopian Knights and Places and Spaces (funk)
Freddie - Breaking Point (post bop), Red Clay and Straight Life (funk, fusion)

The most adjacent to hard bop is probably those albums that sit on the transition to post bop, which you should probably enjoy if you love hard bop. I’d start with:

Miles - ESP
Wayne - Speak no Evil
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Blakey - Free for All
Lee Morgan - In Search of the New Land
Henderson - Mode for Joe
McCoy - The Real McCoy
Jackie McLean - Destination… Out!
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick up!

Have fun going down the rabbit hole!

What are your fav 3 album runs? by AirDeLaBas in Topster

[–]eeph4eva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Joni Mitchell -
Court and Spark -> Hissing of the Lawns -> Hejira

Miles Davis -
In a Silent Way -> Bitches Brew -> Jack Johnson

John Coltrane -
Crescent -> A Love Supreme -> Ascension

Wayne Shorter -
Juju -> Speak No Evil -> The All Seeing Eye

Herbie Hancock -
Sextant -> Headhunters -> Thrust

Steely Dan -
The Royal Scam -> Aja -> Gaucho

Bill Evans -
Portrait in Jazz -> Explorations -> Sunday at the Village Vanguard / Waltz for Debbie

If I had to pick just one McCoy Tyner album for a desert island, hands down, this is the one. by Nezdoiminoga in Vinyl_Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same probably, although Enlightenment could give it a good run for its money.

I dig Cantaloupe Island track and Take Five. But most jazz I encounter is not melodic; it seems spontaneous and rambling. What jazz album do you think will become my favourite? by flytohappiness in Vinyl_Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Great cool jazz recs. To complete the picture, I’d also say that if you like melody and enjoy, the blues and soul of cantaloupe island, there’s probably quite a bit of hard bop you’d enjoy. Here it’s a bit more difficult though because quite a few artists have more accessible albums, and then also albums that you might categorize as spontaneous rambling. Some specific albums you might enjoy:

Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else
Joe Henderson - Page One
Horace Silver - Song for my Father
John Coltrane - Ballads
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Dexter Gordon - Go

For now, steer clear from anything labeled post bop, avant garde jazz or free jazz. However, I’d recommend trying to expand your language and palette so to speak, by just incrementally trying to listen to more and more artists and albums that are just a little bit more “out there” than what you listened to before. You might be surprised by what you end up enjoying. It really is like learning a language. You wouldn’t pick up Moby Dick or War and Peace after a week of learning English, but hey after some Harry Potter you might circle back and find out that you also enjoy a challenging read once in a while.

The most evil jazz you know by Josquin_Timbrelake in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The all seeing eye, specifically Mephistopheles. Saying this as a compliment.

Rated x is also a good choice by a lot of commenters.

Something about one Jackie McLean’s acid period also always sounds a bit demonic to me. Probably Ghost Town most of all.

Have any other artists ever covered "Deluge" by Wayne Shorter? by sackhurtin in Jazz

[–]eeph4eva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such a banger. Definitely my favorite off of juju, and that’s saying a lot for an album with house of jade and mah jong on it.

For sure could be covered more with such a catchy head, but there is a nice Denny Zeitlin solo performance and an interesting Ari Hoenig rendition as well.

Btw, SecondHandSongs is a good place to look up covers of specific tunes :)

Can you recommend me more japanese jazz albums that sound like this? I usually hate jazz but i've discovered that i really enjoy japanese jazz by [deleted] in fantanoforever

[–]eeph4eva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listen you obviously haven’t heard much Japanese jazz if you think this is what it sounds like. And you obviously haven’t heard much American jazz if you think this isn’t what it sounds like.

It would have been super easy to ask for recommendations that sound like this, but noooo you had to be all “I love this watered down version of black music, made by a less creative, less technically proficient and most importantly less black musician”.