Free Jazz

Discussion in 'Jazz' started by Hippie_Jon, Mar 5, 2007.

  1. Hippie_Jon

    Hippie_Jon Noj

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    Hey all,
    I don't really know much about jazz, its all right but i'm more of a rocknroller but then one day on the radio i heard these cool sounding tunes, dissonant, crazy, improvisational and they just blew me away. to find a term for what i heard i went to wikipedia and this is what i found...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz

    anyways what i'm asking for is for some music recommendations to check this out further.

    THANKS

    JOn
     
  2. joo kyle

    joo kyle thisandthat

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    sun ra
    electric masada
    later john coltrane
    cecil taylor
    rasshan roland kirk
    ornette colman
    marc ribot
    nels cline
    albert ayler
     
  3. Hippie_Jon

    Hippie_Jon Noj

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    thanks i check some of this out.

    JOn
     
  4. tomplus

    tomplus Member

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    sun ra +1
     
  5. WalkingContradiction

    WalkingContradiction Member

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    Also check out Eric Dolphy. Although he is not as free as some of the people mentioned above he is always a fun listen. I would start off with "Out There"
     
  6. The_Moroccan_Raccoon

    The_Moroccan_Raccoon Senior Member

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    Jack Dejohnette
    Dave Holland
    John Zorn and most of his groups...actually, you should check out some of the musicians on his record label Tzadik...you'll find a lot of interesting free jazz.
     
  7. eightysixed

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    Art Ensemble of Chicago
    Fred Anderson
    Hamid Drake
    The Lounge Lizards
    New Klezmer Trio

    And yes, Sun Ra and John Zorn.
     
  8. Syd222

    Syd222 Member

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    the softs machines (psychedelic free jazz)
    arthur doyle (a prayer for peace)
    john stevens
    derek bailey (might be hard to enjoy at first)
    hank bennink
    and of course coltrane, dolphy, sunra (awesome), and most of all john zorn (he did a lot of stuffs, really interesting and great, electric masada is really "jazzcore", and masada trios are delightful :p )
     
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    plasickas Guest

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  10. DrummingJoey

    DrummingJoey Member

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    A great intro to free jazz is Ascension by John Coltrane. Usually I introduce people to the concept of free jazz through A Love Supreme, but since you seem to dig the heavy stuff, check out uh, Pharaoh Sanders. I would mention more, but they seem to be covered already.
     
  11. tubahead

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    If you really want to go in depth as to what the musicians are doing, the book Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost is really helpful. It really helped me open up my ears as to what's going on in the music.
     

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