Sonntag, 24. Mär 2013, 18:51

free jazz (avant-garde jazz) recommendations.
Stuff i like.
It’s biased toward US artists from the 60s.

Pharoah Sanders
· Tauhid (1966)
· Karma (1969)
· Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (1970)
· Live At The East (1971)
· Thembi (1971)

Alice Coltrane
· Journey in Satchidananda (1970)
· Ptah the El Daoud (1970)

John Coltrane
· Stellar Regions (1967)
· Interstellar Space (1967)
· Expression (1967)

Ornette Coleman
· The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
· Free Jazz (1960)
Ornette has a lot of albums. The two above are early albums and the first free jazz i ever bought. Later albums start moving toward free funk. If you dont know jazz very much, then The Shape Of Jazz To Come may not even sound all that free to you.

Albert Ayler
· In Greenwich Village (1966–1967)
· Love Cry (1967)
· Spiritual Unity (1964)

Joe McPhee
· Nation Time (1970)

James Blood Ulmer
· Revealing (1977)
he’s more famous for his free funk stuff, but i dig this first album of his. Now he does somewhat weirdish blues.

Charlie Haden
· Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)

Billy Harper
· Capra Black (1973)

Peter Brötzmann
· Machine Gun (1968)

Sonny Sharrock
· Ask The Ages (1991)

Cecil Taylor
I dont really like Cecil all that much, but he’s important.