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Recently I began exploring Jazz

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In Reply to: RE: Miles' Electric Period posted by sisterray on February 28, 2022 at 13:44:22

I've been collecting records for almost 50 years. There was a total of 28 albums that I would classify as jazz in my collection. About a 1/3 was rock or funk fusion, another 1/3 was similar to Jazz Preservation Society, Pete Fountain and Bob Scobey and the rest kind one off odd ball stuff.

Inmate Musetap posted a Sonny Sharrock link a few months back. I checked it out on Spotify and recently found a nice nm copy and ordered it from Europe - also interested in Last Exit. From there I discovered 6 Miles Davis records Bitches Brew through Agharta that I want and should get sometime this year. It's Bitches Brew, Tribute To Jack Johnson, On the Corner then some live records - Live Evil and two other live records.

I very much like this electric period too. This stuff is essential for my rock collection.

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Other suggestions - belyin 10:06:17 03/07/22 (5)
There was a sort of fusion (I will call it Free Funk/Jazz Fusion for lack of a better word) that is on the harder side of most of the well known stuff. Names to look out for: James "Blood" Ulmer--either under his own hame or Music Revelation Society (often w.David Murray,) Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, and of course Ornette Coleman's Prime Time.
- So much for my Jazz exploration - Goober58 16:18:17 03/07/22 (4)
  If this stuff is called Jazz it's ok with me and I'll call it jazz in my database. But in my mind it's rock. I just listened to James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey. That's really a great record - I'm going to have to spend more time on spotify with more of his records.
  
  Thanks for the suggestions.
  - Wait 'till you hear Blood do blues... - musetap 16:24:03 03/12/22 (1)
    Genre designations just suck.
    
    One of the most... outre...jazz... respected cornet players, Olu Dara has played
    on MANY, MANY dates for decades and his two "solo" titles (under his own name)
    owe little to jazz as we know it but LOTS to great American music. Not only that
    but his son, Nas, is a well respected and talented rapper.
    
    There's SO MUCH great music that falls between the genre cracks...
    
    "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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    - RE: Wait 'till you hear Blood do blues... - Goober58 22:35:19 03/12/22 (0)
      I've been checking him out on Spotify. There are 2 James Blood Ulmer disks on the way from eBay - and 3 more of his in my want list que with 5 Miles Davis 70s era disks. Found a nice copy of Seize the Rainbow and it arrived from Germany today - can't wait to give it a listen when the boss goes out tomorrow am.
      
      You link didn't work but I spend some time checking out your recommended artist on youtube. Tasty!
      
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  - Odyssey - belyin 17:11:38 03/07/22 (1)
    Labels all get fuzzy at the fringes, but to me jazz is a process not a thing, and to me Blood fits under that rubric. "Odyssey" is one of my favorite records, and I got to hear Blood with his Odyssey Trio this past summer at the Vision Festival in NYC.
    - Mr Ulmer.... - andy evans 15:17:19 03/08/22 (0)
      I once had a girlfriend who would take all her clothes off and dance to "Jazz Is The Teacher (Funk Is The Preacher)".....
      
      I came to think highly of that track.....
      Ulmer "Jazz Is The Teacher (Funk Is The Preacher)" (Open in New Window)

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