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[Anil kumar]

Suhas, thanx for the BIG list!!!!
Add JEAN LUC PONTY & SHADOWS for violin & guitar list. Tadao Hayashi is a great album, i first heard it 15 years back, i still have the casette.


Regards,
Anil

Nice album. I too like TM very much. Try TM plays Standards.

If you like Piano (Jazz style) then build your collection based on following (Jazz) Piano artists:

Bill Evans
Count Basie
Horace Silver
Keith Jarrett
Red Garland
Vince Guaraldi
Ramsey Lewis
Diana krall
Marc Copland
Duke Ellington
Art Tatum
Thelonious Monk
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Ahmad Jamal
Sir Roland Hanna
Bud Powell
Erroll Louis Garner


And here is my pick for other instruments:

Soprano Sax

Wayne Shorter
David Liebman


Tenor Sax

Dexter Gordon
Stan Getz
Lester Young
John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
zoot sims
Joe Henderson
Hank Mobley
Tina Brooks
Stanley Turrentine

Alto Sax

Art Pepper
Jackie McLean
Lou Donaldson
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Paul Desmond
Charlie Parker
Johnny Hodges
Ornette Coleman

Bari Sax

Pepper Adams
Gerry Mulligan
Leo Parker

Trumpet

Louis Armstrong
Chet Baker
Donald Byrd
Miles Davis
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Chuck Mangione
Tomasz Stanko
Dave Douglas
Wynton Marsalis
Dizzy Gillespie


Guitar

Grant green
Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrel
Pat Martino
Joe pass
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Metheny
John Abercrombie
John McLaughlin

Vibes

Burton
Hutch
Milt Jackson
Lionel Hampton

Trombone

J J Johnson
Curtis Fuller
Carl Fontana

Bass

Paul Chambers
Ron Carter
Leroy Vinnegar
Charles Mingus
Charlie Haden

Drums

Philly Joe Jones
Max Roach
Alan Dawson
Billy Higgins
Idris Muhammad

Arranger

Benny Golson
Duke Pearson
Oliver Nelson
Glen Miller

Violin

Mark Feldman
Stephanne Grappeli

Organ

Shirley Scott
Jimmy Smith
Big John Patton
Lonnie Smith

Just for information. Hope this helps.

 

[Sanjay Khanna]

Hey! I was listening to Riding with the king yesterday. Nice jugalbandi. Which reminds me of Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's Neck and Neck. Another great effort.

And Suhas, 200 jazz albums means you have quite an amazing collection. That is inspiring. Quite a bit of my music is still on cassettes. I am finding replacements on CD, little by little, but I still have a long way to go to get to the 200 mark.

Both fantastic albums.Hauled out Riding with the King after seeing this post.But for pure genius - Abbey Road by the Beatles.Almost impossible to beat. The whole album is terrific

 

[persiflage]

'Neck and Neck' by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler is a big favourite! One track alone, 'There'll Be Some Changes Made' - with its combination of good humoured banter and some killer guitar work - is worth the price of admission. The two geniuses together mine and showcase every school of guitar playing there ever was..all in the space of one song. Heartily recommended.

I like 'Riding with the King' for the acoustic take on the blues standard 'Key to the Highway' - interesting counterpoint to Clapton/ Allman's sublime version on the Derek and the Dominoes album some 30 years ago.

 

[prabuddhadg]

Talking of the Beatles, the only album I had liked spontaneously, was the Sergeant Pepper's in which I liked all the songs. It took me some time to start appreciating their earlier songs, like Eight Days a Week and Help. Abbey Road of course, is a superb album.

But its not right to compare beatles to the blues. Blues are specifically simple structures and its the rendition with that makes the piece special.

And talking of Neck and Neck, Persiflage, There'll be some changes made is my favourite track on the album. They create such a cosy informal atmosphere, that it adds to the beauty of the piece.

 

[Sanjay Khanna]

Talking of the Beatles, the only album I had liked spontaneously, was the Sergeant Pepper's in which I liked all the songs. It took me some time to start appreciating their earlier songs, like Eight Days a Week and Help. Abbey Road of course, is a superb album.

But its not right to compare beatles to the blues. Blues are specifically simple structures and its the rendition with that makes the piece special.

And talking of Neck and Neck, Persiflage, There'll be some changes made is my favourite track on the album. They create such a cosy informal atmosphere, that it adds to the beauty of the piece.

Totally agree with you guys.I have the CD in my car so I'm looking forward to the drive home today. The Abbey Road observation was totally random. I wouldn't dream of comparing the Beatles with the Blues. Cheers,

 

[persiflage]

This is getting real interesting. The Fabs were stylistically too diverse to be tied down to one genre, but showed they could do the Blues as well as the rest of them.

Case in point, Lennon's 'Yer Blues', dirty screeching lead guitar and all, was meant to be as a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Bluesbeakers and the whole Brit Blues scene, but in my view is one of those cases where the imitator excels the imitated...

Abbey Road is truly a classic. The songs themselves are all top-class, but much of the magic lies in the album sequence. To cite but one example, 'I Want You' ends mid-note in a cataclysm of white noise, to be followed by Harrison's delicate acoustic picking on 'Here Comes the Sun'. Talk about seeds of life germinating after a nuclear holocaust.

 

[Sanjay Khanna]

This is getting real interesting. The Fabs were stylistically too diverse to be tied down to one genre, but showed they could do the Blues as well as the rest of them.

Case in point, Lennon's 'Yer Blues', dirty screeching lead guitar and all, was meant to be as a tongue-in-cheek parody of the Bluesbeakers and the whole Brit Blues scene, but in my view is one of those cases where the imitator excels the imitated...

Abbey Road is truly a classic. The songs themselves are all top-class, but much of the magic lies in the album sequence. To cite but one example, 'I Want You' ends mid-note in a cataclysm of white noise, to be followed by Harrison's delicate acoustic picking on 'Here Comes the Sun'. Talk about seeds of life germinating after a nuclear holocaust.

And "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" with its lighter side of serial killing (as seen by the fab four) followed by one of the most intense songs of all time - Lennon's " Oh Darling ". Truly monumental.

 

[xela]

. . .The Best of Alphonse Mouzon (jazz) . . . Morning Sun, Early Spring, A Lullable for Little Alphonse . . .


Regarding the Beatles, I have an album entitled - The Beatles 1 . . . This collection of number ones is taken from the most widely circulated charts in th UK (Record Retailer) and the USA (Billboard). . . The CD has 27 #1 singles .

BTW, the back cover says, digital remasters.

 

[persiflage]

'Oh! Darling' is actually Macca doing duty on the vocals/ songwriting. But your point is valid all the same, if anything the contrast is all the more creditable because the same individual is responsible for two such dissimilar songs back-to-back.

BTW long after the breakup, Lennon said he hated 'Silver Hammer' while lavishing praise on 'Oh! Darling'.. so it's not surprising that the latter gets mistaken as one of his songs.

One of the myths about the Beatles is that Lennon produced all the heavy, intense numbers so revered by latterday punk rockers, while McCartney was reponsible for the candy pop. But guess what: check out 'Helter Skelter' on the White Album, Paul may well have invented metal with that one.

 

[unleash_me]

BackstreetBoys-We've Got It Goin' On

Does anytone listen to boybands any more?! Was cleaning my rack and stumbled on this one, plus few CDs of Boyzone

Gosh, I have become so boring - aging I guess!

 

[persiflage]

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

 

[prabuddhadg]

Abida Parveen sings Amir Khusrau. On my drive to work I didn't even frown at anyone, forget swearing. She is simple heavenly.

 

[ruenigma]

@Unleash_me : Yup boybands are a fun listen sometimes on drive, I just luv the boyish display of love, desperation n all that vanity associated with preteens.

I prefer boyzone, BB (Street boyz not da King) , MLTR.

@prabuddhag: Thanks a tonne for discovering chet atkins, no one mentioned the genius around here. After your post I cudn't help but dig out his (almost) solo album aptly titled "Almost Alone" 11 of these tracks feature him alone. A listening pleasure for sure.

Happy listening
-Sarang

 

[prabuddhadg]

A colleague gave me a very unusual CD. Its a set of compilations of the Buddha Bar series. I am a complete new comer to this kind of music- I played the music just as an experiment. If you are doing something and the music is playing in the background, you think, that's some nice music playing. But when you start actually paying attention, it sounds boring and repetitive. I think it requires a certain talent to create just that kind of music.

 

[ruenigma]

A colleague gave me a very unusual CD. Its a set of compilations of the Buddha Bar series. I am a complete new comer to this kind of music- I played the music just as an experiment. If you are doing something and the music is playing in the background, you think, that's some nice music playing. But when you start actually paying attention, it sounds boring and repetitive. I think it requires a certain talent to create just that kind of music.

mind elaborating the track list?

 

[prabuddhadg]

Track list? Its huge! This is an mp3 CD. Even the names of the individual albums are like "Dream", "Dinner", "Drink" and "Joy". About 120+ tracks. Quite a mind numbing experience, with some pieces that sound like what is supposedly called Trance. A flowing set of notes that should bring up a blissful feeling, except that someone else is banging the life out of the electronic drums.

I did like even some of the trance pieces.

 

[persiflage]

@ruenigma: Now that you're 'into' Chet..

I also recommend Chester and Lester/ Guitar Monsters, two LPs now released on one CD. The first of the two is a collaboration with another guitar legend, Les Paul.

 

[prabuddhadg]

Does Lester stand for Les Paul? I didn't know they had recorded together. I have not heard anything by Les Paul before. What is the album like? Country? or something else?

 

[persiflage]

Yes, Lester is Les Paul. Not too much country in here, 'cept the odd Trad. Arr. ("Give My Love to Nell"). Mostly improvisations on big band standards - "It Don't Mean a Thing", "Brazil"..

Yes, the last named is indeed the same melody that Vengaboys recycled to good effect for their pop single.. used to be a party-starter on campus in the late 90s.

 

[panditji]

Brazil is such an old number. The one by Vengaboys is nice but I have over 40 different instrumentals of that song covered by artists such as Percy Faith, Henri Mancini, Fausto Papetti, James Last and so many others. It sure is a party starter irrespective of the decade you belong to.....