All awesome albums. Combine this with @stpaulbrowns 's list above and you have a really great set of piano jazz albums to check out. There might be a few ones coming out too in the next few months from Blue Note between the Tone Poet and 80th anniversary pressings but would have to take a look again at the list!
Likely pretty far from the kind of recommendation you were actually looking for, but I had somehow gone my entire life without hearing Art Tatum and have been blown the hell away.
If you're open to more modern jazz, I recommend checking out Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Possibly my favourites from the past 30 years or so. Melodic piano, plus occasionally distorted bass and a drummer who likes heavy metal - they mostly play pretty classic jazz but sometimes they get quite raucous. Dodge The Dodo is a good example but really all their albums after their first two or three are superb.
One of the things I love about these forums is being able to watch someone else ask a question and all these fantastic responses flow in which I can benefit from. Another thing is that there's no judgement on who's a jazz guy or not! We're all just guys and gals finding our way in this crazy world, with music as our guide
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Hey Jazz crew, if you don't already own it, Wax Buyers Club is doing the first variant ever of Henri Texier's Varech next month :
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It should be the same mastering as the recent reissue, that sound superb.
One of the things I love about these forums is being able to watch someone else ask a question and all these fantastic responses flow in which I can benefit from. Another thing is that there's no judgement on who's a jazz guy or not! We're all just guys and gals finding our way in this crazy world, with music as our guide
I love a lot of McCoy Tyner's work. Been listening to the live album Passion Dance lately, a couple of numbers with a fantastic trio of Tyner, Ron Carter and Tony Williams as well as some solo pieces, all of which I find exquisite. But I'm not really a jazz guy...
Well I know what I need to listen to next!Oh yeah Passion Dance is a sister album to Counterpoint/live in Tokyo, basically tracks from the same gig , never met a McCoy I didn’t like
I agree - love McCoy. Curious about how this thread feels about his release Horizon from 1980? Allmusic seems to LOVE that album - (I know, not always the best source of objectivity!) - but I haven't been able to find my groove in it yet. Like all good music, sometimes patience is important - but just wondering if any of you have found an appreciation for Horizon?Oh yeah Passion Dance is a sister album to Counterpoint/live in Tokyo, basically tracks from the same gig , never met a McCoy I didn’t like
I purchased this boxset from Amazon last year. It was all superb until I got to "Plays the blues" and I found the record inside the jacket was "The avant garde" from that same set. I loked into the Avant garde jacket to see if the "Plays the blues" record was in there, but it wasn't, so I basically had 2 Avant gardes and no blues. Amazon made me send it back and sent me a replacement which turned out fine. I just hope my messed up boxset doesn't end up being sold to someone via their "Warehouse deals," because that would be really shity.
Successfully resisting buying that $25 Village Vanguard out from under you immediately is probably the greatest expression of my willpower that has happened in a year, @SherlockOhms (unless you aren't going to buy it....?)