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Duke Ellington virgin here, is this a good first album to listen to to immerse myself in the Duke?
Not really, since it's nothing like his other stuff. Still an interesting album though.
Good places to start with Duke might be "And his mother called him Bill" and the "Far East Suite". Both accessible recordings with his orchestra in good sound and with lots of great music.
For early Ellington start with pic rel. If you like it you'll also want to hear his early recordings for OKeh and RCA.
For middle period Ellington, it's pic rel.
thanks
have to admit I was drawn in by the performers and the sick ass album title
It is a fantastic album but yeah it's straight ahead trio bop stuff, which is not what Duke was mostly known for
As a fellow newbie to Ellington, I began with this compilation. It has a lot of great music and made me want to check more of him, so see if you like it.
Listened to Empyrean Isles recently. Herbie Hancock is quickly becoming one of my favorite artists, I could listen to him play for hours.
is he any good?
almost that time of year for one of duke's best
One of his best, everyone's amazing on this one. Make sure to check out Inventions and Dimensions and Speak like a Child, he's the only soloist in those.
underrated sideman and severely overrated elsewhere, pretty funny
looks scrumptious
Anon Babble is slow and gay today.
Sundays should be rife with jazz discussion
Man, "Hi-Fly" is such a good track. How come Bobby Timmons only made two albums with Cannonball Adderley? Together they were the best quintet Cannonball ever lead.
severely overrated elsewhere
I've still got about a dozen Herbie albums I have to listen to before I can call bullshit on that, but I'll get there. Thanks for the rec, though.
Lmao, I'm a retard. Ignore the pic, I was writing something else but I decided to reply to the other anon halfway through and forgot that I had added a pic.
listen to ellington indigos
I fucking love you guys thank you for dukepilling me can't wait to listen
bop
post-bop
Which one was better, Miles' first or second quintet?
Good shit. Although I don't have that exact set (but Decca stuff).
Billy Strayhorn's face in the cover makes me uneasy.
Thankfully we don't need to compare them since the music they each made was vastly different. The Prestige records are incredible, absolute magic. But the first four albums by the second quintet are unparalled and still some of the most interesting music ever made.
Just trying to spark some discussion, ya know? In any case, even if the two are very different groups, I think it's interesting to compare how each of them worked and what strengths you can find in each line-up.
I never liked jazz but I heard Chet Baker and it makes sense to me now. It’s making me want to get back into music theory.
Wish I could play trumpet.
nice. if you like trumpet watch the film Chinatown with jack nicholson
never too late to learn
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Aaron Parks
Dreams of a mechanical man
I like Chet too, although I prefer him playing trumpet rather than singing. Have you heard his album Jazz at Ann Arbor? It's pretty good.
I’ve only listened to a few of his albums but not that one so thank you for the suggestion. I told my wife an easy gift for me is any Chet record.
Soundtrack good? Why have I never heard of this movie? I’ll check it out. Thanks, anon. And checked
Maybe, yeah. Maybe some lessons if I can find some around here.
did anyone listen to the album that blue note put out a couple of days ago?
Cool. I'd also recommend the first two albums by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, which Chet was a member of. They were some of his first notable works as a sideman and they were very important for the development of West Coast cool jazz.
yes, you must obey my quads.
careful though, you may get so entranced by Chinatown that you become a full-blown cinephile.
the one with red garland
Are there any other good bop guitar players like Grant Green and Wes Montgomery?
goodnight bump