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Some Alice Coltrane maybe? Bit more experimental but in that atmospheric kind of way.I’ve always been a very casual jazz fan, but I heard Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady recently and it was probably the best Jazz LP I have heard.
Can anyone recommend some similar artists and LP’s?
I loved how many instruments were used, but not in an offhand way. There was great use of space and atmosphere and perfect transitions between the soloing instruments.
I’ve heard a bit of Coltrane and Miles Davis, but I guess their music is generally more lead by the artists themselves. I’m looking for jazz that’s more pieced together. Bitches Brew would be another decent reference point.
I’ve always been a very casual jazz fan, but I heard Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady recently and it was probably the best Jazz LP I have heard.
Can anyone recommend some similar artists and LP’s?
I loved how many instruments were used, but not in an offhand way. There was great use of space and atmosphere and perfect transitions between the soloing instruments.
I’ve heard a bit of Coltrane and Miles Davis, but I guess their music is generally more lead by the artists themselves. I’m looking for jazz that’s more pieced together. Bitches Brew would be another decent reference point.
Some Alice Coltrane maybe? Bit more experimental but in that atmospheric kind of way.
I hadn't listened to this album for nearly 50 years. I bought it after hearing some other Charles Mingus songs on "Music To Midnight". This was an album I only listened to a couple of times but it was too dissonant for me to get into. After seeing your post and getting out the record (which looks brand new) I put it on for the first time in nearly 50 years. Unfortunately it had the same effect on me. Some parts I really enjoyed but for the most part I didn't enjoy it. Nevertheless my son really liked it.
Anyway, there are a couple of albums I can recommend with great space and atmosphere. I have linked in a track from both albums.
First the Modern Jazz Quartet's album "Space".
The second album is "Heavy Weather" by Weather Report which may be what you will enjoy.
I can recommend Weather Report. All the musicians on their albums are top shelf. Jaco Pastorious playing fretless bass has rightly been described as the best bass player of all time. Heavy Weather and Blackmarket are the standouts in my opinion.Appreciate the response and recommendations. I have heard of Weather Report, but they (him/her?) are another I’ll have to have a listen to at some point.
From my brief foray into jazz I’ve been most interested in either albums or songs with reasonably stark transitions, allowing different instruments to shine or at least add some texture for a portion of time.
I’m a reasonably big post-rock fan, and it might be a bit of a stretch but I find Mingus’ constant revolution within the space of an album similar to something Godspeed You! Black Emperor do to great effect.
I heard Duke Ellington’s The Far East Suite the other day, and really enjoyed that too. A Love Supreme and The Black Sinner Lady, although obvious choices, have been the best jazz LP’s I have heard so far.
PS. Two of the other band members of Weather Report, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were session musicians on "Bitches Brew".I’ve always been a very casual jazz fan, but I heard Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady recently and it was probably the best Jazz LP I have heard.
Can anyone recommend some similar artists and LP’s?
I loved how many instruments were used, but not in an offhand way. There was great use of space and atmosphere and perfect transitions between the soloing instruments.
I’ve heard a bit of Coltrane and Miles Davis, but I guess their music is generally more lead by the artists themselves. I’m looking for jazz that’s more pieced together. Bitches Brew would be another decent reference point.