Jazz for aficionados

Love all things Zorn. Very prolific, and most his stuff is not on streaming so you have to hunt it down and keep up. Very hard in these busy days.

Need to get more Jamie Saft.

I will stop here for Jamie Saft i already said enough...

He is no less creative than Zorn...

My 5 th albums is stellar also, a tribute to Bob Dylan ( a folk singer i like ) ...And Saft must pick the best audio engineer there is for each album because the sound quality is over average way much......

( i prefer jazz albums with no singers by the way and i made exceptions only for Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald voices or Chet Baker or Billie Holiday...In this album of Saft "Trouble" there few songs part where the singers are very good but even very good i prefer music and no voice in my jazz, i dont know why because i like classical singer or Indian and Persian and sufi singers etc then for this only reason this 5th album is not my best but the singers are top notch , it is not a critic of the singers at all only a reflection about my own lack or limitations or obsession i dont know )

By the way Saft is a pianist but often take the Hammond organ to new creative level...

In my next life i dont come here if i am not born musician ( a gifted one ) 😁

When i was young i was envious of gifted mathematicians, now i am envious of musicians... 😊

I am less egotistical...

And anyway i begin to understand that music encompass mathematic not the reverse which idea surprize me a lot because i tought the reverse all my life...

«Music is mathematic with a moving body and a free will »Anonymus poet

@acman3

 I picked up the self titled album when it came out in 1983. Great band. I have every album til Brecker's death. 

Are you referring to the Brecker Brothers Band or Steps Ahead?

Breckers "debut" album was released more then a decade after his studio and live collaborations with "Steps" , his brother Randy and others. It was a great "debut" with backing musicians Pat Metheny, Kenny Kirkland, Charlie Haden, and Jack DeJohnette.

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Love all things Zorn. Very prolific, and most his stuff is not on streaming so you have to hunt it down and keep up. Very hard in these busy days.

I found all but 2 of the total of 32 "Book of Angels" sessions on Spotify. I found all of the Masada live sessions as well. 

I dont love all things Zorn. Far from it. But I plan on listening to all of it and selecting individual songs to keep.

@mahgister 

( i prefer jazz albums with no singers by the way and i made exceptions only for Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald voices or Chet Baker or Billie Holiday...In this album of Saft "Trouble" there few songs part where the singers are very good but even very good i prefer music and no voice in my jazz, i dont know why because i like classical singer or Indian and Persian and sufi singers etc then for this only reason this 5th album is not my best but the singers are top notch , it is not a critic of the singers at all only a reflection about my own lack or limitations or obsession i don't know )

I can relate; there are many Jazz vocalists but like you, there are only a few that really move me.