Jazz for aficionados

On the thirty two albums of Zorn it seems i cannot love more than 4 or 5 ...

The rest may be interesting but not enough for me to keep them in my love list...

The Album with Jamie Saft throw me toward him , and i discovered few albums of Saft as true gems... ( 6 albums)

I prefer classical jazz, sometimes i venture out of it but it is way more difficult for me to fall in love then ...

Zorn is really interesting... But interesting is not falling in love...

After the 6 albums of Saft i love , i now explore Brecker who really is a sax master ... Evident at first listening ... I will not fall in love with many Brecker albums in fusion or piop for sure... But his jazz albums will probably hit me at the heart it seems already with 2 listenings...

So I just got 6 John Zorn CD’s from the library. I tried to listen to them. Really I did! I guess I just don’t like that kind of jazz.

Oh well.

I would not ,at my age, force myself to listen to music I don't like. In the past I  have listened to music til I got it. Not anymore. 

When  I  said I  liked Zorn, I  only had 10 or so recordings I have collected over the years on CD. They have now released everything he has put out. Over 200 records.  I doubt I love everything he has done, especially with him being so adventurous. Good on y'all for giving him a chance.  

My brother wants me to go with him to see Jr. Brown. I'm not going.  I 've seen him and for some reason he wears on me. It Happens. 

Personally, I wouldn’t call the first ten years of M Brecker’s output “crappy”. It’s a matter of the style of the music which we may or may not like. The playing however was always on a high level. It is true that most of his output during the 70’s was in a rock/funk vein and some of it I don’t like, but some of it I do like.

One of the brothers’ earliest higher profile projects was as members of the band “Dreams”. A very influential band that predated “Blood Sweat and Tears” as one of the very first Rock bands to use a horn section and to incorporate elements of Jazz. The horn section, unlike the more popular band “Chicago” was comprised of players that could really play and improvise well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_(band)

1972 (classic, for Breckerfiles):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lt_4E4HyOCJF73AOuJ_rGREDww_W3tWjo&si=orKNqtsuKk5VgJgS

What’s not to like 😊?:

https://youtu.be/jhDl4IDfYOg?si=zq3UzkjCVxshLwAC

pjw, I went to Seventh Ave. South many times and heard the Breckers and others there. Great place!

A 23 year old Michael Brecker with Horace Silver live in concert.  Astounding solo on the first tune Liberated Brother.  I like the youthful rawness of his sound.  In some ways even more obvious than in later years that he was right out of the Coltrane school.

https://youtu.be/6vGugGIhSg8?si=zKjQjZGb-AX30Dni

I had a feeling you hung out there. Besides the Breckers who else did you see there?

I will check out the Dreams band. I like Blood Sweat and Tears and really like Chicago. Terry Kath was such a gifted musician. Not going to post any of their songs on a jazz thread though...

I listened to these 3 Michael Brecker albums in their entirety while on the road last night. All 3 albums are really good. Brecker's improvisations on the tenor are superlative.

Michael Brecker - Itsbynne Reel - Don't Try This At Home (1988) - YouTube

Brecker plays the EWI on tracks 1, 4 and 5, Don't Try This at Home

Two Blocks from the Edge

別冊MMJazz ＃217 Two Blocks from the Edge(Michael Brecker) 都会の香りのカッコよさ！！映画のシーンの様 - YouTube

Tales from the Hudson

Slings And Arrows - YouTube