Jazz for aficionados

stuartk, I have Dashlane to remember my passwords, but Audiogon is not accepting the Dashlane psswd.

stuartk, I liked the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly. I appreciate his playing, but the problem I have is that his riffs sound old to me. I've heard them before or something extremlely similar from other players of his period. I became more into jazz with the soul from Coltrane and Davis. I know they did bebop early on, but they both blossomed into something else. Jazz becomes more interesting to me with that soulful change. That's why I tend toward Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and others who developed more into a soulful jazz sound. 

I have the same inclinations with classical music. I recognize that Haydn and Mozart were geniuses, but I become more involved with the Romantics, beginning with Beethoven. I do like the neo-classicists like Stravinksy, though.

As someone said above, I like music that makes me feel like dancing, too. I have been playing an album by Lizz Wright called "Holding Space." Very soulful, but you can only get it through streaming. The more I hear modern jazz by living musicians the more I like it. I like the women sax players Melissa Aldana and Lakecia Benjamin. I feel as though they have something new to say that hasn't already been said by Coltrane or Wayne Shorter.

@audio-b-dog 

Well, we all have our favorites. After your earlier comment about liking music that makes you dance, I was not expecting you to state a fondness for Alice Coltrane, J. Coltrane and P. Sanders!  I like some of the recordings by these artists but not the more outside stuff. As I’ve aged, my enjoyment of atonality has subsided. Expressive techniques like overblowing are fine within an overall melodic context but the Free stuff is not for me, at this point.

Here’s a tune from Kenny Garrett’s "songbook" album. I like the whole album but this is one of my favorite tracks that has a kind of trance-like effect. I guess you could dance to it, if you wanted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qkno-GGjms&list=OLAK5uy_nzRDhTQsYxrCuBNAomx-pAqToHlmWhfYg

(I’m a sucker for modal grooves coupled with latin rhythms...)

And here’s a live version, from an excellent show (the tune in question kicks off at  about the 42 minute mark):

:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrb2uaOXC0

RIP Kenny Kirkland

stuartk, I appreciate their skill but probably wouldn't listen to them. Here is Coltrane at his best in my opinion. He takes off and flies above the band. His riffs are all his own. I'd know it was him even if I hadn't heard the song before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpriUFsMQQ  I don't listen to Coltrane when he screams with his horn. It's painful. I think it's supposed to be. But I love abstraction when it works. Here is an example of Flora Purim's abstractions when I think it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watyACzR5n8

@audio-b-dog 

Yes; I’m familiar with both of those albums. 

I like Purim, too, but prefer her in this sort of setting:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0x0Tgf4ZHk&list=OLAK5uy_kCXtbLfAYXY8Rl-Mm8A43kVI5zu2XLd38&index=3

As Sly said "Diff’rent strokes..."  

;o)