Great jazz and Rock unknown GEMS Share yours


Hello
I'm going to share my favs for jazz and rock that are out of the spotlight, so to speak.

rock= William Topley,any album (Black river, is a good place to start)

Jazz= Kazumi Watanabe, Mobo albums, 1 and 2

Got some great hidden treasures? share them so we can enjoy! This make the wonderful HIFI setups we have built so worth it. Many blessings to you and yours!
mcgarick
Rock: Either of Ray Davies recent solo albums. Working Man's Cafe is the more Kinkslike of the two.

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages.

Jazz: Lynne Arriale Trio - lyrical piano trio
Hayes Carll- Trouble in Mind, his most recent. Think Uncle Tupelo/Steve Earl-ish. Maybe. Kinda.

Manu Kache-Neighborhood. Gabriels sometime drummer jazz offering with Tomascz Stanko and Jan Garbarek.

Don't know if either is necessarily unknown, but certainly shouldn't be.
Rock: Two Cow Garage, "Walls against Our Back"; Hayes Carll, "Little Rock"

Jazz: Bluiett, Jackson, El Zabar, "The Calling"

Other: Sera Cahoone, "Only as the Day Is Long."

--john
Rock:
Anything by dEUS (no, I don’t have the key locked, that’s the only way to write it), sadly very compressed masterings lately. http://deus.be/
Rain, Tree, Crow, “Rain, Tree, Crow”
not unknown, but too easily forgotten: Colosseum: “Live!”

Jazz:
Juergen Friedrich, “Pollock”
Fresu, Galliano, Lundgren: “Mare Nostrum”
Roessler, Vogt, Vitous, “Between the Times”
and another forgotten one: Weather Report, “Sweetnighter”

Strange bedfellows from both worlds (not everyone’s cup of tea, fantastic “projects” for those who do like it):
Jack Bruce with hr-Bigband, “Live at 37th Deutsches Jazzfestival”
Hiram Bullock with WDR Bigband, “Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix”

Undefinable:
Hadouk Trio, “Baldamore” (there’s a recent live thread on Hadouk with many links to music, check it out)

These are some I thought of instantly, I’ll just cut it short here without further pondering, there are of course so many more…
Enjoy!
Karel