Jazz Douchebags: recommend some summer albums.

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you know, for the summer.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

"In a Silent Way."
Pretty much any Lee Morgan, especially on Blue Note.
Duke Ellington, "New Orleans Suite."
"The Rough Guide to Boogaloo."
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time, "Virgin Beauty."
The Skatalites, "Foundation Ska."
Dinah Washington, "Dinah Jams."
Sonny Sharrock, "Seize the Rainbow."
World Saxophone Quartet, "Rhythm and Blues."
"Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Steve Reid! Rhythmatism. I also think Archie Shepp's Attica Blues is a fun summer driving album.

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Gabor Szabo - "The Spellbinder" is very nice and summery

In general I think West Coast Jazz is good -

Gerry Mulligan - What is There To Say
Chico Hamilton - The Dealer
Paul Desmond's stuff w/Jim Hall

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Roy Ayers "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" (duh)
The Blackbyrds "City Life" (w/rock creek park)
Ramp "Come into Knowlege"
Grant Green "Alive"
Herbie Hancock "Sunlight" (more a disco album, but oh so summery)
Weather Report "Mysterious Traveler"
Gabor Szabo & the California Dreamers "Wind, Sky & Diamonds"
Pharoah Sanders "Village of the Pharoahs"
Gato Barbieri "Third World"
Don Cherry "Home Boy"
Don Cherry "Brown Rice"
Don Cherry "Hear & Now" (so NY summer)
CoDoNa "I"
Lonnie Liston Smith "Visions of a New World"
Donald Byrd "A New Perspective"
Ornette Coleman "Dancing in Your Head"

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Country Preacher
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
The John Coltrane Quartet - Africa/Brass
Johnny Dyani Quartet - Song for Biko
Paul Desmond - Bossa Antigua
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - I, Eye, Aye
Hank Mobley - A Slice of the Top
Stanley Turrentine - Rough 'N' Tumble

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

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― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm diggin' African Marketplace right now, along with Joburg Jump and Get Up With It (though I don't know if the last one is per se a summer disc).

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the monastic trio from Alice Coltrane seem to be perfect for summer early morning driving, especially going north through the midwest. Any of 'em, but especially the tracks with her doing harp workouts when the grass is still dewey.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Machito - Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz
Number One de Dakar - No.1 de No.1

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

hey, Jeff LeVine! Song For Biko is the best album by anyone anywhere, so yeah. all-time beauty

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

I like the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Volume 1. A great summer album of very early New Orleans style jazz.

― _Bad_Command_or_File_Name_ (bcofn1), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

(here's what I've been digging this spring-turns-to-summer)

Jackie McLean New Soil
Jackie McLean Jackie's Bag
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else
Freddie Hubbard Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay
Stanley Turrentine Salt Song
Herbie Hancock The Prisoner sdtk
Milt Jackson Sunflower
Joe Farrell Moon Germs
Eddie Henderson Sunburst
George Benson Beyond The Blue Horizon
Grant Green His Majesty King Funk
Donald Byrd Up With Donald Byrd
Don Cherry Brown Rice

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

and er, could we lose the "jazz douchebags" designation? thx

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I was really sorry to see that catch on.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

My fault, and I'm sorry. I've dropped it since.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby or Sunday at the Village Vanguard,.

I think the "jazz douchebags" mini-meme is funny, but I won't fight for it.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Julian Priester - Love, Love
Welden Irvine - Time Capsule
Chris Bowden - Time Capsule

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Albert Ayler Live in Greenwich Village on Impulse
also, lately I've been driving around with a Kaoru Abe solo disc in my car and it's suitable (though not quite summer yet!).

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Jazz in the late 70s / early 80s (jazz goes pop, jazz goes disco)

perhaps

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

(I don't mind douchebags)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:28 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

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― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Herbie Hancock The Prisoner sdtk

I was wrong, this is NOT a soundtrack. The fluegelhorn and flute solos threw me off. Herbie's last album for Blue Note, it's nice.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Chick Corea - Light as a Feather
George Benson - Breezin'
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Stan Getz - Jazz Samba

wear loose, light-colored clothing while listening to these. and sunblock

― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Billy Cobham-Spectrum.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Cannonball Adderly - Country Preacher
FME - Cuts
Dual Pleasures - Vandermark & Nilssen-Love
Miles - Jack Johnson
Kaore Abe solo stuff, definitely
any early Atlantic stuff by Ornette, also definitely

― socks, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with calling douchebags douchebags?

― mike peenie, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Lonnie Smith - Think & Turning Point

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 11 May 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

I need to check out Eugene McDaniels 'Headless heroes of the Apocalypse'

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 11 May 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

yes, yes you do

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 11 May 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Roscoe Mitchell & the Sound Ensemble - Snurdy McGurdy & Her Dancin' Shoes

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Thursday, 11 May 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

supersilent's 6 is definitely a hot summer nights album for me (as long as we're accepting jazz/improv), as is the Peter Brötzmann Octet's Machine Gun...

― zach mercer (suizen), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Burrell God Bless The Child
Stanley Turrentine Sugar
Sonny Rollins Nucleus

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 13 May 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Geri Allen--Life of a Song
Susie Ibarra--Radiance (and) Songbird Suite
John Zorn--The Gift
Drew Gress--SEven Butterflies
Jason Moran--Same MOther
McCoy Tyner--Sama Layuca or Asante (or both)
Colin Walcott--Grazing Dreams
Don Cherry-Hear and Now (and) Brown Rice
Eric Dolphy--Far Cry
Marc Ribot--Spiritual Unity

(personally amused by the douchebag moniker. better a douchbag than a mouldy fig)

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

If you want to score with the ladies this summer, play a lot of Chet Baker's "Let's Get Lost" disc.

― Mr _Deeds (Mr_Deeds), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Marc Ribot--Spiritual Unity

Just picked this up. Great.

I also second pretty much all the CTI stuff cited -- those were made for summer.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 14 May 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

"Maiden Voyage"! That was my big summer album last year.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 6 January 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Thelonious Monk — Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1
Steve Lacy / Don Cherry — Evidence
Steve Lacy / Roswell Rudd — School Days

Jackie McLean — Capuchin Swing
Marion Brown — Why Not?
Wayne Shorter — Etcetera
Jemeel Moondoc Trio — Fire in the Valley
Ras Moshe Music Now Unit — Live Spirits #2

― mark 0 (mark 0), Saturday, 6 January 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Henderson Inner Urge
Lee Morgan Tom Cat

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

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