I've been listening to Blues Before Sunrise show on and off for years and they always do a bunch of things tied to the Jazz Record Mart like every Christmas they have a classic vintage video/movie footage event at the record story. Labels like Delmark really did preserve and capture quite a bit of music, it's pretty impressive.
http://www.bluesbeforesunrise.com/
This radio show is really pretty great and Steve Cushing has done it for decades. Some nights his play lists go into some obscure ways as he will do whole theme shows, but I have heard some unbelievable music on it that I had never heard before. Some of the sermons and odd stuff like Pigmeat Markam or doing a pre-war hour it's like a window into another time. I think some of the craziest stuff I have heard on his show is the hip harmony kind of stuff where you got singing groups imitating instruments is just other worldly and amazing. Probably the most popular act of their time that done that stuff was the Mills Brothers. It's an interesting show.
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 March 2014 09:04 (eleven years ago)
Can definitely recommend:
Roscoe Mitchell, Sound
Joseph Jarman, Song For
Anthony Braxton, Three Compositions of New Jazz and Four Compositions (GTM) 2000
Joseph Jarman, As If It Were the Seasons
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Humility in the Light of Creator (probably the most normal-person-accessible of all the titles listed so far; very much in a Pharoah Sanders-on-Impulse vein, mixing jazz and African music, gospel, etc., etc. - great, great stuff)
The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Live has good music on it but it's a single 75-minute track, so be warned going in...
The Honkers & Bar Walkers compilations are a lot of fun.
Roy Campbell's New Kingdom and Ethnic Stew and Brew are both great.
I also recommend pretty much everything by Ari Brown, Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio (except the most recent one, which features a "jazz poet" who's terrible), anything by Rob Mazurek and/or the Chicago Underground Trio, anything by Nicole Mitchell, and anything by Fred Anderson.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 29 March 2014 13:32 (eleven years ago)
Their Jazz Record Mart looks amazing. Want to go there.
― MV, Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:30 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's pretty great. Found some good stuff (weird, grey-market live Ellington vinyl with McDonald's Marching Band on the cover) for cheap last time I was there.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 29 March 2014 13:44 (eleven years ago)
Should've mentioned that I got a batch of promo CDs from them once when I was with my student radio station, and one of them had Anthony Braxton, another had Jeff Parker AND Axel Dorner on it. My question was generally aimed at the newer stuff cause I'm a walking stereotype and I love anything AACM-oriented uncritically.
― Red Bitchass, Saturday, 29 March 2014 21:42 (eleven years ago)