What Type of Jazz Dominates Your CD Collection?

GoodSpeak · October-28th-2004, 09:42 PM

OR...more to the point, what is the Jazz style/type which you spend the most money on?

Personally, BeBop, Hard Bop and post Bop dominate my collection.

Tell me...what's in your CD rack?

Jazz on,

TimMc

GoodSpeak · October-28th-2004, 09:45 PM

My Point?

What do you buy more often then not?

Share it here....

jesus marion joseph · October-28th-2004, 09:50 PM

My collection (thin as it is) is mostly bop/hardbop.

Noj · October-28th-2004, 10:14 PM

Hard bop dominates, mid 50s to late 60s. Next is the early 70s with funky fusion Headhunters/CTI type stuff that some hate but I eat up. Many other styles, whether earlier or newer, are represented in smaller amounts. There is definitely a slant toward funk in my collection. My rule for keeping any cd is I must like one song. If I don't hear anything I like, I trade it for credit.

Is organ jazz its own thing? I've got a ton of organ discs, the GREEEEEAAAAZZZZEY funk.

Enforcer · October-28th-2004, 10:14 PM

No one type dominates in my collection. I have lots of big band, lots of bebop, lots of post/freebop and lots of free jazz. Not so much fusion or soul jazz. Some fusion I love, most I don't. Soul jazz is just not my thing. The Blue Note stuff from the circa 1964 era still remains my very favorite music, I'd say.

Noj · October-28th-2004, 10:17 PM

I should add I like all the styles and eras, I only have the most of what I know the most about...

john williams · October-28th-2004, 10:43 PM

To difficult to pigenhole my collection.

Lots of Trane, Bird, Miles, Monk, Blue Notes, ECMs, FMPs, Leos and so on and so on.

I have no Wynton whatsoever, nor ever will have again, if that's any help.

No Keith Jarrett either, can't stand him.

October-28th-2004, 10:52 PM

JBW and I have already established before that we have very similar tastes musically. So what he listed is also what dominates my collection.

The only "complete" collection I have is Coltrane. Although that's quite a collection all by itself!

But I also have quite a bit of Eric Dolphy, and yes, Keith Jarrett. I love his trio and solo material.

Lots of Miles, lots of Monk.

Also a huge selection of Zappa.

john williams · October-29th-2004, 12:04 AM

Ah yes, lots and lots of Dolphy.

Rollins, Ellington, Mingus, Ayler, Lyons, Rivers-

It's impossible to pick put a dominant sub-genre within my collection.

October-29th-2004, 12:23 AM

Rivers.

Yes, I do believe I have a mighty sweet boxset from that man.

Matter of fact, I believe you have some very rare Dolphy that most envy you for, eh JBW?

What a win-win trade THAT one was!

john williams · October-29th-2004, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Matter of fact, I believe you have some very rare Dolphy that most envy you for, eh JBW?

What a win-win trade THAT one was!

Yes I do and yes it was.

Excellent outcome all round!

lazarus · October-29th-2004, 12:54 AM

The artists in the jazz-section I have most titles by are Miles, Coltrane, Sun Ra and Zorn (jazz?).
The jazz after mid-50´s dominates my collection. Hardbop, new thing, freejazz and experimental fusion.
A lot of Blue Note, Impulse and ECM.

edpack · October-29th-2004, 01:02 AM

Lots of Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Art Ensemble, Dave Holland. I lean towards bop, hard bop, and lately more towards the free stuff.
Oh yeah, how could I forget Ornette??

Sergio Zamora · October-29th-2004, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by lazarus

The artists in the jazz-section I have most titles by are Miles, Coltrane, Sun Ra and Zorn (jazz?).
The jazz after mid-50´s dominates my collection. Hardbop, new thing, freejazz and experimental fusion.
A lot of Blue Note, Impulse and ECM.

I'd just like to say that while I don't necessarily dig everything you listen to, you have one of the hippest collections around these parts.

shrugs · October-29th-2004, 01:18 AM

burned ones

lazarus · October-29th-2004, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Sergio Zamora

I'd just like to say that while I don't necessarily dig everything you listen to, you have one of the hippest collections around these parts.

Thank you very much Sergio. I always find your lists on the wayltrn thread to be interesting and inspiring.

John L · October-29th-2004, 06:45 AM

Good jazz.

OK, I have a lot of weak and mediocre jazz in my collection too, but in the end it gets dominated by good jazz.

Gary Sisco · October-29th-2004, 09:01 AM

It used to be about 80 percent hardbop, but since the early 90s my listening interests have gone in so many directions that I don't think, boxsets excluded, any one thing dominates it now -- depending on who's defining, of course. Some might say it's dominated by "a.g." but I'd reply that if it is, it's not by any single kind of "a.g."

It's all good, though. I ruthlessly get rid of anything I don't like, as a space saver. I'm a listener more than a collector. I gave my last batch of culls away to whoever wanted them (I had a free box in my kitchen) because I knew I wouldn't be getting to a used store any time soon and was tired of having the pile around. Since then, I've started a new pile of culls. About half a dozen, right now.

I canceled my E-music sub yesterday because the CD-rs were piling up too much, as well. Time to listen now, more than accumulate. The accumulation's out of control.

Whatever "style," there's a huge pile of very good to great jazz that could keep me listening happily for many years.

jaka · October-29th-2004, 09:09 AM

60s BlueNote and classic Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, ...

Had my Jarrett period, a full shelve of his ECM recordings.

Monomaniac attitude regarding John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin recordings and related. To a lesser extent (because they put out less albums), Marc Ducret and Noël Akchoté. Shelves can't take them anymore.

bigblue · October-29th-2004, 09:39 AM

Bop Hard Bop,some soul_funky,little free,avant_garde

Enforcer · October-29th-2004, 09:43 AM

It's interesting to me that lots of people here mention bebop and hard bop. Lots of jazz fans like it. Yet when a jazz musician plays it nowadays, someone's always jumping up his ass about how he's not advancing the music or some horsesh**. Look, if you're a musician, and you really like hearing a certain kind of music, then it's natural for you to want to play it also. I love bebop, and there's no feeling like playing it in the world. It's not what I always want to play, but I'd feel like I was missing something if I never had a chance to play it. There are no thoughts about starting a revolution in the genre when I sit down with some friends and just play bebop, I'm just having fun and doing what I enjoy.

Derailing the thread but feeling pretty good about it,
Larry

HLJ · October-29th-2004, 09:48 AM

The gaints of coures Armstrong , Duke , Parker , Monk ,Trane and Miles and New Bop,Rebop young Lons stuff,Marsalis,Payton,Redmen,Osgy and Moran.Peace and all that.

Bluebrew · October-29th-2004, 10:02 AM

Mostly bop and hard bop.

stonemonkts · October-29th-2004, 10:31 AM

My collection is fairly broad, so it was hard to see if anything dominated it. The closest thing I could come up with is a preponderance of stuff recorded 1956-1967.

Like Larry, my favorite band is the Miles 2nd 5tet.

Artists which dominate in terms of quantity are Miles, Cecil Taylor, Monk, Coltrane, Braxton, Bley, Ornette, Mingus, Shorter, Lacy, E. Parker. The usual suspects.

Noj · October-29th-2004, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

I canceled my E-music sub yesterday because the CD-rs were piling up too much, as well. Time to listen now, more than accumulate. The accumulation's out of control.

I had to do this a while back too, Gary--I filled a whole shelving unit with cdrs in slim jewel cases and realized I had tons of stuff I had barely listened to. I still have loads of discs in that thing I've played only once each, I'm sure.

stonemonkts · October-29th-2004, 10:46 AM

Gary and Noj - Did you guys do the e music thing with dial-up internet access, or something faster?

Shuddering at the thought of subscribing,
stone

Noj · October-29th-2004, 10:57 AM

I have a cable modem at home, and I was burning cdrs just to clear space on the hard drive. The whole Fantasy/Prestige catalog was open for pillaging with no limits on the number of tracks you could get, it was downright scary.

walto · October-29th-2004, 11:12 AM

Free. I have almost no hardbop at all.

gnhrtg · October-29th-2004, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by stonemonkts

Gary and Noj - Did you guys do the e music thing with dial-up internet access, or something faster?

Shuddering at the thought of subscribing,
stone

Stone - I don't think you would regret subscribing to e-music; you probably have checked their impressive catalog, right? Most of their catalog, now, is coded through vbr at average rates upwards of 300 kbps and the little they have at 128 kbps that still hasn't been updated is clearly labeled as such. I've been a subscriber for the last two, or three, months only and with the lightning fast connection I have at school it only takes a few minutes to even download the disc long Braxton GT pieces.

shrugs · October-29th-2004, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Larry Nagel

It's interesting to me that lots of people here mention bebop and hard bop. Lots of jazz fans like it. Yet when a jazz musician plays it nowadays, someone's always jumping up his ass about how he's not advancing the music or some horsesh**.

Well, most of the younger to middle age cats are reboppers IMO. Give me the original shit. I like half and half, you can keep the powder nonfat dairy creamer.

And many aren't advancing the music when their albums contain 7 standards bookended by two originals.