Jazz Obsessive Complusives

[toddaa]

Please tell me that there is at least one other DUer here that obsesses over every obscure session musician that ever graced the studios of Riverside or Prestige. Special merit for anyone who would worships Cecil Taylor or Anthony Braxton. I also love Jackie McLean and Thelonious Monk for the hopelessly retro hard boppers. Come on, I can't be the only hardcore jazz freak here.

Bird lives!

[flying_wahini]

1. hooray, I found you!

Yes, love T monk, chet baker, jimmy smith, alberta hunter, charlie parker, charlie mingus,
dexter gordon...... and on and on and on.....

[B3Nut]

4. Jimmy Smith!

The man! Don Patterson, Larry Young, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jack McDuff...awesome players. Then again, I am an organ nut. :D

Can't forget Joey D and Tony Monaco...keeping the B-3 flame alive in the world of jazz. Great players, un-freaking-believable live.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Forkboy]

2. I love jazz,but can't say I'm hardcore

I really started to just get into a few years back,and it's been like discovering a whole new planet to explore.Lately I've been on a total Buddy Rich kick,and of course I listen Duke Ellington's Diminuendo and Crescendo In Blue just about every damn day.Gonsalves' honking horn solo through the middle movement is just jaw droppingly good.

I have grabbed a few T. Monk cds,and my friend just sent me a bunch of Charlie Parker's stuff.

Our local PBS radio station plays jazz every night from 7 pm to 5 am,so that's been a great source of fun for a late-nighter like me.

You'd never guess that right now I'm listening to a band called Pungent Stench :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Jazz is amazing.

All jazz.

Kind of off-topic, but I know all the session players from the '70s, mostly those (and there were a fuckload) who did work with Steely Dan. Still in awe at that mating of the jazz and rock worlds, my two favorites.

;)