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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - January 2012

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Artist: Lee Ritenour
Album: Masterpieces-Best of the Grp Years (Jazz Club)
Release Date: 06 Apr 2012



Artist: Bill Evans
Album: Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Album: Radio Music Society:Deluxe
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Toots Thielemans
Album: Yesterday & Today
Release Date: 26 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ben Webster
Album: In a Mellotone
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ken Navarro
Album: Test of Time
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
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This is the first part of my "favourite albums per year" series, which I'm going to list decade-wise.
Here I included the year 1959 though, because I just had to.
It will always feature 5 albums per year (exceptions were made in the years 1959 to 1962, because there I don't know that much yet).
This list (and the further lists) will reflect my opinion of the albums I think are the best and of course which are my favourite ones in these years.
It is my first take on ranking those albums, so it could be that the ranking will change slightly after some time.
The number ones though will be pretty steady in most cases.

Please tell me what you think about it, tell me if I have overlooked something or whatever is on your mind.
Recommendations are welcome and appreciated as always.



1959
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um


1960
1. John Coltrane - Giant Steps


1961
1. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things


1962
1. Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia
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Cross-posted to A Stable Reference

Same deal with my 70s and 80s list, not a definitive best of, just good stuff. Again, good stuff cut, so no albums by Myra Melford, Gerry Hemingway, Chris Cheek, Michael Brecker, Danilo Perez, Marty Ehrlich, Butch Morris, Don Byron, Jon Jang, David Binney, Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra, or The Vandermark 5. Also cut was the posthumous Charles Mingus Epitaph album, an over two hour work utilizing a 30-piece orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis, John Abercrombie, George Adams, Randy Brecker, John Handy, and Bobby Watson, as well as Trey Anastasio's unusual one off side project Surrender to the Air, an avant-garde jazz group featuring Sun Ra alums Marshall Allen and Michael Ray, John Medeski from Medeski, Martin & Wood, and guitarist Marc Ribot, which is, obviously, much different from his better known jam-/folk-rock work with Phish and his solo albums.

Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock (1991 Axiom)
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Radiohead - In Rainbows

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Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

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Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

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Jeff Buckley - Grace

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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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Portishead - Dummy

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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

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The Beatles - The Beatles

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At the Drive-In - Vaya
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limited to bands that i have a whopping zero albums of.

Alabama Thunderpussy
Alice Coltrane
Ambeon
An Autumn for Crippled Children
Andrew Hill
Arckanum
Armia
Ash Ra Tempel
Big Business
Caspian
Charles Mingus
City of Caterpillar
Cold Body Radiation
ColdWorld
Derek and the Dominos
Dirty Three
Dove
Ebony Ark
Embryo
Fly Pan Am
Fu Manchu
Gamma Ray
Ghost
Giant Squid
Giraffes? Giraffes!
Goatsnake
Hangedup
Helloween
Her Name is Calla
HṚṢṬA
John Coltrane
Junior Kimbrough
Karma To Burn
Leprous
Maybeshewill
McCoy Tyner
Obituary
Rachel's
R.E.M.
Renaissance
ReVamp
Reverend Bizarre
Runemagick
Sacramentum
Shape of Despair
Spiritus Mortis
Tarentel
Tarkus
Ten Years After
The Gates of Slumber
The Hidden Hand
The Mercury Program
The Morningside
The Strokes
Thee Oh Sees
To-Mera
Torche
Tortoise
Tristeza
Triumvirat
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Wire

So I've decided to relist my catalog my vinyl collection here because I got really bored one day and decided to type all of this shit out- the thought of such boredness brings me much sadness, but I could've just sat staring at the wall, so given that thought this isn't such a pointless post. I'll post another journal entry at some point with some pics of the particularly beautiful vinyl.
If anyone is interested in trading or buying/selling, feel free to message me or comment.

Recent additions:
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Neurosis- Enemy of the Sun
Talk Talk- The Colour of Spring
Vaste Air- Elixir

the collection
µ-Ziq- Tango N' Vectif (Rephlex 1993, 2xLP)
µ-Ziq- Bluff Limbo (Rephlex 1994, 12'')
µ-Ziq- Lunatic Harness (Planet Mu 1997, 2xLP)

A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory (2xLP)
Abigor- Fractal Possession (End All Life 2007, 2xLP gatefold)
Absu- Abzu (Back on Black 2011, 12'' gatefold, limited- 1000?)
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full report is here

short summary:
Miles Davis is leading the list of >270 artists...

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followed by:
John Coltrane
Herbie Hancock
Bill Evans
Sonny Rollins
Charlie Parker
Thelonious Monk
Sarah Vaughan
Chet Baker
Charles Mingus

previously in list:
Cannonball Adderley
Stan Getz
Diana Krall

groups involved so far:
Jazz
Jazz Club
Jazz Loft
Free Jazz
Jazz Piano
Japanese Jazz
Jazz Hop
Soul Jazz Records
Spiritual Jazz
Underrated Jazz and Groove Artists and Composers
1920s and 1930s Jazz
British Jazz
Classic Jazz
Dutch Jazz
Gypsy Jazz

tag:
jazz

Someone on Facebook thought this proved they had varied music taste:

" to go from Sean Paul, to Elvis Presley, to Melanie Fiona, to Kelly Rowland, to Rihanna, to David Bowie, * to Pulp, to Elio Pace to Guns 'N Roses ** to Bob Dylan....in the space of half an hour. goodnight!!!"

HOLY SHIT THAT DELVES INTO MAYBE.... THREE WHOLE FUCKING GENRES!
FUCK ME!

For the hipsters reading this who are thinking "GOLLY THAT SOUNDS LIKE ME! HOW CAN I BE TRULY VARIED!?" here's a list of artists that I listened to in the last half an hour:***
Grotus
Einstürzende Neubauten
Black Uhuru
Crass
Otis Redding
St. Vincent
Slick Rick

and here's some more that I might've listened to if I hadn't had to take a minute off to masturbate:
Swans
The Beatles
Alice In Chains
Georges Bizet
Falco
The Wiggles
Charles Mingus
Temper T
The Velvet Underground (I'd be killed if I did a list about varied music and didn't list The Velvet Underground. Let's all laugh at the irony.)
Ronny Jordan
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