Who are you just discovering?

[imeanyou]

Recently got into Eric Alexander. I started with 'Man With a Horn' and was sold. He's really 'in the tradition'. He seems to have a pretty big discography and a lovely sound. Something of a light heavyweight to my ears- between 'Trane and Mobley. I can pick up his early Criss Cross output pretty cheaply at the Disk Union stores in Tokyo.

[Hardbopjazz]

Lester Bowie. How did I not get into his playing before now I don't know. Wynton Marsalis had criticism of Bowie, saying he didn't have a traditional approach to playing the trumpet, I disagree 100%. He had an original approach to playing the trumpet. He left this world to young.

Edited June 23, 2010 by Hardbopjazz

[Shawn]

Believe it or not, the Grateful Dead. Better forty years late than never, I suppose.

Me too. Haven't drunk the Kool Aid yet, but I'm finding quite a bit of stuff I enjoy.

Basically the country-tinged stuff still has me running for the exit...but the trippy fusion-y stuff is awesome.

[jazzbo]

I've come to love some of the country stuff, and some of the country treatments of songs that are sometimes flat out rockin' tunes later.

I guess I've come to love how they touch parts of almost all American music, and their addressing these different styles enriches all they do.

What a band they are. Today I'll probably get the new Road Trips delivered.

[Shawn]

Blue Oyster Cult (the first three LPs).

Those 3 records are killer. They were in that interesting "proto-metal" era that spans from about 1968-1975, a time when even "hard rock" bands were experimenting in all kinds of interesting directions. Wasn't really until Judas Priest came out with Sad Wings Of Destiny in 1976 that the accepted "classic metal" style formed (constructed with the basic building blocks provided by Sabbath, Zeppelin & Deep Purple).

Unfortunately, the experimentation went away for quite awhile, at least until 1983.

[Peter Friedman]

Pianist Donald Vega. Vega is from Latin America and lived in California for a while but is now in NYC.

I heard him live a number of times over two days last month at the Paradise Valley Jazz Party.

[king ubu]

lately:

Poco

Johnny Cash (well, expanding my collection, not really a new discovery)

Elvis

Little Feat (amazing! though I've only heard early stuff w/Lowell, not sure if I ought to check out more... not right now anyway.)

[king ubu]

Oh, and a wonderful young American singer/songwriter, Eilen Jewell

http://www.eilenjewell.com/

[BillF]

Tony Fruscella. I knew the name, but had never heard the music. This album, which I've just bought, includes his 1955 session with Allen Eager and it's gorgeous stuff:

[king ubu]

Fruscella is wonderful!

For once, this is one of the better ways to get his music (most of it):

http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Works-Tony-Fruscella/dp/B00004LMQY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1278336068&sr=1-8

Seems pretty OOP, but maybe you'll be lucky and find it somewhere... it duplicates the Atlantic album with Eager of course but that Eager 2CD set you picture above is mostly a cheapo hack job anyway (I have it as well and was slighty pissed to see how much of it I already had elsewhere...)

[Guest Wallace]

Joachim Kuhn's late 60's to early 70's stuff.

Some of his MPS titles are very interesting, especially the very rare "Cinemascope" lp (with the wonderful foc art) and "Bold".

"The Mad Rockers" lp is never spoken of as being cornerstone (as is something like the first King Crimson) but it should be.

Practically nobody was playing that sort of music - especially the first track - that early in the game.

A fav 70s work is his most proggiest fusion lp , "Sunshower". (Or perhaps Im mixing this up with another Kuhn??)

[Niko]

Tony Fruscella.

most of the rest of his discography should be on deezer

[K1969]

Don Sugarcane Harris. Here's some sugar:

[Jazzmoose]

Cocteau Twins. I don't know where I was at the time to miss this; I guess once you 'age out of the loop', you could miss anything.

[Tony Pusey]

Besh o Drom, hungarian Roma/jazz mash!

awesome!

Time for a Roma music thread methinks

[Shawn]

Weather Report. yeah, I know, what took me so long?

[Guest Bill Barton]

Rafi Malkiel. This Israeli-born musician has a new CD on Zorn's Tzadik label, Water. Very impressive... Highly recommended.

[B. Goren.]

Trio Minsarah.

[coreymwamba]

Not altogether sure if this counts - but it's an archivist rather than a musician. Hugh Tracey founded the International Library of African Music in 1954, travelling the continent and recording all sorts of things. I've been listening to "Forgotten Sounds from Mozambique" and it's a fascinating document - so I will be looking for more...

[vegheadjones]

Vijay Ayer.

[manfred]

Joachim Kuhn's late 60's to early 70's stuff.

....so try to get "Monday Morning", "Dear Prof. Leary", "Paris is wonderful",

"Bold Music", "Piano", "solos" and "Joachim Kühn/Eje Thelin",

they are all worth.....

[clifford_thornton]

Oh yeah.

I'm not so enthused by the HorZu pressing on "Monday Morning," but it is a cool record.

Too bad so little of this stuff is on CD.

[Shawn]

Blue Oyster Cult - and no, I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about it.

[A Lark Ascending]

Red Garland's 50s/60s things on Fantasy; and a number of things in the same sort of area by the likes of Gene Ammons and Teddy Edwards. Also a bit of a Sonny Stitt/Sonny Criss spate taking me well beyond the few recordings I own.

I appear to have the blues.

[Shawn]

Red Garland's 50s/60s things on Fantasy; and a number of things in the same sort of area by the likes of Gene Ammons and Teddy Edwards. Also a bit of a Sonny Stitt/Sonny Criss spate taking me well beyond the few recordings I own.

I appear to have the blues.

The Red Garland albums were some of the first piano trio albums I heard and are still favorites to this day. There was a magic groove to Red's playing, he was hip in all kinds of ways.

All Kinds Of Weather and A Garland Of Red are two near the top of the list, but they are pretty much all equally excellent.