Which Artists are you "re-discovering"?

[mrjazzman]

Since I love a two tenor winner or tenor battles, I'm getting back in Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt, Wardell Gray/Dexter Gordon. Jazz Portraits Mingus In Wonderland was recommended by someone on this forum for the playing of John Handy and Booker Ervin, great recommendation especially No Private Income Blues.............

[jazzbo]

Not really "rediscovering" but I have been listening to a lot of Jack Teagarden lately, inspired in part by purchasing lps from Pete B. and then going into my cd collection of Teagarden (one of the few artists where nearly all his cds are in one location in my library). Love the sound and playing of this giant.

[MartyJazz]

Ruby Braff. Can't recall when, why or how I picked up this LP many years ago, but a listen to it made me realize what a gorgeous tone this man had. LP has the added benefit of some wonderful Coleman Hawkins on a few tracks.

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[John Tapscott]

Not really "rediscovering" but I have been listening to a lot of Jack Teagarden lately, inspired in part by purchasing lps from Pete B. and then going into my cd collection of Teagarden (one of the few artists where nearly all his cds are in one location in my library). Love the sound and playing of this giant.

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. My CD's are filed by musician A-Z, but in about 6 or 7 sections of A-Z. So if I want to listen to a particular CD, and don't immediately remember which section, I can be on a bit of a hunt. Fortunately, all my recordings are together in one corner of the house (basement). My wife is extremely happy with this arrangement. And at least all my LP's are together in the same place, A-Z.

Anyway, to answer to question - Dave Holland. Put on the BB CD "What Goes Around" this A.M. for the first time in years. What a fabulous recording. I don't have too many other Holland recordings, but I'm going to dig into them all.

[Gheorghe]

right now I´m "re-discovering" the stuff Miles did from 1963-1969. Though I might have listened to the several albums 1000 times in my life, it´s always a new experience to watch how that great quinted developed, how the explored the music, how they made the transition from still some elements of hardbop to other directions, especially in the late 60´s with the personnel change of Chick Corea and Dave Holland replacing Herbie and Ron.

And maybe the musician I pay most attention to is Tony Williams. As older I get as much more I listen to the stuff the drummer does...

[A Lark Ascending]

Folk music - mainly English with a bit of Irish, Scottish and American.

Since largely giving up on newly minted rock in the late 70s jazz, classical and folk music have dominated my listening, each one going in and out of focus at different times. In recent years folk music got a bit squeezed by the classical/jazz giants.

But a week of total immersion in live folk music reminded me about what first attracted me to the music. It just does things very differently to the more self-consciously arty musics (though it has plenty of its own airs and graces and its very own self-appointed police forces dedicated to preventing deviationism, fortunately largely ignored). Not better, not lesser, just very distinct and different.

[six string]

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I've been checking out a lot of different artists that I've come to really enjoy. Gentle Giant, Camel, Nektar, Can, Gong, Lucifer's Friend, Curved Air, High Tide, Atomic Rooster, Ash Ra Tempel, Van Der Graff Generator, Rare Bird, Aphrodite's Child, Focus, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Strawbs, Clearlight, Henry Cow, Magma, McDonald & Giles, Message, Barclay James Harvest, Eloy...and others I'm probably forgetting at the moment.

Same here, I've always had a soft spot for prog and Krautrock. Can's music has been a total revelation to me this year. Of late I've been acquiring stuff by Gentle Giant, Curved Air, VDGG, Camel, Caravan, Greenslade, Samurai/Web and Gong. Loved the McDonald & Giles album, a real discovery, up there with some of King Crimson's best work.

In the 1970s I listened to some of those artists but the McDonald & Giles album always allluded me but a year or two ago a friend gave it to me and it knocked me out. This coming from someone who doesn't listen to much prog anymore.

[relyles]

The other day I listened to James Carter's debut recording on DIW for the first time since its initial release in 1994. It was a surprisingly good experience.

[Head Man]

I've been playing and enjoying a lot of Johnny Griffin recently, especially his Riverside releases. I'd forgotten how many albums he made for Riverside, both as leader and sideman.

Here's one I hadn't played for years:

[mrjazzman]

Not re but I've discovered Don Aliquo on "Jazz Folk"............

[BFrank]

I predict that I will "re-discover" Graham Parker and the Rumour, since they have a new album coming out and I just got tickets to see them at the Fillmore in December.

[A Lark Ascending]

Lyle Lovett.

One track on an early morning religious/philosophical programme - 'Step Inside This House' - and I was off.

Edited September 10, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[medjuck]

I predict that I will "re-discover" Graham Parker and the Rumour, since they have a new album coming out and I just got tickets to see them at the Fillmore in December.

I used to have an Lp called something like "Stick It"- actually came with adhesive stamps IIRC. It seems never to have been released on cd and I really liked it. Maybe his comeback will cause it to be re-released.

[JSngry]

Stick To Me...had one of the great side-ending songs of the era, "Clear Head"

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Found it:

It's laughable now to think back on how "radical" stuff like that sounded then. Too fast for "hard rock", too brash for "album rock", too simple for all the proggers, too straight a beat for all the crunchers...hell, for somebody like me who started listening to AM pop & rock in the late 50s, fast straight-eight notes with snarly vocals sounded like a freakin' homecoming or something!

[Bluesnik]

Phil Ranelin, The time is Now!, Tribe

The other day I went through my cds and stumbled upon this, which I have as a cd reissue from 2000 and hadn't heard in a very long time. And yesterday I listened to it and was completely blown away. It's Phil Ranelin with the Tribe collective. Readily reconizable among these (by me) are Phil Ranelin, Marcus Belgrave and Wendell Harrisson. Very, very good.

And together with this, to stay in the mood, I listened to a compilation of Strata-East material I have had since the nineties. Released back then by Universal Sounds, the arm of Soul Jazz, a very good British label specializing in Reggae and other compilations such as this.