Solo Instrument Albums (not piano or guitar)

[StarThrower]

Any good ones out there that you can sit through? I just got Steve Lacy's Only Monk album, and I like it. I don't think I have anything else in my collection that isn't guitar or piano.

[paul secor]

Here's a start: Dave Holland: Emerald Tears (ECM)

Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (Delmark) and Solo [3] (Mutablemusic)

All of these will reward your listening if you bring your attention when you listen.

[erwbol]

Here's a start: Dave Holland: Emerald Tears (ECM)

There's a Dave Holland bootleg (both DVD and Flac) out there from a 2003 European concert that's very good and has great replay value imo.

Edit: it's Jazz Baltica, 2003-07-04.

Edited April 24, 2013 by erwbol

[jazztrain]

Here are a few examples that come to mind:

Sonny Rollins. The Solo Album.

John Carter. A Suite of American Folk Pieces for Clarinet.

Mort Weiss. Raising The Bar, The Definitive Jazz Collection, Solo Jazz Clarinet

Ron Odrich. Unaccompanied Jazz Clarinet Suites.

There's a long list of solo bass albums listed here: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2007/10/solo-bass-albums.html

For convenience, I'll cut and paste the list here:

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Barre Philips - Journal Violone (AKA Bass Barre or Barre Unaccompanied)
Joe Fonda - When It's Time
Marcin Oles - Ornette On Bass
Jonas Tauber - Storm Walking Singing
Dave Holland - Ones All/Emerald Tears
Michael Formanek - Am I Bothering You?
Barry Guy - Symmetries/Fizzles
Joëlle Léandre - No Comment/Sincerely
Miroslav Vitous - Emergence
Peter Kowald - Was Da Ist?
Paul Rogers - Listen
Ron Carter - All Alone
John Lindberg - Luminosity : Homage To David Izenzon
Kent Kessler - Bull Fiddle (although Zerang joins on three tracks).
Mark Dresser - Invocation/Unveil
Ken Filiano - Subvenire
Malachi Favors - The Natural and the Spiritual
Lynn Seaton - Solo Flights
Mike Milligan - Solo Flights
Eberhard Weber - Pendulum
Malachi Favors - The Natural and the Spiritual
Fernando Grillo - Fluvine
Alan Silva - Inner Song
Roberto Miguel Miranda - The Creator's Musician
Ed Schuller - Ong Song Music For Solo Bass
William Parker - Lifting The Sanctions/Testimony/Painter's Autumn
Henri Texier - Amir/Varech
Aladar Pege - Virtuoso Solo Bass
Anthony Cox - That & This
Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - Double Bass
Dominic Duval - Songs For Krakow/Nightbird Inventions/Anniversary
Wilbert de Joode - Olo

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Lee Konitz: Lone Lee

See here for a series of jazz solo DVDs: http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=321049

[Joe]

Sonny Simmons, JEWELS.

[erwbol]

Just bought this for €8.95 on eBay.

I was not aware of this record's existence and the list of tunes is pretty similar to the setlist from the concert I mentioned in post #3.

[jazztrain]

See earlier thread here about solo trombone albums:

See here for a list of solo jazz trumpet albums: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2009/01/solo-trumpet-cds-update.html

For convenience, I'll cut and paste below:

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• Bill Dixon - Collection (Music for Solo Trumpet)
• Bill Dixon - Odissey (Solo Works 1970-1992) (6-CD box)
• Hugh Ragin - Sound Pictures For Solo Trumpet
• Natsuki Tamura - A Song for Jyaki (Leo Records, 1998),
• Natsuki Tamura - Ko Ko Ko Ke (Natsat 3012)
• Peter Evans - More is More (PSI Records, 2006)
• Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
• Kelly Pratt - Solo Works for Trumpet & Flugelhorn
• Axel Dörner - Trumpet
• Markus Stockhausen - Solo 1
• Thomas Heberer - The Heroic Millipede
• Nate Wooley - Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller
• Rob Mazurek - Silver Spines
• Rob Mazurek - Abstractions On Robert d'Arbrissel
• Mazen Kerbaj - BRT VRT ZRT KRT
• Franz Hautzinger - Gomberg
• Franz Hautzinger - Gomberg II
• Franz Hautzinger - Neublacher Blech
• Greg Kelley - Trumpet
• Greg Kelley - Self-Hate Index
• Greg Kelley - Religious Electronics
• Wadada Leo Smith - Creative Music 1
• Wadada Leo Smith - Red Sulphur Sky
• Wadada Leo Smith - Ahkreanvention
• Lester Bowie - The One And Only (re-issued as disc 2 on "All The Magic")
• Arve Henriksen - Sakuteiki
• Baikida Carroll - The Spoken Word
• Birgit Ulher - Scatter
• Scott Tinkler - Backwards
• Toshinori Kondo - Silent Melodies
• Toshinori Kondo - Touchstone
• Toshinori Kondo - Fukyo
• Toshinori Kondo - Fuigo From A Different Dimension
• Matt Davis - Violence
• Kozo Ikeno - Overlooks
• Kozo Ikeno - Secret Notes
• Kozo Ikeno - Perfect Sound
• Luciano Berio - Sequenza

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See the blog for even more (classical, world music)

[jazztrain]

See here for a thread from another board regarding solo saxophone records: http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasy/showthread.php?11877-solo-saxophone-albums

Another thread here: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=51716

More from the Free Jazz Collective here on solo saxophone albums: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2008/01/solo-sax_15.html

More here from the Free Jazz Collective here on solo clarinet albums: http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/01/solo-clarinets.html

Happy listening. I've got work to do...

[kh1958]

Just released, Charnette Moffett, The Bridge (Motema).

[alocispepraluger102]

i've owned emerald tears--another fine solo bass recording from ecm early 70s. i really wish dave had remained in the solo-duo realm.

december poems by gary peacock is from the same era. one favorite from that recording is flower crystals.

Edited April 24, 2013 by alocispepraluger102

[mjazzg]

Evan Parker

[alocispepraluger102]

evan parker's limited edition solo album with recorded bird song shows a beautifully sensitive side of evan parker heretofore unknown to me. it remains one of my all time favorite recordings.

i know of no more fitting tribute to the late steve lacy than this.................

Edited April 24, 2013 by alocispepraluger102

[Chuck Nessa]

My favorite solo Evan Parker recording is Monoceros - originally a direct to disc issue (my copy) but it must have been reissued on cd.

[B. Clugston]

My favourites include Steve Lacy's Hooky, Leo Smith's Creative Music 1, Evan Parker's At the Finger Palace and Anthony Braxton's Saxophone Improvisations Series F, Solo (London) 1988, Solo (Skopje) 1995 and Solo (NYC) 2002.

My favorite solo Evan Parker recording is Monoceros - originally a direct to disc issue (my copy) but it must have been reissued on cd.

Yes, it was reissued on CD in 1999. And it's another fabulous one.

[Larry Kart]

Bassist Peter Ind's 1967 "Time for Improvisation" is an album of nothing but walking bass lines on the changes of various standards. Sounds like it would be boring, but it's fascinating.

http://www.peterind.com/wave_catalogue.htm

[alocispepraluger102]

Bassist Peter Ind's 1967 "Time for Improvisation" is an album of nothing but walking bass lines on the changes of various standards. Sounds like it would be boring, but it's fascinating.

http://www.peterind.com/wave_catalogue.htm

thx. this looks like interesting listening.

[StarThrower]

Amazon has a listing for a 1976 Lacy solo album under the title Snips. Looks like the same material as Hooky, but the write up says it was recorded in NYC. The label is Jazz Magnet. Anyone know what the deal is?

http://www.amazon.com/Snips-Live-Environ-Steve-Lacy/dp/B00004UERB/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1366863988&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+lacy+snips

[jeffcrom]

Amazon has a listing for a 1976 Lacy solo album under the title Snips. Looks like the same material as Hooky, but the write up says it was recorded in NYC. The label is Jazz Magnet. Anyone know what the deal is?

http://www.amazon.com/Snips-Live-Environ-Steve-Lacy/dp/B00004UERB/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1366863988&sr=1-1&keywords=steve+lacy+snips

Same tour; different recording. Hooky is preferable due to the bootleg sound of Snips - it was an audience cassette recording, if I recall correctly.

[StarThrower]

Thanks for the info! I've been on a Lacy binge lately, so I'm looking for more good stuff. He must have recorded 60 or more albums?

[jeffcrom]

Thanks for the info! I've been on a Lacy binge lately, so I'm looking for more good stuff. He must have recorded 60 or more albums?

I've got around 100 albums (plus lots of unreleased stuff), and I don't have all of them.

Check out the I didn't join until 2009 - I list a few of my favorites as of that year in post 143. My list might be a little different now, but I still rate all of the ones in that post highly.

[StarThrower]

The Door is on your list. That's one of my favorites, and one of the first ones I bought, along with Momentum.

I ordered a copy of Snips from an Amazon vendor. I couldn't pass up a new 2 CD set for three dollars! Lacy is

the only musician who can keep me listening to soprano sax continuously. Mainly because I don't hear soprano

sax, I'm just listening to his unique voice coming through that straight horn.

[mjazzg]

There are various Joe McPhee solo recordings featuring his tenor, alto, soprano and pocket trumpet playing. Some dedicated exclusively to one instrument, others not. Some feature real-time and overdub electronics. All I've heard are stimulating listens.

My favourite Evan Parker may well be 'Chicago solos' on Okka which I think is his only tenor solo recording.

George Lewis and Paul Rutherford have both recorded wonderful trombone solo albums

[Joe]

Any of Gerry Hemingway's solo percussion discs are worth hearing and / or acquiring. E.g., http://www.discogs.com/Gerry-Hemingway-Acoustic-Solo-Works-1983-94/release/1190112

[paul secor]

Billy Bang: Distinction Without a Difference (Hat Hut)

Walt Dickerson: Shades of Love (Steeplechase)

Eric Dolphy never recorded a solo album but he did record on solo bass clarinet and solo alto sax on several occasions.

[alankin]

Need to mention Albert Mangelsdorff's solo trombone record, Purity, on Mood Records. Some fabulous multiphonics.