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You heard Lurker everybody, it’s a jazz thread now!!! Great selection.

Ever listened to this early bluesy offering from Stanley Turrentine?

 

When I was a grad student at Illinois they had a record store called Record Service and I could get lots of Creed Taylor (CTI) jazz LPs as cut outs for $1. Lots of great jazz albums for almost nothing. Lots of Stanley Turrentine along with Freddie Hubbard, George Benson and Hubert Laws. The production, mastering and pressings were superb.

 

One seriously underrated and misunderstood album by Miles was On the Corner. I have a pristine first pressing. I love it. Critics and most fans hated it. It wasn't totally like Dylan going electric and everybody going crazy because Miles was making steps in that direction for a while starting with Bitches Brew trying to meld jazz and rock. When I first heard it as a kid (I was 17) I heard many new ways for music to go. So much funk in it.

 

Oh man, I love CTI. And those artists you mentioned (except I need to look up Laws). After I read CTI was dissolving a few years ago, I really wanted to get a shirt. Though I felt like what kind of elitist hipster a-hole buys this shirt in the 2020s? Lol.

 

Ok now here, I am going to need you to pull me along. I love funky jazz. Turrentine, the Adderley bros, Eddie Harris, Les McCann, Hubbard, Hancock (the fat Alberta rotunda is awesome, haha). But I just couldn’t get into Davis’ funk stuff, like On the Corner. What am I missing. @gatordavisl where are you on this?

 

Hipsters wouldn't know it.

Hubert Laws was a jazz flautist. My oldest played flute in high school marching band I tried to play them cool flute music. Along with Chris Wood from Traffic and to a much lesser extent Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

 

Herbie Headhunters is GOLD!

Becker Brothers had a bit of funk to them.

 

One problem with jazz is that there is no definition that everybody agrees on.

Some think that anything that isn't Dixieland isn't jazz at one extreme. Others think that anything that is spur of the moment is jazz at the other extreme. But there can be jazz that is composed ahead of time.

 

I am guitar player and was a HUGE fan of John McLaughlin pre-Birds of Fire. His playing with Miles Davis (I have them all on vinyl) and his solo LP Extrapolation (that I also have on vinyl) is awesome.

Another jazz guitar hero of mine is Larry Coryell. I have many but not all of his LPs. And I got to see him play very close up at a Friends of Jazz concert in Gainesville. I also got to see him open for John McLaughlin in the Auditorium Theater at Illinois and I left after he played. I had no interest in what McLaughlin was playing then. It was crap.

 

I'd love to see them try it. Like you wrote above, against some mid to lower level teams, why not try and see how it works? We have a lot of talent, let's see if we can put more of it to use than is the case with the usual scenario.