Thread 126810090

What are some accessible free jazz albums? Is there such a thing?

>>126810090 (OP)
probably the early stuff that is very much in the blues tradition, like ornette coleman and charles mingus

>>126810090 (OP)
yeah, start off with Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, which is still pretty tame compared to what Coltrane and others were doing a bit later.

>>126810090 (OP)
I don't know if there's a whole album of them, but Lennie Tristano was one of the first guys to experiment with free improvisation, and they're pretty accesible
https://youtu.be/NlrfIA8ADJ8?si=xH0dIOyF3LZBfkC0

>>126810090 (OP)
Pharoah Sanders albums seem to be popular among people dabbling in free jazz. Try Karma or Deaf Dumb and Blind. Or really anything he put out in the 60s through the mid 70s

>>126810090 (OP)
I'm not sure why you'd want more accessible free jazz. Either way, picrel isn't strictly free jazz, though it dabbles, and can more or less be appreciated by someone who wants to have his cake and eat it for some reason.

Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-ju

>>126810090 (OP)
I've yet to hear one

>>126810090 (OP)
the elitism surrounding jazz is so pretentious and retarded there is nothing uniquely inaccessible about jazz it's just most people don't enjoy music which pivots and twists constantly

>>126810840
Well done, you contributed absolutely nothing.

>>126810840
>OP asks for reccs
>receives reccs in friendly thread
>ugh the ELITISM reeeeeee

>>126810840
you want to sound smart so bad kek

>>126811516
There are literally dozens of completely accesible Coltrane albums. Listen to Ellington & Coltrane. There is nothing //uniquely// inaccesible about jazz

>>126810519
>>126810548
Best recs ITT

>>126811544
op specifically asked for free jazz you illiterate trog

>>126811632
The post you replied to isn't about free jazz, but jazz in general

>>126811660
this retard >>126810840 changed the goalposts from free jazz to jazz because he was too desperate not to show off his big brain smart aleckness like some hormonal teenager
and show me a non-jazz album that sounds like live in japan or you lose the argument.

>>126811784
Assloads of non-jazz free improv albums

It's always so obvious who the tourists are in these threads, kek

>>126810090 (OP)
you can access jazz albums freely on soulseek just avoid the padlocks

>>126811886
>show me an album
>proceeds to not show any albums

>>126811963
that's an album cover to an album you absolute spit valve chugger

>>126811886
harmonically and structurally nothing like trane
I'm assuming you don't listen to much jazz and just think of free jazz as random noises, which is fine
there is a good amount of jazz artist that make free improv which is similar to what you posted, but that is very distinct from free jazz

>>126812003
man your jazz ain't free then you're a narc maaan just like the jazz police man harshing my free jazz buzz screech honk maaaaaaan

>>126811998
I see that now. I just finished listening to the first song on the album however, and it sounds nothing like any Trane I've ever heard, conventional or free-form, let alone jazz in general, so I can safely discard you as a massive poser retard. Cope.

>>126812065
https://youtu.be/9EV7WtWpXf8
listen to this man you see the thing is the not jazz is jazz but it is jazz but it isn't jazz is what it is

>>126812051
concession accepted

>>126812086
not free form

>>126812146
>>126812239
you see the thing is that screech hONK BAMM KABOOM squeeeeeeek HOOOOOOOONK CRASH HONK HONKKKKK AWOOOOOGA SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECHYSCHREECH hONK HONK

>>126812003
>>126812065
>show me a non jazz album that conforms to my expectations of jazz
This nigger is shipping the goalposts all over the damn map. How could there be a non jazz album that sounds exactly like Live in Japan?

>>126812947
>basic definitions of a subgenre that have been universally agreed upon for over half a century
>expectations

>>126810090 (OP)
free jazz is probably the most accessible form of jazz. psueds/rockists/poptimists especially love to flock to it cause they can't into normal jazz. same with fusion.

>>126813764
>free jazz is probably the most accessible form of jazz
Huh… I’ve had more luck getting into hard bop and post-bop more than anything else. Fusion era miles is cool though too.

>>126813764
This. Standard jazz tonality and rhythms need focus, whereas anyone can just ride the stream-of-consciousness waves of any free collective improv, jazz or otherwise.

>>126813687
If you think that Live in Japan is completely inaccesible, you are a sub-tourist. It has a 4.25 on rym and is adored by free jazz tourists

>>126813764
>free jazz is probably the most accessible form of jazz
If you ignore cool jazz maybe. Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Charlie Brown, the list goes on

>>126813807
I don't but nice "so what you're saying is" argument, makes you look very smart

>>126813807
It's also adored by non-tourists but you'd have to actually A) exit your safe space tranny echo chamber to notice this, or B) actually listen to the album yourself and form your own opinion, not that you'll ever do either.

Geez, how did it get retarded so quick?
Anyway, OP, if you're still interested, check out Chick Corea's "Is". I'd say it's somewhat accesible and from there on you can start getting into other free jazz albums. Personally, I'd suggest starting in reverse order; the title track is easily the hardest to get into. Let me know if you like it.

>>126813979
Thanks, anon. I’ll check it out

>>126813979
This album totally rips, especially “The Brain.” Amazing interaction between bass and drums propelling the soloists … not sure if Chick would have called it “free”

>>126813827
see >>126811516

>>126813764
Retard take. Free jazz is intensely unpopular but the record albums are rare so record stores and collectors always flip them. The only people who like free jazz are other free jazz and noise musicians.

>>126814226
I'm partial to "Song Of The Wind" myself, but the whole album is very good.

>>126814286
I don't agree with that guy that it's the most accessible form of jazz, which obviously doesn't make sense. It is though arguably the most accessible form of difficult music, and the genre title makes it very alluring even for a total outsider. And even when it's pretty impenetrable, it can be dealt with by a somewhat generous listener, unlike other genres. Free improv is another issue altogether.

Free Jazz to me feels like a bullshit genre for tryhards or just a way to filter normies out of the genre.

>>126810840
And in a way jazz is the dominant popular music. Swing is found everywhere

>>126810840
They seethe but you're correct
Elitists over elevator music and boobadoops, its embarassing

for what it's worth, free jazz is often a misnomer ... the following piece sounds freeish but was thoroughly composed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBaBTXrxWTA

>>126814330
Afternoon of a Georgia Faun by Marion Brown is another album with Chick Corea with some more experimental or free approaches

>>126814440
I know this is bait but I just imagined being in a elevator and hearing an Archie Shepp tune playing and laughed my ass off, thanks anon

>>126814237
the album with a 35 minute long sax solo? are you seriously telling me this is not unique?

>>126814286
>>126814440
if you listen to thes retards you deserve what's coming to you

>>126813979
not free form

>>126813979
>how did it get retarded so quick?
because this is a thread about free jazz, and free jazz listeners are retarded. especially the tourists

>>126815050
Ok, post free form then.

very free form
https://youtu.be/oLCrYGGNarM?si=F5VMZ2a0SQeBkKLW

Found some free form jazz for you now shut up
>>126815210
https://youtu.be/sQL8TP3uU0k

>>126815835
this is pretty good

>>126810090 (OP)
Meditations by John Coltrane is very accessible in my opinion

>>126814286
>>126814440
>>126814390
kys