I was browsing through my jazz collection and it dawned on me that there were some amazing collaborations. There was Bill Evans, Marc Johnson, and Joe LaBarbera; Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones; and Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Reggie Workman, and Philly Joe Jones, among many others. It'd be hard for me to pick just one but what's your favorite jazz ensemble?
Favorite Jazz Ensembles
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Off the top of my head...
Miles Davis' nonet circa the release of The Birth of the Cool.
Sonny Rollins' trio circa Saxophone Collosus.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet circa Jazz Goes to College.
Whoever Dexter Gordon was playing with when he recorded Go.
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Oh, Miles Davis and Gill Evans.
Miles Davis' nonet circa the release of The Birth of the Cool.
Sonny Rollins' trio circa Saxophone Collosus.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet circa Jazz Goes to College.
Whoever Dexter Gordon was playing with when he recorded Go.
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Oh, Miles Davis and Gill Evans.
Being a jazz guitarist , I am partial to Wes Montgomery and organ trio works.
I also love the collaborations between John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
I also love the collaborations between John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
For me, without question, the Miles Quintet years of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Everytime I listen to their albums they blow me away.
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out era.
Lately I have been listening to the Cobham-Duke Band: Billy Cobham, George Duke, John Scofield and Alphonso Johnson.
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli collaborations in the Quintette du Hot Club de France
One of the things I love about jazz and jazz history so much is tracing lineage of who played together and what they sounded like. It's crazy how many different musicians played together over the last eighty years...and how good they can sound in so many different genres and roles.
I'm a big fan of pretty much everyone listed above.
One collaboration I loved, and I'll bet many of you did, too. Tenor Madness...does it get any better than Rollins/Coltrane blasting together?
How about Tenor Conclave? Oh Man.
Coltrane, Mobley, Sims, and Cohn all poppin' on tenor with Red Garland and Paul Chambers laying in the back? I forget who was on drums... But that's a wicked bunch of greatness all in one session.
I'll add the Modern Jazz Quartet...in all of its incarnations. There are certain days when Milt's vibraphone can really put me in a good place.
The Jazz Messengers, too. Love Art Blakey and everyone who played with him.
I'm a big fan of pretty much everyone listed above.
One collaboration I loved, and I'll bet many of you did, too. Tenor Madness...does it get any better than Rollins/Coltrane blasting together?
How about Tenor Conclave? Oh Man.
Coltrane, Mobley, Sims, and Cohn all poppin' on tenor with Red Garland and Paul Chambers laying in the back? I forget who was on drums... But that's a wicked bunch of greatness all in one session.
I'll add the Modern Jazz Quartet...in all of its incarnations. There are certain days when Milt's vibraphone can really put me in a good place.
The Jazz Messengers, too. Love Art Blakey and everyone who played with him.
If I have to pick just one, I'm going with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Dave Brubeck... he attracted so many increadible musicians. I know that it is unpopular these days, but I'm still a huge fan of Charles Mingus, even though his widow has done everything possible to destroy the incredible sinergy his music created...
Mike
Mike
Oscar Peterson, trios and quartets.
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Love the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Also like almost anyone playing with Chet Baker: I love A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet. Great song and good memories
Also like almost anyone playing with Chet Baker: I love A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet. Great song and good memories
I prefer the first of Miles Davis's great quintets: John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. It barely beats out Davis, Coltrane, Adderley and Evans- although the work they did together has never been surpassed. I like most everything Davis did between about 1954 and 1970.
Another huge fan of Dave Brubeck here. I can't tell you how jealous I am of my parents who used to go see him back in the sixties at a local bar. I also love Bill Evans to pieces.
Arcana (c. Arc of the Testimony). Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, Tony Williams, Buckethead, and more...
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Holly Cole Trio
absolutely love her work, as good as the cd's are, the live is so, so much better. And the time I got to see her with the symphony rates as one of the top two concerts that I have been to (B.B. King being the other, of course )
absolutely love her work, as good as the cd's are, the live is so, so much better. And the time I got to see her with the symphony rates as one of the top two concerts that I have been to (B.B. King being the other, of course )
Coltrane's 1964 quartet:
John Coltrane
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
McCoy Tyner – piano
John Coltrane
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums
McCoy Tyner – piano
This question pretty much resembles "SO, whom of your kids do you love the most?"
There is so much greatness that it's almost hard to grasp, but to name a few personal favorites:
The Original Hot Fives, Armstrong x2, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds & Johnny St Cyr.
Miles Quintet during Kind of blue-era
Coltranes various quartets
Sonny Sharrocks last quartet during "ask the ages"
Sonny Sharrock electric guitar
Pharoah Sanders tenor & soprano saxophones
Elvin Jones drums
Charnett Moffett double bass
American jazz-musicans... you'd be hard-pressed to find another genre that has such amount of talent & creativity
There is so much greatness that it's almost hard to grasp, but to name a few personal favorites:
The Original Hot Fives, Armstrong x2, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds & Johnny St Cyr.
Miles Quintet during Kind of blue-era
Coltranes various quartets
Sonny Sharrocks last quartet during "ask the ages"
Sonny Sharrock electric guitar
Pharoah Sanders tenor & soprano saxophones
Elvin Jones drums
Charnett Moffett double bass
American jazz-musicans... you'd be hard-pressed to find another genre that has such amount of talent & creativity
Other than Miles's Coltrane period, I'd say the great Coltrane quarters of Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison.
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Ooops. Someone said this already. So, I'll add Herbie Hancock's original 1960's group:
Hancock: Piano
Tony Williams: Drums
Freddie Hubbard: Trumpet
Ron Carter(?): Bass
Jeff in Boston
EDIT.
Ooops. Someone said this already. So, I'll add Herbie Hancock's original 1960's group:
Hancock: Piano
Tony Williams: Drums
Freddie Hubbard: Trumpet
Ron Carter(?): Bass
Jeff in Boston
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