OK then. At Herc's request and no Sooty - it's not what you think.
As I mentioned before I bought the Miles Davis album in the first of the new partworks by Agostino.
http://www.deagostini.co.uk/ecm/web/deapassion/online/home
Today I bought John Coltrane's Blue Train which was the second in the series. I didn't know it before but was aware it was a "classic". I was very impressed.
Did I say that? 
Anyway, more of a traditionalist me and the ODJB is my type of jazz........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V27ChTjeUvw&list=PLVPslMKcI5I9JfrZrjKBRw4mfvUBBPve6
But I do also love Oscar Peterson
Cool. I'm iffy on jazz and might learn something. This is my first selection:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Ain't No Sunshine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoIvMRdD6jU
(Way out there musician but listenable, accent very much on black, Bill Withers cover)
Gwilym Simcock - These Are The Good Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7cP34NQY
(Modern preppy type, starts slowly, stick with it, he does amazing things with a piano)
Alice Coltrane - Galaxy In Satchidananda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJekN_fCqPE
(Very mad harpist woman, impossible to categorise, dare I say my favourite Coltrane?)
Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless and Bible Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUNuxalrCis
(A classic mood piece from the sixties, gloomy but thought provoking, one of the best)
I had an HMV voucher and was tempted to get a boxed set of Mahavishnu Orchestra albums for £15 but in the end I bought half a dozen other rock/pop things.
Maybe next time.
I'm sure Herc wouldn't consider Mahavishnu Orchestra as Jazz though.
Quote: Chappers @ 20th February 2016, 9:30 PM GMTI had an HMV voucher and was tempted to get a boxed set of Mahavishnu Orchestra albums for £15 but in the end I bought half a dozen other rock/pop things.
Maybe next time.
I'm sure Herc wouldn't consider Mahavishnu Orchestra as Jazz though.
Bought their second album Birds Of Fire a few weeks ago.
Nels Cline is my favourite jazz (and every other genre) guitarist.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 20th February 2016, 9:35 PM GMTBought their second album Birds Of Fire a few weeks ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavishnu_Orchestra:_The_Complete_Columbia_Albums_Collection
Quote: Chappers @ 20th February 2016, 9:30 PM GMTI'm sure Herc wouldn't consider Mahavishnu Orchestra as Jazz though.
Nothing wrong with jazz fusion, have a couple of this man's albums I bought in the early 60s - Indo Jazz 
Another Trad fan here, but like the 50s US stuff like Mingus and Monk and Miles too, love that New York Jazz vibe. End of day though gimme a Kenny Ball number to get in that Trad groove, Daddio.
A man after my own heart Alf. 
Chris Barber & Ottlie (fab jazz singer), Kenny of course, Acker, Humph etc. etc.
So has anyone else picked up on these 180gram vinyl albums?
The Miles one was £4.99, Coltrane's was £9.99 but from now on - Billie Holiday, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Mingus etc - £14.99.
Doc" Cook & His 14 Doctors Of Syncopation - Brainstorm (A Tolondrado)
(Written by Bernie Sanders)
Nathan Haines - The Illest Hobo
Quote: George Kaplan @ 9th February 2020, 1:27 AMNathan Haines - The Illest Hobo
I like it.