Free Jazz (part 1)

Ok, hopefully I'll make a trend of these polls focusing now on Free Jazz which I'm listening quite a lot lately, not necessarily liking it all haha, but I'm in the mood for it.

darkshade wrote: "Free Jazz" for me. I find Ascension to be mostly un-listenable (though I admit, it's been a long time since I threw that one on). Free Jazz has more of a pastoral feel and is more "accessible" if you will.

Abraxas wrote: darkshade wrote: "Free Jazz" for me. I find Ascension to be mostly un-listenable (though I admit, it's been a long time since I threw that one on). Free Jazz has more of a pastoral feel and is more "accessible" if you will. Any Trane album you like from his free jazz era?

Well, any Coltrane that Ive listened to in the last year or two, has been pre-1965 albums (including A Love Supreme).

But from what I remember, besides A Love Supreme, I enjoyed First Meditations, One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (which I believe is from '66(?)), and Transition. Those are the only later Coltrane albums I own/heard. Sometime this winter I'm sure I'll dust off some of those albums and throw them on.

darkshade wrote: Abraxas wrote: darkshade wrote: "Free Jazz" for me. I find Ascension to be mostly un-listenable (though I admit, it's been a long time since I threw that one on). Free Jazz has more of a pastoral feel and is more "accessible" if you will. Any Trane album you like from his free jazz era? Well, any Coltrane that Ive listened to in the last year or two, has been pre-1965 albums (including A Love Supreme). But from what I remember, besides A Love Supreme, I enjoyed First Meditations, One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (which I believe is from '66(?)), and Transition. Those are the only later Coltrane albums I own/heard. Sometime this winter I'm sure I'll dust off some of those albums and throw them on.

Both albums sound like the same music to me. Joking aside. Free Jazz of Coleman will be an important album. I think that the listener who is interested in AG Jazz may make a model of this album.

Not alot of love for the noisy Coltrane eh?

Personally I like them both, But Free Jazz was the first I really got into, it is indeed more accessible, A great way to prime your ears for harder to digest stuff, Ascension really is fantastic, Coltrane makes Coleman sound like an amateur in my opinion, but that is the charm of Coleman's music and sound for me, Listen to Coleman's  Trumpet Playing on Jackie McLeans's New and old Gospel album, you will cringe the first time you hear it.

If you really want your mind blown, you must hear Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun, 1968 was the year, you won't believe your ears, Then again, You might need a month away from Music after you do listen to it.

darkprinceofjazz wrote:   If you really want your mind blown, you must hear Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun, 1968 was the year, you won't believe your ears, Then again, You might need a month away from Music after you do listen to it.

^ sounds optimistic 

darkprinceofjazz wrote: If you really want your mind blown, you must hear Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun, 1968 was the year, you won't believe your ears, Then again, You might need a month away from Music after you do listen to it.