Genre representative albums

Like many of you, I know some jazz but I have major problems operating with the genres. Therefore, I am officially requesting the more knowledgeable members to recommend me one or maximum two quintessentially representative albums for each of the following genres:

Hard Bop
Post Bop
Post Fusion Contemporary
Eclectic Fusion

This shall do for the moment. Thanks in advance!

For post-fusion contemporary jazz I always thought non-fusion Hiromi's albums were a best example. We had plenty of discussions on her music there, and I know you don't like her music in general, so I would say another good example for me is one of Jason Moran's Bandwagon's album.

snobb wrote: For post-fusion contemporary jazz I always thought non-fusion Hiromi's albums were a best example. We had plenty of discussions on her music there, and I know you don't like her music in general, so I would say another good example for me is one of Jason Moran's Bandwagon's album.

Thanks Slava. I promised to check out at least one full Hiromi album before declaring I'm officially not interested, so I might try one. I heard Jason Moran's Ten and wasn't thrilled with it, is Bandwagon better?

^^ Hmm, I am not a right person to recommend . Generally , I don't like Contemporary jazz at all, for me it's a modern sophisticated form of pop-jazz or smooth jazz ,etc, and it's far not my cup of tea. I just listened some albums and saw some live shows (I saw Jason Moran's Bandwagon live, and they are really professional team on stage), so I just think it's a good illustration.Don't ask what is the best Contemporary jazz album for me . 

Edited by snobb - 14 Apr 2011 at 9:44am

They play everything, sometimes in one song, ha, I saw them live, they were incredible and I'm not much of a Zorn fan usually.

Then, may I think that I have Post Bop and implications by Modal Jazz?

^ you are making an issue already 

We have multi-tagging here, just look at the profile of an artist with a more diverse discography, like Miles Davis for example.

Sean Trane wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Like many of you, I know some jazz but I have major problems operating with the genres. Therefore, I am officially requesting the more knowledgeable members to recommend me one or maximum two quintessentially representative albums for each of the following genres: Hard Bop Post Bop Post Fusion Contemporary Eclectic Fusion This shall do for the moment. Thanks in advance!   if I've known of Hard Bop, I've never heard of post-bop....and to be quite frank, I've always heard of BeBop and not Bop   And these jazz-related and those fusion categories are not only confusing (despite the definitions), but disputable as well... I don't want to make an issue about this though...

the term "post-bop" has been around for a long time. "Bop" is just another way to say "Be-bop" so it's all the same.

I agree some of the genre decriptions are confusing, but Ive come to understand them a little better over time.

^ Even more  - for many and many artists and genres they need a lot more ratings to become more or less representative 

I kind of liked this manic thing