Recommend some free jazz or 20th century orchestral music

here are a few free jazz recommendations. some of these aren't "pure" free jazz, but who cares.

cecil taylor - silent tongues

ornette coleman - complete science fiction sessions

albert ayler - spiritual unity

archie shepp - attica blues

sun ra - the heliocentric worlds of sun ra vols. 1 & 2

charles mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady

eric dolphy - out there

jackie mclean - one step beyond

grachan moncur III - evolution

  On 11/16/2010 at 11:30 PM, triachus said:

You (and perhaps fellow Scelsi fans) also might want to try out some Alfred Schnittke

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLpMmw_DUE

 

 

I'm currently in love with his stuff. Especially his Concerto For Piano & Strings, wich I'm not going to give a youtube link of because the piece is +25 minutes long and I can't find a quality recording on that site.

i've also recently fell in love with schnittke. i can't think of much music i feel that deeply connected to. structured insanity, and about as "modern" as you can get using traditional instrumentation.

god, love that stuff. the symphonies 1 and 5 are the only ones i've explored yet, but he's got lots to explore..

scelsi is good but his music hasn't completely clicked for me yet.

ok i've got a very good recommendation, if i do say so. it's the album "origin" (2010) by Duane Pitre. he's a newer composer, i think. he does drone music. i swear this stuff is several thousand cuts above most drone...

this album specifically is like looking back through the sands of time further and further. you really have nowhere to go but deeper and deeper if you leave the music on.

if i've had 5 or 6 transcendent music listening experiences this year, they would be:

1. schnittke - symphony no. 1 (met my new musical obsession, schnittke, listening to this)

2. duane pitre - origin

3. flying lotus - cosmogramma (randomly had a strange spiritual experience listening to this during a drive at night)

4. cecil taylor - unit structures (realized a new way of constructing music)

5. morton feldman - piano+string quartet

6. alva noto - for two (opened my mind to "glitch" and micro sound music)

  On 11/16/2010 at 9:08 PM, Awepittance said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14Pspjok78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgy1E4YFef8&feature=related

Lucier is amazing. I'm studying with him right now and you not meet a nicer more pleasant and charming man. His music is incredible as well!

  On 11/17/2010 at 11:40 PM, dr lopez said:

Lucier is amazing. I'm studying with him right now and you not meet a nicer more pleasant and charming man. His music is incredible as well!

you lucky fucker! i am envious.

  On 11/17/2010 at 11:40 PM, dr lopez said:

  On 11/16/2010 at 9:08 PM, Awepittance said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14Pspjok78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgy1E4YFef8&feature=related

Lucier is amazing. I'm studying with him right now and you not meet a nicer more pleasant and charming man. His music is incredible as well!

very envious as well it's hard to track down all his stuff, im only now trying to track down original pressings of his stuff on vinyl. I'd be a poor man if i bought what's on discogs right now

haha yeah i think the MOST frustrating thing is having his personal collection dangled under my nose yet i can never get a chance to look through it. Every other day we get treated to something like "oh look here's a reel to reel of a concert me and john and steve and david (tudor) did, it was fun... we did some electronics... some prepared piano.... i messed up a bunch i remember.... eh maybe i'll just throw it out."

I think I should just start going through his trash.

surrender to the air. artists in group are :

Trey Anastasio

Marshall Allen

Damon R. Choice

Marc Ribot

John Medeski

Michael Ray

James Harvey

Jon Fishman

Oteil Burbridge

Kofi Burbridge

Bob Gulloti

schnittke. schnittke. dear god, schnittke.

just...fuck. schnittke.

If you wish to kill two birds with one stone check out ornette colemans album skies of america

sonny sharrock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=408EoZe70Rs&feature=related

there wasn't too many people doing this shit on guitar back then

omfg i love sonny sharrock

  On 11/18/2010 at 8:20 PM, vamos scorcho said:

schnittke. schnittke. dear god, schnittke.

 

just...fuck. schnittke.

fuck, i know

i tried to get everything from him i could get my hands on

symphonies

concerto grossos

cello concertos/sonatas/suites

film music

and much more

and i found a couple of schnittke recordings that murcof used for samples yay

This record is one of my faves: