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I was so looking forward to the threshold of reaching 5000 artists in my last.fm library. My music library on my hard drive lays claim to 7095, but I know that at least a couple hundred of these are bizarre naming variants from files I have picked up. Like a cold from a stranger, when you shake hands by exchanging files, sometimes you get unhealthy results.

Attaining 5000 was thoroughly anticlimatic. I had been hanging in the neighborhood of 4980 for what seemed like months. Each new artist added seemed to represent a long stretch of listening without encountering anyone new--new to me anyway--and so, one day about three weeks ago, I stopped looking at my last.fm tally. Screw it. It was gonna happen or it wasn't, no big deal. Gone was the imagined thrill I had built for myself, wondering which gem would emerge from the accumulation of some 40+ years of collecting music, and the last 15+ collecting most of it digitally, either by transfering my vinyl & cd collections to digital magnetic storage or buying from CDBaby…

I thought that this was interesting.


Just some thoughts by Ed Rhodes a few years ago about how much John Gilmore, the great tenor who played with Sun Ra, influenced John Coltrane.
(In the big picture, it dont really matter cause it's just artists making art. But, maybe it’s fun for some people to think about these things.)

I cleaned up typos, abbreviations and added links.
And, I also note that people now know that Sun Ra recorded the Jazz In Silhouette (Images And Forecasts Of Tomorrow) and Sound Sun Pleasure!! albums later in 1959 (March 6).


‹ Some comments are in order, particularly since the anniversary of Gilmore’s death has just passed.

‹ First, John Gilmore and John Coltrane had a complex, reciprocal influence on each other in a musical relationship that evolved and changed over the ten plus years between the mid-50s and Coltrane’s death. Second, it was almost certainly not a simple binary relationship. Other figures from Sonny Rollins to Albert Ayler played key roles…

You know the drill from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s lists. I wasn't originally planning on doing a 60s list, hence why it's appearing out of order, but I enjoyed making the other ones so I decided to put one together. Several greats knocked off because they were featured on previous lists, including John Handy, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton, Alice Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, and Miles Davis. This means some obvious classics were lost (Maiden Voyage, Inner Urge, Nefertiti, Hub-Tones), but I kind of like that because it gives me a chance to promote other lesser known but great albums. Also cut were Sonny Rollins, Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wes Montgomery, Oliver Nelson, Albert Ayler, Lee Morgan, and some wild free jazz blasts from the BYG label including albums by Dave Burrell and Alan Silva.

Autumn - Don Ellis And His Orchestra (1968 Columbia)
Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith (1960 Blue Note)
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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - January 2012

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Artist: Lee Ritenour
Album: Masterpieces-Best of the Grp Years (Jazz Club)
Release Date: 06 Apr 2012



Artist: Bill Evans
Album: Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Album: Radio Music Society:Deluxe
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Toots Thielemans
Album: Yesterday & Today
Release Date: 26 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ben Webster
Album: In a Mellotone
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ken Navarro
Album: Test of Time
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
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Cross-posted to A Stable Reference

You know the drill, just like the 70s, 80s, and 90s lists. Too much good stuff, so unfortunately knocked off were Christian Scott, Hiromi, Robert Glasper, Steve Lehman, Drew Gress, Brad Mehldau, Susie Ibarra, The Bad Plus, as well as a bunch of great big bands (Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, Exploding Star Orchestra) and European groups (Polar Bear, Led Bib, Acoustic Ladyland, Portico Quartet, The Thing, Zu, Esbjörn Svensson Trio). Also unfortunately cut were albums by veterans leading young bands including Wayne Shorter's fantastic album Beyond The Sound Barrier with his new quartet featuring Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, and John Patitucci, as well as Charles Lloyd's Rabo de Nube with the quartet of Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland.

Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths - Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet (2009 hatOLOGY)
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составил топ исполнителей просушенных мной в 2011 году, в основном это джаз, классика и фолк. Это согласно ластэфему, в реальности все конечно разнообразней) к этому надо добавить прог рок, краут рок, неофолк и еще что-нибудь) интересно куда уведут мои извечные поиски музыки и нового звучания в этом году?) составлю такой же список через год и посмотрю далеко ли я ушел)

1 Bohren & der Club of Gore
2 Валентин Васильович Сильвестров
3 Falkenstein
4 Joy Division
5 Георгий Васильевич Свиридов
6 Clinic
7 Nina Simone
8 Bob Marley
9 Miles Davis
10 Oriental Sunshine
11 Philip Glass
12 The Doors
13 Arve Henriksen
13 Erik Satie
15 Dustin O'Halloran
16 Louis Armstrong
17 Alizbar
18 Bill Evans
19 King Crimson
20 АлтайКай
21 Otis Taylor
22 Kammerflimmer Kollektief
23 Huun-Huur-Tu
24 Lela Tsurtsumia
25 Brian Eno
25 1000 Funerals
27 Max Richter
28 Forseti
29 Arvo Pärt
30 Александр Вертинский

ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - December 2011

Artist: Albert Mangelsdorff + Jaco Pastorius
Album: Trilogue Live
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Bill Evans Trio
Album: Empathy
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



Artist: Ken Navarro
Album: The Test Of Time
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Peter White
Album: Here We Go
Release Date: 13 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Album: Radio Music Society
Release Date: 28 Feb 2012



Artist: Greg Adams
Album: East Bay Soul 2.0
Release Date: 28 Feb 2012



Artist: Michael Lington
Album: Pure
Release Date: 14 Feb 2012



Artist: Susan Tedeschi
Album: Live From Austin, TX
Release Date: 14 Feb 2012



Artist: Clifford Brown
Album: Kind of Brown
Release Date: 13 Feb 2012



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