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And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow (1986)
Anouar Brahem - Le pas du chat noir (2002)
Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) (2003)
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - The Meeting (2003)
Black Ice - Myopia (2007)
Branford Marsalis - Metamorphosen (2009)
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca (1981)
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge (1983)
Charles Lloyd - Sangram (2006)
Cindytalk - Camoflague Heart (1984)
Cinema Strange - Cinema Strange (2000)
Clair Obscur - Antigone (1996)
Clan of Xymox - Medusa (1986)
Cocteau Twins - Garlands (1982)
The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More (1981)
Comus - First Utterance (1971)
Cranes - Forever (1993)
The Danse Society - Seduction (1982)
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (1986)
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000)
Lowlife - Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 85-95 (Comp)
First Band From Outer Space - The Guitar is Mightier Than the Gun (2009)
Fred Frith - Freedom in Fragments (2002)
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land (2009)
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations (1984)
Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972)
Gorement - The Ending Quest (1994)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010)
Henry Threadgill - Everybodys Mouth's a Book (2001)
The House of Love - The House of Love (1990)
Loop - Heaven's End (1987)
Love and Rockets - Express (1986)
Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)
Master's Hammer - Ritual (1991)
maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible (1999)
The Mission - Gods Own Medicine (1986)
Mitochondrion - Archaeaeon (2008)
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (2006)
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver (2000)
Pink Turns Blue - If Two Worlds Kiss (1987)
Rabih Abou-Kalil - Morton's Foot (2003)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather (1985)
Renaud Garcia-Fons - Entremundo (2004)
Shub-Niggurath - Les mort von vite (1986)
Sigh - Scenes From Hell (2010)
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (1958)
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (1991)
The Sound - Jeopardy (1980)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
The Telescopes - Third Wave (2002)
Tenhi - Salvo (2010)
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (1984)
Tones on Tail - Pop (1984)
Univers Zéro - Heresie (1979)
Vandermark 5 - The Color of Memory (2005)
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1982)
Virgin Prunes - ...If I Die, I Die (1982)
Wayne Shorter - Beyond the Sound Barrier (2005)
The Wolfgang Press - Bird Wood Cage (1988)
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin (1984)
The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge (1989)

Only about half done, will update again shortly

Atículo en castellano e inglés


Article in spanish and english



Tras mucho investigar e indagar por varias páginas de la red que tratan sobre música, recompilé la información necesaria para encontrar los mejores grupos y solistas de la historia de la música.

Todo el mundo sabe que la mejor música siempre será la música clásica pero para los que no están aún preparados ante tal maestría y talento se puede acceder a música más "fácil" de escuchar como lo es el Rock o similar.

A pesar de no ser música tan grandiosa como Mozart, Beethoven, Bach o compañia, se puede encontrar verdaderas preciosidades dignas de ser escuchadas para el oído entrenado o la mente abierta.

Repito, he indagado mucho para encontrar, al fín, la lista de los verdaderamente mejores músicos de los ultimos tiempos. Son para degustar delicadamente por esas personas que de verdad sepan apreciarlos. Abtenerse los necios.



After much investigate on several pages of the net about music, I re-compiled the necessary information to find the best groups and soloists of the history of music.

The whole world knows that the best music always will be the classic music, but for those who are not prepared such mastery and talent, one can accede to "easier" music to listen like it is the Rock or similar.

In spite of not being a music so grand as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or company, it is possible to find real preciousness worth being listened for the trained ear or the opened mind.

I repeat, I have investigated very much to find the list of really better musicians of last times. They are for these persons with delicately taste and who indeed can estimate them. Don't for fools.



La lista/the list:


- A Tribe Called Quest

- AC/DC

- Agalloch

- Al Green

- Albert Ayler

- Alice Cooper

- Andrew Hill

- Arcturus

- Aretha Franklin

- Art Blakey

- Arvo Pärt

- Big Star

- Bill Evans

- Bill Hicks

- Billie Holiday

- Björk

- Black Sabbath

- Blind Guardian

- Bob Dylan

- Bob Marley

- Boogie Down Productions

- Boredoms

- Brian Eno

- Bruce Springsteen

- Caetano Veloso

- Camel

- Can

- Candlemass

- Captain Beefheart

- Carcass

- Cecil Taylor

- Cocteau Twins

- Coil

- Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Current 93

- Curtis Mayfield

- Charles Mingus

- Danny Elfman

- David Bowie

- Dead Can Dance

- Death

- Deep Purple

- De La Soul

- Depeche Mode

- Devin Townsend

- Dream Theater

- Duke Ellington

- Elvis Costello

- Elvis Presley

- Ella Fitzgerald

- Elliott Smith

- Emperor

- Ennio Morricone

- Eric B. & Rakim

- Eric Dolphy

- Fairport Convention

- Faust

- Fleetwood Mac

- Frank Sinatra

- Frank Zappa

- Fugazi

- Funkadelic

- Gal Costa

- Gene Clark

- Genesis

- Gentle Giant

- Glenn Gould

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Gong

- Grateful Dead

- Guided by Voices

- Herbie Hancock

- Howard Shore

- Howlin' Wolf

- Hüsker Dü

- Ice Cube

- Iron Maiden

- Isis

- Jackie McLean

- James Brown

- Jay-Z

- Jethro Tull

- Jimi Hendrix

- John Coltrane

- John Fahey

- John Lennon

- John Williams

- John Zorn

- Johnny Cash

- Joni Mitchell

- Jorge Ben

- Joy Division

- Judas Priest

- Judee Sill

- Kate Bush

- Keith Jarrett

- King Crimson

- Klaus Schulze

- Kraftwerk

- Kreator

- Led Zeppelin

- Leonard Cohen

- Los Hermanos

- Lou Reed

- Magma

- Marillion

- Marvin Gaye

- maudlin of the Well

- Melvins

- Mercyful Fate

- Metallica

- Miles Davis

- Modest Mouse

- Motörhead

- Neil Young

- Neu!

- Neurosis

- Nevermore

- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

- Nick Drake

- Nico

- Nirvana

- Nobuo Uematsu

- Opeth

- Ornette Coleman

- Os Mutantes

- Otis Redding

- OutKast

- Pain of Salvation

- Parliament

- Paul Simon

- Pavement

- Pearl Jam

- Pere Ubu

- Peter Gabriel

- Philip Glass

- Pink Floyd

- Pixies

- PJ Harvey

- Porcupine Tree

- Portishead

- Premiata Forneria Marconi

- Prince

- Public Enemy

- R.E.M.

- Radiohead

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

- Rainbow

- Ramones

- Randy Newman

- Red House Painters

- Richard & Linda Thompson

- Robert Wyatt

- Roxy Music

- Rush

- Sam Rivers

- Santana

- Sepultura

- Serge Gainsbourg

- Simon and Garfunkel

- Skinny Puppy

- Slayer

- Sly and the Family Stone

- Smashing Pumpkins

- Soft Machine

- Sonic Youth

- Sonny Rollins

- Sparks

- Steely Dan

- Steve Reich

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

- Stevie Wonder

- Sun Ra

- Swans

- T. Rex

- Talk Talk

- Talking Heads

- Tangerine Dream

- The Allman Brothers Band

- The Band

- The Beach Boys

- The Beatles

- The Byrds

- The Clash

- The Cure

- The Chameleons

- The Doors

- The Fall

- The Flaming Lips

- The Gathering

- The Jam

- The Kinks

- The Misfits

- The Mothers of Invention

- The Olivia Tremor Control

- The Pogues

- The Replacements

- The Rolling Stones

- The Smiths

- The Stooges

- The Velvet Underground

- The Who

- Thelonious Monk

- Tim Buckley

- Tindersticks

- Todd Rundgren

- Tom Waits

- Tool

- Townes Van Zandt

- U2

- Ulver

- Van der Graaf Generator

- Van Morrison

- Wayne Shorter

- Ween

- Weezer

- Wes Montgomery

- Wilco

- Willie Nelson

- Wire

- XTC

- Yasunori Mitsuda

- Yes




Todos estos artistas han logrado cambiar la música de su momento de alguna u otra manera o grabaron discos dignos de ser joyas preciosas de las mejores colecciones.

Si entiendes de música sabrás apreciar a todos ellos, si no, te pierdes la vida chico/a y no puedes llamarte a tí mismo amante con mayusculas de la música. Dejad de perder el tiempo y dedicarselo a lo que de verdad vale, hay mucho alrededor y solo el que sabe buscar encuentra. ¿eres uno de ellos?

Repito, deja de perder el tiempo y sé más exigente, sube un nivel y escucha algo de esto, te aseguró que en un futuro te darás cuenta de como esos grupos que idolatrabas no expresaban nada.


Siento que mi esfuerzo a merecido la pena y he logrado al fín la lista de la mejor música actual definitiva dentro del siglo XX y XXI.



All these artists change the music of his moment or they recorded discs worth being precious jewels for the best collections.

If you deal on music you will be able to estimate all of them, if not, you get lost the life dude and cannot be call you lover with capital letters of the music. Stop losing the time and devoting it what indeed costs, it is very much around and only the one that can search finds. Are you one of them?

I repeat, stop losing the time and be more demanding, raise a level and listen to something of this, assured you that in a future you will realize since these groups that you were adoring they were not expressing anything.


I feel that my effort to been worth it and I have achieved the list of the best current definitive music inside the 20th and the 21st century.

Очередной пост, посвященный статистике. Сегодня нашей темой является джаз (точнее, топ-100 тега jazz).

Just another one statistical post. Jazz is our field of research today (top-100 of the tag jazz, to be exact).

предыдущие посты / previous entries
mainstream
russian rock
progressive rock
black metal

Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








И тут, и там наиболее популярным исполнителем является Amy Winehouse (и, да, по личным соображениям я убрал из статистики Тома Уэйтса). Дальше начинается вполне классический джаз - Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong и так далее.

In both cases the most popular artist is Amy Winehouse (and, yes, I supposed it would be correct to exclude Tom Waits from jazz stats). Then the things go more classical: Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and so on.




А вот так выглядит общая зависимость количества прослушиваний джазовых исполнителей от числа слушателей. Заметно, что чем правее, тем сильнее эта зависимость идет вверх. Таким образом, получается, что лидеры находятся на каком-то особенном положении у слушателей.

And that's the way, general dependence of playcount to number of listeners looks like. You can notice, it's bending upwards with growing number of listeners. So, that means, the leaders of our statistics are treated by listeners in a different way, than other artists.




Это также подтверждается графиком удельного числа прослушиваний (число прослушиваний делить на число слушателей для каждого исполнителя). Вообще, у джаза этот показатель оказался рекордно низким - в среднем 11 прослушиваний. Наибольший показатель у вездесущей Эми Уайнхаус - 32.

The graph of specific number of scrobbles (a playcount divided by number of listeners for each artist) confirms that notation. Surprisingly, jazz artists have very low specific scrobble number - 11 in average. Amy Winehouse has the highest one - 32.




Гистограмма лишь подтверждает печальный факт концентрации удельного числа прослушиваний вблизи рекордно низких значений, в целом по форме повторяя распределение для других жанров. Джаз умер?

The histogram just supports concentrating of specific number of scrobbles near very low values, repeating the histogram for other genres in general. Sad, but true. Is jazz dead?




Немного статистики по активности слушателей в рупорах исполнителей. Как видно из графика, какой-либо строгой зависимости числа сообщений в рупоре от числа слушателей не наблюдается. То, что более популярным исполнителям больше пишут, понятно и так. Кстати, Эми Уайнхаус я сюда не включил - взглянув на следующий график, вы поймете, почему.

Some stats about the user activity in shoutboxes. As one can see, there's no strict dependence of number of shouts to number of listeners. It's obvious, that more popular artists should get more shouts. By the way, Amy Winehouse isn't included here - see the next plot to understand why.




А вот зависимость числа сообщений в рупоре от удельного числа прослушиваний. Эми Уайнхаус и здесь лидирует, причем с шестикратным отрывом. Короче говоря, для джаза она - исполнитель, аномальный по всем параметрам) А вот если убрать Эми, то будет видно обнаруженое ранее явление: среднее удельное число прослушиваний является чем-то вроде барьера, разделяющего исполнителей с малым и с большим числом сообщений в рупоре. Посмотрим, что покажут другие жанры)

And here's the dependence of number of shouts in the shoutbox to specific number of scrobbles. Amy Winehouse takes the lead again, having six times more shouts than others. So, she's really anomalous for the jazz. And without Amy, the graph exhibits the property, found in previous research: average specific number of scrobbles behaves like a barrier, separating artists with few shouts from artists with lots of them. Let us see, what another genres would show us the next time)

P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний в top-100 джаза - 348 миллионов.
The total playcount in jazz's top-100 is 348 millions.

P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

List of considered artists:

Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Thelonious Monk, Jamie Cullum, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Michael Buble', Katie Melua, Madeleine Peyroux, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Esbjo"rn Svensson Trio, Keith Jarrett, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, The Cinematic Orchestra, Oscar Peterson, Cassandra Wilson, Count Basie, Pat Metheny Group, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Koop, Weather Report, John Zorn, Richard Cheese, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Pink Martini, The Bad Plus, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Melody Gardot, Dexter Gordon, Julie London, Brad Mehldau, Cannonball Adderley, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Eva Cassidy, Stacey Kent, Benny Goodman, John Scofield, Horace Silver, Room Eleven, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Skalpel, Astrud Gilberto, Marcus Miller, Jan Garbarek, Wynton Marsalis, Lee Morgan, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Smith, Jaga Jazzist, Sade, Harry Connick, Jr., Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Bill Evans Trio, Lisa Ekdahl, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis, Ornette Coleman, Blossom Dearie, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Etta James, The Cat Empire, Paolo Conte, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Grant Green, Avishai Cohen, Quincy Jones, Al Di Meola, Keiko Matsui, Al Jarreau, Morphine, Silje Nergaard

1959;

1 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
3 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
4 Sonny Boy Williamson - Down And Out Blues
5 Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
6 Bo Diddley - Go Bo Diddley
7 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out!
8 Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns - Having A Good Time
9 Elvis Presley - For LP Fans only
10 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
11 Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul
12 Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
13 Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles
14 Rev. Gary Davis - Rev. Gary Davis at Newport
15 Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens

1958;

1 Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
2 Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
3 Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
4 Miles Davis/Gil Evans - Porgy and Bess
5 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins
6 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
7 The Kingston Trio - The Kingston Trio
8 Tito Puente - Dance Mania
9 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
10 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
11 Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
12 Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Gangster of Love
13 Art Blakey - Moanin'
14 Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke
15 Elvis Presley - King Creole

1957;

1 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
2 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis
3 Louis Prima - The Wildest!
4 Machito - Kenya
5 John Coltrane - Blue Train
6 The Crickets - The "Chirping" Crickets
7 Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy Q
8 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
9 Sabu - Palo Congo
10 Ray Charles - Ray Charles
11 Carl Perkins - Dance Album
12 Amos Milburn - Let's Have A Party
13 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
14 Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
15 Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar

1956;

1 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
2 Odetta - Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
3 Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
4 Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
5 Harry Belafonte - Calypso
6 Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
7 Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
8 Bill Haley - Shake Rattle and Roll
9 Gene Vincent - Bluejean Bop!
10 Fats Domino - This Is Fats
11 Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
12 Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Song Book
13 Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
14 Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
15 Dinah Washington - Dinah!

See also;
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29

- Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Moanin’ (Blue Note, 1959);
- Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo [Original 1958 Sountrack] (Mercury, 1958);
- Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' else (Blue Note, 1958);
- Charles Mingus, Mingus ah um (Columbia, 1959);
- Chet Baker, My funny valentine (Blue Note, 1953);
- Chet Baker, Chet (Riverside, 1959);
- Coleman Hawkins, The hawk flies high (Riverside, 1957);
- Count Basie Orchestra, E=MC2 (Blue Note, 1957);
- Dave Brubeck Quartet (The), Time out (Columbia, 1959);
- Dinah Washington, After hours with miss “D” (Verve, 1954);
- Donald Byrd, Byrd in hand (Blue Note, 1959);
- Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis (Verve, 1956);
- Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley (Sun, 1956);
- Erroll Garner, Concert by the sea (Columbia, 1955);
- Gene Ammons, Blue Gene (Prestige, 1958);
- George Russell, New York, NY (DECCA, 1959);
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Pacific jazz (Blue Note, 1952);
- Horace Silver, Blowin' the blues away (Blue Note, 1959);
- John Coltrane, Blue train (Blue Note, 1957);
- John Coltrane, Lush Live (Universal, 1958);
- John Coltrane, Soultrane (Prestige, 1958);
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte (Ecstatic Peace, 1959);
- Maynard Ferguson, The Birdland Dream Band (RCA Victor, 1956);
- Miles Davis, Blue haze (Prestige, 1954);
- Miles Davis, 'Round about midnight (Columbia, 1957);
- Miles Davis, Birth of the cool (Capitol, 1957);
- Miles Davis, Milestones (Columbia, 1958);
- Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958);
- Miles Davis, Kind of blue (Columbia, 1959);
- Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1959);
- Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' (Universal, 1959);
- Ornette Coleman, The shape of jazz to come (Atlantic, 1959);
- Ornette Coleman, Tomorrow is the question (JVC Victor, 1959);
- Ornette Coleman, Change of the century (Atlantic, 1959);
- Sonny Clark, Cool struttin’ (Blue Note, 1958);
- Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (Prestige, 1951);
- Sonny Rollins, Saxophone colossus (Prestige, 1956);
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957);
- Sun Ra, Jazz in silhouette (Evidence, 1958);
- Teddy Wilson Trio, Teddy Wilson Trio (Metronome, 1950);
- Thelonious Monk, Genius of modern music, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1952);
- Thelonious Monk, Brilliant corners (Riverside, 1956);
- Thelonious Monk Septet, Monk's music (Riverside, 1957);
- Thelonious Monk /John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane (Riversid, 1958);
- Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1954).