Quintessential Fall Music

[His Boy Elroy]

‘Was listening to David Grisman tonight and thinking about how that “newgrass” sound he helped usher in back in the ‘70’s frequently puts me in a “Fall” kind of mood. There are others, of course. Old school jazz or even popular vocals; any downtrodden version of “Round Midnight;” Nordic and Eastern European roots music (possibly their connection to traditional harvest festivities?), and others. When it comes to jazz, it’s often the older stuff – the warm, nostalgic, sweater-wearing, comfort-food kind of stuff, that calls me this time of year. Ben Webster’s big fat tenor; Coleman Hawkins, the Nat Cole Trio, Duke (always Duke). By November, celtic music will start reeling me in. Then, when it starts snowing, I’ll scrounge up those solo piano jazz recordings I hardly ever listen to any other time of the year.

I’m guessing we all do this, for whatever subjective and personal reasons – i.e., associate certain types of music, or certain albums, with particular seasons. So, anyway, I thought I’d throw it out there: what do you consider your quintessential “Fall” albums? (with "new guy" apologies if this topic has already been covered)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

David Newman - Under a Woodstock moon - Kokopelli

Although this has songs about spring, summer and autumn, I tend to associate it with autumn - could be the leaves on the trees on the sleeve. But whatever.

Jolly nice album.

MG

[xybert]

Not jazz, but i strongly associate autumn with the Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox.

It came out in 2001, and by autumn 2002 the instrumental album had been released as well as Def Jux Presents Vol. 2. There's just something about that music that takes me back to that period and those clear, chilly autumn days.

Trying to think of some jazz albums that i associate with Autumn and coming up short, but i might report back later.

[A Lark Ascending]

I tend to play more 50s/early 60s jazz in the autumn.

Also Shostakovich.

And a lot of early 70s rock - I think the falling leaves get me nostalgic for the return to university.

It's not really anything in the music itself, more my associations of when I first heard it.

[xybert]

Yeah, i was going to say, my picks are a bit of both... there's the associations with the time that i was listening to them, which happened to be mostly Autumn, but the music itself kind of has a distinctly chilly atmosphere to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJghl_wmto

[niels]

Fall is the time I pull my (few) classical albums out again. Mostly Shostakovich, Rachmaninov etc. It is also the time I listen to some ECM albums I rarly listen to the rest of the year (Tomasz Stanko comes to mind for example).

[alankin]

[Chuck Nessa]

Early Autumn via Woody Herman.

[Shawn]

[duaneiac]

This album has always had an autumnal feel about it for me. Perhaps it's because when I first got it, I had to make an October road trip to L.A. and on the way back I listened to this CD over and over for almost the entire trip.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just pulled this out for listening later and thought, 'isn't it in autumn you want to remember summer?' Especially a summer like we've had this year, best for about a century, I've heard.

Hampton Hawes - The green leaves of summer - Contemporary

Course, we have different autumns to America. It was bloomin' 'ot in October 1996 when I visited Newark.

MG

[His Boy Elroy]

Yeah, I suppose that "autumn" feeling can come from a lot of different places - the music itself; or perhaps the sleeve; or a personal association with a time and place, when we remember hearing the music. That Brubeck album seems a great example - not only for the cover, but for the time in his life when he recorded it, and the "reflective" sound of the music. Here's another one I tend to pull out more than usual this time of the year. It's one of my favorite "late night" albums, with a consistently warm and laid-back vibe throughout. It even contains two tracks - "'Tis Autumn" and "September Song" that play right into the theme . . .

[David Ayers]

Classical Fall

PS objectionable language alert - don't shoot the messenger

Edited October 27, 2014 by David Ayers

[David Ayers]

This is too easy

[David Ayers]

I used to cover this - bizarrely - never knew they did

Odeon...sky...uncanny...

[mjazzg]

When I first saw the thread title I rather hoped it was going to be dedicated to Mr Smith et al. About time they appeared here

and then....short and sweet

Edited October 27, 2014 by mjazzg

[David Ayers]

[Stefan Wood]

Any Siouxsie and the Banshees album up to and including Peepshow. Early Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil. Bauhaus.

Edited October 27, 2014 by Stefan Wood

[David Ayers]

[crisp]

[David Ayers]

[duaneiac]

http://youtu.be/0gzLQZ0PHes

[crisp]

[B. Clugston]

A good time of year to pull out Gary McFarland and Steve Kuhn's The October Suite.

[Chuck Nessa]

That cover shot always gave me the creeps. It seem these 2 guys are asking me about some private thing I don't want to divulge. I can't imagine the consequences for a "wrong" answer.