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Your Favorite Jazz Records of the 1980s?


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Black Bone left me wanting juuuusssstttt a wee-bit more, for whatever reason. With that lineup....

speaking of the 80s, though, who was it did an interview where they blasted Craig Harris for his bad breath? Or did he talk about somebody doing that to him? Details are fuzzy at this point, but the Craig Harris/Bad Breah meme is not!

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18 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, to me this is a level up on Black Bone.

Gotcha.  Will investigate!

 

 

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Black Bone left me wanting juuuusssstttt a wee-bit more, for whatever reason. With that lineup....

speaking of the 80s, though, who was it did an interview where they blasted Craig Harris for his bad breath? Or did he talk about somebody doing that to him? Details are fuzzy at this point, but the Craig Harris/Bad Breah meme is not!

Wow.  Some writer did a feature on Harris and talked about his bad breath?!?   

That's harsh.  And sorta irrelevant, no?  

 

BTW. have you guys heard Harris' JMT LPs, Shelter and Blackout in the Square Root of Soul?  If so, what are your impressions?

 

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No, another musician said something about his breath!

Trying to remember the context, and if it was Harris himself recounting it...but it was hilarious either way!

Besides, bad breath DOES matter! Not once in a while, I mean, hey, that shit happens, sorry, but if it's ongoing and controllable...respect yourself.

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Gotcha.  Will investigate!

 

 

Wow.  Some writer did a feature on Harris and talked about his bad breath?!?   

That's harsh.  And sorta irrelevant, no?  

 

BTW. have you guys heard HarrisPierre Abraham Lorillard' JMT LPs, Shelter and Blackout in the Square Root of Soul?  If so, what are your impressions?

 

I have, and I recall them as leaving pleasant, but not really memorable/lasting, impressions.

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The DownBeat critics' poll winners for the 1980's:

1980  Air Lore  Air  Arista/Novus

1981  Full Force  Art Ensemble of Chicago  ECM

1982  Playing  Old and New Dreams  ECM

1983  Blues Forever  Muhal Richard Abrams  Black Saint

1984  The Ballad of the Fallen  Charlie Haden  ECM

1985  That's the Way I Feel Now  Various  A&M

1986  The African Flower  James Newton  Blue Note

1987  Song X  Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman  Geffen

1988  In All Languages  Ornette Coleman  Caravan of Dreams

1989  Audio-Visualscapes  Jack DeJohnette  Impulse!

1990  In East Berlin  Cecil Taylor  FMP (recorded in 1988,so still eligible for consideration)

I only have the 1984-86 honored albums, all on vinyl, which I'm not set up to play currently so it has been a long time since I've listened to any of them.

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8 hours ago, duaneiac said:

The DownBeat critics' poll winners for the 1980's:

1980  Air Lore  Air  Arista/Novus

1981  Full Force  Art Ensemble of Chicago  ECM

1982  Playing  Old and New Dreams  ECM

1983  Blues Forever  Muhal Richard Abrams  Black Saint

1984  The Ballad of the Fallen  Charlie Haden  ECM

1985  That's the Way I Feel Now  Various  A&M

1986  The African Flower  James Newton  Blue Note

1987  Song X  Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman  Geffen

1988  In All Languages  Ornette Coleman  Caravan of Dreams

1989  Audio-Visualscapes  Jack DeJohnette  Impulse!

1990  In East Berlin  Cecil Taylor  FMP (recorded in 1988,so still eligible for consideration)

I only have the 1984-86 honored albums, all on vinyl, which I'm not set up to play currently so it has been a long time since I've listened to any of them.

Is there a place to find the lists for other decades?

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I engaged with many of the records represented here at the time. There are very few I come back to and only some I warmed to even then. It probably wasn’t a good decade even for the musicians I most like. I’ll put Berlin 88 at the top (by far) and Castles of Ghana and Hook, Drift and Shuffle as about the last pieces of 80s vinyl I’d part with. Anthony Braxton’s UK tour (but not the recordings) as the standout event over here. Ganelin trio also a bit of a marker (but never heard any of their records). Um...


Oh and lets also mention the 1987 Cecil Taylor tour in Italy. I do own the LPs but never played them, to preserve the memory...

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8 hours ago, duaneiac said:

The DownBeat critics' poll winners for the 1980's:

1980  Air Lore  Air  Arista/Novus

1981  Full Force  Art Ensemble of Chicago  ECM

1982  Playing  Old and New Dreams  ECM

1983  Blues Forever  Muhal Richard Abrams  Black Saint

1984  The Ballad of the Fallen  Charlie Haden  ECM

1985  That's the Way I Feel Now  Various  A&M

1986  The African Flower  James Newton  Blue Note

1987  Song X  Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman  Geffen

1988  In All Languages  Ornette Coleman  Caravan of Dreams

1989  Audio-Visualscapes  Jack DeJohnette  Impulse!

1990  In East Berlin  Cecil Taylor  FMP (recorded in 1988,so still eligible for consideration)

I only have the 1984-86 honored albums, all on vinyl, which I'm not set up to play currently so it has been a long time since I've listened to any of them.

I have all of them, apart from the Taylor for some reason. Enjoyed them all when they came out and revisit the Haden, AEOC, Old & New Dreams and Coleman occasionally. 

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