(Possibly) Overlooked Post-Bop Records

[paul secor]

I've started at least a couple of threads like this before, and I just feel like starting another.

Below are ten post-bop records that I feel are very good and overlooked.

Fred Anderson/Harrison Bankhead: The Great Vision Concert (Ayler)

Billy Bang: Outline No. 12 (Celluloid)

Ronnie Boykins - ESP

Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad: Silver Cornet (Nessa)

Al Francis/John Neves/Joe Hunt: Jazz Bohemia Revisited (Lost Cosmic Unity)

Bill Lewis/Khan Jamal: The River (Philly Jazz)

The Charles Moffett Family Vol. 1 (Charles Moffett)

Quartet + 1 - Bob Ackerman/Pam Purvis/Wilber Morris/Denis Charles/Herb Robertson: And Now I Can See Crows Mating in the Mist (Cadence)

Roswell Rudd/Giorgio Gaslini: Duo (Dischi Della Quercia)

What We Live: Especially the Traveler Tomorrow (Metalanguage)

I hope that others will join in.  Feel free to add your own choices - as many as you want to add.

 

 

[jlhoots]

Anything with Silke Eberhard.

[clifford_thornton]

New York Art Quartet -- Mohawk -- (Fontana)

Ted Curson -- Tears for Dolphy and Urge -- (Fontana)

Ric Colbeck -- The Sun Is Coming Up -- (Fontana)

Alan Shorter -- Orgasm -- (Verve)

Ed Curran -- Elysa -- (Savoy)

Jym Young's San Francisco Avant-garde -- Puzzle Box -- (International Polydor)

Karl Berger -- Quartet -- (ESP)

Clifford Thornton -- Freedom & Unity -- (Third World)

Chris McGregor -- Very Urgent -- (Polydor)

The New York Contemporary Five -- Vol. 1 & 2 -- (Sonet)

Steve Lacy -- Disposability -- (VIK)

Carsten Meinert -- To You -- (M.S./Spectator)

Bernt Rosengren -- Stockholm Dues -- (Columbia)

Gilbert Holmström -- Utan Misstankar -- (Megafon)

Barney Wilen -- Zodiac -- (Vogue)

François Tusques -- Free Jazz -- (Mouloudji)

Albert Mangelsdorff -- Now Jazz Ramwong -- (CBS Germany)

Manfred Schoof -- Voices -- (CBS Germany)

Irène Schweizer -- Early Tapes -- (FMP)

[JSngry]

What are the parameters needed to be classified as "post bop" Chronological? Musical? Cultural? Some? None" All? More?

Serious question, I really don't know what some of these terms mean anymore.

[paul secor]

I think you have to answer that question yourself. No one else can answer it for you and make it work.

[JSngry]

Well then, the first thing that comes to mind is Presenting Eddie and The Falcons! Or all those first wave of post-Move Roy Wood records. I only discover them once they were in the cutout bins, and then, nobody I knew want to hear them.

Roy Wood, that guy is severely overlooked, imo, and I know he didn't make any kind of record until after Bird was already dead.

[clifford_thornton]

to the point of the original list, such as one might try to define it, I would think of that music as inside-outside. Most of the records Paul mentioned I have and can vouch that they fit this description in varying ways. 

more:

Bill Dixon-Archie Shepp -- Quartet -- (Savoy)

Bill Dixon 7-tette/The New York Contemporary Five -- (Savoy)

Don Friedman -- Metamorphosis -- (Prestige)

Grachan Moncur III -- New Africa -- (BYG)

Peter Lemer -- Local Colour -- (ESP)

[paul secor]

I just used post-bop (and I'm not even sure what that means) as part of the thread title. Whether it's Roy Wood or whomever - if people are writing about their favorite music, it's all good.

[AllenLowe]

probably should be a separate category of post-'80s Downtown music a la Knitting Factory. 'Twas a brave new world.

Without it I would still be sitting in a closet somewhere trying to play Confirmation the Barry Harris Way.

Edited July 3, 2017 by AllenLowe