Reddit is much like an online bulletin board, and often people ask questions that others on Reddit attempt to answer. One example is the following question from a year ago:
Imagine I love jazz and I went into a coma in 1970. I came out this morning. What are the most important albums of the last forty years that I need to listen to right away?The answers to this question, provided by Reddit users, include albums by several of the artists featured on this blog, like the following:
- Berlin '88 by Cecil Taylor. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Changes One by Charles Mingus. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Disco 3000 by Sun Ra. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Headhunters by Herbie Hancock. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- The Inner Mounting Flame by John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- On The Corner by Miles Davis. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Performance (Quartet) 1979 by Anthony Braxton. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Red Clay by Freddie Hubbard. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Science Fiction by Ornette Coleman. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
- Sweetnighter by Weather Report. (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)
It's kind of cliched now, but this is the best shred-jazz record ever. McLaughlin is at his best on this, Tony Williams' "Emergency" (which doesn't count because it was released in the late 60s), and on Miles' stuff from this period. Essential listening.Speaking of The Inner Mounting Flame, here's one of the cuts from that album, "Awakening":
Reddit has some great resources for jazz fans. Just go to the site and search for "jazz." Good things will happen.
Robert
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