I need new music

My iPod collection is getting stale. Jazz, reggae, classical, hip-hop, anything good from those genres.

Charlie Mingus. The Black Saint and Sinner Lady and Epitaph. If you do not have them already.

I need new music as well but don't want to hijack your topic.

What kind of music?

Listen to this guy. Please give him a try.

If you want reggae try skindred they mix it with heavy metal and hip hop so they might appeal to you, for hip hop. he only rapper I can think of is Mike Skinner or The Streets, try him out.

Originally Posted by D.B. Cooper

My iPod collection is getting stale. Jazz, reggae, classical, hip-hop, anything good from those genres.

My essentials:

Jazz

Bohren & der Club of Gore ~ Sunset Mission
Sun Ra ~ Sleeping Beauty
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
Electric Masada ~ At the Mountains of Madness

Reggae

Bob Marley & The Waliers ~ Catch a Fire
Dreadzone ~ 360 (not 100% reggae, but a great album)
Black Uhuru ~ Red

Hip-~Hop

Organized Konfusion ~ Stress
Nas ~ Illmatic
Deltron 3030 ~ Deltron 3030
Dr. Octagon ~ Dr. Octagonecologist
A Tribe Called Quest ~ Midnight Marauders
DJ Shadow ~ Endtroducing...

Originally Posted by God

Jazz

Bohren & der Club of Gore ~ Sunset Mission
Sun Ra ~ Sleeping Beauty
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
Electric Masada ~ At the Mountains of Madness

1. Awesome band, awesome album
2. 1,000 apologies, I have not heard this
3. Simply amazing. Would be my favorite Davis album, if not for B|tches Brew
4. Again, this album was mind shattering

Originally Posted by God

Reggae

Bob Marley & The Waliers ~ Catch a Fire
Dreadzone ~ 360 (not 100% reggae, but a great album)
Black Uhuru ~ Red

1. I like Bob
2. 1,000 apologies, I have not heard this
3. 1,000 apologies, I have not heard this

Originally Posted by God

Hip-~Hop

Organized Konfusion ~ Stress
Nas ~ Illmatic
Deltron 3030 ~ Deltron 3030
Dr. Octagon ~ Dr. Octagonecologist
A Tribe Called Quest ~ Midnight Marauders
DJ Shadow ~ Endtroducing...

1. Pretty good
2. Amazing
3. Amazing
4. Amazing
5. Pretty good
6. 1,000 apologies, I have not heard this

For raggae, do you include Dub? If you're not allready into the genre, I heavily reccomend king Tubby.




Its difficult to recommend acts when you have no idea what someone is into or who they allready know about. I'll just mention some of my favourites from each genre and if you know them allready then no matter.

Jazz: Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk
Classical: 'Modern' but more traditional: Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Orff, Muggorsky, Schoenberg, Prokofiev. More experimental: Stockhausen, Varese, Cage.
Hip-Hop: The Coup, Dead Prez, Braintaz (all political Hip-Hop)

Do you listen to jugle? Given that you like Raggae and Hip-Hop you might enjoy it. Shy FX, Micky Finn and the Freestylers might provide a good introduction if you are interested.

Originally Posted by Bovril

For raggae, do you include Dub? If you're not allready into the genre, I heavily reccomend king Tubby.

I'm looking for dub! I'm getting a Scientist album, apart from that and Dreadzone I don't know much. That King Tubby song was great, if you know any more stuff I'd bve grateful for any recommendations.

Unorthodoxt:

Sun Ra has about a billion albums, some great jazz ranging from very chill to avant-garde craziness. 'Lanquidity' & 'Sleeping Beauty' are great albums, I highly recommend them.

Dreadzone's first album is slightly dated but absolutely amazing otherwise. Really rich atmospheric dub, it's very hard to find though.

Black Uhuru is much like Bob Marley.

DJ Shadow - Quality instrumental hip-hop. It's a classic.

Originally Posted by God

I'm looking for dub! I'm getting a Scientist album, apart from that and Dreadzone I don't know much. That King Tubby song was great, if you know any more stuff I'd bve grateful for any recommendations.

I usuallt thinkone should start with the fundementals of a genre as it were, so King Tubby and, as someone said, Lee Scratch Perry are my first picks. I suppose its also worth mentioning that Burning Spear and Black Uhuru played their parts in founding the genre. Other than that, Bill Laswell (he did a lot of non-dub too), African Head Charge and Mad Professor are all good.

Originally Posted by Bovril

I usuallt thinkone should start with the fundementals of a genre as it were, so King Tubby and, as someone said, Lee Scratch Perry are my first picks. I suppose its also worth mentioning that Burning Spear and Black Uhuru played their parts in founding the genre. Other than that, Bill Laswell (he did a lot of non-dub too), African Head Charge and Mad Professor are all good.

I love Black Uhuru & Burning Spear. I'll look into the rest, thanks.

Originally Posted by D.B. Cooper

My iPod collection is getting stale. Jazz, reggae, classical, hip-hop, anything good from those genres.

Mate, I could recommend you over 1,000 albums from these genres. Please be a bit more specific, what kind of music do you like, where would you listen to them, etc.

I will have to investigate.

The big reggae artists that any Reggae fan needs to have are the following

Bob Marley (duh)
Bunny Wailer
Peter Tosh
Burning Spear
Black Uhuru.

Those are the big 5 names of Reggae.

As for dub (I guess still technically reggae), there is no better place to start than the man that started it all, Lee "Scratch" Perry.


Jazz
Like God said, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is the first jazz album that any Jazz fan MUST have.
Other excellent Miles albums include:

Sketches of Spain (my 2nd favourite)
B|tches Brew
In a Silent Way
A Tribute to Jack Johnson

The last three are all prime examples of Jazz Fusion. Other fusion bands include The mahavishnu Orchestra (I did a review of one of their albums in my review thread), Weather Report, Return to Forever, Al di Meola, Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorious (if you want mad bass playing), and Stanley Clarke.

Charles Mingus is great, I recommend "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady", and "Mingus Ah Um"

Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie were two of the big bebop jazz musicians. Highly recommend. Thelonious Monk is also magnificent. Get "Monk's Dream"

Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, and Django Reinhardt if you want to hear some of the best jazz guitar ever.

Originally Posted by therussian

Django Reinhardt if you want to hear some of the best jazz guitar ever.

I got a Django Reinhardt compilation today (usually I don't buy them but it was cheap). Not listened to it yet though.

Yeah, I've had this one for a few years now
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...0:axfuxqtgldhe

I'm probably goign to have to get another one that covers his stuff pre-1940s

My recommendations for Jazz:

Piano
Art Tatum - anything
Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
Chick Corea - Elektric Band
Chick Corea - Solo Piano - Originals
Chick Corea - Solo Piano - Standards
Jacques Louisser Trio - Take bach
Claude Bolling - Jazz a la francaise
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett - At The Deer Head Inn
Oscar Peterson - Cole Porter Songbook (definitive)
Oscar Peterson - A Tribute To My Friends
Oscar Peterson Trio - The Trio, Live In Chicago
Michel Petrucciani - Pianism
Michel Petrucciani - Music
Michel Petrucciani - Marvellous

Guitar, Jazz-rock
Pat Metheny - Secret Story
Pat Metheny - Speaking of Now
Mike Stern - Play
Mike Stern - Voices
Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun
Al Di Meola - Electric Rendezvous
George Benson - Absolute Benson (best of)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - It's A Jungle In Here
Marcus Miller - Tales
John Abercrombie & John Scofield - Solar
Flecktones - Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo
John Scofield - Steady Groovin'
The Rippingtons - Black Diamond
Lee Ritenour - Rit's House
Joe Pass - My Song
Paul Motian - Reincarnation Of A Love Bird
Dave Weckl Band - Rhythm Of The Soul
Dave Weckl Band - Synergy
Airto Moreira - Struck by Lightning
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Spyro Gyra - Collection

Misc.
Joshua Redman
Hargrove-McBride-Scott Trio - Parker's Mood
Christian McBride - Gettin' To It
Wynton Marsalis - Live at the Village Vanguard
Paul Horn - Brazilian Images
David Sanborn - Inside
Stephane Grappelli - anything
Bobby McFerrin - Circle Songs
Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible
Ella Fitzgerald - The Gerschwin Songbook

Thanks all I will get to all of these eventually.

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