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A Digital Resource and Guide to the Official Catalog of a Jazz God: Miles Davis
With Understanding Comes Appreciation To put it simple for those who are not familiar with the musician and his music, Miles Davis is a...
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Mar 1818 min read
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Ranking Shark's Musical Taste
The Shark ranks the tip of the iceberg of his colossal library (100,00+ songs) while unveiling top-notch and under-the-radar recommendations.
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Mar 1373 min read
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Enigmatic Ocean by Jean-Luc Ponty: flawless playing and utterly fluid transitions and interplay
With Understanding Comes Appreciation If you don't have this album/CD, get it. It could change your life. It is one of the best Jazz-Rock...
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Jun 5, 20246 min read
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Starring Rosi by Ash Ra Tempel: the definitive trip into cerebral space land
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Yes, this album sounds nothing like any other Ash Ra Tempel album. Yes, this album is light and...
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May 27, 20245 min read
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Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley: this music is so cool and so smooth, that it is infectious working its way into the mind, body and soul of the listener
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Somethin' Else is an anomaly in that Miles Davis actually chose to appear as a sideman on another...
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May 23, 20247 min read
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The Complete Music of Anton Webern —Recorded Under the Direction of Robert Craft: hugely influential recordings of jewel-like works
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s works became the Rosetta Stone of post-war...
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Apr 11, 202416 min read
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Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte by Popol Vuh: an ability to create music that's simultaneously delicate and powerful, detailed and expansive, earthbound in its origins and cosmic in its reach
With Understanding Comes Appreciation For the sake of new comers, first things first. Of the many legendary artists to emerge from the...
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Apr 7, 20246 min read
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Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock: considered to be one of (if not THE) vanguard recordings that gave birth to funk/rock jazz fusion
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In many ways I equate Herbie Hancock with the legendary Bob Dylan as far as being an enormous...
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Apr 2, 20245 min read
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Per Un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM): jaw dropping musical acrobatics with ease which never lose the pace of a sophisticated graceful poetic dance of sounds
With Understanding Comes Appreciation While the big bang of progressive rock was only a few years old, it is astonishing how so many...
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Apr 1, 20248 min read
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Roxy Music by Roxy Music: from an art school project to the most adventurous rock band of the early '70s
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Roxy Music debut with the eponymous album was epochal. There had never been any pop songs with such...
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Mar 31, 20248 min read
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The Velvet Underground & Nico: its experimental fingertips and legacy permeated the whole pop/rock realm
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Once upon a time there was the story of the greatest irony of all-time in music, known as The...
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Mar 21, 202415 min read
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Solar Music Live by Grobschnitt: mandatory for space rock cadets and beyond
With Understanding Comes Appreciation If you are into Krautrock or guitar driven space rock, I've got a record for you: Solar Music Live ...
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Mar 20, 20245 min read
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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók; Part 1: seemingly contrasting properties of science and art are inextricably bound together to form the essence of genius' music
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Composed for nine instruments (2x pianos, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, triangle,...
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Mar 14, 202429 min read
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Metal Fatigue by Allan Holdsworth: prepare to be dazzled by the most futuristic guitar playing this side of the universe!
With Understanding Comes Appreciation In one million years from now, it would not surprise me in the slightest if Allan Holdsworth were...
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Mar 13, 20246 min read
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Darwin! by Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso: passionate vocals, complex song structure, fantastic keyboards, tranquil moments and powerful passages
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The reason why Banco del Mutuo Soccorso so much deserves their status as an epitome of the best...
Shark
Mar 12, 20248 min read
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2112 by Rush: conjuring up the kind of sci-fi images and otherworldly magic that would later become the hallmark of the band
With Understanding Comes Appreciation 2112 achieved a triple feat: 1) it saved Rush's career. It was like Rush was at the plate with two...
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Mar 11, 202415 min read
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Time Control by Hiromi: refreshing the jazz-rock fusion airs by an extremely talented virtuoso piano player
With Understanding Comes Appreciation Modern Jazz-Rock/Fusion is the true progressive music movement of our time. It makes no...
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Mar 10, 20249 min read
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If I Could Do It All Over Again... by Caravan: a healthy dose of the psychedelic scene of the era, smooths things over with pop sensibilities and dresses it all up with progressive rock workouts
With Understanding Comes Appreciation As the 60s abruptly became the 70s, the psychedelia of the former era was transmogrifying into...
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Mar 10, 202410 min read
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Third by Soft Machine: an ambitious album, which push back the frontiers of space modal jazz-rock far beyond while defining the Canterbury Scene moving forward
With Understanding Comes Appreciation From start to end, this album is an absolute killer. Every single second is just excellent, the...
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Mar 9, 202414 min read
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Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky: sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms anyone ever thought up —dissonances, asymmetries, polytonalities and polyrhythms
With Understanding Comes Appreciation The composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein said of one passage, "That page is sixty years old,...
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Mar 8, 202417 min read
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