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Shark's Gods in Music: prolific, demanding bandleaders, boundary pushers, stunning talent and uncompromising creativity

Updated: Nov 7

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When people are asked about their favorite artists in music, most of the times, these fav artists basically share the same music styles if anything else. To me it goes way beyond that. As you might read on my post Ranking Shark’s Musical Taste published few weeks ago, my musical taste is broad and really wide open, but at the very tip of the iceberg I do have some artists who stand out above the others based on the following attributes:


1. They are prolific in the strictest sense of the definition. Most of these geniuses not only were working in their own bands but in solo/collaboration/sideman projects as well at the same time. Yeah, they really loved what they did for living beyond and far away the business side.

2. Demanding and perfectionist bandleaders. They got a great eye to recruit often from the very scratch high-caliber talent and develop & polish it by pushing beyond the limits of its own natural capabilities. Some of them are considered “universities” and "seedbeds" in music, who delivered countless of artists who eventually become la crème of la crème in the industry without an overrated diploma.

3. Strict work ethic and uncompromising creativity and talent. These guys always sought for perfection in every phase of their work —personnel, production, execution, operations, etc. They never ever meant to put a piece of music in the market just for the sake of selling records. All meat no fillers, and yeah... then you may like some records over others, but at least their offer is completely fair, legit and mostly honest. Heck, some of them even founded their own record labels to have full control of their catalog and its distribution to avoid commercial commitments.

4. Boundary pushers. They stretched then/today’s unexplored/sterile territories and even (arguably) invented several music styles which gave life to other (today's) offshoots. By doing so, they were always in countercurrent to what mainstream typically offered while influencing countless artists to come. In the end, as my all-time music hero Frank Zappa once said: “without deviation from the norm progress is not possible,” right? A feat which has given many modern artists the courage to do their own thing.


When you put in a mixer all the latter, you got what I call a “God in Music.” Yes, they are an acquired taste for most people, but as any acquired taste in life, they deserve at very least a try and probably several “attentive” listenings before you get hooked by their genius, but once you “get it,” (if so) they will change your life and view regarding music forever while opening new brand doors in this marvelous art.


Said that, each ”God in Music” presented below shows some key information: the main music genres they (used to) play, a brief bio, (IMO) their top 10 albums which might be a good entrance if you are not familiar to some "Gods" and their music, the number of official albums (studio, live, EP/singles, outakes, etc.) and songs which are available for streaming on Apple Music —and most streaming platforms,— a link to a public playlist which gathers the discography of the music available for streaming by each “God,” and a public playlist that gathers it all and the duration in days (continuous listening of the playlist)


For those who share the same musical taste or even if you are just a curious fan looking for new territories in music, you are in the right place and you are going to love this. The playlists alone worth the whole thing, the latter will save you days if not weeks of manual assembling, trust me. Hopefully this artisanal yet state of the art work is of your liking, and these recommendations (help you) expand your spectrum in music especially for those who are not familiar with (some) my “Gods in Music.”


Milestones


1,800+ albums

18,000+ songs

270+ GB of music stored

80+ days of continuous music

11 Gods


🇺🇸🎸🎷🎹 🎺🎻God of Gods: Frank Zappa (1940–1993); IMHO the greatest composer in XX century. My all-time hero. He opened me the door to all kind of avenues in music. The creator of “radical rock” during the '60s who later pursued even more adventurous avenues, ranging from R&B to jazz fusion to comedy rock, hard rock, art rock, prog rock to experimental music, avant-garde, modern composition, musique concrète to avant-garde classical composition, chamber music to complex & elaborated computer music to… you name it; yet rabid and die-hard fans (are out there any other kind of Zappa’s fans, anyways?) will tell you labels are far and away from his colossal catalog since the master plays in a league of his own. Multi-instrumentalist, uncompromising talent and creativity, self-taught, eclectic, boundary-pushing & prolific composer, virtuoso guitarist, film maker, arranger, producer, orchestral conductor, demanding recruiter, perfectionist bandleader, successful businessman, and not the least, uncensored and sharp articulated speaker especially on social and political critique of the American culture.

 

His disparate influences included Chicago blues (Muddy Waters, Guitar Slim, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny “Guitar” Watson), doo wop music (The Penguins)

and avant-garde classical music (Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varèse, Anton Webern, Béla Bartók); although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce. Nominally, he was a popular musician, but his recordings rarely earned significant airplay or sales, yet he was able to gain control of his recorded work and issue it successfully through his own labels while also touring internationally, in part because of the respect he earned from a dedicated cult of fans and many serious musicians, and also because he was an articulate spokesman who promoted himself into a media star through extensive interviews he considered to be a part of his creative effort just like his music. The Mothers of Invention, the '60s group he led, often seemed to offer a parody of popular music and the counterculture (although he affected long hair and jeans, Zappa was openly scornful of hippies and drug use). By the '80s, he was testifying before Congress in opposition to censorship (and editing his testimony into one of his albums). But these comic and serious sides were complementary, not contradictory. In statement and in practice, Zappa was an iconoclastic defender of the freest possible expression of ideas. And most of all, he was a composer far more ambitious than any other rock musician of his time and most classical musicians, as well. In short? one-of-a-kind genius.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. The Yellow Shark 2. Hot Rats, 3. Läther, 4. Civilization Phase III, 5. Absolutely Free, 6. Uncle Meat, 7. Apostrophe (‘), 8. Lumpy Gravy Primordial, 9. Over-Nite Sensation, 10. Joe’s Garage.

 

Frank Zappa’s Milestones:

132 albums

3,323 songs

11 days of continuous listening

41 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 

Guide to Frank Zappa’s Discography by The Shark (Original Content)


🇺🇸🎸🎹 🎷🎻🎬🪇Avant-Garde God: John Zorn (1953-present); The one word virtually everyone can agree on in any discussion of the work of composer John Zorn is "prolific." Titles under his own name number well over 150, and the sheer number of works he has composed, produced, or played on easily doubles that. Zorn's compositional diversity is staggering. He's written elaborate "game pieces" (Cobra), fused hardcore punk and avant-jazz on Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman, and classical chamber works. He has penned numerous books of compositions numbering in the thousands. He's written dozens of soundtracks, solo organ works, chamber pieces, rock, jazz exotica recordings (Dreamers), and lieder (Madrigals). His revolving cast of musicians, ranging from the obscure to the internationally renowned includes Kronos Quartet, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Pat Metheny, and Frank London. Zorn has also mentored countless musicians in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and through his long-running Tzadik label. In 2023, Tzadik released Bagatelles, Vol. 3: Trigger, comprising four discs of unpublished works performed by four different ensembles. In 2024 he issued a dozen albums that included the Shakespeare-inspired Her Melodious Lay, Ballades, and Lamentations. Through the Looking Glass, performed by a quartet that included John Medeski and Matt Hollenberg, appeared in 2025, followed by Impromptus, a set of freewheeling piano trio compositions.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. Bar Kokhoba, 2. Andras: The Book of Angels, Vol. 28, 3. The Gift, 4. Godard/Spillane, 5. Cobra: Game Pieces, Vol. 2, 6. Naked City 7. Masada - The Circle Maker, 8. At the Mountain of Madness - Live In Europe, 9. The Big Gundown, 10. The Best of Filmworks - 20 Years of Soundtrack Music.

 

John Zorn’s Milestones:

358 albums

3,605 songs

13.2 days of continuous listening

54 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 

Guide to John Zorn’s Discography by The Shark (Original Content)


🇺🇸🎷🎻Jazz God: Miles Davis (1926–1991); A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter who helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion. Throughout most of his 50-year career, Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. It was a style that, along with his brooding stage persona, earned him the nickname "Prince of Darkness." However, Davis proved to be a dazzlingly protean artist, moving into fiery modal jazz in the '60s and electrified funk and fusion in the '70s, drenching his trumpet in wah-wah pedal effects along the way. More than any other figure in jazz, Davis helped establish the direction of the genre with a steady stream of boundary-pushing recordings, among them 1957's chamber jazz album Birth of the Cool (which collected recordings from 1949-1950), 1959's modal masterpiece Kind of Blue, 1960's orchestral album Sketches of Spain, and 1970's landmark fusion recording Bitches Brew. Davis' own playing was obviously at the forefront of those changes, but he also distinguished himself as a bandleader, regularly surrounding himself with sidemen and collaborators who likewise moved in new directions, including the luminaries John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and many more. While he remains one of the most referenced figures in jazz, a major touchstone for generations of trumpeters (including Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, and Nicholas Payton), his music reaches far beyond the jazz tradition, and can be heard in the genre-bending approach of performers across the musical spectrum, ranging from funk and pop to rock, electronica, hip-hop, and more.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. In a Silent Way, 2. Bitches Brew, 3. A Tribute To Jack Johnson, 4. Kind of Blue 5. Miles Ahead 6. Get Up With It, 7. 'Round About Midnight, 8. Sketches of Spain, 9. Miles Smiles, 10. On the Corner.

 

Miles Davis’ Milestones:

139 albums

1,800 songs

8.7 days of continuous listening

27 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 

Guide to Miles Davis’ Discography by The Shark (Original Content)


🇬🇧🎸Prog-Rock Gods: King Crimson(1968-present); If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities. The absence of mainstream compromises and the lack of an overt sense of humor ultimately doomed the group to nothing more than a large cult following, but it made their albums some of the most enduring and respectable of the prog rock era.


Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. Discipline, 2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic 3. In the Court of the Crimson King, 4. In the Wake of Poseidon, 5. Islands, 6. Lizard, 7. Starless and Bible Black, 8. Red, 9. Beat, 10. Three of a Perfect Pair.


King Crimson's Milestones:

83 albums

721 songs

2.8 days of continuous listening

9 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 


🇺🇸🎷🎻Avant-Garde Jazz God: Sun Ra (1914-1993); Bandleader, composer, arranger, keyboard player, poet, philosopher, and cosmonaut Sun Ra advanced jazz into the space age. Through his elaborate concerts, films, and countless recordings, he fused imagery and mythology related to ancient Egypt as well as science fiction, planting the seeds for what would eventually be referred to as Afrofuturism. Ra's music encompassed nearly every style of jazz, with roots in ragtime and swing, bebop and avant-garde jazz. Initially active as a blues pianist, he worked with swing musicians such as Coleman Hawkins during the 1940s, then established his own trajectory during the '50s, when he founded the ever-changing ensemble known as the Arkestra. Establishing their interstellar mystique, the group sported futuristic costumes during their outlandish performances, and recorded constantly, issuing records through Ra's independent label El Saturn Records, often with misleading or nonexistent liner notes. During the 1960s, the Arkestra released landmark albums such as The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (1965) and Atlantis (1969), groundbreaking in their shifting away from conventional melody and harmony, as well as their usage of synthesizers and electronic keyboards. Ra's surrealist sci-fi epic Space Is the Place, preceded by an unrelated album of the same title, was released in 1974, subsequently becoming a major cult classic film. Later concerts and recordings by Ra incorporated swing standards and even tunes from Disney movies, but maintained a heavy degree of improvisation, and remained highly unpredictable. The Arkestra has continued to perform since Ra's passing in 1993, and he remains a crucial influence on all forms of creative, forward-thinking music.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. Lanquidity, 2. Sleeping Beauty, 3. Strange Celestial Road, 4. Space is the Place, 5. The Magic City, 6. Jazz in Silhouette, 7. Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy, 8. Sound of Joy, 9. Atlantis, 10. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Vol. 1.

 

Sun Ra’s Milestones:

177 albums

854 songs

6.7 days of continuous listening

21 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 


🇺🇸🎸🎷🎻Guitar God: Buckethead (1969-present); Buckethead is one of the most bizarre and enigmatic figures in American underground and experimental music since Parliament-Funkadelic birthed their bevy of cosmic characters in the mid-'70s. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist best known for his virtuosic command of the electric guitar, Buckethead is one of the instrument's most recognizable contemporary innovators, his rapid-fire riffing, near-robotic fretwork, and idiosyncratic lead lines combining elements of Yngwie Malmsteen, Adrian Belew, Slayer's Kerry King, P-Funk's Eddie Hazel, and avant-improv artist John Zorn's Scud-attack sax abuse. Buckethead's extensive solo discography currently includes 31 studio albums, one live album, two extended plays, five special releases, six demo tapes, & four DVD releases. Since 2011, Buckethead started releasing albums in the "Pikes" series, mini albums usually around 30 minutes in length, each with a sequential number similar to a comic book. Buckethead has released 655 Pike albums, 175 of which are live albums. He has released collaborative albums with Brain, Travis Dickerson, Melissa Reese, Viggo Mortensen, Shin Terai, DJ Disk, Bootsy Collins, That 1 Guy and albums with the bands Praxis, Cornbugs, Science Faxtion, Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, and Deli Creeps, in addition to many other collaborations with bands and artists, and composed for films, all while maintaining his iconic KFC bucket and white mask stage attire. His first group, the San Francisco-based metal-funk combine the Deli Creeps, were a regional success, but disbanded before they could release anything. Buckethead's solo career has been more productive, thanks mostly to the motivation of Zorn and Bill Laswell, the latter of whom Buckethead has also recorded and toured with in Praxis. Laswell has also produced a number of Buckethead's solo albums (including Dreamatorium and Day of the Robot) and included him on more than a dozen one-off recordings with the likes of Hakim Bey, Bootsy Collins, Anton Fier, Jonas Hellborg, and Bernie Worrell. In addition to releases including 1998's Colma, Buckethead has also contributed soundtrack material to such films as Last Action Hero and Street Fighter. Buckethead returned in 1999 with Monsters and Robots, after which he joined the short-lived re-formation of Guns N' Roses. A steady stream of releases followed into the 21st century ranging from the contemplative Electric Tears to a more electronica/rock hybrid, and collaborations with San Francisco's underground hip-hop scene. In the following decade, he averaged a few releases a year, teaming up with dozens of artists, including Les Claypool, Iggy Pop, and Mike Patton, and in 2008, he collaborated with actor/musician Viggo Mortensen for Pandemonium from American. A dizzying string of releases would follow before the actor and the enigmatic guitarist worked together again in 2011 on Reunion. The following year, Buckethead released Electric Sea, a follow-up to his 2002 album, Electric Tears.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. Colma, 2. Giant Robot, 3. Electric Tears 4. Crime Slunk Scene, 5.  Monsters and Robots 6. Population Override 7. Chicken Noodles 8. Enter the Kitchen 9. Kaleidoscalp 10. Acoustic Shards.

 

Buckethead’s Milestones:

355 albums

1,821 songs

7.2 days of continuous listening

22 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 


🇬🇧🎸📟🎻Experimental Gods: The Legendary Pink Dots & Edward Ka-Spel (1980-present); The Legendary Pink Dots are an influential, staggeringly prolific group led by enigmatic frontman Edward Ka-Spel. Emerging from the early-'80s post-punk underground and sometimes categorized as industrial due to associations with bands like Skinny Puppy, the group's music is nearly impossible to pin down, drawing from Krautrock, ambient, folk, synth pop, and numerous other styles. The Dots' music is by turns melodic pop and exotic psychedelia, with classical influences, sampling, and relentlessly dark, violent, apocalyptic lyrics. Ka-Spel's rhotacistic vocals are instantly recognizable, and somewhat resemble a cross between Syd Barrett and Coil's John Balance. Aside from the group's only two constant members, Ka-Spel and keyboard player Phil Knight (also known as the Silverman), the Dots have consisted of a shifting supporting cast over the years, including Canadian dub reggae producer Ryan Moore (Twilight Circus), engineer Raymond Steeg, and guitarist Erik Drost. The group has toured relentlessly since its inception, and has released well over a hundred albums, EPs, and compilations on dozens of labels, including numerous limited cassettes and CD-Rs. Early releases such as 1982's Brighter Now consisted of quirky, minimal synth pop, and their work grew more ambitious and mystical, with expanded instrumentation and more adventurous, free-form song structures. The group released some of their best-known releases, including 1988's The Golden Age and 1991's The Maria Dimension, on Play It Again Sam before switching to Soleilmoon with 1995's From Here You'll Watch the World Go By, additionally releasing material on ROIR, Beta-lactam Ring, and other labels throughout the coming decades. An increasing number of digital releases appeared during the 2010s, including live recordings and archival collections, while studio albums appeared on Rustblade (10 to the Power of 9, 2014) and Metropolis (Pages of Aquarius, 2016).

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. The Maria Dimension, 2. Poppy Variations, 3. Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, 4. The Golden Age, 5. Asylum, 6. Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves, 7. Stained Glass Soma Fountain, 8. Island of Jewels, 9. The Whispering Wall 10. Any Day Now.

 

The Legendary Pink Dots’ Milestones:

178 albums

1,512 songs

7.3 days of continuous listening

22 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 


🇬🇧🎷🎻🎹Multi-Instrumental God: John Surman (1944-present); English saxophonist John Surman is a world-class composer, his large, diverse body of work -- classical, theatrical, and soundtrack -- has extended the boundaries of jazz. He studied clarinet as a child, then tenor, baritone, and soprano saxophones. He began playing jazz at the London College of Music and later studied at the London University Institute of Education. Following an eponymous leader debut in 1969, he recorded Where Fortune Smiles with guitarist John McLaughlin in 1971, and Morning Glory on Island with Terje Rypdal, John Marshall, and John Taylor in 1973. He signed with ECM (on which he has recorded almost exclusively since) for 1979's solo Upon Reflection, overdubbing saxes, clarinet, and synthesizer. Following The Adventures of Simon Simon with drummer Jack DeJohnette and Such Winters of Memory with singer Karin Krog, he kicked off the '90s with the solo Road to Saint Ives. Two wide-ranging quartet dates -- Adventure Playground (1992) and Stranger Than Fiction (1994) -- set the stage for 1997's live Proverbs and Songs, with Surman playing over a church organ and the Salisbury Festival Chorus. 2000's Coruscating and 2007's The Spaces in Between showcased the saxophonist with string groups. 2012's landmark, award-winning Saltash Bells marked a return to solo recording. 2015's Songs About This and That reunited him with Krog. 2018's trio offering Invisible Threads featured Brazilian pianist Nelson Ayers and vibraphonist Rob Waring. Surman and Waring enlisted guitarist Rob Luft and drummer Thomas Strønen for 2024's Words Unspoken in celebration of his 80th birthday. In January 2025, Cuneiform Records released Flashpoints and Undercurrents, a previously unissued full stereo recording by a tentet from 1969.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe, 2. Upon Reflection, 3. Coruscating, 4. Road to Saint Ives, 5. Cloud Line Blue, 6. Adventure Playground, 7. Proverbs and Songs, 8. Adventure Playground, 9. Westering Home, 10. Private City. 

 

John Surman’s Milestones:

51 albums

487 songs

1.8 days of continuous listening

6 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 

 

🇺🇸🎷Piano God: McCoy Tyner (1938-2020); Jazz pianist whose inventive two-handed forays, extensive modal solos, and dashing phrases made him arguably the best pianist to debut in the '60s. One of the most celebrated and influential jazz pianists of his generation, McCoy Tyner was known for his harmonically expansive modal voicings, commanding two-handed block-chord style, and fearless improvisational lines that touched upon African and Eastern musical traditions. Along with contemporaries Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and Chick Corea, Tyner redefined the sound of the modern jazz piano from the '60s onward, and his playing continues to guide up-and-coming musicians. Although primarily recognized for his work as a member of saxophonist John Coltrane's famed quartet with bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones, Tyner distinguished himself as a leader in his own right, releasing forward-looking dates like 1967's The Real McCoy, 1972's Sahara, and 1980's Horizon. Those albums found him building upon his time with Coltrane, having already contributed to innovative albums like 1961's Africa/Brass, 1961's My Favorite Things, and 1965's A Love Supreme. Throughout his career, Tyner continued to push himself, arranging for his big band and releasing Grammy-winning albums with 1987's Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane and 1992's The Turning Point. Active well into his seventies, Tyner remained a vital performer, becoming an NEA Jazz Master in 2002 and winning another Grammy for 2004's Illuminations with Christian McBride and Terence Blanchard. More engaging collaborations followed, including 2007's McCoy Tyner Quartet with Joe Lovano and 2008's Guitars with Bill Frisell, Béla Fleck, Derek Trucks, and others. He further showcased his virtuosity on 2009's Solo: Live from San Francisco and 2013's A Pair of Pianos with Larry Vuckovich.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. The Real McCoy, 2. Sama Layuca, 3. Sahara, 4. Extensions, 5. Expansions, 6. Trident, 7. Time for Tyner, 8. Song of the New World, 9. Asante, 10. Echoes of a Friend.

 

McCoy Tyner’s Milestones:

93 albums

674 songs

3.2 days of continuous listening

10.4 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 


🇺🇸🎷🎻Sax God: John Coltrane (1926-1967); A towering musical figure of the 20th century, saxophonist John Coltrane reset the parameters of jazz during his decade as a leader. At the outset, he was a vigorous practitioner of hard bop, gaining prominence as a sideman for Miles Davis before setting out as a leader in 1957, when he released Coltrane on Prestige and Blue Train on Blue Note. Coltrane quickly expanded his horizons, pioneering a technique critic Ira Gitler dubbed "sheets of sound," consisting of the saxophonist playing a flurry of notes on his tenor within the confines of a few chords. During his last days with Davis, along with his earliest records for Atlantic, Coltrane leaned into this technique, but as he developed his career as a leader in the early '60s, he also turned lyrical. His sweet, fluid soprano sax distinguished My Favorite Things, which helped turn the album into a standard upon its release in 1961, but Coltrane soon backed away from mainstream acceptance. Working with pianist McCoy Tyner, drummer Elvin Jones, and bassist Jimmy Garrison -- a band that would be labeled the "Classic Quartet" -- Coltrane entered a fearless exploratory phase, explicitly incorporating his spiritual quest into his experimental music. A Love Supreme, an album released on Impulse! in 1965, marked the popular height of this period, but Coltrane continued to voyage to the outer edges of jazz in his final years, collaborating with Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. Liver cancer ended his life prematurely: he died at the age of 40 in 1967, just ten years after his first LP as a leader -- but Coltrane's legacy was so varied and rich, he remained the touchstone for creativity in jazz for decades after his passing.

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. Blue Train, 2. Giant Steps, 3. My Favorite Things, 4. Africa/Brass, 5. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, 6. A Love Supreme, 7. Ascension, 8. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman 9. Bags & Trane, 10. Olé Coltrane.

 

John Coltrane’s Milestones:

153 albums

1,452 songs

8.5 days of continuous listening

27 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 



🇺🇸🎻🎹 🎷Structured Improviser God: Anthony Braxton (1945-present); Innovative avant-garde multi-instrumentalist and composer, one of the most important figures in the later free jazz community. Multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton is among the most influential and prolific musicians and theorists to emerge from the 20th century. His hundreds of albums offer everything from experimental compositional techniques, graphic and non-specific notation, serialism, electronic, and improvisation, while employing vast knowledge of the jazz tradition from bebop to vanguard to post-bop. Braxton's recording career began with Three Compositions of New Jazz in 1969 and the iconic, solo For Alto in 1971. Arista, SteepleChase, and other labels issued '70s-era recordings including both In the Tradition volumes (1974), Creative Orchestra Music 1976, and Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979. The '80s and '90s saw acclaimed releases including Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984, and Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh, and Octet (New York) 1995. In the 21st century, release highlights included Six Compositions (GTM) 2001, Trio (New Haven) 2013, the five-act opera Trillium J in 2016, and the archival Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013 in 2023. 

 

Shark’s Top 10 Albums: 1. The Montreux/Berlin Concerts, 2. New York, Fall 1974, 3. Dortmund (Quarter) 1976 (Live), 4. Conference of the Birds, 5. One in Two – Tw in One (Live), 6. 3 Compositions of New Jaz, 7. For Alto, 8. Five Pieces 1975, 8. Creative Orchestra Music 1976, 9. Six Monk´s Compositions (1987), 10. Birth and Rebirth.

 

Anthony Braxton’s Milestones:

141 albums

854 songs

8.2 days of continuous listening

24 GB of music stored

Updated: 30.10.2025

 

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