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My Favourites Jazz Albums

LETRA

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Nice day. I have hundreds of favorite albums saved after having listened to hundreds of thousands of tracks (this is my last.fm: https://www.last.fm/es/user/subletra ) and I want to share them with the forum. I will post here often with the cover, the links to the streaming platforms and maybe a comment or a link to an article that can be found on the Internet. For me all these are jewels, I hope you enjoy them.

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Lee Konitz, Renato Sellani

"Speakin' Lowly" Standard Series Vol. 1 (1994)


Surely my favorite album of all time. Released on the Italian label Philology, now defunct, where there are dozens of treasures to go with this one. The Philology label was known for making very ugly covers (with few exceptions like this one), but what was inside was extraordinary, one of the best in the history of jazz. On this occasion Lee Konitz, whose European period is in my opinion much more brilliant than the American, and Renato Sellani, an Italian pianist who is among the greatest in the history of music. This album sounds extraordinarily good on any equipment. It is a prodigy how it is recorded. A masterpiece.

DiscoGS: https://www.discogs.com/es/release/6514757-Konitz-Sellani-Speakin-Lowly

Rate Your Music: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/lee-konitz-renato-sellani/speakin-lowly/

Qobuz (There is a typo in the streaming platforms and they write it as “Speaking' Lowly”): https://play.qobuz.com/album/htt0qm6u0p8cb

Philology Label in Qobuz: https://play.qobuz.com/label/2948

Philology Label History (In Italian): https://jazzfromitaly.blogspot.com/2017/02/philology-jazz-life.html

Other streaming plataforms: https://album.link/es/i/307672443
 
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Orpheus

The Journey (2020)


Another extraordinarily good sounding album, this time very unknown too and released on the MusicJustMusic label. As the title indicates, it is a journey in which each of the tracks of the album expresses the different phases of the day. Jazz with many influences, mixed with nature and ambient sounds. A trip.

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Qobuz: https://play.qobuz.com/album/wqeyznrbmw2kb

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/6nTa5p3YS4mqaLHYFe5ywr

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/es/album/156451672

Label: https://www.galileomusic.de/artikel/23344/Orpheus_The_Journey
 
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Maki Asakawa

Maki V (1973)


Discovered by chance while browsing through the shared folder of a Chinese user on Soulseek, this Japanese woman is a myth in her country, although of all the albums I've been able to listen to this one seems to me the best and far away from the others. In the streaming platforms I think you can only find an anthology, with quite irregular tracks, I would say. But the good album is "Maki V", of which I leave you the cover and the recommendation to look for it wherever you can.

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Qobuz: Long Good-Bye [Anthology] (2010) https://play.qobuz.com/album/rdujdwiydmevb

Tidal: Long Good-Bye [Anthology] (2010) https://tidal.com/browse/album/200239243

Spotify: Long Good-Bye [Anthology] (2010) https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/6Y8gW4fuChGDGoPSJ5gmUa

DiscoGS: https://www.discogs.com/es/release/3327718-Maki-裏窓

Rate Your Music: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/浅川マキ/裏窓-ura-mado/

"Maki Asakawa, the lady in black who sang the blues", article in spanish in Muzikalia: https://muzikalia.com/maki-asakawa-la-dama-negro-cantaba-blues/

"Maki Asakawa: a voice that is addictive" (article in German): https://www.diepresse.com/4894572/maki-asakawa-eine-stimme-die-suechtig-macht
 
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Markusphilippe

Saxnbass (Par Coeur, 2012)


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One of the few jazz styles that I am not a regular is smooth jazz, although many people must listen to it since there are hundreds of Internet radio stations dedicated to that subgenre and in the USA it enjoys great popularity. Markus Fritzsche and Philippe Chrétien, two Swiss musicians, have devoted most of their discography to that style and I must say that many of their albums are very good and make the audio equipment shine with a great audiophile sound. This album however, still following a mainstream line in almost all of its tracks, is not smooth jazz, but magically manages to make any audio equipment sound in the first division. It is so well recorded and performed that it makes you not want to buy any other device. If all albums sounded like this the hi-fi stores would sell much less or at least not as often. A true marvel, a sonic luxury within everyone's reach.

Qobuz: https://play.qobuz.com/album/7640138840050

Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/18250998

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5pKpZ5MBXfz4DH2yTBRywT

DiscoGS: https://www.discogs.com/es/release/22920398-Markus-Fritzsche-Philippe-Chrétien-saxnbass

Par Coeur label: https://www.discogs.com/es/label/10...sOlY7mbmkb_Tp0GhQVwHDxQlCe_U0tvMmM-luC&page=1

Artist webpage: https://www.markusphilippe.com/
 
For the newbies to jazz here is a great video detailing the progression of jazz.
 
The underacknowledged Beegie Adair.

Hi, thanks for your posts, but are off-topic. This is a personal thread with my compilation of hundreds of favorite albums over the years.

Thanks for your understanding.
 
Hi, thanks for your posts, but are off-topic. This is a personal thread with my compilation of hundreds of favorite albums over the years.

Thanks for your understanding.
I'm not sure that's how internet forums work. Certainly not this one .... You don't get to have personal threads.
 
I'm not sure that's how internet forums work. Certainly not this one .... You don't get to have personal threads.


The thread has a theme which are my personal tastes and, as in any thread, what goes out of that theme is off-topic. I'm not really sure you know how the internet and forums work if you don't understand it. You can't just jump in anywhere and dump junk youtube videos with no relation to the thread. But if you insist, I stop posting messages in this thread and you can make yourself the lord and master of everything to generate noise in the wrong place.

Thanks for your understanding.
 
The thread has a theme which are my personal tastes and, as in any thread, what goes out of that theme is off-topic. I'm not really sure you know how the internet and forums work if you don't understand it. You can't just jump in anywhere and dump junk youtube videos with no relation to the thread. But if you insist, I stop posting messages in this thread and you can make yourself the lord and master of everything to generate noise in the wrong place.

Thanks for your understanding.
Or you can tell your curious story walking. Good bye .
 
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