Can I get some synopsis'

Thelonious Monk - Underground:
late career album from one of the goat jazz composers and most idiosyncratic pianists. mostly different interpretations of his past songs (some of which were already 20 years old at this point) but still fire. only a few years before he was retired completely due to his mental illness and other health declining

Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear:
I'm not that deep into him yet but very nice album from a blind dude famous for playing multiple saxes at once. not as avant-garde as some of his other stuff I've heard. Hendrix was a stan

Duke Ellington - And His Mother Called Him Bill
great late career album by a 68 year old Ellington, made as a tribute for his closest collaborator Billy Strayhorn who worked with him for almost 30 years. all Strayhorn compositions, also includes the last one he wrote on his deathbed. still playing his style that he already had defined decades ago so it sounds different from these others but still fine work

Miles Davis - Nefertiti
I'm only a few listens deep into this one but its a great offering from the mid-late 60s Miles Davis all star lineup right before he went into fusion. you can kinda hear the seeds of In a Silent Way type stuff

Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
one of the most violent and heavy jazz albums ever, certainly for the time. one of the most significant contributions to the genre to come from Europe. ultimate room clearing music not for the faint of heart

@HeyFella that Sobs album

@branmalt @drjdeponytail you guys will probably dig this too since you're into poppy 90s sounding stuff

got the Nazi tied up

just play the Monk first

I like ambient and electronic more than jazz ngl

u hype for this?

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Yeah there are a handful of jazz albums/artists i can put on and jam/zone out to, and another handful that i can appreciate but dont ever put on like that.

Jazz is an unfortunate blindspot for me and ive always wanted to dive into it more. Tried several times but my thing is that 95% of my music listening has always happened in my car commuting to work or taking a roadtrip. Most jazz has never really fit that vibe for me, which sounds weird to say cause i believe playing jazz during your commute is a relatively common thing my generation and older.

Same with learning a second language. I would trade my soul if i could instantly know just one other language semi-fluently. I have tried so so many classes, programs, subscription apps... Nothing has really worked no matter how motivated i am to actually work on it. I doubt even the "total immersion" process would work for me at this point. If you dropped me in a region where nobody spoke english, i would try to learn whatever the native tongue is a few times and then just end up being known as the loneliest man in that area

When it comes to vocal-less music, 100%

yeah this is rad. I think you would dig these guys too:

man i made it 45 minutes into Knight of Cups with my girl and she was falling asleep i thought it was good af so far though, seems like my kind of film

yeah it’s always been this for me. there’s just those few comfort jazz albums that i put on from time to time

there was a period where i was actively seeking new ambient music lmfao i was obsessed. used to love listening while i studied.

Yeah this kinda stuff has been my jam lately

Not sure how exciting Marlene's life was at Jessica's age but I guess so same guy that made Glee?

Top 10 of 2022:

MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs
Fleshwater - We’re Not Here to Be Loved
Roc Marciano & The Alchemist - The Elephant Man’s Bones
Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters
Alex G - God Save the Animals
Hatchie - Giving the World Away
Bill Callahan - Ytilaer
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Wormrot - Hiss

You need to peep this Boldy x Craven joint, probably my fav rap album this year.

So good for de season

That artwork :datass:

Driving to Sketches of Spain is beyond epic if you're out in the country but your usual jazz doesn't really work for me either.

And yeah trying to learn French was impossible but I feel like I could acclimate to German if I lived there. Stuck with me more than anywhere else for whatever reason.

My mother knows Spanish so I understand like 90% of it, I've always been pretty s*** at speaking it though. She knows a good chunk of Italian too.

I can also pick up a bit of Russian too strangely enough. Just from knowing a few of them here and from movies haha. Germans might as well be speaking some Star Wars language. I don't understand it at all.

I took German from 7th grade through college and only remember like 10 words

Yeah this albums kicks ass. This beat