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Ahmad Jamal must be shared, especially when is so, so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Sktqhz6GI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nlk8itHuZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQvIvb1S1EM

^ Oh yes. How great.

There is also Grachan Moncur III that deserves some attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkMg7Z_60y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthH6fV70n4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dekirUHCGno

I think I discovered his New Africa when I was looking for Spiritual Jazz, a sub-genre of Jazz to which I usually return when I am alone, need to relax, think and forget about stress.

I already posted the masterpiece Out To Lunch, but Eric Dolphy demands more attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQj6uBPK6c (Iron Man - full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimpUKVAbY8 (Out To Lunch - full album, in case you missed it, and if so, shame on you!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlWCUN2EdNc (At the Five Spot Vol 1 - full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhKYOQK-dw (Out There - full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kilr601kki0 (The Complete Bremen Concert - with Mingus)

Hours of what to my ears is some of the best music ever done.

I already talked about some Coltrane, but never about his dear Alice. Spiritual jazz? Call it whatever you prefer.

Journey in Satchidananda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACC7W5xX9I
Ptah, the el Daoud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzuyR6GeXRg
Cosmic Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQh6vPZc8g

Only a couple of pieces from the very peculiar Divine Songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWZenAHenQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8egxzHqII

Ok, time for some Jazz today.

The saxophone, I love it. Listen to the drums and percussion, fantastic. Of course there are also great performances by Gillespie. I like the modern sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UokS1EpIRPw

My learning of jazz history will never end. Just discovered Sonny Simmons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9a8Dth_vc

He was there on the notes of some Dolphy records, just me not paying enough attention.

Leo, from Coltrane's LIVE IN JAPAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ldzusVBng

It took me years to come to love this kind of relentless, spiritual, free jazz. Late Trane career is usually a matter of love or hate. Mostly hate, at least from the people around me and from talents like Miles Davis.
Trane was looking for "something". He never stopped looking for it. He, and other brave musicians (Ayler, Dolphy...), pushed and stretched the jazz idiom in so many ways.
No wonder after the New Thing challenge, jazz went back to something more regular. Hard to get beyond stuff like this.

Let me just drop three records I felt in love with in the last couple of days.

David Murray - Flowers For Albert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZr7g8tJ3yo (for Albert Ayler, of course)

Jazz embracing different sounds and cultures:
Egberto Gismonti - Sol De Meio Dia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUy7UpLTKEQ
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ptOJ33u1bQ

I love it when jazz musicians open up to many influences and try to expand their solutions.

Missed my Jazz madness?

Joe Henderson sounds good at this time of the day (22:16)

Page One - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4rn85Tr_I
Four! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2qLXKy5-HU
The Elements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ZZQ17hHQQ (my favorite)

While more "just because it CAN be done" than seriously enjoyable music, Coltrane's 'Blue Train' solo note for note...on a fucking recorder. -_-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz7LvCS1oXM#t=36

^ Well, just wow!

Reading about free jazz, it is impossible not to take John Tchicai into consideration. Suffice it to say he played with Coltrane, Shepp and Cherry.

Rufus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmBPNQe0Fk
Nothing Doing in Krakow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_ExdhkOlE
Tribal Ghost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbPHdnfdQnI
Llanto del Indio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLXVkqc3-zQ

Have I not mention Sonny Rollins? Shame, shame on me.

Saxophone Colossus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWE65FVb4A (drums, courtesy of Max Roach, are delightful)
Oleo (with the always good Don Cherry) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gaWR7txU_Q

I just love Nina Simone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLtLfM71OM

^ who doesn't!? ;)

That is true Gekko.

Beautiful live gig from Italian jazz masters Enrico Rava and Massimo Urbani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YOv1bBaE_A

2 Female singers I enjoy Ella Fitzgerald and Bernadette Seacreast.
http://bernadetteseacrest.com/

People think Joni Mitchell is a folky. They forget "Hejira" (1976) -- probably my favorite Mitchell album -- JM, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GLJCZ5L2sQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2rjDBQ1UDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfPR_B8s-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG0kNny3WlY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejira_%28album%29

This is music that must be listened to; no background here.