Jazz for aficionados

@tyray 

I have an eclectic taste when it comes to music. I love classical, jazz, r&b, blues, soul, rock and roll, jazz fusion and yes, funk

I love Chicago and Terry Kath. Kath is one of my favorite guitarists. I would not say he is underrated, at least not by musicians or guitarists, he just died, sadly, way to young (don't ever play with guns)😔

I have plenty of Eddie Harris CDs in my collection. Same with War, Kool and the Gang, Tower of Power, Sly, and yes I have one Larry Graham CD which happens to be "Graham Central Station" (I do not like the opening track, "We've Been Waiting"). But I would not categorize Graham as jazz/funk, its more like pop/funk.

Have you ever listened to the great jazz trumpeter and composer, Donald Byrd's jazz funk recording sessions, 1969-1973. 6 good to very good albums (depending on the listener). Here is Byrd's 1971 release called "Ethiopian Knights"

https://youtu.be/Ofa8VEkCnFQ?si=QnJBEIBMx-8r1L5V

Another great jazz musician, guitarist Grant Green, recorded a few jazz/funk albums as well. Hear is a live album that is a killer jazz/funk session:

https://youtu.be/f2y3vttWeNU?si=4d_OAsIM3uFYryZS

@tyray  Check this band, its called the 'Liquid Soul' . This album is from 1996.

It seems that they were Chicago based, but played all over the country. Definitely the music I would like to hear somewhere in a club

https://youtu.be/OkJjhC2790g?si=uQOH99Ds40iuV868

There is so much different music, for every occasion and aldo I almost exclusively listen jazz music and like to believe that I have almost enough such music to accompany my thoughts and emotions, I am often 'surprised' that is not the case.

Just an album that I have listened a lot recently, Not a jazz music, hope it would not be a problem

O.W. Wright 'Memphis Unlimited' from 1973. few clips...

https://youtu.be/MxRXtTNvFHc?si=CQe5jumZQonzXub4

https://youtu.be/4LtUue836So?si=qCX9lgYx4vwDlpCx 

https://youtu.be/lMpCl73X3Q8?si=d_Lri4sRbLM6xSrX

@stuartk  Its an interesting thought (what is the origin of our esthetic taste)

There are lots of rational explanations and I would agree with lots of them. On the other hand, I always thought that my taste in music is born and ’developed’ since my early age, from the music I was exposed to as a child at home. But, than again, I am quite sure that my parents, who listened that music and even bought me lot of records did not listen that same music in their early childhood. (beeing generation that lived thru ww2 since they were born) So, just a rhetoric question that ask myself is who and when ’influenced’ them... 

@pjw81563  Paul, if you do not have this one already, check it out.

Grant Green 'Funk in France'

https://youtu.be/hcQ-bcp_pjQ?si=-DIdlvxBIccuvLKA

I wish that somebody transfer this gig into album

Green, Burrell, Kessell, live footage, together, in France, 1969.

https://youtu.be/_4jMQNJFPO4?si=MIUnJbHYCgrACvRA

@alexatpos 

I can see how one's early encounters with music could shape life long patterns but I'm talking about, for example, why one might enjoy Miles but not enjoy Chet Baker. I don't see logic in that. What am failing to grasp?