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since my 50 underrated guitarists post earned me a bunch of notice I figure this is as good a time as any to lay out my musical interests in a chronological manner
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PRE-WAR MUSIC: not too knowledgeable, unfortunately, but I figure given how much I like what Duke Ellington I've heard, that'd be a good starting point
POST-WAR TO MID '50S: still a bit shaky but you know who was amazing was Louis Jordan
I also like early bop, though the stuff I like really takes off in...
I also like early bop, though the stuff I like really takes off in...
LATE '50S: early rock I can take or leave, classic blues is by and large really my shit, and the golden age of bop around this time is mesmerizing; the whole Mingus/Miles/Coltrane/Rollins braintrust is always worth a deep dive to me
EARLY '60S: more bop, as well as early free jazz (Sun Ra; Ornette; Ayler). Soul really starts kicking in for me (Ray Charles and James Brown obv.), there's early Dylan, some great surf rock, Link Wray, Roy Orbison. More great electric blues. ENNIO MORRICONE.
LATE '60S: sold as this big mythical era when I was an '80s kid and maybe that's a bit overdone but what was great was ASTOUNDING. Bossa/MPB. Soul jazz. Garage into psych. Early stirrings of funk. Electric Miles. Girl-group lineage turning into singer-songwriters (Nyro; King)...
...Motown really going supernova, Stax/Volt both before and shortly after the Redding tragedy, Obligatory Nod To Beatles/Stones/Who, ska into rocksteady into early reggae, blues greats still killing it, Mulatu Astatke's Ethio-jazz, Beefheart, VU, David Axelrod, MC5, CCR, JIMI.
EARLY '70S: oh boy here we fucking GO. Combo of classic rock parentage/hip-hop-influenced cratedigging means this is my favorite before-my-time era. Proto-punk, peak arena rock, prog, fusion, funk in all its forms, Philly soul, MPB and reggae really going places, Afrobeat (Fela!)
Glam rock! Krautrock and kosmische. Art rock in all its guises from Roxy to Floyd. Aretha just going from strength to strength. Latin soul going from late '60s boogaloo to salsa. A golden age of film scores. Neil Young. Joni Mitchell. STEVIE. Even library music owned back then.
