So I've noticed I'm not the only forum member here who is fond of darkjazz. Not too surprising, as I'd say Badalamenti was pretty important to the establishment of the genre.
This thread is for sharing all your favorite dark jazz tracks/albums. Feel free to derive a bit from the genre if you feel like.
I discovered this genre pretty recently and I'm not really familiar with any bands apart from the four - Bohren & der Club of Gore, Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation and, of course, the Dale Cooper Quartet - which seem to be the ones everyone talks about. I'd love to get some recommendations.
nice thread...i really like yusef lateef, and that's my favorite album by that particular line-up of crimson.
i was sorry to hear about wetton's passing today.
here's some george crumb, not jazz but his work does allow for some improv, and there are some jazzy harmonies here and there. a lot of his work
is pretty dark and i like it a lot. this is the devil music and danse macabre section from his string quartet, "black angels":
do you guys know patty waters? her stuff takes a lot of patience but she's probably the darkest jazz vocalist i've ever heard. her version of " black is the color of my true love's hair" from 1965 is pretty long but worth it...she starts off fairly low and straightforward, but gradually gets more and more insane...swooping to nearly three octaves above middle c and then back down for some evil moans and disturbing shrieking. it's a truely psychotic reading of the song, yet it's really so beautiful at the same time.
i wish she had made more albums.
It warms my heart to know there are other Lynch fans that like George Crumb and John Zorn (one of my idols)
“For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.”
― Austin Osman Spare