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brubeck?
for pianists, check out thelonius monk or cecil taylor or ran blake or early (and only early) chick corea or keith jarret's american quartet recordings (with dewey redman, charlie haden and paul motian) or anthony davis or fred van hove or sun ra....
if i was to recommend a couple jazz rcords that i think worth checking out beyond the above (all pianists, all amazing players--and a short list of them no less) i would say maybe julius hemphill's dogon a.d. or the art ensemble of chicago's vast body of work, or sun ra's vast body of work, or coltrane from impressions onward, or john carter's work, or ornette coleman (beauty is a rare thing is an astonishing compilation--expensive, but great--if you have access to a library with a good collection, get it from there)
there is so much of this music out there.
hope that you have an unreasonable amount of fun wandering about in it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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