and am I alone in finding it boring?

Like a great many recordings there are those that love it and hate it.

And what do you think of it?

(how will he manage to avoid this question???)

You didn't ask what I specifically thought of it. You asked if you were the only one to find it boring.


I happen to enjoy it.

I thought it was clear what I was aiming at...
mmm maybe I'm just not a jazzman, it's a difficult genre for me...

I detest Frank Zappa's Music

and why?

I can't explain it.

Ok after thinking it over a bit more, here is an updated and slightly rearranged list. Still keeping it to one per musician, which actually complicates this a lot.

Yes, I know I should be expecting a class action suit because this has now expanded to 21.



John Coltrane - Ascension
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift & Not Goodbye
Evan Parker - 50th Birthday Concert
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Peter Brotzmann - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts Vol. 1 & 2
Anthony Braxton - Willisau (Quartet) 1991
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo
Charles Gayle - Touchin' on Trane
Steve Lacy - Morning Joy
Horace Taspcott - The Dark Tree Vol. 1 & 2
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Alexander Schlippenbach - Pakistani Pomade
Fred Anderson - Two Days in April
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall
David S. Ware - Godspelized
Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism of Erik Satie
Joe Maneri - Coming Down the Mountain
John Law - Exploded on Impact



Now if we were to go by the original meaning of avant-garde my first choice would be Satchmo’s Hot Five and Sevens recordings.

Man, Orpheus...Zappa boring? I don't think I could EVER associate Zappa w/ that word, lol...I love Hot Rats; fantastic proto-fusion/jazz-rock...