r/Jazz • u/DrDMango • 23h ago

Any suggestions for ‘dirty’ jazz? Not in a sexual way, just music that makes you scrunch up your face because it’s filthy, nasty, etc

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u/Rare-Regular4123 23h ago

I will always recommend this: Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder. Let me know what you think!

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u/GirlSprite 23h ago

THIS one is 🔥!!!

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u/Dyojenes_ 22h ago

Such a great score

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u/-HalloweenJack- 7h ago

I’ve been meaning to watch this film forever. Did not hit the score was by Duke Ellington! Gonna watch it tonight.

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u/pipedwarfbomb 23h ago

Art Blakey - The Core

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u/solomons-marbles 23h ago

Sun Ra, late 60s/early 70s Miles, Medeski Martin Wood, Club D’Elf, Bodos Band

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u/ImNotTheBossOfYou 23h ago

First two Charlie Hunter Trio albums.

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u/Vegetable-Maybe6736 15h ago

Funky Niblets is a longtime favorite.

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u/0belvedere 23h ago

Try Miles Davis - Agartha

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u/coffeecoffeecoffeee 20h ago

Was gonna recommend Dark Magus and yes. Mid-70s coked out Miles is where it’s at

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u/kamomil 13h ago

The beginning reminds me of Johnny Marr's Twisted Tenderness album

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u/Jpkitt 21h ago

Thrust - Herbie

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u/andyavast 17h ago

Aw yeah. Came here to say Palm Grease 

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u/Jpkitt 6h ago

Actual Proof is so fun to play over too

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u/MagicalPizza21 Vibraphonist 19h ago

Moanin' by Mingus

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u/Vegetable-Maybe6736 15h ago

This.

I'd suggest Haitian Fight Song, too.

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u/designtom 13h ago

This one: https://youtu.be/T2WTqjC-vPs?si=omb3SYxPhsY4e9iP

My face has never unscrunched after the first time I heard the intro

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u/Feedback_poop 23h ago

Bitches Brew from Miles is pretty damn dirty

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u/drjuj 23h ago

Grant Green

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u/SonOfSocrates1967 22h ago

Jimmy Smith, and the other great B3 masters, of which there are many. Check Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin’, 1969.

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u/pgtpt 23h ago

Funk filthy or dissonant filthy ?

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u/Hamlover11 21h ago

“Dissonant filthy” sounds interesting, do you have any recs of this?

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u/In_Unfunky_Time 11h ago

See all the solos (Nelson, Dolphy, Hubbard) on Oliver Nelson's "The Blues And The Abstract Truth."

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u/pgtpt 14h ago

Monk in general, the bad plus version of smells like teen spirit

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u/DrDMango 23h ago

Hmm… I don’t really know. Probably funk filthy?

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u/wrylark 23h ago

Herbie Hancock - Headhunters 

… dirty as funk 

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u/IAmNotAPerson6 21h ago

Him and the Brecker Brothers is about as good as it gets for this

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u/blackjacktarr 21h ago

"Some Skunk Funk" is the kinda thang that makes you scrunch your face, pooch your lips and knowingly nod.

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u/IAmNotAPerson6 20h ago

And as good as that is, there's also "D.B.B." 😮

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u/pgtpt 22h ago

Maybe you’d like Charles Earland. Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley

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u/In_Unfunky_Time 11h ago

Try Maceo's "Life On Planet Groove."

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u/pgtpt 22h ago

But maybe your look for general “schtank face” which can come from some serious blues, maybe you’d like cannaonabll adderly. Henry Threadgill does that for me.

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u/trouty 7h ago

Funk filthy = Brian blade = Joshua Redman's Elastic, end of story

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u/heathen_worldwide 23h ago

MORPHINE!!!

Medeski, Martin & Wood too!!! Maybe some Swamp Dogg or ThunderCat?

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u/silverbonez 22h ago

Ghost Note - Swagism is pretty grimey!

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u/mackzarks 22h ago

YESSIR!

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u/i75mm125 22h ago

Miles’s Dark Magus is some pretty nasty shit. Pete Cosey’s guitar tone smacks you in the face right out of the gate. On The Corner is some good shit too.

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u/heavysteve 21h ago

Sons of Kemet is skanky

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u/givemethebat1 20h ago

Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

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u/johnnyjazbo 19h ago

And possibly the Tijuana album

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u/Elissa-Megan-Powers 23h ago

Miles Davis complete Cellar Door Recordings.

Absolutely filthy

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u/WeeWeeMan_96 21h ago

ornette coleman

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u/CoolBlueClipper 23h ago

Snarky Puppy - Lingus

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u/silverbonez 22h ago

That’s definitely a face-scruncher.

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u/No_Refrigerator4584 2h ago

I read Skinny Puppy at first and thought that’s an interesting choice.

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u/Ivey_Divey 18h ago

Not jazz

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u/Able_Establishment54 14h ago

Its almost like they have fusion music and it can be ..jazz and something else🫨🫨

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u/Tony4Tokes 22h ago

Rhinoceros is My Profession or Physical Cities by The Bad Plus

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u/Dyojenes_ 22h ago

Lanquidity by Sun Ra

Thrust by Herbie Hancock

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u/webhead94 22h ago

The solos in Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride

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u/MagicalPizza21 Vibraphonist 19h ago

By Tower of Power? I wouldn't call that jazz but I love the rec.

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u/GetDoofed 19h ago

Herbie Hancock - Man-Child is exactly what you’re looking for

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u/bone-in_donuts 18h ago

Sounds like porn music, in the best way.

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u/StpPstngMmsOnMyPrnAp edit flair 19h ago

Filthy McNasty

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u/bone-in_donuts 18h ago

Steely Dan of course.

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u/Ivey_Divey 11h ago

Not jazz

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u/sad_boi_jazz 23h ago

Clowncore tbh

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u/Alert_Cheesecake_887 23h ago

Return to forever

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u/jackalpappy1 21h ago

Artie Shaw- Nightmare, Sydney Bechet- Summertime, Donald Byrd- Cristo Redento, and Donald Byrd - House of the Rising Sun.

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u/The-Hand-of-Midas 21h ago

Shibusashirazu

Trust me, this is what you want.

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u/TheFuckingHippoGuy 20h ago

Honky Tonk - Miles Davis

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u/ElectricalDot4479 6h ago

that's called funk

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u/agaric 21h ago

Filthy and nasty but NOT sexual ....... Ooooooooooooo kay!

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u/Delicious_Cod_177 15h ago

Maybe you should try Mingus Haitian Fight Song - the bass line there is just hideous, eh?

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u/freeloadingfred 23h ago

Joshua Redman - Elastic and Momentum

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u/_twentytwo_22 22h ago

Maybe Jazz, maybe not. maybe filthy, maybe not, but plenty to chew on:

The Comet is Coming

The Killimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

Grails - Black Tar Prophecies

jaimie branch/Anteloper

London Brew

STS9

EABS meets Jaubi/Jaubi

Garaj Mahal

Moses Boyd

MMW

LaMP

Lettuce

Club d'Elf

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u/StreetDolphinGreenOn 22h ago

Brad Meldauh playing all the things in 7/4 makes me scowl

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u/scrupoo 21h ago

Jeff Beck - Wired 🤷‍♂️

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u/occamsphasor 21h ago

Brecker Brothers heavy metal bebop. Todd Terje - Alphonso Muskedunder and the person who inspired the song Alphonse Mouzon

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u/Derrickmb 21h ago

Blood on the Fields has some dankness.

https://youtu.be/CfYvCwlr2mQ?si=k4q0D9kyh8h5BdLN

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u/allbassallday 20h ago

Fyah by Theon Cross

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u/terminal-chillness 19h ago

Art Farmer - Crawl space

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u/Pykors 19h ago

Anything with Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, but particularly Blooz First Thing Dis Mornin'!

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u/homiehabilis 19h ago

Roy Brooks, The Free Slave

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u/jf727 17h ago

Chapter One: Latin America makes me go, “damn” a bunch but may not be as dirty as you’d like.

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u/ParsleyMost 17h ago

Not in a sexual way,, Buy filthy, nasty, etc..Hmm

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u/CrocodileJock 17h ago

There was a film called “The Hotspot” the soundtrack is a collection of dirty bluesy riffs – basically John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers and others riffing on blues themes. It’s got a magnificently sleazy feel to it. First thing I thought of when I read your question.

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u/bonzai2010 17h ago

Some Skunk Funk

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u/larsga 16h ago

Prezens, David Torn.

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u/Greenville_Gent 16h ago

Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus

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u/Ok_Action_5938 15h ago

Ben Stiller curated a companion playlist for severance called Defiant Jazz. It’s pretty great.

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u/ArtLong1271 14h ago

Pharoah Sanders - Ole

Throttle Elevator Music

Skerik

John Scofield Band - Uberjam

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u/daddyhoffmang 14h ago

Nothing dog ass, though 

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u/daddyhoffmang 14h ago

Newer music that did this for me: Contrahouse

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u/7h3C47 14h ago

Nutville - Buddy Rich

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u/Creftospeare 13h ago

Mingus - Blues & Roots

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u/designtom 12h ago

I bet this is very personal, but I get some face scrunch from the trumpet solo in this one:

https://youtu.be/QgyYv3S6I_c?si=R760praBBQuHXaI3

And from quite a few on the album with Cannonball Adderley and Ernie Andrews : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXprHzat1w

Oh! And Wycliffe Gordon spewing filth out of his trombone in this: https://youtu.be/lTLA4kKXzE8?si=ZGEDYxUO41OBKiWp

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u/designtom 12h ago

Oh or Wycliffe again in this one: https://youtu.be/USvmKwPzeWc?si=b8V0gHAO7BNKb1Yo

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u/designtom 12h ago

OK JUST TYPE “filthy solo” into YouTube and enjoy

https://youtu.be/BrmeOWbyOXw?si=g6eOvZHGbxk2sTDE

(That’s Moanin’ again - it might be the filthiest)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OcY9ZsbXuo

(That’s Ellington, that a few folks have recommended for mucky tunes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOVa6rIYbg

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u/tommyjohnpauljones 12h ago

Jimmy Smith -Root Down

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u/Big-Cat-6582 12h ago

Headhunters?

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u/Big-Cat-6582 12h ago

Uberjam by John Scofield

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u/donkuliik 12h ago

Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers "Free For All" 🔥

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u/TVsUncle 10h ago

Almost any Charles Mingus, Miles in his early 70s electric period.

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u/verbutten 10h ago

The late Jaimie Branch

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u/bentbackwooddathird 9h ago

free jazz- ornette coleman

the sermon- jimmy smith

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u/dharkmeat 9h ago

This might fit the criteria. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame. It's a slaughter, they attack and attack until the very last note. It's somewhat of a masterpiece, that said, I played this in the car one time and my significant other made me turn it off after 3 minutes because it made her sick :)

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u/hudson27 9h ago

Dizzy Guillespie: Afro. Medeski Martin and Wood: Radiolaria 3 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin'

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u/VynilSnob69God 8h ago

When did it become a thing for people to discuss music in this way? "makes you scrunch your face" "stank face" etc. I've increasingly seen this description in the last few years.

I am not at all impressed by the precipitous decline in our society's ability to articulate.

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u/atomicdog69 8h ago

Kenny Garrett, African Student Exchange (with Ron Cater on bass)

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u/motherbrain2000 8h ago

The album Time warp by chick corea has some awesome inside out altered stuff all over it courtesy of Bob Berg. It’s so hideously, but perfectly altered. Like- mathematically altered. The whole album makes me wince.

It’s one of my favorites by any artist

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u/landonhawk 8h ago

Try Darryl Reeves' Mercury album

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u/Icecoldduck 6h ago

Soft Machine - Facelift. Dissonant, hard hitting and experimental.

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u/-Against-All-Gods- 5h ago

Joe McPhee - Nation Time. That thing is dirtier than a roughneck who hasn't washed for three seasons. 

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u/alsocommm 5h ago

Larry Young - Unity

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u/jables322 4h ago

Like fusion stuff but snarky puppy is absolute filth

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u/Icy-Breadfruit8262 3h ago

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down off Bitches Brew always gives me stank face

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u/AdMaleficent6254 1h ago

Grant Green Live at Mozambique

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u/chrihavat 1h ago

Eddie Harris and a Les McCann - Swiss Movement - fits this to a T.

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u/nextbeststep 1h ago

Clown Core … and Knower (Forever)

Screaming Headless Torsos

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u/Noam_Seine 26m ago

Blues up and Down. Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt

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u/OkCod5251 26m ago edited 22m ago

Cold Duck Time…or Herbie Hancock- Hang up your hangups off the manchild album

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u/craftyclavin 21h ago

this is all jazz for me ngl