Looking for some Angelo Badalamenti kind of jazz

I know next to nothing about jazz music, let me say that right off the. Most of what I hear doesn't do much for me, but I've always liked Angelo Badalementi. I guess I'm looking for something dark and serious or kind of slick that has a mystery to it. I know a lot of you guys are big jazzed up jazzers so I thought I'd ask, I have no idea where to begin looking otherwise.

Check out Barry Adamson, who has also done work with Lynch, IIRC. "Moss Side Story" and "Cinema is King" are keepers. Amon Tobin's very "beaty", with earlier stuff being more drum and bass, but the music's a lot like what you have in mind, I think. Lastly, give a listen to Bohren and der Club of Gore, which sounds like Badalamenti played at 16 RPM. Great late-night music, complements scotch nicely and probably weed, as well.

None of this is "jazz", like - I'm just riffing on the Angelo B predilection.

I love Barry Adamson. I have quite a few of his albums already, (which always seem to be in the bargain bin at my local music shack for some bizzare reason) but basically that's another kind of compass point to the type of thing I'm looking for. I know there's stuff I would like out there, but I'm just at a loss as to where to find it. Anyways, thanks for the suggetions, I'll give the other guys a listen, it sounds promising.

This isn't quite what you were looking for but: John Zorn's "Spillane"?

And why not try a couple of the guys that clearly influenced Badalementi, Adamson and Zorn: Charlie Mingus (one of the fathers of free jazz) and Bernard Hermann (composer of such movies as Psycho, Taxi Driver and The Bride Wore Black??

That's right! I seem to remember the music from taxi driver being really flippin great. Thanks for the reccomendations.

P.S. Who is Zorn by the way? Never heard of him, sounds like an extra dimesnional overlord of some type.

Buy NineHorses "Snow Borne Sorrow" - trust me you will not regret it.

I second the Zorn rec, though he's put out so much stuff {and so has his label, Tzadik}, it's hard to know where to start. Naked City and Masada are his major projects. Lotta skronk, there. Check out Ilhan Mimaroglu & Freddie Hubbard's _Sing Me a Song of Songmy_, which blends jazz, concrete and political invective into one of my favorite albums.

I think he may agree with you.

He's a New York free jazz weirdo with a fetish for Spaghetti Westerns, Japanese torture porn and traditional Jewish folk music. Check out his Naked City albums - some of the tracks are straight up jazzy renditions of classic movie themes, some are live musician cut n paste bits going from be-bop to punk to speed metal within a few bars and some are dark sound scapes - kind of like what Allarian posted on his Virus TI thread a few days ago, only album length.

None of it is easy listening and even people looking for a particular mood may be off put since he throws curveballs and mood changes constantly. Sometimes it doesn't work, but you can never accuse him of laziness.

I recommended "Spillane" because it features three pieces, all very different but likely to scratch your itch: "Spillane" is exactly what it sounds like, the audio to a Mickey Spillane novel - noir-ish jazz intermixed with spoken word and sounds - best use of a windshield wiper sound as percussion instrument. The other two pieces are a "blues concerto" consisting of Albert Collins throwing out every A-list riff he's ever recorded backed by a very decent band and a little avant-gard something-something featuring the Chronos Quartet.

There's bullets, breasts, beasts and blood. Joe Bob says check it out!

I love jazz, Horace Silver being my favorite jazz pianist. If you're going to own one Horace Silver CD, make it this one:

The Best of Horace Silver Vol II.

For jazz fusion you just can't beat Cross Collateral by Passport. It has some of the best Minimoog jamming I've ever heard.

Here's one more:

Ship of Memories by Focus

I bought this on LP for $1 a few months ago and was quite amazed by it. It's somewhere between progressive rock and jazz fusion, and excellent throughout. The my favorite track is a beautiful guitar piece called Focus V.