jazz is the shit

[Hank Scorpio]

Jazz is fuckin great. first time really listening to it and jesus christ it feels soo good on the inside. i dunno if id listen to it with other ppl around lol.

[the roach]

Originally Posted by Hank Scorpio

i dunno if id listen to it with other ppl around lol.

why? are you....embarassed?
c'mon man jazz is where weed started out in america!

[Shalom Salaam]

Jazz > Everything else in life (not including sex and whatnot).

Ah Jazz, my one true love.

[Saulg1991]

Yea Jazz is american music, anything by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is the shit, Arturo Sandoval, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Chick Corea is good too.

[maestroelite]

Now there's love for music, being afraid to listen to it around other people..

Music isn't about being cool, its about the feeling it produces in your soul. "Music makes you happy, it can make you sad, it can turn the worst day into the best you've ever had.." Tell me what song that's from without looking it up and I'll give you a cookie.

Out of curiosity, what did you listen to?

[jahconquering]

listen to django rheindhart.. he is the shit

[JohnnyBlunt]

Dont mean to steal the thread here but could anybody recommend some good Jazz. Preferably Jazz that is more guitar oriented.

Id be incredibly greatful.

[naboo]

I actually listened to Bill Evans all last weekend. Very good stuff.

[RockyRaccoon]

Anyone who would make fun of you for digging jazz is a massive fucking toolbag.

I love jazz music of all kinds, from Coltrane and Charles Mingus to Jaco Pastorius and even early Tom Waits lounge jazz. It's a little harder to find really good modern jazz, but the Bad Plus is SICK.

[maestroelite]

Its not traditional jazz, but Mike Stern played with Steps Ahead for a while and not to mention the Mike Stern Band. He plays a lot with Michael Brecker and Bob Berg(well, played now..). Jim Hall was a fantastic older jazz guitarist. Umm... Pat Metheny played some good jazz. I can't think of a lot of guitar-oriented stuff specifically. If bass counts Jaco Pastorius and Marcus Miller have some fantastic stuff out there. Jaco pioneered the modern electric bass sound. I'm not really familiar with many guitarists. To copy a list on another site... Bill Frisell, Charlie Christian, George Benson, George Van Eps, Grant Green, John Mclaughlin, Joe Pass, John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Pat Martino, Tal Farlow, and Wes Montgomery. Should be a good start.


As far as general jazz goes, check out..
Duke Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker
Count Basie
Dexter Gordon
Lester Young
Freddie Hubbard
Charles Mingus
Rahsaan Roland-Kirk
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Cannonball Adderley
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Stitt
Kenny Garrett
Michael Brecker
Joe Zawinul
Ornette Coleman
Coleman Hawkins
Pharoah Sanders
Maceo Parker
Lenny Pickett
Pete Christlieb
Phil Woods
Roy Hargrove
Buddy Rich
Stan Kenton
WDR Big band
GRP all stars
The Yellowjackets
Bob Mintzer
Bob Berg
Randy Brecker
Chris Potter
Terence Blanchard
Grover Washington Jr
Dewey Redman
Joshua Redman
Denis DiBlasio
Art Pepper
Keith Anderson

That should be a good start, I'm running out of guys off the top of my head. I tried to go in semi chronological order at first but I quickly got lazy. Yeah, the list is heavily biased towards saxophone but thats a reflection of what I listen to..

Re: the Bad Plus, I saw them live in Vancouver before a Joshua Redman show, they were pretty hot.

[MajinX]

I saw joshua redman a couple weeks back. Fucking awesome.

I recommend tonnes of stuff by redman, especially if you dig some funkier jazz too. With respect to guitar jazz, it depends on the style you prefer. Look at guys like Pat Metheny and Joe Pass for an example of how different 'jazz guitar' can be.

[somekind]

After getting into Miles Davis in college in 1991 I started buying music by his sidemen that had gone on to bigger projects. That's a lot of music!! Thanks MDD. A lot of these are from frontmen, but I'm interested in the more obscure recordings, too:

Dave Holland- Conference of the birds[Sam Rivers]/Extrapolation

Chick Corea - RTF, Elektrik band, My Spanish Heart

Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, Jaco Pastorius Debut, Joni Mitchell Mingus (Wayne Shorter)(Mingus wasn't really in a Davis-led band)

John Mclaughlin - Shakti/ Mahavishnu Orchestra/ Trio Live at Festival Hall/Zakir Hussain - Making Music

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Robben Ford / Julian Priester - Jerry Granell, A song I thought I heard Buddy sing

Joe Zawinul& Wayne Shorter - Weather Report - Heavy Weather/Black Market

John Scofield - Marc Johnson's Bass Desires/Grace under Pressure.

Bill Evans - The Trio

Marcus Miller ?

What else?

[somekind]

Here are some of my favorite albums. I like the way the guitarists play off each other.:


Larry Coryell:Spaces (Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin)
Jerry Granelli:A song I thought I heard Buddy Sing (Bill Frisell, Robben Ford)
Jerry Granelli & UFB:News from the street/Broken Circle (Kai Brückner, Christian Kögel)
John Scofield:Grace under pressure (John Scofield, Bill Frisell)
Mark Johnson's Bass Desires:Bass Desires/Second Sight (John Scofield, Bill Frisell)

[Medicine Al]

The best trip I ever took (hallucinogenically) was listening to Me, Myself, an Eye by Charles Mingus, backed by one of the best assemblies of jazzmen ever. Larry Coryell, the Brecker brothers, Stan Getz, and about 10 others I can't remember right now. The music caused my whole house to turn fluid, walls flowed out into space through the skylight, and I watched the entire world spin vortexlike into a trash can in my kitchen! I opened the can, and it spun back out into the night sky as the instuments clashed and tangled into perfect symmetry again. Jazz rules!

[chronicplatonic]

damn straight man! jazz till I die,motha!

ya'll ought to check out hank mobley. I don't think he's been mentioned yet, and IMHO doesn't get anywhere NEAR the kind of recognition he deserves. Truly one of the most musically gifted tenormen ever.