Anyone like Jazz Music?

Anon

I like 60's era hard bop/new jazz. Artists such as :

John Coltrane
Eric Dolphy
Charles Mingus
Ornette Coleman

Just to name a few. Can you add to the list?

intodeep

Over the past two years i've slowly started a small jazz collection. I don't listen to it everyday but i love having it for relaxing times or some of the more upbeat stuff for other occasions

I truely love the work of miles davis and john coltrane.

Herbie Hancock's work on Empyrean isles and maiden voyage was great.

I like Charles Mingus a lot also

Some of Thelonious Monk's stuff is very good

I have Cannonball Adderley's Somethin Else Album and that is very good.

Dave Brubeck is very easy listening jazz

Kenny Burrell plays some great jazz guitar

those are some of my early favorites. I can't say enough about Miles davis though i have about ten of his albums that span different points of his career and they are all good.

transplant

Currently enjoying an Art Blakely 1958 Paris show. Lee Morgan's Sidewinder is one of my favorites and he just so happens to play on this '58 show.

I find my favorite period to be the late 50's - mid 60's. I love the Blue Note Reissues.

Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage is spectacular.

hendrix78

Anything Coltrane did with his classic quartet (Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, and McCoy Tyner) is amazing. They were just one of the greatest bands ever, of any genre.

Thelonious Monk has some very cool stuff.

Charles Mingus is great, too. Great bass player and composer.

Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, and especially Grant Green are some of my favorite jazz guitarists.

Jimmy Smith made some awesome jazz organ records, very funky stuff. The Beastie Boys sampled him for Root Down.

I've been very into fusion lately. Anything John Mclaughlin plays guitar on will blow your mind. He played on Miles Davis's earliest fusion experiments, and his Mahavishnu Orchestra is one of the sickest bands of all time. Anyone who likes the Mars Volta should go buy The Inner Mounting Flame by the Mahavishnu Orchestra immediately. I just got the first album by Shakti, an acoustic group Mclaughlin put together with Indian musicians, and it is pretty mind blowing.

I've also never heard anything by Miles Davis I didn't like. The man was an absolute musical genius. As the professor in the jazz class I took in college put it, Miles changed the face of jazz music at least 4 times in his career.

FinsburyParkCarrots

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soulsinging

do these guys have lyrics in their music? i do like jazz and was thinking of getting some for listening while studying, but lyrics distract me. so if any of these artists are purely instrumental and you've got suggestions on great albums... send em my way!

Anon

To name a few "must haves" -

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme and Ascension
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um and The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz(amazing)

Herbie Hancock IS the man! Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage are great recordings. Headhunters is a great one as well.

Anon

For your viewing pleasure :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUzFbT5JT1M

who's_pearljam?

soulsinging wrote:

do these guys have lyrics in their music? i do like jazz and was thinking of getting some for listening while studying, but lyrics distract me. so if any of these artists are purely instrumental and you've got suggestions on great albums... send em my way!

G-man23 has some good ones there!



I love jazz and I'm getting even deeper into it within the last few months, because I recently discovered that my neighbor behind me is about 85 years old, and in his house has literally 10,000 + tapes, vinyl, whatever you can record on, and I'm trying to help him get it all onto CD to archive. His house is a museum and I'm learning so much every time I see him.


If you want to start with accessible, G-man has some greats up there.

- Miles Davis - Birth of the cool, Love songs and Kind of Blue:

Kind Of Blue. This album should be issued to everyone when they're born, along with the birth certificate. It's Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Bill Evans on horns and piano and it's superb.

-Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane live at Carnegie Hall

-John Coltrane - Blue Train and Love Supreme



Duke Ellington - If you want to look farther back, check into Duke Ellington's early stuff. He was one of the pioneers of jazz. It all started in New Orleans, and his quintet was innovative at the time. Later in the 30's he evolved into the swing era, and there is some beautiful music from that era,,, pre-bop

I also love old Louis Armstrong stuff. He was in cahoots with Ellington and a major part of that era.


Some contemporary guitarists you may like live right in Philly and I'm about to take a jazz guitar course at the University of the Arts with:

Pat Martino! - An AMAZING guitarist!
Jimmy Bruno- ditto

John Scofield- and you would probably like his CD with Modeski Martin and Wood,,,,,,,, *Reaches into foggy brain* hmmm,,


-"A Go Go"! Ha! I knew I'd remember! That's a great CD


Now for jazz from the future and my favorite.

Sun Ra
He died a while back, but he isn't really here yet! Haha, so far ahead.He was a pianist / composer / bandleader of the Arkestra. They started in New Orleans then later lived together in Philly and I saw them probably a hundred times, and there was nothing like it. The Arkestra still is somewhat together and they travel occasionally, and you should not miss them live.

If you want something interesting try these three:
Sun Ra - The Singles. It's a great set that brings you chronologically from his early be-bop to the Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Sun Ra - Saint Louis Blues is piano small jazz ensemble and beautiful and just a bit out there

Sun Ra - Travel the Spacewaves is a great 23 piece band piece of "out there on a different planet" free jazz. It SOUNDS like free jazz but it's all composed. It's challenging but still on the edge of accessible.

You'll hear a bit of who he influenced if you ever heard of Frank Zappa, and some band named Radiohead. Their more offbeat work is DEFINITELY a descendant of Sun Ra


Sit back and head to another planet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUH5xb-6qo

Anon

Hey, who's pearljam? nice post! Don't forget Sun Ra's "Jazz In Sillouette". The man was truely way ahead of his time.
The great thing about all the artists you listed is that their music is pretty much all timeless!

Mojopin

Jazz!

Mojo

who's_pearljam?

G-Man23 wrote:

Hey, who's pearljam? nice post! Don't forget Sun Ra's "Jazz In Sillouette". The man was truely way ahead of his time.
The great thing about all the artists you listed is that their music is pretty much all timeless!

Thanks, and Jazz in Silouette is great, too. Some of the 70's stuff with that Farfisa organ hurts my ears, but otherwise I love all his stuff.
That was the "loosest looking tightest orchestra" I've ever seen!

My brother has every album they ever did. After Sun Ra died, he and I hooked up with Michael Ray from the Arkestra and my bro helped them sort out Sun Ra's musical history with his collection.

Which reminds me,,,
Michael Ray was one of the trumpet players in the arkestra and he has two great albums that are "out there", but great fun. New Orleans style with that spacey music thrown in.

I'll dig up the picture of me when I happened to have a weird shirt on and I we sort of walked up and were standing on the stage with the arkestra,,,, ha ha, and we matched,,,,,, except for my blond hair!

FinsburyParkCarrots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5L8tjnB6w

yosi1

I wish I knew more about jazz, and more jazz in general. I love John Coltrane, Albert Beger, Thelonious Monk, and especially, especially Miles Davis. I'm also kind of into funkier, and rockier jazz, like Jazz Fusion. I love David Fiucyzinski and I don't know if they really fit here, but Soulive. I would have to say though, that Miles Davis is definitely my favorite. Stuff like the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions are out of this world.

intodeep

hendrix78 wrote:

I've been very into fusion lately. Anything John Mclaughlin plays guitar on will blow your mind.

So true. That trio of in a silent way, bitches brew, and jack johnson are amazing.

Jeremy1012

I love jazz. Only today I got into a lengthy conversation with someone I don't even like because they saw me with Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman in my hands.

I love Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Billy Cobham, Eric Dolphy, Pharaoh Sanders, Mahavishnu orchestra/john mclaughlin, weather report, John Zorn and many other artists. Basically any jazz that moves away from traditional stylings into more free/fusion based areas.

FinsburyParkCarrots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKDAbp9m5yw

Anon

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKDAbp9m5yw

Thank you. Did you check out the Coltrane/Dolphy footage I posted?

FinsburyParkCarrots

G-Man23 wrote:

Thank you. Did you check out the Coltrane/Dolphy footage I posted?

I did, thanks!

catefrances

doesn't anyone like charlie parker? his playing frequently sneaks into my headspace.

Anon

catefrances wrote:

doesn't anyone like charlie parker? his playing frequently sneaks into my headspace.

Many roads begin with "Bird". He seems to get lumped in with the old school,but we know he and Sonny Rollins are huge to the new school of saxaphone players. Because Bird died in 1954,he gets overlooked by some.

Coltrane took Parker's torch and ran with it.