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Jazz Recommendations?

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Elvenblade, Oct 1, 2006.

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    I'm still a very new jazz fan and have mostly just listened to Jamie Cullums records, which I really like.

    Any jazz fans here who can recommend good jazz artists?
     
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    Jamie Cullum? Well, at least you want to improve. ;)

    I'm not really knowledgeable about Jazz, but I can tell you a few well known artists: Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Dizzie Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaugn, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday.
     
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    Like Rock, Jazz has a lot of subgenres. But there are a few jazz essentials I would recommend from the 50s and early 60s (Cool Jazz):

    Charlie Parker - Now's the Time
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, 'Round About Midnight, Birth of the Cool
    John Coltrane - Blue Train, Soultrane, A love Supreme
    Dave Brubeck - Time Out
    Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else, Know What I Mean?
    Bill Evans - Trio 64, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Portrait in Jazz
    Sonny Rollins - On Impluse!
    The Art Blakey Quartet - A Jazz Message
    Oscar Peterson - Night Train
    Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
     
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    Chandos' recommendations are good, but might be a bit difficult to get into if you're new to jazz. You might want to start out with some older jazz recordings by artists that are a bit more traditional: Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Django Rheinhardt and Louis Armstrong come to mind.
     
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    Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
     
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    Thelonious Monk. Josh Redman is pretty great too, if you're looking for something newer. I've never been able to get into Coltrane, myself. I find him overrated - but that's me.
     
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    Some great classic stuff recommended here -- I would certainly go with 'Bird', Coltrane, and Davis. But I really love Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Buddy Rich (although he may be more Big Band).

    For vocals try the Manhattan Transfer. Their greatest hits would be a good start (just ignore the popish 'Boy from New York City'). Their rendition of Birdland is fantastic.
     
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    There are a lot of subgenres in the jazz-scene. (Yeah, HB would not agree with that :p )
    There's Cool, Bee-Bop, smooth, dixie, fusion, big band, free, and others. Any idea what kind of jazz you like.

    My favs: Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Dizzie Gillespie, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Adderley, Sonny Rollins and Nina Simone.
    (Fabius and Chandos mentioned those too.)
    Not too free (not too much wild improvizing) and not too 'restricted/bounded' as the bigbands.
    Miles Davis has much improvizing. Some people might find that annoying, not able to find any logic in the music. So if you want a somewhat more organized style of jazz you take Big Bands like Glenn Miller's or those of Benny Goodman or Tommy Dorsey, but if it comes to BigBands, I prefer Count Bassie or Duke Ellington.

    One of my favourites is Herbie Hancock's Cantaloup Island. His later stuff is more keyboards and electric stuff and less 'jazzy', imo.
     
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    For very accessible jazz - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.

    Pat Metheny is a good contemporary introduction as well, although after a few albums, it all starts to sound the same.
     
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    Jamie Cullum is cool.

    My only jazz related album is "Saxuality" by Candy Dulfer.
     
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    Nils Petter Molvaer. Great musician.
     
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