Favorite Jazz Song

[mavsfan1000]

Name as many as 3.
Al Dimeola "Mediterranean Sundance"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

[smeagol]

What's Jazz?

[mavsfan1000]

Music that is mainly played on the upbeat instead of the usual down beat. Swing is popular type of jazz.

[spurs=bling]

Name as many as 3.
Al Dimeola "Mediterranean Sundance"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
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[ChumpDumper]

Too tough to name three, but these are on my mind at the moment.

"Siete Ocho" by Andrew Hill
"Shhh/Peaceful" by Miles Davis
"Crescent" by John Coltrane

I'll add "Witch Hunt" by Wayne Shorter since I'm seeing him in SA Saturday!

[spurschick]

So What - Miles Davis

[midgetonadonkey]

Just curious...Are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King considered jazz?

[ChumpDumper]

Just curious...Are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King considered jazz?Good question. Strictly speaking they don't improvise much, and that's a deal-killer for most snooty jazz purists. However, some elements of their performances do have jazz-like qualities. The most obvious one that comes to mind is Sinatra's practice of singing behind the beat. Me? I would count them in some kind of pop-jazz specturm, but I try to be inclusive as a matter of course. I mean you'll find a guy like Johnny Hartman -- one of my favs -- in the jazz section without fail, but he didn't improvise much either.

Cole is a special case because he was originally a jazz pianist of the first order. His playing was a stylistic bridge between the stride masters like Earl Hines and bop innovators like Bud Powell. Listen to some of his early trio recordings where he sang and played to get a full appreciation of his talent.

[Manu'sMagicalLeftHand]

Not exactly "Jazz", but rather influenced by it in some way:
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Bubble House
US3 - Cantaloop
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four
Rolling Stones - Casino Boogie
Morphine - Early To Bed
Jools Holland & Jamiroquai - I'm In The Mood For Love
The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
Television - Marquee Moon
Jimi Hendrix - Up From the Skies
Marcus Miller - Come Together
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Radiohead - Pyramid Song

[smeagol]

Sultans of swing . . . now you're talking!

[ShoogarBear]

All right, a real topic.

I submit that nobody really has three favorite jazz songs, they depend on the mood you're in at the time. Having said that, here are some favorites among the classics:

Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
The Moontrane - Dexter Gordon

Songs I listen to even more than those, although probably not considered classics, are Hard Work by John Handy and Y Todavia la Quiero by Joe Henderson.

On the other hand, right now I have a hankering for Soppin The Biscuit by Roy Hargrove.

[mavsfan1000]

3 Really good songs than. They don't have to be your favorite. Since not many are posting you can do more.

[ChumpDumper]

The Moontrane - Dexter GordonWhich album is that on? Right now I'm really into the version of that song on Bobby Hutcherson's Live at Montreux. Woody Shaw was a criminally underrated composer and trumpeter.

[ShoogarBear]

Which album is that on? Right now I'm really into the version of that song on Bobby Hutcherson's Live at Montreux. Woody Shaw was a criminally underrated composer and trumpeter.
The one I have is off the album Sophisticated Giant. A really oustanding version, I think.

[ChumpDumper]

Thanks, I'll have to pick up some of Dex's post-exile CDs.

The first time I heard that song, and Woody for that matter, was Larry Young's Unity -- still one of my favorite discs.

[ShoogarBear]

Oh, yeah, Sister Cheryl off Wynton Marsalis' first album is probably the song I've most played on my MP3 player.

[ShoogarBear]

The first time I heard that song, and Woody for that matter, was Larry Young's Unity -- still one of my favorite discs.
Haven't heard that one.

I agree about Woody. The thing I notice is that some people who prefer classical and don't ordinarily listen to jazz seem to like him a lot.

[Ginofan]

Not really into Jazz all that much, but I do love some Diana Krall.

[ChumpDumper]

Haven't heard that one.

I agree about Woody. The thing I notice is that some people who prefer classical and don't ordinarily listen to jazz seem to like him a lot.From what I know about him, he was really heavily into theory and incorporating very exotic influnces into his music like Balinese folk tunes, etc. Might have something to do with it. Ack, the more I learn about this stuff the more I know I don't know anything.

[Guru of Nothing]

I don'r own a lot of Jazz, but I frequently keep the cable box on the Jazz Channel. Damned if I can't remember many of those songs that I like.

Usually, when a tune pops on that I really like and I look up to check out the name, it seems like it's always Art Blakey.

[Pistons < Spurs]

Dave Brubeck-Take Five

[Jekka]

I love me some Nina Simone any day. Don't care what song - although I do love "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Lilac Wine" - and her rendition of "The House of the Rising Sun".

[mavsfan1000]

John Coltrane "Giant Steps" and "Spiral"
Allan Holdsworth anything on the I.O.U. cd.

[Brodels]

Dameron - If You Could See Me Now
Mingus - Fables of Faubus
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most - I'm can't recall right now who wrote it.

Others:

Nostalgia in Times Square
Harlem Nocturne
Anything with Rythym Changes - Oleo, etc.
I Mean You
In a Sentimental Mood
Judy's Dilemma (Fuller)

[The sone]

I love me some Nina Simone any day. Don't care what song - although I do love "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Lilac Wine" - and her rendition of "The House of the Rising Sun".


nina...ahhhhh. she makes me wanna do stuff to her....

but uhhh...yeah... i like miles's "my funny valentine" and diana krall is great to...but nina...ahhhhhh, nina.

[mavsfan1000]

T-Monk "Straight No Chaser"

[FromWayDowntown]

I think of jazz more in terms of albums than tunes. I love all of Miles Davis' stuff, but I have two favorite albums -- "Workin with the Miles Davis Quintet," and "Miles Ahead." I can also sit and listen to "Birth of the Cool" again and again.

If I had to pick a single tune, I love Miles' "It Never Entered My Mind," and Bird and Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia" is always a good listen.

But I agree with Shoog -- a favorite Jazz tune depends entirely on your mood.

[NeoConIV]

Geez. All of it.

Joe Sample
Dave Brubeck
Earl Klugh

[ShoogarBear]

Bird and Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia" is always a good listen. Aaggh! Have you heard the classic riff from Parker that was in one of the early takes? He couldn't duplicate it in the final version, but it was so spectacular that it is often a stand-alone track on some albums.

It's the same riff that was sampled in Chaka Khan's vocal version of "Night in Tunisia".

[tlongII]

Stratus
Nubian Sundance
Aquamarine

[valluco]

Hermeto's Daydream - Medski Martin & Wood

[bigzak25]

confirmation is #1.

i also like

georgia on my mind,



obviously there are so many i'm forgetting, i need to listen to some charlie parker and some coltrane and get back to you...but thanks for the reminder...:tu

[ChumpDumper]

BTW -- Wayne Shorter was great. I only recognized one tune ("Go" from Schizophrenia) but I'm not familiar with alot of his later work. He can still perform quite well for being over 70 -- pretty much a nonstop two-hour set. Some of the smooth jazz crowd pick up and left early, fuck 'em -- just made us able to get closer. His band was quite good, though only Brian Blade really stood out. He is my favorite living drummer now that I think about it; very powerful and imaginative.

I also had the best jerked chicken ever from one of the booths, and we were almost killed by some dude who lost control after being clipped by another car on St. Mary's crossing Houston.

Good times.

[tlongII]

BTW -- Wayne Shorter was great. I only recognized one tune ("Go" from Schizophrenia) but I'm not familiar with alot of his later work. He can still perform quite well for being over 70 -- pretty much a nonstop two-hour set. Some of the smooth jazz crowd pick up and left early, fuck 'em -- just made us able to get closer. His band was quite good, though only Brian Blade really stood out. He is my favorite living drummer now that I think about it; very powerful and imaginative.

I also had the best jerked chicken ever from one of the booths, and we were almost killed by some dude who lost control after being clipped by another car on St. Mary's crossing Houston.

Good times.

FYI - Nubian Sundance is a song by Weather Report of which Wayne Shorter was a member. It was recorded in the mid-70's I believe and is one of my favorite jazz tracks of all time.

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, I have most of Heavy Weather burned into my memory from childhood, but I'm stuck in the 60's for most of my listening. I'll remedy that someday.

[NZHayden]

Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four
Jools Holland & Jamiroquai - I'm In The Mood For Love
The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
:tu

[ShoogarBear]

Weather Report. Man.

Single best concert I've ever been to. Weather Report at Merriwether Post Pavilon in Maryland circa 1981.

Jaco Pastorius was still their bass player. 'Nuff said.

Maybe not really "jazz", but astonishing music.

I also have Heavy Weather, in addition to Black Market and Mr. Gone, burned into my mind.