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Truth -- and not just by proxy. Along with Rogers and Hart, the Gershwins were among the best songwriters of the golden age, and George Gershwin started mixing impressionism with jazz long before Bill Evans was even born.
Gershwin contributed a lot to Jazz by proxy. Miles, Herbie, and many others covered and reworked many things from Porgy and Bess alone.
Truth -- and not just by proxy. Along with Rogers and Hart, the Gershwins were among the best songwriters of the golden age, and George Gershwin started mixing impressionism with jazz long before Bill Evans was even born.
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Marcus Miller is one of my favorite bass players. This is Miles Davis' Tutu revisited. Michael "Patches" Stewart on Miles' part.
Take 6 doing All Blues by Miles. In the words of Quincy Jones "the baddest jazz vocal cats in the planet."
Great adds, people. Good to see this thread still goin'!
In addition to the fact that he's the best improvisational piano player alive, I've always enjoyed this clip of Keith Jarrett making love to his piano.
And this right here is the one song I'm listening to at least twice a day. So damn good.
this thread encouraged me to d/l a few jazz albums and try them out. I got a Jim Hall album but haven't listened to it yet, also a wes montgomery album...
I had no idea who those two guys were.
Will Calhoun on drums, the inimitable Bernie Worrell on keys.
I don't much care for Wes Montgomery -- he sounds too "smooth jazz" to me. But Jim Hall was a badass.
Might like Charlie Byrd and Joe Pass if you like guitar jazz. And Charlie Christian basically invented the modern genre.
do you have discographies of miles davis and theolonius monk? i'm too lazy to torrent them
ok thanks. I'm more of a classic rock / metalhead, but I like good jazz too. I googled guitar jazz just to see what was considered "required listening". Came up with Charlie Christian, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery - so I grabbed one album each by them off the internet.I don't much care for Wes Montgomery -- he sounds too "smooth jazz" to me. But Jim Hall was a badass.
Might like Charlie Byrd and Joe Pass if you like guitar jazz. And Charlie Christian basically invented the modern genre.
George Benson was a monster when he first started recording, before he discovered all the money he could make singing and playing smooth. The George Benson Cookbook is probably the best example of his early work.
Grant Green should be mentioned too. Not the best technician, but so much soul. The great thing about many of his albums on Blue Note and Blue Note albums in general is the lineup of artists. You can describe virtually every other combination as a supergroup. On one of Green's best, Idle Moments, you can find Joe Henderson (tenor sax) and Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), headliners in their own right, and pianist Duke Pearson's solid rhythm section.
only times I've been in this thread is when I'm at work
(no sound)
keep forgetting to check it out again when I get home, with sound.
anyway, based on my research here at work, these albums sound interesting:
sonny rollins - saxophone colossus
Coltrane - blue train, giant steps, my fav things, a love supreme
Mingus Ah Um, and Oh Yeah
Jim Hall - Concierto
edit: ^^ the george benson cookbook, recommended by Chump seems to be highly regarded too. will probably grab that one also.
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Jim Hall and Bill Evans did a nice album called Undercurrents that I'd recommend. And I'll have to check out early Benson since I always just considered him Smooth Son of Montgomery.
What do people think about Bill Frizell? I like his stuff, but I resist calling it jazz as much as I do calling Pat Metheny or Bela Fleck jazz.
I would advise people to free themselves of categorizing jazz. "Smooth Jazz" is good just as traditional be-bop or avante garde is.
Unless you dislike smooth jazz, or feel like it has no connection to jazz. I know you're saying not to sweat categorizations, but at the same time, you don't call rock&roll country music or blues. I like Pat Metheny, but I don't hear anything in his music that relates even distantly to ragtime, blues, or klezmer. Categories are useful on a bulletin board, even if they don't affect how you actually feel about X music.
I'm a little underwhelmed by the stuff I've listened to so far. Maybe jazz has to grow on you, not sure... The wes montgomery stuff & the coltrane stuff I d/l doesn't really do anything for me.
Now on page 1 of this thread, I like the miles davis & Coltrane track So What.
I'm going to grab the miles davis album Round About Midnight and see what I think.
Great tape.
I went to wikipedia to read all about the diff styles of jazz. I plan to stick with exploring diff styles to find out what does it for me. I need to become more cultured
Some sentimental jazz to go with the punishing August heat.
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