Straight No Chaser: Jazz Encyclopedia

[CuckingFunt]

Gershwin contributed a lot to Jazz by proxy. Miles, Herbie, and many others covered and reworked many things from Porgy and Bess alone.

[CuckingFunt]

Jon Hendricks' is one of my favorite voices ever. Just a great quality to it.

[balli]

All I listen to these days is Keith Jarrett. This one is just awesome.

[The Gemini Method]

[ohmwrecker]

[leemajors]

[tlongII]

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.

Interesting. I'm not sure if you're saying Metheny's music isn't jazz or not. To me it clearly is.

[tlongII]

[The Gemini Method]

[TimDunkem]

Nice!

Thanks for that. I'm a big Coltrane fan, and naturally my favorite Jazz recording of all time is one made by Coltrane.

Here it is:

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[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

I really want to get The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus. That record is pretty addicting.

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[tlongII]

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[The Gemini Method]

Very good videos from you guys...keeps my morning rolling!

[tlongII]

[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

Definitely in my top 10 song list

[leemajors]

[quentin_compson]