Jazz- where to start?

[Nola_Lifer]

Miles Davis - Blue In Green Listen to this whole album "Kind of Blue"
Miles Davis - The Duke Blues for Pablo Miles' big band with composure Gill Evans "Miles Ahead"
John Coltrane - Blue Train One of Coltrane's best albums "Blue Train"
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood
Charlie Parker - A Night in Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie - One Note Samba
Wes Montgomery - Impressions
Dave Brubeck - Take Five Blue Rondo a la Turk
Lester Young and Oscar Peterson Trio - Tea For Two
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
Stan Getz - Corcovado
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Desafinado

This is just scratching a small surface

[pimpdave]

This is just scratching a small surface

I'm not sure that's exactly what you meant to say.

[Nola_Lifer]

This is just scratching a small surface

I'm not sure that's exactly what you meant to say.

This is just a very, very, very, very small sample of jazz and its giants.

[jonesthecurl]

Birdland - Maynard Ferguson (The original is by weather report but this version is soo much better heard it when I was a kid it was the first jazz song I heard and I fell in love.)

-------------------->Birdland

Manhattan Transfer did a gorgeous vocal arrangement of that.
Here's a rather weak live version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1nj6Yla_Vg

[oVo]

All the Miles Davis recordings from the 50's are good places to start,
"Kind of Blue" is one of the best selling jazz albums of all time.
It's only five songs, but it's a fabulous lineup performing them.

John Coltrane's "Lush Life" is also a good beginning ...
and check out the "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" album.

For a bigger bolder sound covering some classic jazz tunes...The GRP All-Star Big Band
with a Latin twist, the Afro-Cuban All Stars or Tony Martinez & the Cuban Power,
or the pop-rock jazz infused sound of the Chicago II album.

Now you've got me listening to some tunes I haven't heard in awhile. Listen to A Rough Guide to Manu Dibango if you can find it. A sax player, composer, singer, pianist and arranger, he's probably Camaroon's best known musician. Here's a little Manu Dibango on youtoobe.

[Nola_Lifer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImPf1HsFxo

[Army of GOD]

I'm taking a course titled "History of Jazz" and it is probably one of the better decisions of my life. We're still doing the roots of jazz, but I'm already loving it.

I've had this fucking King Oliver solo stuck in my head all day (@1:21):


Armstrong is in it, but he's playing second fiddle (err, I mean second cornet) to Oliver. Here's one of the better Armstrong solos I've heard so far this semester (favorite part is coincidentally @1:21 again where Louis scats [as well as sings, AAAYOOOO *goes for high five*] with a guitar:


also, this song is just boner-mongering:

[xeno]

Yeah, it's a safe bet the person from New Orleans knows jazz. I definitely support everything NOLA says above.

Nola shares a flat with me. See as far as jazz goes I'm going Maynard ferguson. He might be big band but still fits in. If anyone says Kenny g I'm going to strangle them. Also Canadian brass they rock!

[oVo]

OK... time for another direction, that smokey bar room
upright bass, piano and a nice mix of reeds.
Tom Waits... from the 70's
"Heart of Saturday Night"
"Small Change" and
"Nighthawks at the Diner" (a live album)

then turn up the volume. . .
Stanley Clarke & Friends: Live at the Greek
Heavy Weather... Weather Report
No Absolute Time . .. Jean Luc Ponty
Sapphire Blue . . . Larry Carlton
Romantic Warrior . . . Return To Forever
Inner Mounting Flame . . . Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Grand Wazoo and Hot Rats... Frank Zappa
or Apostrophe for a change of pace

then chill out again with...
Standard Time Vol.2 Intimacy Calling . . . Wynton Marsalis
Peacemaker ... Clarence Clemons

[Metsfanmax]

I've played the Black Bottom Stomp before in a jazz group -- it's a lot of fun.

[DoomYoshi]

Start in New York city in the 20s.

[Army of GOD]

I've played the Black Bottom Stomp before in a jazz group -- it's a lot of fun.

One thing I want to do whenever I have enough money is buy my own tuba and play in a jazz band.

[xeno]

I've played the Black Bottom Stomp before in a jazz group -- it's a lot of fun.

One thing I want to do whenever I have enough money is buy my own tuba and play in a jazz band.

If you never noticed, my name comes from a trumpet that Yamaha makes. We should start the auditions for conquer club brass band!

[Army of GOD]

I've played the Black Bottom Stomp before in a jazz group -- it's a lot of fun.

One thing I want to do whenever I have enough money is buy my own tuba and play in a jazz band.

If you never noticed, my name comes from a trumpet that Yamaha makes. We should start the auditions for conquer club brass band!

I'm down like a clown Charlie Brown.

We'll need a trombone and baritone.

[Nola_Lifer]

Start in New York city in the 20s.

You must be trippin.....



AOG do you know who Dipper Mouth is? Same Dude they call Satchmo.

[daddy1gringo]

Always been partial to Vince Guaraldi.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

I've played the Black Bottom Stomp before in a jazz group -- it's a lot of fun.

One thing I want to do whenever I have enough money is buy my own tuba and play in a jazz band.

If you never noticed, my name comes from a trumpet that Yamaha makes. We should start the auditions for conquer club brass band!

I'm down like a clown Charlie Brown.

We'll need a trombone and baritone.

I haven't played my trumpet in far too long. I'm sure my chops would be pretty pathetic by now. =(

-TG

[DoomYoshi]

I played the boner in high school. Let me do some percussion though, and I will show how a glockenspiel is meant to sound... with an amp.

[Army of GOD]

Now that we started doing bebop in my class I'm very partial to it. Dizzy and Parker make a great combination, not to mention the drumming is much more advanced in bop too.

[Army of GOD]

Mingus is awesome

[AndyDufresne]

Now that we started doing bebop in my class I'm very partial to it. Dizzy and Parker make a great combination, not to mention the drumming is much more advanced in bop too.

Speaking of Bebop, I like the bebop-like soundtrack in Cowboy Bebop.


--Andy

[Symmetry]

Now that we started doing bebop in my class I'm very partial to it. Dizzy and Parker make a great combination, not to mention the drumming is much more advanced in bop too.

Speaking of Bebop, I like the bebop-like soundtrack in Cowboy Bebop.


--Andy

The rest of Yoko Kanno's work is great too.

[BigBallinStalin]

Mingus is awesome

A good album for sitting down and tripping out is Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music

[Army of GOD]

Mingus is awesome

A good album for sitting down and tripping out is Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music

I've had Pithecanthropus Erectus stuck in my head for literally the last three days.

[notyou2]

Has anyone mentioned Oscar Peterson?