I'm not a huge jazz person but over the years I've run into some stuff that I really love.. I'm hoping to get more recommendations from those who are real jazz aficionados.
Anyone is welcome to post about their own tastes, but I'd also love to have some recommendations for music in the same vein as my favorites below:
John Coltrane - Blue Train album (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjRbmtrDJI4) (my favorite of all)
Chet Baker - I fall in love too easily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrSoHgAAWo) (incredible)
Count Basie - Kansas City Six album (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWz58jv6hM) (love it)
Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny album (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX7TOmWQzO8) (love it)
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I've linked to the youtube pages just because that's the easiest way to listen -- i don't care about the videos.-mouser (September 26, 2013, 12:51 AM)
My technique was sort of "spider web" and I recommend it. If you have an album you like a great deal, look at the personnel. Find albums by each of those and try to sample them. The various quintets and other groups of Miles Davis is a good place to start. Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul.. I just never heard any bad albums by any of those guys.I second this. THis is how I found all my favorite stuff.
Then when you find an album of one of the Miles "side men" that you like very much.. continue the process. Almost like a recursive algorithm. It just keeps fanning out.-MilesAhead (September 26, 2013, 11:42 AM)
As far as mainstream jazzers go, I'd strongly recommend listening to just about anything by Thelonious Monk. Brilliant improvisational madness.
Monk was one of the early practitioners of a style that eventually evolved into a style generally known as: Bebop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop). Other notables in the bebop style were Dizzy Gillespie :-* and Charlie Parker :-*, both of whom are well worth listening to.-40hz (September 26, 2013, 01:38 PM)
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds-rpruyn (December 10, 2013, 05:07 AM)
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds-rpruyn (December 10, 2013, 05:07 AM)
only at minute six so far, but this is sounding very nice (YT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKGnMSYbnJ0))
thanks!-tomos (December 10, 2013, 08:08 AM)
[Lee] Morgan is not an extreme example: he was tragically killed at a young age, whereas artists like Coltrane, Hancock and Davis have been evolving throughout each decade.-rpruyn (December 10, 2013, 05:07 AM)
My taste in jazz has two feet: One foot in the canonical (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Dave Brubeck, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi), the other in the "suspected to be clinically insane" avant-garde (Sun Ra, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann, Skerik, Bill Laswell).
The listed musicians are by no means a complete list, just what I could throw off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned before.-Edvard (September 27, 2013, 01:02 AM)