Hey, I've just got into jazz music, i've been listening to JazzFM (radio) and bought a few Jazz CDs. I can't beleve what I've been missing.. it's so amazing. Can anyone recommend me some Jazz artists I should listen to? Thanks xxxxx
Dave Koz, Brian Simpson, Lee Ritenout, Fourplay, Steely Dan, David Benoit, Down to the Bone, Ronny Jordan, Chuck Loeb, Rick Braun, Paul Hardcastle, Boney James, Joe Mcbride, Jeff Lorber. And yes, jazz is deffenently the best kind of music.
I play keyboards, melodica, drum machine, and I'm starting to play guitar. Here's a link to a thread with a link to where you can hear my music. The Guitar Song, Untitled 2, and Groove Planet are the only jazz tracks for now though. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133086
Joe Henderson This man is easily one of my favorite guys to listen to. Try getting some of his earlier records, from Blue Note, or possibly from Milestone, though those are a lot harder to find. My favorite albums by him are Inner Urge, In 'N Out, Multiple and Tetragon. Also check out McCoy Tyner, Woody Shaw, Larry Young, Andrew Hill (his album Point of Departure is amazing), and Freddie Hubbard (his album Red Clay is so cool.)
Cherry: My tastes in straight-ahead jazz are somewhat dated, e.g., Cannonball Adderly, Eddie Harris, Gabor Szabo and Yusef Lateef. These days, I prefer the more avant garde, e.g., Tim Reynolds and John Daniel Winters. Check em out and see what you think. - CW http://www.timreynolds.com/homepage/ http://www.johnwinters.biz/listen.htm http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3280965&q=hi
If you haven't already, I'd pick up Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' album Moanin'. Great album to start off with.. pretty easy to get into but still credible as a classic piece of jazz art. And of course, if you haven't already picked up the cliche jazz beginner's albums, do so now: Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Herbie Hancock - HeadHunters Dave Brubeck - Time Out Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
avoid jazz FM, thats my first advice. its awful. you can probably tune in to some good US jazz radio stations if yer on the net...
Contemp Jazz Orch. , Palo Alncar (sp?), steely Dan, sade...depends on what you like JazzNova is awesome if you like instrumental though...I'm not a fan of the symphony but I saw them in DC and loved it
I always find it tough to make jazz recommendations to a newb who I've never met or talked to. There are definitely a bunch of "accessible" discs and "essential" ones, everyone agrees on that- but, that's where the agreement usually ends. From there it's very much like the form itself-- highly subjective and lots of improv. In my view the giants are Miles Davis and John Coltrane, but I haven't explored much Charlie Parker f'rinstance, and stuff like Dolphy that many jazzphiles rave about, I just don't get into...so my opinion's no better than anyone's, or yours. Ornette Coleman was also a major groundbreaker. So..... for starting out, I'd say you could do a lot worse than to go to the library and get the Ken Burns JAZZ series videos (PBS documentary), I think there's 18 or 20 hours of footage. It's not perfect -- it has a definite and often annoying "Wynton Marsalis world view" of jazz (->that Louis Armstrong is the be all end all), he was Burns' main consultant, a very questionable call. And there are a couple of disgraceful omissions and other things that pissed me off, but overall it's very worthwhile and it covers a lot in a relatively concise package. Maybe most valuable, it strips a bit of the mystique away and uncovers some of the background of the most admired jazz personas. Easier than reading 50 biograpies. Well, even more valuable I guess- is getting exposed to nearly all of the acknowledged forms of jazz. (again, Marsalis the fuckhead killed any trace of modern jazz...grrrrrrrrrr I hate that asshat) So by the end you at least have a bit of an idea what you might like or want to pursue.
You can also check out Keiko Matsui, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday & Charles Brown. There are so many. Good luck in your quest & enjoy.
I know it's kinda obvious, but listen to John Coltrane. There's a reason he's a jazz giant- he makes some damn good music. A Love Supreme is just beautiful, it's great to get lost in. Blue Train is great, also, I especially appreciate the bass solos. And then there's his bigg'n, Giant Steps. I just got that for my birthday, and I've only listened to it twice, but it's some good shit.
django reinhardt is some crazy old guitar jazz (he has a killing violinist play with him to) miles davis, coltrane, john mclaughlin, mahavishnu orhcestra, bill frisell, duke ellington, benny goodman hope that helps
Kieth Jarret (sp?), Charles mingus, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Stanley Jordan, Joe Henderson, freddy hubbard
It really does all depend on what kind of person you are. My favorite style of Jazz is Bebop because I really like complexity in music and I really like a-symmetrical harmonic structure to music, rather than typical symmetrical interval selection. Good bebop dudes: Charlie "Yardbird" Parker Co-Conspirator - Dizzy Gillespie Red Rodney Charles Mingus (depending upon the work) Kenny Clarke
