Point me at some good stuff

BigEejit

I was in the metropole this year for the first time .... I really enjoyed it and even more so because I got in free .... I was in the Leinster room (I think it was, if you were coming in from the foyer you turned left into a bar after the hot dog stand) and there was a fabulous band playing the kind of jazz I liked (all old fellas in their 50's except for the piano player).... now being a newbie to Jazz I dont know what the hell the description is for that jazz (classic?, easy listening?) and because of this I dont know what to look for when I'm looking for Jazz CD's .... anyone who was there know what type of music I'm talking about? ... they finished up at about 01:30 or so.

I also managed to take a peek into the everyman, there was a band playing in there and they were completely bonkers .... like every one of them was playing a different tune ... individually the musicians were excellent, but together they were crap .... obviously its that modern type Jazz, complete crap in my opinion .... lots of lads in there that looked like they were on the verge of saying nice .... and funnily enough there were some people there who looked absolutely shocked at the shite music being pelted at them:D ...thats what you get for booking tickets to go see someone and not knowing what the fuck type of music they play.

Doctor J

Check out the Ronnie Scott Quintet - Never Pat A Burning Dog


Sweet, laid back... nice!

Kopf

a bigeejit indeed.

BigEejit

Originally posted by Kopf
a bigeejit indeed.

thanks head

satchmo

Well give us a bit of a description... was it slow/fast? What instruments were there?

I'd say your best bet is to go to a site like amazon.com and find a few standard names from different styles of jazz like Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Lionel Hampton, Wes Montgomery, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus (one of my favourites), Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley... the list goes on! They have samples of tracks from loads of CDs, so listen to a few and see what you like. I'm sure people can then point you to some good names that would suit you.

I know what you mean about "modern type jazz", I'm not mad about it myself. But everyone gets something different out of jazz, and there's so many different styles - to each his own!

dub45

Ah the wonders of google http://www.corkjazzfestival.com/Gresham.html gives the programme for the Saturday so you should be able to figure out who you were listening to.

As regards suggestions well the best way to find out what you like is to just listen as much as you can. There's loads of stuff on the Radio and especially the BBC if you have access. Lyric fm have a few jazz slots.

Saturday & Sunday @ 19.00... Jazz Alley
Sunday - Thursday @ 22.30... The Blue of the Night
Friday & Saturday @ 23.00... The Third Wave

While bbc r3 especially features a lot of jazz of all types. Jazz record requests is a great way of hearing lots of different types of Jazz http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/ gives loads of info and you can even listen in if you have broad band. BBC Radio 2 also do very good jazz series and apparently theres a good series just started of Branford Marsalis looking at classic Jazz albums http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/jazz/

It seems from your description that you like big band music and theres lots of this stuff going cheap at the moment on cd becuase its all out of copyright (over 50 years old) and any label can put it out. You can pick up really good box sets for the likes of Duke Ellington for about €15. Plus there lots of really good 'proper'reissues too on lables like Verve and Bluenote.

This site gives lists of recommende jazz albums http://www.counterpoint-music.com/links/recommend.html

So you have no excuse now:)

mike65

A Glenn Miller freak on the boards! Run!

Only joking, that sounds like the style you heard first time, modern jazz does'nt have to mean 4 blokes not listening to one-another, "free style" improv can be brilliant on a good night...

I'd suggest the following to get an overview -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000087HXQ/qid=1071185478/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_11_2/202-0096318-2685408

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024F6G/qid=1071185478/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/202-0096318-2685408

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024F6I/qid=1071185557/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/202-0096318-2685408

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000AORM/qid=1071185649/sr=1-21/ref=sr_1_2_21/202-0096318-2685408

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000471N/qid=1071185649/sr=1-30/ref=sr_1_2_30/202-0096318-2685408

Enjoy!

Mike.

herbie747

Get some Steely Dan.

If you have kazaa, or similar, download: Gaslighting Abbie, Black Cow, Kid Charlemagne, FM, Babylon Sisters........