The Recommend Me Some Jazz Thread![merged]

Rigsby · 04-09-2008 2:44pm

brosps wrote: »

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g

this is good jazz, trust me i am profeser

It's good alright................. for MTV or "Top of the Pops".

BTW you dont need to be a "professor" to enjoy jazz.

Tzetze · 04-09-2008 6:40pm

Caught these guys on 'Later with Jools' a few months back, and they knocked me for six.

The Neil Cowley Trio. Neil describes the sound on his youtube page as 'Jazz, but the dog ate our homework'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9S--20Q9CQ

funky penguin · 04-09-2008 10:22pm

Yes! I remember watching them!

Couldn't remember the name though! Thanks!

anti-venom · 04-09-2008 10:59pm

Here's a link to the insanely and phenomenonally talented Hiromi Uehara from Japan. This girl can play some serious piano, you might be impressed with this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pgM-NVfWg

Setun · 05-09-2008 10:42am

brosps wrote: »

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g

this is good jazz, trust me i am profeser

Tbh that really belongs in the hip-hop forum.
Read the thread title please.

Now that's a fine record. Listen to Ron Carter's bass line, very slick

Zumpel · 10-09-2008 3:51pm

in my first post in was looking for
"instrumental bands/anthologies that play a slow, laid back type of sound
for which I don't really have the frame of reference to describe it properly.. "

Collected some under this tag, nice to kick back and relax to:
http://www.last.fm/user/Zumpel/library/tags?tag=schweine+jazz

before anybody asks re the tag : it's how some ol' folks (including my gramps) refer to that kind of sound cause you can smooch so nicely to it in a dark corner in a smokey bar ... i hadnt heard the term jazz ballad yet and it somehow got stuck in my mind

democrates · 13-09-2008 2:02am

Thanks all for reccies, the to hear list has expanded.

If anyone's interested in Afro-Cuban/Mambo or generally Latin Jazz then a few I've liked are
Chico O'Farrill & his Orchestra - Manteca, Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite, Castigala, Havana Special
Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Luiz Arruda Paez - Upa Neguinho
Donald Byrd - Ghana
Horace Parlan - Congalegre

Noro Morales and his Orchestra - 110th st. and 5th Avenue
Horace Silver - The Cape Verdean Blues

Particularly Moorish/Eastern:
Machito and his Orchestra - Desert Dance
Machito Orch. & Mario Bauza - Gone City, Asia Minor

To a lesser extent but food for the soul nonetheless
Duke Pearson - Sandalia Dela
Cal Tjader - Descarga Cubana
Cal Tjader and Eddie Palmieri - Guajira en Azul
Luiz Henrique - Mas Que Nada

Maybe more latin/folk than jazz but I'd have to commend
Cesaria Evora - Bia d'Lulucha

And mental/bizarre but somehow enduring curiosities (wouldn't shell out for these at the expense of good stuff, got them on experimentally purchased compilations upstairs in tower records)
Harold Ousley - El Exi Henti
Machito Orch. & Flip Phillips - Bucabu, Tanga

Even if they're not all strictly jazz the patterns are interesting.

buck65 · 15-09-2008 8:34am

Got Jose James The Dreamer recently - really good jazz singer from the states, some great music on there too.
Ordered Drawn Inward by Phil Evans - I think it is jazz/ electric acoustic vibe.

Desmo · 16-09-2008 9:16am

Recent purchases:

John Scofield Uberjam (or Ueberjam); bought abroad but you can get on-line.
Wild loud funky electric jazz (or jazz rock or I do not know what it is but it is best album I have heard in 2 years). Excellent rhythm guitar and red hot bass and drums with Scofield playing loud on top.

Louis Stewart I wished on the moon. Bought in Tower in Wicklow St. This is one of his 2 guitar (plus bass and drums) records with Heiner Franz and is from late 90s. Impeccable playing of jazz standards; note perfect bebop.

Louis Stewart and Knut Michalsen Paradoxical Interventions. Bought in Paul Ryans shop in Eustace St. Guitar duets from a few years ago recorded in Norway (very nordic sound; you can feel the fjords;
very accoustic; you can hear heavy breathing throughout, literally). Beautiful guitar playing of mainly standards.

The Jimmy Cake Crown and Spectre (Tower Records Wicklow St.). Weird and wonderful 9 piece band play music that is probably not jazz but I do not know what else it is. They are playing 2 gigs over next few months. Bizarre and hypnotic music with strings and saxes and clarinets and accordions and stuff. Check out their myspace or youtube stuff to get an idea. Play it loud to get full impression (lap top speakers will not do justice).

herbieflowers · 17-09-2008 6:36pm

Desmo wrote: »

Recent purchases:

John Scofield Uberjam (or Ueberjam); bought abroad but you can get on-line.
Wild loud funky electric jazz (or jazz rock or I do not know what it is but it is best album I have heard in 2 years). Excellent rhythm guitar and red hot bass and drums with Scofield playing loud on top.

Louis Stewart I wished on the moon. Bought in Tower in Wicklow St. This is one of his 2 guitar (plus bass and drums) records with Heiner Franz and is from late 90s. Impeccable playing of jazz standards; note perfect bebop.

Louis Stewart and Knut Michalsen Paradoxical Interventions. Bought in Paul Ryans shop in Eustace St. Guitar duets from a few years ago recorded in Norway (very nordic sound; you can feel the fjords;
very accoustic; you can hear heavy breathing throughout, literally). Beautiful guitar playing of mainly standards.

The Jimmy Cake Crown and Spectre (Tower Records Wicklow St.). Weird and wonderful 9 piece band play music that is probably not jazz but I do not know what else it is. They are playing 2 gigs over next few months. Bizarre and hypnotic music with strings and saxes and clarinets and accordions and stuff. Check out their myspace or youtube stuff to get an idea. Play it loud to get full impression (lap top speakers will not do justice).

ah Uberjam - Funk central! Check out Medeski, Martin and Wood (if you haven't already!), they're definitely worth listening to if youlike your funk.

The only Louis Stewart I have is a record he did with Martin Taylor back in the 80s. Has some phenomenal interply between the two. That Nordic one you mentioned sounds interesting alright.

Recent purchases sounds like a good idea for a thread...

Desmo · 17-09-2008 10:52pm

herbieflowers wrote: »

ah Uberjam - Funk central! Check out Medeski, Martin and Wood (if you haven't already!), they're definitely worth listening to if youlike your funk.

The only Louis Stewart I have is a record he did with Martin Taylor back in the 80s. Has some phenomenal interply between the two. That Nordic one you mentioned sounds interesting alright.

Recent purchases sounds like a good idea for a thread...

ta for tip (medeski, Martin and Wood). The LS album is very gentle and contemplative compared to the one with Martin Taylor. The latter is manic. They apparently, more or less, just sat down and agreed on the tunes and counted in fast and went for it.

BarryCreed · 06-10-2008 8:55am

anything by E.S.T.

S.I.R · 06-10-2008 12:53pm

Gary moore & B.B king... either or both...they play Very well together and Moores guitar skills... Easily the best blues guy around...

Very few can use the tone like he does :cool:

anti-venom · 06-10-2008 9:37pm

Desmo wrote: »

ta for tip (medeski, Martin and Wood). The LS album is very gentle and contemplative compared to the one with Martin Taylor. The latter is manic. They apparently, more or less, just sat down and agreed on the tunes and counted in fast and went for it.

+1 on Medeski, Martin and Wood. Very, very good stuff. I'd particularly recommend their Zaebos: The Book Of Angels Volume 11 album. These are recordings of John Zorn's Masada project. Excellent.

krimson765 · 08-10-2008 5:16pm

dennis chambers and scofield

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRzFaurWyjc&feature=related

ec18 · 01-11-2008 3:59pm

I've been listening to Miles Davis - Some Kind of Blue for the last few months.

Any recommendations of stuff of the same mood?

Setun · 01-11-2008 4:42pm

Was it Kind of Blue or Some Kind of Blue? Sorry to be pedantic but the latter possibly is a 'Best of' album with random tracks of his.

Kind of Blue is arguably his best known studio album, and if you like that I suggest you listen to Milestones - the album that came before Kind of Blue, and Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderly's quintet (with Miles on trumpet).

ec18 · 01-11-2008 6:07pm

It was kind of blue. Thanks I'll have a listen to them

Gussie Finknott · 01-11-2008 10:11pm

JacoStanley wrote: »

Jaco at his best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCwH3amLaU

Check out a group from Germany called,The Jazz Pistols,they do a lot of Weather Report and Jaco stuff as well as their own.They have 4 cds and 1 dvd.Amazing players well worth a listen

Setun · 02-11-2008 11:26am

ec18 wrote: »

It was kind of blue. Thanks I'll have a listen to them

hope you like them

An Sionnach Rua · 02-11-2008 5:27pm

This thread is exactly what I needed.

SmileyPaul · 17-01-2009 1:39pm

dunno if its been mentioned but charlie parker is amazing if you can take a look at his yardbird sessions

Gussie Finknott · 17-01-2009 11:34pm

The best of George Benson includes,includes California Dreamin,Take Five ,Summer of 42,Summertime,and lots of other standards.A brilllant cd for the new to jazz posse ,Take Five is unbelievable.Joe Zawinul Faces and places and Weather Report 8-30 live are a favourite of mine but not for the faint hearted

herbieflowers · 18-01-2009 12:42am

pah, George Benson's a sell-out!

Listening to a jazz classic today, Page One by Joe Henderson. Good introduction to jazz!

Gussie Finknott · 18-01-2009 11:29am

Hermy wrote: »

That's a great post Tzetze. It's from Young and Fine Live, recorded in 1978, if anyone doesn't know. I have a rough copy but would love to get my hands on the DVD which is available from HMV Japan.

I have the DVD can give you a copy if you need it

Hermy · 20-01-2009 2:51am

Gussie Finknott wrote: »

I have the DVD can give you a copy if you need it

That would be cool.
Thanks Gussie.

Gussie Finknott · 21-01-2009 1:12am

Email me your forwarding address and its yours

monellia · 21-01-2009 11:31pm

Daddio wrote: »

Was it Kind of Blue or Some Kind of Blue? Sorry to be pedantic but the latter possibly is a 'Best of' album with random tracks of his.

Kind of Blue is arguably his best known studio album, and if you like that I suggest you listen to Milestones - the album that came before Kind of Blue, and Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderly's quintet (with Miles on trumpet).

Bitch's Brew is where it's at :cool:

Recommending Getz/Gilberto by saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao Gilberto 'cause it's epic.

peachy pie · 22-01-2009 5:06pm

Anita O' Day is brilliant, u shud chek er out

The Minstrel · 03-02-2009 2:47pm

monellia wrote: »

Bitch's Brew is where it's at :cool:

I disagree. If it's jazz you're after, then Bitches Brew may not be the one for you. The rhythms are more rock than jazz, but that's not to say it's a turkey. Of Miles's experimental stuff, it's not bad. In a Silent Way is my favourite of that period.

I've only heard a handful of Miles albums, but I can recommend the following:

Kind of Blue
Milestones
Miles Ahead
Porgy & Bess
Sketches of Spain
In a Silent Way

Turkeys:
Miles in the Sky
On the Corner - this is one of the worst albums I've ever heard!

I wonder could anyone recommend some more Miles must-have albums?

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