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What are Your Most Favorite Jazz Artists/Albums?

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  • 20-10-2009 1:55am
    #1
    Brocko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Here's some of mine...

    Artists:
    Miles Davis
    John Coltrane
    Sonny Rollins
    Chet Baker
    Louis Armstrong
    Dizzy Gillespie
    Charlie Parker
    Stan Getz
    Antonio Carlos Jobim
    Django Reinhardt
    Art Blakey
    Rahsaan Roland Kirk
    Herbie Hancock

    I'm going to stop there because I'm realizing this list could go on for a while.

    Albums:
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    John Coltrane - Giant Steps, My Favorite Things
    Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto
    Antonio Carlos Jobim - Getz/Gilberto
    Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters


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    #2
    real rocker
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭real rocker


    Great idea and guaranteed a litany of artists to think about.

    In the jazz guitar mode I would nominate the following:

    Charlie Christian
    Barney Kessell
    Louis Stewart
    Hugh Buckley
    Grant Green

    Jazz vocalist wise the following are favourites:

    Mark Murphy
    Cormac Kenevey
    Kurt Elling (in Cork this weekend)
    Chet Baker
    Maria Tecce
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Billie Holiday
    Tony Bennett
    Bing Crosby
    Joni Mitchell
    Liza Hingerty
    Dinah Washington

    The list goes on and on.

    Don't forget Cannonball & Nat Adderley,Herbie Hancock,The Yellowjackets,Justin Carroll,Dylan Rynhard and all the modern European performers.


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Artists :

    Miles Davis

    John Coltrane

    Charles Gayle

    John Zorn

    Rick Margitza

    Louis Stewart

    Abdullah Ibraham

    Ritchie Buckley

    Ivo Perelman

    Peter Brotzman


    Albums :


    Machine Gun - Peter Brotzman

    Touchin' on 'Trane - Charles Gayle

    Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

    Hope - Rick Margitza

    Ascention - John Coltrane

    The Eye Listens - Ivo Perelman


    .... to name just a few. ;)


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    #4
    Nozebleed
    Registered Users Posts: 1,727 ✭✭✭Nozebleed


    Oscar Peterson & Bill Evans & Wes Montgomery....oh and Jimmy Smith... I can leave the rest!


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    Smokecloak
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    Don Rendell and Archie Shepp. The mid sixties albums are the best.


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    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,497 ✭✭✭dasdog


    Everyone I listen to is probably already mentioned except maybe J.J. Johnson. Been listening to lots of Charlie Parker for the past few weeks. My album of this week which I've been treating myself to one song from every night is Mosaic by Art Blakey - I can't recommend it enough.


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    #7
    not bakunin
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭not bakunin


    Charles Mingus.....Blues and Roots, Ah Um

    Thelonius Monk

    John Coltrane

    Mr. Davis.....Bitches Brew!

    Jaco Pastorius

    Ornette Coleman

    John McLaughlin....with his Trio of Doom


    Brilliance, all.


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    #8
    fortuneg
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭fortuneg


    Many of those mentioned above plus...

    Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame & Birds of Fire

    Herbie Hancock - Thrust


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    DublinWriter
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    fortuneg wrote: »
    Many of those mentioned above plus...
    Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame & Birds of Fire
    Dude...and I thought I was the only one in Ireland!

    In all fairness, the Mahavishu were more fusion than jazz. I still even liked them when Cobham left and Narada Micheal Walden came in.

    For me, it all began in 1959 with the four jazz apostles and their albums that year:

    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    DB Quartet - Time Out
    Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
    Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

    Everything since has been just variations on the above.


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    Gyalist
    Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    Art Blakey & The Jazz messengers - Moanin'
    Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
    Straight Life
    Red Clay

    Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
    Mingus Ah Um

    Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

    Brad Mehldau - the Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs


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    Magic Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Joshua Redman - Momentum.

    Man Brian Blade is on fire on that album.


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    Bodysmart
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    I mainly listen out for guitar and piano mainly

    Guitar
    Wes Montgomery
    Joe Pass
    Barney Kessell
    Charlie Christian
    Jim Hall
    Al Di Meola
    Georg Wadenius (incredible Swedish guitarist I discovered via Steely Dan's Alive in America album. Check out http://www.wadenius.com/)

    Piano
    Oscar Peterson
    Herbie Hancock
    Howard Levy
    Bill Evans

    I really like Paul Desmond's saxophone playing.


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    Cicero
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    All the obvious really...still can't get enough of them though and since I've just received a brand Hi Fi it's time to listen to them all over again, and see just how even better they sound now :)

    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue/Sketches of Spain
    John Coltrane - A Love Supreme /My Favourite Things
    Keith Jarrett- Koln Concert
    John Coltrane- Blue Train
    Thelonius Monk- Monks Dream
    Keith Jarrett - A Melody at night with you


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    Fatgoogle
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Fatgoogle


    Theolonius monk is were i started with jazz and will always be a favourite.

    Dave brubeck
    Oscar peterson
    Wes montgomery
    Charles mingus

    Probably the main ones for me.


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    Jemmaa
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    Trevor Coulahan wrote: »
    Joshua Redman - Momentum.

    Man Brian Blade is on fire on that album.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXtnQ8i9Jjs


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    tarbolton
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭tarbolton


    Here's a representative sample in no particular order:

    Charles Mingus - Pre-Bird
    Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
    Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
    Henry Threadgill - Carry the Day
    Eric Dolphy - Out to lunch
    Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio - Songs for wandering souls
    John Zorn's Masada - Zayin
    Paul Motian Trio - I have the room above her
    Bill Frisell - Have a little faith
    Lee Konitz - French impressionist music from the 20th century
    Steve Swallow - L'histoire du clochard
    Louis Sclavis, Henri Texier & Aldo Romano - African Flashback
    Vandermark 5 - Beat Reader
    John Abercrombie - Cat 'n Mouse
    Enrico Rava - Tati
    New Klezmer Trio - Masks and Faces
    Simon Jermyn - Trot a Mouse
    Andrew Hill - Dusk
    Yeah/No - Swell Henry

    and my all time favourite -
    Dave Douglas - Charms of the night sky


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    silurian1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭silurian1980


    Most of what has been mentioned.

    I enjoy the 60s jazz flute, the like of Herbie Mann and Yusef Lateef are often played on my iPod.

    Anyone into these?


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    mike65
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    fortuneg wrote: »
    Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame & Birds of Fire
    DublinWriter wrote: »
    Dude...and I thought I was the only one in Ireland!

    Pffft! Bought a copy of IMF out of Record Collector in the late 80s

    Newbs ;)

    All the usual suspects, but I'll throw in Donald Fagens The Nightfly even though its not often classed as jazz its the very embodyment of the genre for me. Loose yet tight, hot yet cool, hip and happening (daddio!).


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    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    mike65 wrote: »
    Pffft! Bought a copy of IMF out of Record Collector in the late 80s

    Newbs ;)

    All the usual suspects, but I'll throw in Donald Fagens The Nightfly...
    Dem's fighting words!

    I'll see your Record Collector and raise you Dun Laoghaire market in 1984 for a quid - pristine copy on the original orange CBS label, too.

    The Nightfly was the first ever CD I bought in 1989.


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    not bakunin
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭not bakunin


    Any fans of Jaco Pastorius here? I love his bass playing. He had a few solo albums, the eponymous debut is my favourite. Then of course there was Weather Report.........Heavy Weather, what an album.


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    electrogrimey
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    I'm not going to list all of them, a lot have already been mentioned (Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Mingus etc), but instead I'll introduce someone who hasn't been mentioned. He's easily my favourite, Serbian pianist called Bojan Z, I urge you to check him out, his albums 'Bojan Z Quartet' and 'Koreni' in particular.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPgPd6uUUE


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    tarbolton
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭tarbolton


    Damn good post Electrogrimey!

    Great eastern European take on the whole jazz thing by Bojan Z. Brilliant!


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    the incredible pudding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭the incredible pudding


    Bojan Z quartet are excellent alright. I love Julian Lourau's playing on it.
    Speaking of the frenchman here's some other pieces by him on his awesome Gambit album

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-AhlDOBOzI



    edit -
    and here's a band that i've only recently gotten into, featuring the awesome drumming of Dave King of Bad Plus fame
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRWWPe8A3k


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    mike65
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    Does Jeff Beck count? or he is too er rock?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2HK5kzKAU


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    #25
    the incredible pudding
    Registered Users Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭the incredible pudding


    I don't wanna be part of any thread that has no place for Jeff! Blow by Blow will always remain one of my favourite albums. Had never heard him play with this band before, thanks for posting it!


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    mike65
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    You're among friends then! :p


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    stovelid
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    Herbie Hanock - Maiden Voyage

    Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream

    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, Water Babies, On the Corner

    Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra

    Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear

    Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis - Miles & Monk at Newport

    Joe Farrell - Song of the Wind

    Herbie Mann - Stone Flute

    Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Music From West Side Story And Wonderful Town And More

    Dave Pike Set - Masrerpieces

    Claude Bolling & Jean Pierre Rampal - Suite for flute and jazz piano trio

    Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

    Bob James - Volumes One, Two, Three and Four.


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    Gussie Finknott
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Gussie Finknott


    not bakunin wrote: »
    Any fans of Jaco Pastorius here? I love his bass playing. He had a few solo albums, the eponymous debut is my favourite. Then of course there was Weather Report.........Heavy Weather, what an album.

    Thats more like it,Jaco and Weather Report.As a collector of anthing Weather Report and Jaco since time began i now have a vast collection probably near to 600 cds and dvd.But there are lots more great artists like Terje Rypdall.Eberhard Weber.Jan Garbarek.Maria Joao.Joe Zawinul.The Jazz Pistols.Ulf Wakenius.John McLaughlin.Gert Dudek,etc.etc.Anybody up for a few swaps?


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    myploscarf
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    Charlie Haden
    Thelonius Monk
    Charles Mingus
    Miles Davis
    Uri Caine
    Frank Zappa

    Not necessarily in that order


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    HalloweenJack
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    Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

    Easily my favourite jazz album. The mix of traditional and experimental stuff is perfect. Also, his take on some older songs are great.


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    d'Oracle
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    I'd like to say I have no favourites, but I listen to "Blues and Roots" by Charles Mingus a lot.


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