Suggest me some jazz.

[ihatesissycars]

Hey all,

Knowing how cultured the ph collective are I was hoping some of you could suggest some good jazz cd's to get so if you know of any fine examples, fire away!

Ta

Gavin

[smiller]

Start here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I did.

[Markh]

Hey Gav, long time no speak! here are few to get you started

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltraine -A love Supreme
Sonny Rollins-Live
Thelonious Monk -
The Modern JazzQuartet- Lonely Woman

or on slightly more modrn note

Sora
Gerardo Frisina

cheers Mark

[timbob]

Markh said:

Hey Gav, long time no speak! here are few to get you started

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltraine -A love Supreme
Sonny Rollins-Live
Thelonious Monk -
The Modern JazzQuartet- Lonely Woman

or on slightly more modrn note

Sora
Gerardo Frisina

cheers Mark

A Love Supreme might be a bit heavy for a second jazz record!! Kind of Blue though, oh yes.

Here are some other suggestions:

Check out "Go!" or "Our Man in Paris" by Dexter Gordon for some cool normal, non-widdly jazz. John Coltrane's "Ballads" album is great, as is "Crescent"... For a slightly chilled out, more West Coast thing, look up Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker. For some more earthy/funky stuff, look to the 1970s - "Red Clay" by Freddie Hubbard is a must, as is "Headhunters" by Herbie Hancock. For more up to date stuff, check out anything by Michael Brecker, "Tales from the Hudson" is great, as is "Two Blocks From the Edge" and "Time is of the Essence". These are a few of my personal favourites - being a jazz sax player, I'm heavily biased towards sax players, obviously, but I tried to include a bit of balance!!!

My general rule with jazz is to buy some CDs, like the ones above, listen to them and decide what you like. If you like the drummer on one album, or a particular random saxophonist sideman on someone elses record, look him up in the liner notes, do a bit of research and buy his most famous album. Then see what you like there, read the liner notes, buy something else that the same producer was involved with for example.

[Mr POD]

Sefton Schools Jazz Workshop did a CD a while back. IIRC it was fairly good.

[satchbot]

If you like guitar jazz the Stanley Jordan is your man.

[scruffy]

I haven't taken Greg Howe, Extraction, out of my head for weeks now! (dennis chambers and victor wooton...) propper modern jazz funk, yum!

[ihatesissycars]

Markh said:

Hey Gav, long time no speak! here are few to get you started

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltraine -A love Supreme
Sonny Rollins-Live
Thelonious Monk -
The Modern JazzQuartet- Lonely Woman

or on slightly more modrn note

Sora
Gerardo Frisina

cheers Mark

Hey Mark!

Yes long time and thankyou for the suggestions along with everyone elses, the next trip onto amazon is going to be an expensive one.

[Markh]

ihatesissycars said:

Markh said:

Hey Gav, long time no speak! here are few to get you started

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltraine -A love Supreme
Sonny Rollins-Live
Thelonious Monk -
The Modern JazzQuartet- Lonely Woman

or on slightly more modrn note

Sora
Gerardo Frisina

cheers Mark

Gav, hold off a bit could probably send you some 'samples' when I get back to the UK

Hey Mark!

Yes long time and thankyou for the suggestions along with everyone elses, the next trip onto amazon is going to be an expensive one.

[Cuban]

Depending on which form of Jazz you want to hear, this is one of my favourites that I class as Jazz.

Pat Metheny Group

You can check out some sound samples here:
http://music.yahoo.com/release/29838

[VladTheDad]

Curiosity Killed the Cat?

Edited by VladTheDad on Thursday 4th September 13:38

[ihatesissycars]

Hey there, cheers mark and everyone else!

I couldn't resist getting one so got a copy of the Miles Davis cd mentioned, its ace!

I keep the suggestions coming and I can start building my collection up,

Thanks again

[timbob]

A good "second ever jazz CD" for you:

Our Man In Paris - Dexter Gordon. He's a great, very listenable tenor player. Very clever in his harmony and note choice with improvising, and never gets stuck or bogged down with crazy finger widdling nonsense. A great first tenor player to get into.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Man-Paris-Gelder-Remas...

[Airbag]

satchbot said:

If you like guitar jazz the Stanley Jordan is your man.

I'd put Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Lenny Breau, Pat Metheny, Ed Bickert, Barney Kessel and a bunch of others ahead of SJ for someone just getting into jazz. SJ is great, but is in no way the best place to start.
Go out and buy "Smokin' at the Half Note" by Wes Montgomery. It's best to skip over the real early guys like Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang at first, but Wes is as good as gold and most modern jazz guitarists owe much to him!

[Mark V8]

Another call for Wes Montgomery over here, along with Miles Davis et al. Sonny Rollins too....
For well paced jazz funk check out Herbie Hancock or Chick Corea, or if you're looking for pure audio immersion try Desert Lady Fantasy by Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin which is simply tremendous.