Jazz

So, WATMMm, lets talk about Jazz for a little bit.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDDr9dzjew&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIph0O_tnw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdm1yuoU_Q

I'm only now starting to fully appreciate jazz music. I'm finally feeling comfortable and I'm now reveling in the large amount of good music. I'm planning on driving around to a bunch of record stores tomorrow and buying a bunch of classic jazz albums. Post your favorites etc etc.

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda; Ptah, the El Daoud; World Galaxy

Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain

Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission

Herbie Hancock - Sextant; Head Hunters; Empyrean Isles; Mwandishi; Maiden Voyage

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Arve Henriksen - Cartography

Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra

CHET BAKER

I hate 90% of jazz (that figure could be higher). And jazz fans are generally on the whole pretentious wankers.

Thats the only 2 things I know about jazz.

  On 2/26/2011 at 2:49 PM, beerwolf said:

I hate 90% of jazz IDM (that figure could be higher). And jazz IDM fans are generally on the whole pretentious wankers.

 

Thats the only 2 things I know about jazz IDM.

  On 2/26/2011 at 2:53 PM, ericsosh said:

  On 2/26/2011 at 2:49 PM, beerwolf said:

jazz IDM fans are generally on the whole pretentious wankers.

jizz

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

One would not only need to be unfamiliar with jazz but actively seeking refuge from it in order to not have heard of Kind of Blue or Love Supreme. Those are good / great records of course but anyone whose read or even glanced through a music publication or spied some critic's "best of" within the last forty years will know what Kind of Blue is. This is interesting too because I came to that record rather late in my exploration of jazz and by that time I'd absorbed so much of the hype that I was on the borderline of meh upon first listen.

Anyway Jack De Johnette's De Johnette Complex is an interesting record. De Johnette is a hell of a drummer and he incorporates a melodica all over that record. His original compositions are challenging but in the end a rewarding listen in my opinion. I also like Ornette Coleman. He wrote that piece for an orchestra using his harmonizing technique (harmolodics I think?), Skies of America. I love that. It is not really your standard issue 'jazz' record I guess, but it's interesting at least to hear the interplay between the orchestral tympani in one channel and a jazz drumkit in the other! It's really quite intense and the concept itself is pretty wild but he pulled it off damn well. You never really hear about that album, (it's dissonant as fuck but not a full on free jazz freak out by any means).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY2BQk9s11Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNBCatG-mQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVrA7QqynI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HQObVB-ZXU

Tony Williams - Emergency!

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame

did you perform a search, capsaicin? there have been threads of people recommending jazz before.

  On 2/26/2011 at 9:21 AM, Capsaicin said:

So, WATMMm, lets talk about Jazz for a little bit.

 

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

  On 2/26/2011 at 11:09 AM, Tauhid said:

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda; Ptah, the El Daoud; World Galaxy

 

Herbie Hancock - Sextant; Head Hunters; Empyrean Isles; Mwandishi; Maiden Voyage

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

  On 2/26/2011 at 5:48 PM, azatoth said:

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Nice picks guys! I'll add a couple random favorites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lxg6VNEtEw&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgBVWx_1TKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B-1Yreze24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY

One of my favorite guitarists- Wes!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84KmJwtPeI

Ahmad Jamal is definitely one of the all time keyboard greats. His trio was always tight as a drum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0DkzkW12U&playnext=1&list=PL2B04E4C02CA50747

A live example from 1971. Nasser has such a great bass tone on the above. The backing seems to play with the billowing echo of Jamal's Rhodes.

you can save yourself a lot of time by just getting some Sun Ra and listening to it until you like it. He's the best because he's from outer space.

this first track is my personal pimping theme and is dear to me

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

then……..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6JCbUQbPJo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N11oDFjmVig&feature=related

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUK41ura1e4

  On 2/27/2011 at 5:26 AM, yikes said:

this first track is my personal pimping theme and is dear to me

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

 

then……..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6JCbUQbPJo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N11oDFjmVig&feature=related

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUK41ura1e4

prazz, fazz or plainly funk but not jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KTUqLyNcU

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVXMWOWaS8

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_45lXgHZw

yeah that funk-jazz shit is weak. get it out here. plus we just had a thread on jazz like 2 minutes ago.

*Pulls up old thread from trash bin*

Need some reconmendations similar to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Bh68ZAZm4

I'm not a Jazz music expert at all. Is this kind of laid back/chilled out jazz called something special?

  On 5/24/2011 at 7:53 PM, Dropp said:

*Pulls up old thread from trash bin*

 

Need some reconmendations similar to this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Bh68ZAZm4

 

I'm not a Jazz music expert at all. Is this kind of laid back/chilled out jazz called something special?

You should get Miles Davis' album called Kind of Blue.

Also, shame on you guys for not mentioning Jan Johansson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0-Z72JQK0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcQ99Wt_YyY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVjbzwd7uQ

It's a different kind of jazz but it's still jazz.

Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington are my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yExwkQYcp0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQO68h6yzFk

I'm also a big fan of Medeski Martin & Wood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T5991AXPJQ&feature=related