Jazz, whats good?

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I'm recently getting into it and i would like to know what you like in jazz.
*please note, i would like to have no "i hate/its no good" thank you

Wes Montgomery or Thelonious Monk Straight No Chaser, I could only find Monks version on youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxX0-OaI5j0&feature=PlayList&p=D995015842E6FECF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34[/youtube]

What sort of jazz are you interested in exploring? There's fusion, dixieland, big band, funk, latin, swing, bop, and many other types.

You could look at Harry Connick, Jr. if you're interested in contemporary interpretations of the jazz South and big band (Red Light Blue Light is a good album, in my opinion); there's Bird, Monk and Satchmo for instrumental; Ella and many others in the area of jazz vocals. You might like Raymond Scott - he was a jazzer in the 30's and 40's who sold his library of tunes to Warner for the Bugs Bunny cartoons (Powerhouse, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals, etc) before building the first sequencer (Moog manufactured his hardware) and other inventions... as well as doing soundtrack and sound effect work for sci-fi films during the 50s and early 60s. Or you could look at Herbie Hancock if you like more 'aggressive' tracks or more melodic movement. There are so many artists that I could sit here and list tens and tens if not hundreds of options, but getting a sampling first will help you discern what styles you like best.


M.

There was a jazz thread here not too long ago.

On the Cosby show from the mid-1980s, now in re-runs, you always hear Bill Cosby mention the great Jazz players...Duke Ellington, B.B. King, John Coltrane and Miles Davis to name a few. That's because Bill Cosby loves great Jazz music as well.

So much of Harry Connick Jr.'s music is taken from these "great" Jazz musicians since Harry is only 38 years old, I believe now.

I like how sophisticated it sounds.

Squirrel Nut Zippers was doing some great hot 1920s-style stuff at the end of the 90s, dunno if they're still together.

That reminds me, anybody notice that videogame commercial on television lately that uses Annette Hanshaw? Totally trippin'. I keep expecting the commercial to end with "That's all!"


There was also a band in the 90s called Morcheeba that was doing some sort of trip-hop synth jazz material that was pretty cool.

im still figuring it out...thus, any suggestions for a starter?

Let me try a different tack - what have you listened to or heard so far? I'll try to come up with a list of some suggestions this evening when I return.


M.

Morcheeba is still around. Skye Edwards moved on and there have been a succession of other female singers. Here's a clip of the one after Skye Edwards, Daisy Martey.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yViHGA_AJmk[/youtube]

I really like Morcheeba. I only heard of them a few years ago on an NPR interview.

Keith Jarret's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert]Köln Concert[/url],
thumbs up.

crazy dude (in a good way), OCDish maybe, don't know

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqK1JJOFxw[/youtube]
song from other album, hope you like it

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I love jazz, especially a certain type but don't know how to find it or even what it would be called. Maybe I can learn or figure it out with this thread.

I really like this but it isn't quite what I was thinking of.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw[/youtube]

This is not them at their best, but something about this clip appeals to me.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txVSX_DOrpI[/youtube]


Paddy Milner doing a Burbeck cover...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRYrKYFXZU[/youtube]

Brubeck in his prime... Like Ward Clever only cool.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3eimKbIdHU[/youtube]

Ramsey Lewis

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPpUxYJtfA[/youtube]


...and Yoko Kanno.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtxDGXS7BLQ[/youtube]

The only thing in the 'verse that could make me watch anime.

^ kanno at Macross Plus, pure genius.

The first tape I ever bought with my own money were Harry Connick, Jr. Eleven


Jazz is deeply personal. The best thing is to immerse yourself in and see what you like. It helps to learn a bit about the history then you will understand the progressions better.

My favourite sort Jazz is cool, bossa nova/tropicalimismo, afro-beat/afro-pop, fusion, minimal, deconstructed, and some nu jazz. You’ll end up blurring the lines of what is and isn't jazz on this side of things, many noise, electro-acoustic, concrete artist started off from a jazz background. I also love some of the other style like bee-bop/hard-bop, boogie, rag, dixie, and so on.

Anyway here are some of my favourite artists:
Chet Baker
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfl-wvSmpb0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfl-wvSmpb0
Oscar Peterson
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQjwPI6H0k[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQjwPI6H0k
Sékou "Bembeya" Diabaté (a.k.a "Diamond Fingers”)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaH5ZI6U3Ao[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaH5ZI6U3Ao
Milton Nascimento
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5UlFDTZ6g[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5UlFDTZ6g
Caetano Veloso
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvhqKWJ1kp0[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvhqKWJ1kp0
Herbie Mann
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRsOCKENeJU[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRsOCKENeJU
Jaco Pastorius
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25DXcFg1TFo[/youtube]

Anyway their work is quite varied so best check them out.

My least favourate is big band and 50s crooner music, the latter being the most commercially successful jazz these days, which I find somewhat depressing. I saw Jamie Cullum at the 606 club just before he got his first break. Needless to say I'm not impressed with what he has done with his career. He can actually be quite good on an intimate level.