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Unfortunately Milton's voice is no longer that good due to diabetes and general ill health. Ceatano Veloso has faired rather better. Never mind I still rate Milton as Brazil’s greatest composer/performer.

I will check Ceatano Veloso out. I love finding new (for me) music. I was never a fan of heavy metal, but I've got to find something for my son's best friend's 13th birthday. So far I'm leaning towards Godsmack. My son says he likes heavy metal but he doesn't know any bands, I guess he's just now moving into that phase.

try to look for jools holland. he is crazy but he is a genius.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fs_oTzIPgM[/youtube]
maybe you will like him.

maybe you can make your own jazzy compositions.

here is one of my silly keyboard multilayer things, it is jazz, but it is very untested and experimental.
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7595083

Do. Some people talk of the Dylan of brazil, but in reality the similarities are very thin. What he's done is brought a little bit of his own weirdness to Brazilian music. Nowadays he also does standard Latin ballads, but I find his best stuff is his own style, often upbeat.

That generation really got in the side. They were in exile for being too subversive for the right wing dictatorship, and the left criticised them for not being Brazilian enough.


I'm sure that will do fine. Nice bit of percussion. Metal is huge and i don't pretend to know much about it, but he will find out what he likes in due course.


I like Jools for being a music lover and like to watch later with jools holland, but I think you are exaggerating calling him a genius. Sure he can boogie, but he would be the first to admit he is no Oscar Peterson.

i don't know if this is what you're looking but bela fleck and the flecktones is a jazz fusion band. bela's a banjo player. trust me it works.
look up blu bop on youtube.

Sun Ra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_KLSKSX2PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2q3dqOaMt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54PfooBQjc8

Some more artists I love who were/are involved in jazz to varying degrees -

John Zorn
Miles Davis
Frank Zappa
Derek Bailey
Ernst Reijseger
Oregon
Keith Jarrett
Pat Metheny
Carla Bley
Peter Brötzmann
Jaco Pastorius

If you are just getting into jazz, you must hear this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk[/youtube]
And this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs[/youtube]
And this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R416VHIL514[/youtube]
There's probably great live versions of all these on you tube, but I stuck to the studio recordings for safety (I'm pressed for time right now).

I like Miles Davis & John Coltrane but apart from them i don't own a lot of jazz albums- that should be my new year's resolution- buy more jazz.

my entire jazz collection:

Milestones- Miles Davis (bebop)
Kind Of Blue- Miles Davis (cool Jazz)
B itches Brew- Miles Davis (Jazz rock fusion)
On The Corner- Miles Davis (Jazz-funk/rock)
live album- can't remember the name (latin/Jazz fusion)- Miles Davis
A Love Supreme- John Coltrane (free Jazz)
Blue Train- John Coltrane (bebop)

please under no circumstances EVER listen to Kenny G, his music is bland and lacks originality, just type 'kenny g songbird' into youtube and you'll see what i mean.

My music degree is mainly in jazz. I could spent all day here reccing stuff. But for something a little different than what's been posted: here's Matthew Shipp, a contemporary avante garde/jazztronica pianist and possible Aspie--I love his stuff:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5IIImk_WU[/youtube]

Al Dimeola
Chic Corea
And the late Ali Farka Toure are among my favorites.

the old jazz faves of an old fart-

*fats waller @ the HMV studio compton organ [the studio later known as "abbey road" and used by the beatles]
*count basie and "mister five-by-five" [especially doing "flat foot floogie"]
*mat mathews and his accordion, the album "swingin' pretty and all that jazz" [waaayy outta print]
*the dutch swing band and the royal dutch naval band playing dixieland-style marching jazz together [forgot the name of the LP but it also is waaayy outta print]
*tommy dorsey - nobody could swing AND croon like him and his 'bone
*ella fitzgerald and [drummer] chick webb - nobody could scat like ella, and NOBODY could beat the traps like webb
*seger ellis and his choirs of brass jazzband- incomparable early swing jazz
*the firehouse 5+2 - incomparable dixieland/2-beat
*glenn miller and his allied expeditionary allied forces orchestra- some swingin' sophistication happenin' there
*earl "fatha" hines- nobody could play ragtime like he could, and make it swing
*vince guaraldi- a totally unique pianist- nobody similar to him then or since- think "linus and lucy"
*there is a CD of pianist dick hyman and a pick-up band of aces, playing gershwin in the style of bix biederbecke, that is stunning

too many others to list here

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I cant get enough of Horace Silver's tunes. This is my favorite ballad. It gives me chills.

Horace Silver Peace

Glenn Miller Band
Duke Ellington
Zez Confrey
Louis Armstrong
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Ella Fitzgerald

One of the Jazz songs I like the most is Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQybKMXL-k[/youtube]

an interesting factoid you might enjoy- the original production master to this recording was on 4-track 35mm optical sound recording film, one of the earliest examples of multichannel stereo sound recording.

These are two good artists to start with, I concur.

Wes Montgomery - Guitarist.
Thelonious Monk - Pianist.

They're both "Bebop" musicians, which typically was jazz where there were a few musicians per band. There is a song structure and then often there are numerous solos; usually at least one per song.
Thelonious Monk's band had no guitarist, Wes Montgomery's band had no saxophonist, and they both had bassists, drummers, and pianists.

Just for a short summary, again, good to start with. With Thelonious Monk, I also recommend his Straight No Chaser album; one of it's songs, Kojo no Tsuki, is just amazing. But... some of the songs' lengths might be intimidating, just for a warning; don't let it repel you, just sit back and listen, with a different mindset.

If you like this, I also recommend Miles Davis (the album Kind of Blue) and John Coltrane (the album Blue Train) - also really good listens.

Wow, no one included the Jazz Master. Shows how much you all know (:mrgreen:).
I've mentioned him on another Jazz thread and I'll mention him on this one: Art Tatum.

Absolutely amazing, the parts from 0:24 to 0:34, 1:09 to 1:12, and the convoluted ending in this improvised piece (one of my favorites) of his called "Yesterdays":
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Cs_zb4q14[/youtube]