12 Nov 2010, 6:12 pm
17 Nov 2010, 3:27 pm
Another jazz fan here.
Like a few of the users who've previously posted, I would consider Tatum and Reinhardt to rank among my favourite jazz musicians. Some other favourites are Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, the Dave Brubeck Quartet...
If any other jazz enthusiasts want to send a PM or whatever, I'd be more than happy to respond in kind. 
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10 Dec 2010, 3:35 am
i like all forms of jazz up until bebop and cool [west coast] jazz. all types after that leave me a bit cold.
vince guaraldi [wrote the music for the original charlie brown tv specials] was an utterly unique jazz pianist. his jazz playing reminded me a bit of claude debussy [the children's corner], in that there was definitely an impressionist touch, in little flashes, in his playing, especially on charlie brown. the firehouse five+2 always puts a smile on my face. accordionist mat mathews and harpist gene bianco playing cool jazz together, is [was] simply sublime. earl hines [to me] sounded like a cross between ellington and james p. johnson- a delicious combination of jazz threads. chick webb played jazz on the drumset like ali boxed - he also floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. he was utterly unique as a drummer. 2 drummers who came along a few years after him, were too aggressive for my tastes, namely buddy rich and gene krupa, though the latter did swing. a former big band drummer, hal blaine also swings jazzy-like in many later rock recordings, though not with chick webb's finesse. tommy dorsey was the greatest living jazz trombone player, IMHO. nobody could swing and croon simultaneously like he did, and do it as effortlessly yet error-free as he did. fats waller was one of the early adopters of the hammond organ for jazz, but he originally played jazz on the wurlitzer theatrical pipe organ like nobody's business. his 1938 recordings at HMV studios [what is now abbey road studios] are definitive organ jazz and soul. count basie also got his start as a theatrical organist, taught by fats waller himself. the count was one of the earliest big band jazz artists who incorporated rock and roll into his style, via the "atomic band."
there is so much good older jazz of all different styles, i don't know where to get off the glory train. but for newer stuff, i can't say the same thing. weather report [to me], is unpleasantly angular and noisy. they didn't swing in the least, and they had no perceptible backbeat, just the same nasty anapestic rhythm which has taken over the lions's share of popular music in the last 30 years.
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just my 2-cents' worth, adjusted for inflation
auntblabby, I definitely love Vince Guaraldi. His music is so smooth and flowing that I actually can feel the atmosphere changing into something heavenly.
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11 Dec 2010, 5:13 am
I like smooth jazz, especially the ones with piano. My fav of all time is Bill Evans.
I love Bill Evans
I like a lot of contemporary Jazz too though, have you ever heard of The Bad Plus?
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12 Dec 2010, 11:22 am
Jazz fan here.
At the moment I've got these Miles Davis albums:
- Birth Of The Cool
- b*****s' Brew
- In A Silent Way
- Kind Of Blue
- Miles Ahead
- Miles In The Sky
- Nerfertiti
- Round About Midnight
- Sketches Of Spain
I checked out similar artists on the last.fm page, and I was wondering what albums to be recommened from the following artists?
Thelonious Monk
Herbie Hancock
John Coltrane
It can be as long as it likes, it don't bother me, I'll hunt these albums down. 
Feel free to suggest others as well.
12 Dec 2010, 4:31 pm
13 Dec 2010, 7:50 am
Thanks Darryl.
14 Dec 2010, 1:07 am
14 Dec 2010, 8:06 am
I like jazz (just look at my username for goodness' sake!)
I like to listen to jazz more than play it, I'm more of a classical player.
I like modal jazz, a slower style, with lots of space, so that you can really take everything in and listen intently 
, Like Herbie Hancock's canteloupe island and watermelon man. Chameleon is pretty cool too, it's a different style., and uses a synth bass and effects on the guitar. Some people like it and some hate it.
