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All Inclusive "Recommend Me For Music" Thread
alyosha:
It depends on what kind of Jazz you want.
For Hot/Big Band Jazz, I'd suggest George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Billie Holiday, Ella FItzgerald, Diana Krall, Keely Smith, Louis Armstrong, and, well, Squirrel nut Zippers.
For Bebop, Check out Thelonius Monk and CHarlie Parker. Honorable Mentions to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis.
For fusion, I'd recommend Herbie Hancock, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and any sort of 70's funk mix.
For more modern Jazz, I'll second Coltrane, and add Branford Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck.
If you want some experimental music, the classic example is John Cage, and I'd even suggest some early Bruce Springsteen, notably "The Wild, THe Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle" and his newest Album: "The Seeger Sessions"
Edit: for some good neuveaux Brass: Rebirth Brass Band, Vavavoom, Tijuana Brass, Elvis COstello and the Metropol Orkest, and, heck, get Sirius Sattellite and Listen to Channel 24...
Enter some of these names in the Music Genome Project at www.pandora.com for some more suggestions.
Misereatur:
Miles Davis is a good start (Birth of the cool - Cool Jazz, and Kind of Blue - Modal Jazz, both styles are part of the Post Bop period of Jazz Miles was coming from). Go further with Charlie Parker and Coltrane (Start with his early recordings) both are Bebop and some Post Bop. For more good Bebop go with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.
If your into Avant Grade, go for Ornette Coleman, Erick Dolphi and John Zorn - fronting the Free Jazz Movement.
For good Hard Bop go for Tom Harrell. And try Medeski, Martin & Wood for a modern trio.
If your into Vocal Jazz, try Dianne Reeves and her amazing trio (they're fucking brilliant live)
For fusion check out Weather Report, Spyro Gyra, Dave Weckl group and of course Jaco Partorius solo works.
Jazz is a very interesting and allways innovative style of music, good luck with it. Plus, keep All Music by your side for future references.
Als0, Duke Ellington is Swing, a pre-Bebop movement in Jazz. Not Bebop. Swing was a Big Band orianted music, very different from Bebop (why? books have been written about it, I'm not going to get into it here).
Luke:
"Lullaby" by Ben Folds, and I'll second The National Anthem by Radiohead. It's a fucking strange song, but it has that jazzy element to it.
I get the impression that Ben Folds would make an excellent jazz pianist, but he leans more towards rock in most of his music. Lullaby is a good jazz track though.
thedevilissix:
Art fookin' Blakey an' his fookin' Jazz Messengers, like.
Top drumming, top grooving, top times.
Also The Bad Plus for lovely jazz takes upon your favourite rock and techno standards (e.g. Aphex's "Flim" and a "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cover that is actually *gosh* good.
TheMike:
Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk and Count Basie are my absolute two favorite jazz artists ever, ever. You can't go wrong with any of their albums.
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