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Mad that there's a jazz icon in this forum but no thread that I can see for America's only genuinely worthwhile gift to the world. A lot of people get put off by jazz for the same reasons as classical: it's seemingly impossible to work out where to 'start', and there's always going to be some 90 year old grandad somewhere who says that unless you've listened to Bud 'Trombone' Jefferson and His Band live at the Starlite Lounge in Algiers in 1936 (of which there is only one recording and it costs $90,000) you're a no-good poser. I've been listening to jazz since I was about 15 or 16 years old and they played Herbie Hancock's Chameleon in full on the radio one night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkqE4fpvdI hell yeah Straight away there'll be some purists who will say that this isn't strictly jazz, you know. We're not about that in this thread. This thread is for: -Jazz -Acid Jazz -Bebop -Hard Bop -Cool Jazz -Soul Jazz -Nu Jazz -Contemporary Jazz -Dixieland Jazz -Jazz Funk -Jazz Fusion -The approximately 40 other types of jazz I haven't mentioned If it's jazz, it's here, is what I'm going for. Best advice I can give for someone looking to get into jazz is just start anywhere, see what kind of sounds you like, look up which musicians were making those sounds and then see what else they worked on. Go onto google and type in 'google give me some absolute jazz stompers' and you'll probably get something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY And then you have officially Listened to Jazz. Search on ebay for a slightly used double bass and post 'yeah I listen to jazz nbd' When I started working from home during the pandemic and didn't have to make calls I put together a spreadsheet of every Blue Note Records release, and every day picked one at random and made note of the albums and tracks I liked. I am by no means a jazz expert though so don't want to do like a lot of these types of threads and have the OP be 'check out my 9000 youtube links that mean nothing to you'. If you would like recommendations you should post in this thread and I can try and help or one of the aforementioned grandads above can swing by to give you a real education. If you heard a real groovy banger recently you should post it in here so I can listen to it and post 'nice, drat nice'. Post your weirdest time signatures and filthiest sax solos. Can you remember the guy who played the saxophone that was like a double saxophone because I listened to a whole one of his albums and I didn't like it but appreciated the effort, and I can't remember his name. Jazz - it's where it's at.
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'Hey sex ghost what have you been listening to' Glad you asked! Been on a real Grant Green kick recently, just some lovely mellow guitar noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgJSZWOpBsA On a more contemporary kick, Emma-Jean Thackray is excellent and im not just saying that because she's from my neck of the woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEn7d65z2Gg
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The whole album is really great. I've recently been listening to Moondog, and a lot of Sun Ra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y80QulpLUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Dh6N9GLg
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Jul 9, 2022 22:02
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Greetings the sex ghost as someone into classical and who likes the really brief period where the two genres crossed over (i think that's just Gershwin) I have decided to pick up a random jazz album and listen to it
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Jul 9, 2022 22:34
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OK yeah Moondog also counts as one of those times jazz and classical crossed over a bit lol
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Jul 9, 2022 22:35
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I am listening to this album because ECM put out a few really important modern/postmodern classical releases and hell I like the brand. I will not have anything worthwhile to say other than "wow! cool music" because I know basically nothing about jazz performance practices sorry
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Jul 9, 2022 22:47
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Shoutout to the Sun Ra Arkestra! Marshall Allen is 98 goddamn years old, still doing live performances and crushes every time.  
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I like these guys a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfh1sWebSLI
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Does anyone have a good breakdown of Brazillian jazz? There's a couple shows on the local college station that play a lot of it but I have a really hard time finding anything other than Bossa Nova or like Gilberto Gil and no complaints but I'd also like to listen to some of the brighter, more up tempo ensemble stuff especially w/ multiple singers. no idea what I'm looking for Actually I've been having that problem a lot in general. Is there a good resource for finding standards you don't know the name of? There are a couple tunes that I hear pretty regularly from different groups on the radio, but can never place after the fact. Sometimes the track ID helps but usually its broken lol this was one of those for me for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tguu4m38U78
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Jul 10, 2022 07:44
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for fucks sake posted:I like these guys a lot. Portico Quartet rule. Art in the age of automation is one of my faves to just throw on and chill out to
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Jul 10, 2022 07:51
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Mingus is a contender for best American artist ever. Mingus Ah Uh, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, albums of that nature.
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Jul 10, 2022 19:33
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i'm in for the thread. gonna make as many posts as i can here, for the genre i love Monk is the greatest of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLopWusx-ZU
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Jul 10, 2022 23:42
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a good starting point for a new jazzer is any of the Miles Davis Quintet records - for me, Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet is the tops.
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Jul 10, 2022 23:45
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the sex ghost posted:'Hey sex ghost what have you been listening to' grant green kicks rear end, i love Idle Moments. just some chill as hell jazz guitar
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Jul 10, 2022 23:49
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I had a chance to buy a really nice copy of green street for like £80 at a record fair in london a few years ago but didn't fancy carrying it in my luggage on the train home. Now the cheapest one on discogs is approx £350. Owned
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Drove to LA to see Yussef Dayes earlier this year, which was a religious experience. Don't think I've ever been so awe struck leaving a venue before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYUR38Yo8aw Also been lucky enough to see Snarky Puppy twice this year. Safe to say I've been eating well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc
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Since it’s still early summer, kind of, this is one of my favorite songs. https://youtu.be/tWJQQiZYcUA
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Jul 12, 2022 01:57
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Gonna post some of my favorite Jazz in here (I'll add something and then edit it to add more I guess): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8087ihOCsqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO5dSvdkVTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkM1KLb_Ngs&t=291s
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Mons Hubris posted:Since it’s still early summer, kind of, this is one of my favorite songs. good poo poo. these days i want my jazz to sound like that or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAZ8xSK2h8 or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQWnDARLqU or this (if anyone can narrow this down more than 'brazillian jazz' please respond!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZZ0CILs4nc
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Oh awesome, I had also been wondering why there's no jazz thread and was seriously considering spinning one up. Thanks for making this OP Here's a few recommendations: Live from Emmet's place is an awesome stream/YT/etc. led by Emmet Cohen, who brings on some awesome artists both obscure and internationally renown to play standards. I think it was first started during the beginning of COVID and quickly took off. You can pretty much click on any performance and it's guaranteed to be awesome. This is one of my favorites, which I think is also their most popular video, featuring the incredible Patrick Bartley with one of my all time favorite modern alto sax solos. I've probably watched this more than a dozen times at this point: Emmet Cohen w/ Bruce Harris & Patrick Bartley | After You've Gone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984ksjle4YA Another popular thing: Lingus by Snarky Puppy, this has one of the coolest keyboard solos in the last few decades, very much worth watching for the insane musicianship from all involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc In terms of more classic records, here are a few albums that are required listening IMO, mostly just hard bop stuff: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqULFUg6CY John Coltrane - Giant Steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_fxxj1mMY Hank Mobley - Soul Station: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg7mJ3BwdABJB42JDMr1ueIe8viY5FgC8 Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByn-Orq9l8 There's so so much more out there to share but I think these link are all good starting points for anyone who might not be super familiar with jazz
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I like The Necks
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Recently got into Supergombo, which is a mix of Headhunters-style jazz funk with afrobeat. Their first album is incredibly catchy, funky and polyrhythmic. Great stuff. Check out Las Cuevas, Diakite, or Oiseau de nuit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8NghrPDzi0
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reversefungi posted:Oh awesome, I had also been wondering why there's no jazz thread and was seriously considering spinning one up. Thanks for making this OP if like jazz and what to explore more, what I do is if I heard something I like, I go on wikipedia or whatever and look up the song I'm listening to and then click on the musician's discography and start going through that stuff. although if you end up doing that with like Ron Carter or Paul Chambers lol you'll never get through it all
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I like Red Clay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1ZelIbUfI
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spacemang_spliff posted:if like jazz and what to explore more, what I do is if I heard something I like, I go on wikipedia or whatever and look up the song I'm listening to and then click on the musician's discography and start going through that stuff. although if you end up doing that with like Ron Carter or Paul Chambers lol you'll never get through it all If you have spotify the related artists feature is pretty useful. Last.fm has a similar feature. I've been listening to a lot of Pharaoh Sanders recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ6lB7FKxi8
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I've been listening to a lot of Pharaoh Sanders recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtmV4TzbWc
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Someone introduced me to this guitarist Ella Zirina from Latvia and it's the freshest thing I've heard in months, possibly years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPzpDNvE20
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Noise Machine posted:Someone introduced me to this guitarist Ella Zirina from Latvia and it's the freshest thing I've heard in months, possibly years. cheers, this is very good
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I've started trying to "get into" jazz in parallel with learning piano. I don't "get it" by jazzhead standards but I'm enjoying it. Things I'm liking right now: Bill Evans, all of it basically Miles Davis - everything again, but especially Sketches of Spain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38zRx9AYDHQ Chick Corea and Return to Forever - Light as a Feather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbynfCYDfuI Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6NRfitSCxw&t=455s Sarah Vaughan - Live at Birdland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t174pooeiG0 T-SQUARE - Blue in Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQuD3rN1Y44 (heavy nostalgia for the N64 generation) I don't know if you would call this jazz funk or straight funk, but Tokyo Groove Joshi is fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K8dNctci1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3XhtHdsj4 reversefungi posted:Live from Emmet's place is an awesome stream/YT/etc. led by Emmet Cohen, who brings on some awesome artists both obscure and internationally renown to play standards. I think it was first started during the beginning of COVID and quickly took off. You can pretty much click on any performance and it's guaranteed to be awesome. This is one of my favorites, which I think is also their most popular video, featuring the incredible Patrick Bartley with one of my all time favorite modern alto sax solos. I've probably watched this more than a dozen times at this point: Emmet's place introduced me to Cyrille Aimee, who is outstanding. And Cory Henry is insane.
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What are your favorite jazz albums? Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is mine, and I can listen to it almost endlessly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0E1XTqUlCc
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Boring answer Head Hunters, real answer Fred Jackson - hootin' 'n tootin'.
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Ruler Rebel - Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Gently Disturbed - Avishai Cohen
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Favorite recent discovery is David Matthews (the arranger)'s Dune concept album. Its well realized, and including Star Wars songs on the back half makes perfect sense to me. Highlights are Sandworms, Maud'Dib, and Princess Leia's Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_CAvGPAgI
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AnimeIsTrash posted:What are your favorite jazz albums? Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kQYj5i1cwes4L8KXklwy4glkBtW0C-t14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsx4kCnwAc This is the jazz album that I find myself listening to front-to-back most often. This is also one of a series of albums where Peterson plays songs from composers in the Great American Songbook, all with the same style of paintings as the cover. There's another, similar series of Peterson albums that cover the same or similar composers, all with a cover of the silhouette of a man playing a piano, but the sound quality in modern platforms is much lower. Also a big fan of Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder, but I find that one harder to have playing in the background while I'm working on something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHN6-yWFKPc
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I'm bummed out that I have discovered that Sons of Kemet are playing in Denver this Wednesday, but its at a tiny venue 550 people so its mega sold out tickets are going on seatgeek for 80+ bucks. 
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the sex ghost posted:'Hey sex ghost what have you been listening to' I know this post is a month old but I am now going through a Grant Green kick and listening to several of his albums, and using Green Street to fall asleep to the past week because it makes me feel happy.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/MilestonesAMilesDavisArchive/videos this channel is amazing my favorite jazz thing of the past decade is the Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus album, which i gather is part of a burgeoning UK jazz scene but I have failed to explore that very much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D8YPDdsxYU
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Unfortunately we just lost one of the most amazing jazz organists (who also played trumpet and saxophone (!!!)), Joey DeFrancesco. RIP  I got introduced to him through this video of him playing Sunny with Pat Martino (also RIP) and John Scofield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q742ZgZC28. Every solo in this video is incredible, but Joey's always stuck out to me for how memorable and exciting it was.
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caligulamprey posted:Shoutout to the Sun Ra Arkestra! Marshall Allen is 98 goddamn years old, still doing live performances and crushes every time. i saw these guys live last fall and they killed it. at the end of the show they all stood up and paraded through the venue while playing. Discussion Quorum posted:Chick Corea and Return to Forever - Light as a Feather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbynfCYDfuI return to forever made some bangers. spain and song to the pharoah kings are excellent songs. i was listening to impressions by john coltrane and i was blown away by the drumming. elvin jones goes crazy on this track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mZ54FJ6h-k also chuck mangione rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExBwfQHXlE
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Does anyone have any jazz radio stations they like? There's no jazz radio stations in my area and I like to listen to the radio while I'm working.
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