JAZZ

[RCMerchant]

 I love punk.
I love metal
I even love old bluegrass and country.
But I am inclined to Jazz latley.
Chet Baker-my hero.
Brubeck,John Coltrane.Stan Getz...
Can anyone turn me on to some others?
Im new to the genre-any help is welcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchEXBimNlg

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Jazz is something i wish I got... I appreciate its role in our culture, I appreciate the talents of all these cats, but i can't sit and enjoy the music to any degree.  There are exceptions, all the women jazz singers..Ella Fitzgerald, bessie smith,  etc. really get to me in a good way, but i can't get into Miles Davis or all these greats.  Its a flaw in my personality.
-Ed

[Vik]

Booker T and the Mgs
The Dave Brubeck quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNrmYRiX_o
EDIT: I just saw you did mention Brubeck, but whatever, everone should listen to Take Five.

[Leah]

Same and Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk

[Doggett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrLmaB8aJSI



LOVE jazz.

[Trevor]

I like jazz, so long as it isn't 50 musicians on one stage each playing a different tune.

[RCMerchant]

Booker T and the Mgs
The Dave Brubeck quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNrmYRiX_o
EDIT: I just saw you did mention Brubeck, but whatever, everone should listen to Take Five.

Bruebeck I knew about...excellent!!!! 

Same and Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk

More soul rock and roll....
THIS is nice....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrLmaB8aJSI



LOVE jazz.

[Rev. Powell]

Bull - Sam & Dave?  (They're good, but not jazz!)  You should know better, you're from NOLA!

REV.  POWELL'S BRIEF GUIDE TO JAZZ

Basically everything starts with Louis Armstrong and Dixieland in the 1920s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41z0wAR_pQ

Next is the Big Band/Swing era.  Duke Ellington is the man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDCzb3dv_Y

Jazz vocalists became the pop stars of the day.  Billie Holliday (this should chill your blood):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdnD39GYVU

In the 40s and 50s the bop musicians reacted against the popularization of the music.  They make small group music that is challenging and harmonically complex.

Thelonious Monk wrote the most covered song in jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw

Charlie Parker (the best soloist ever?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEeISJ0wr48

Charles Mingus comes a little later but in the same vein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hArClJAGZs

Cool jazz is what you're into right now, RC (Brubeck, Chet Baker).  These guys followed bop, but were more melodic.

Miles Davis is in a class by himself.  He claims to have revolutionized jazz five times:

Invented cool jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzqjmoZZAc

Modal jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c&ob=av2n

The Gil Evans Big Band collaborations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N090STPx-2M

Fusion, jazz for acidheads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bITU0j_6AA

Miles' most successful student, John Coltrane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

Followed by Ornette Coleman and free jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344

Today you have the traditionalists like Wynton Marsalis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtZrIjQuwA

And the "modern creatives" like my man Ben Allison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eluPd5wFjAs

And plenty more.  I feel a little like Ken Burns.

I was once told the best way to build a jazz library was to get five albums from Miles Davis, then get five albums from each of the sidemen, then get five albums from each of the sidemen's sidemen.

[dean]

I like jazz, but only listen to it on occasion.  But whenever I think of Jazz I can't help but think of some classic Mighty Boosh skits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwQ_zeRwEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7DOvbAfjtU

[RCMerchant]

Wow Rev...thankx!
I DO have a Miles Davis cd....
I wasnt aware of Ben Allison! 

[Psycho Circus]

Not a fan of Jazz, but I'm very respectful of jazz musicians and the genre itself. This is about as jazzy as I get:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1CtG9XE5LY

SRV strays out of blues mode and still nails it.

[Flick James]

Jazz is and on-again/off-again thing for me, for a while there it was very off-again. I seem to constantly hover back and forth between vocal and instrumental jazz. The last time I was actively listening, it was mainly vocal jazz. Lot's of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, etc. Heck, Chet Baker has done some amazing vocal jazz.

I'm experiencing a swing back into listening to some instrumental jazz. John Coltrane's Blue Train is on my iPod at the moment.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk is one you should check out for something truly unique in jazz. He is a multi-instrumentalist who introduced "circular breathing" to horn playing. This is a technique used by players of the Australian didgeridoo (sic?) where the player fills their cheeks up with air and continues to blow into the instrument while he is inhaling through his nose to replenish his lungs. This allows a constant flow of air for uninterrupted playing along the lines of bagpipes. Not only that, but he would sometimes play multiple instruments at once, like having both a baritone and a alto saxophone in his mouth at the same time. This may sound gimmicky, and that's just what many thought when they would see him with several instruments dangling from his neck, but once he started playing, they got it.

I'm not usually into fusion jazz, or the jam band type of stuff, but one exception is Medeski, Martin & Wood. You should check them out. They are fantastic musians and do some pretty interesting stuff with jazz.