Who's into Jazz Music?

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I like most most music from pop to classical. However I love traditional and "gypsy" Jazz.
The first name that comes to mind when thinking of Gypsy Jazz(I don't really like the term) is Django Reindhardt so here is one of my favourites:



but here is a current player who is out of this world:


Of course Joscho has the advantage of having all his fingers!
 
I listen to a lot of psychedelic rock and there’s a lot of jazz crossover in a lot of the instrumentals in that genre of music.

From that I’ve got into some jazz n’all.
 
I've been listening to Jazz since 18 y.o. 40 years now. love most of it and like P.C. stated above the crossover from proggy type rock and fusion and even into some of the Scandi folk jazz type stuff ala Jan Garbarek. I as well have linked that Take Five vid on here before, it's great. I could go on for hours here, I won't, your welcome. but here's just another one of my favorite things.
 
I got bored with rock and pop music a few years ago and started listening to jazz, I started with the big names like Miles Davis and John Coltrane and Charlie Parker I read some books about jazz and some autobiographies about these guys, anyway top on bottom of it is that I am now completely immersed in Jazz.
I'm a big fan of Weather Report, Charlie Mingus, and John Coltrane who's album A Love Supreme is probably my favourite, the standard of musicianship of these guys is outstanding considering that most of them were addicted to drugs.
Being a musician myself, jazz is perfect for me as the complexities of the genre fascinate me and I realise that's it's much deeper than Rock music technically speaking.
I'm not good enough to play jazz that's the only thing that pisses me off.
 
nimrod said:
I got bored with rock and pop music a few years ago and started listening to jazz, I started with the big names like Miles Davis and John Coltrane and Charlie Parker I read some books about jazz and some autobiographies about these guys, anyway top on bottom of it is that I am now completely immersed in Jazz.
I'm a big fan of Weather Report, Charlie Mingus, and John Coltrane who's album A Love Supreme is probably my favourite, the standard of musicianship of these guys is outstanding considering that most of them were addicted to drugs.
Being a musician myself, jazz is perfect for me as the complexities of the genre fascinate me and I realise that's it's much deeper than Rock music technically speaking.
I'm not good enough to play jazz that's the only thing that pisses me off.
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I have never moved much beyond Miles Davis and some of the older classical jazz pianists like Art Tatum. On your recommendation I will certainly give A Love Supreme a play. Cheers.
 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMC712utHSNg6j-EskqjSJgbjjjEMAgUp

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Psychedelic Casual said:
I listen to a lot of psychedelic rock and there’s a lot of jazz crossover in a lot of the instrumentals in that genre of music.

From that I’ve got into some jazz n’all.
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When he died, Jimmy Hendrix was working on a collaboration with Miles Davis. Davis used to go round to Jimmy's house and they'd go and play unplugged in his room so other people couldn't hear what they were working on.

What could have been.
 
domalino said:
When he died, Jimmy Hendrix was working on a collaboration with Miles Davis. Davis used to go round to Jimmy's house and they'd go and play unplugged in his room so other people couldn't hear what they were working on.

What could have been.
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I think the neighborhood might just hear a trumpet.
 
domalino said:
When he died, Jimmy Hendrix was working on a collaboration with Miles Davis. Davis used to go round to Jimmy's house and they'd go and play unplugged in his room so other people couldn't hear what they were working on.

What could have been.
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too right, and I'll bet that nothing of what they were working on came from a dealer. ;)
 
This track on the classic Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, is what jazz is all about for me, after the clever introduction by the bass Miles comes in on his trumpet with spot on, absolutely bang on timing, they made this record off the cuff with very little written down, just that they had spent thousands of hours playing together they knew what to do.

Miles plays the First section and is then taken over by John Coltrane on his tenor sax a finer performance you will never hear.
The fluidity in his playing is absolutely divine.
Sit in a quiet room or put on some decent headphones and listen to 'So What' you might hear what jazz is all about.
I very much hope you do.
These men were equal to Bach and Beethoven.

 
Although I like most of the older type jazz I must admit that I do like Jamie Cullum and in March myself and the wife will be in Cardiff to watch him for the 4th time in about 12 years.Seen him twice in Manchester and once at Delamere Forest, here in the heart of Cheshire.
 
nimrod said:
I got bored with rock and pop music a few years ago and started listening to jazz, I started with the big names like Miles Davis and John Coltrane and Charlie Parker I read some books about jazz and some autobiographies about these guys, anyway top on bottom of it is that I am now completely immersed in Jazz.
I'm a big fan of Weather Report, Charlie Mingus, and John Coltrane who's album A Love Supreme is probably my favourite, the standard of musicianship of these guys is outstanding considering that most of them were addicted to drugs.
Being a musician myself, jazz is perfect for me as the complexities of the genre fascinate me and I realize that's it's much deeper than Rock music technically speaking.
I'm not good enough to play jazz that's the only thing that pisses me off.
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That's ok, your in good company, even America's most misunderstood musician Frank Zappa had confusion in it. Although he did dabble in it and ironically won one of his two music Grammy's for his album "Jazz From Hell".(later receiving a third, Lifetime achievement Grammy.) He stated something like he didn't understand it.
"I listen to jazz and all I hear is a bunch of musicians noodling around,
I can't tell if it's good noodles, or bad noodles, It's all noodles to me."
the whole top part mirrors my musical journey almost exactly, tho I'm not a musician. This part sums it up for me perfectly. Being engaged and challenged is far more rewarding for my time than the flowery mainstream stuff. I find myself rathering silence to having to listen to some stuff in certain situations.
I like the names mentioned above, adding Chet Baker, Bill Frissell, Al Di Meola(return to forever), John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orch.), Passport, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Joe Pass,
Pat Metheny, loads more.
 
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