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TankerMan Since: Jul, 2011
#26: Jul 16th 2011 at 5:54:43 PM

Noir jazz is my fix, man. Miles Davis is one of its pioneers, and that Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud soundtrack is wicked.

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Solstace Hexachordal Combinatorial from the Second Viennese School Since: Dec, 1969
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#27: Jul 18th 2011 at 5:24:12 PM

For more textural jazz/fusion, a lot of Shawn Lane's work with Jonas Hellborg has a "wall of sound" quality similar to that of Sigur Ros.

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TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#28: Jul 23rd 2011 at 9:26:07 AM

Having played the clarinet originally, I've always been quite taken with the swing/big band/trad jazz category. That said, I also enjoy bebop and hard bop, although I prefer listening to a Lester Young solo than a Sonny Rollins one.

AsTheAnointed Since: Jan, 2010
#29: Jul 23rd 2011 at 10:08:30 AM

I'm a complete n00b when it comes to jazz, but there are a few artists I'm into, Stanley Jordan and Victor Wooten being perhaps the most prominent.

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#30: Jul 23rd 2011 at 1:14:06 PM

I love this song so much.

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#31: Jul 23rd 2011 at 1:49:41 PM

If it's jazz artists we speak of, there's one guy I'm pretty ambivalent about. Wynton Marsalis; I'd rather listen to his stuff than, say, Ornette Coleman's most free-form work, but I think he takes too narrow a view of the genre.

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#32: Jul 23rd 2011 at 4:04:21 PM

I don't agree with his views of what is and isn't really jazz (at least what I've read of them), but I like his music.

But enough about Marsalis, how about DAT ACCORDION SOLO

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#33: Aug 7th 2011 at 10:26:12 PM

I started an article for Duke Ellington. I went a bit overboard on the article portion, and it could really use more tropes in the examples section.

Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#34: Aug 7th 2011 at 10:36:11 PM

Shit. You weren't kidding when you said you went overboard on the article. It looks nice though. I'll have to see if I can help expand the trope section.

Been loving the hell out of the album Worlds by Aaron Golburg.

Though this track is kind of different than ever other track on the album. Mostly if the stuff is pretty chill, well at least by my standards.

edited 7th Aug '11 10:36:40 PM by Thenamelesssamurai

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#35: Aug 7th 2011 at 11:18:01 PM

That does sound like an album to check out.

For some reason, my mind turns to Ruben Gonzalez's solo album. Even though it's technically Afro-Cuban rather than jazz. Where exactly is the dividing line between Afro-Cuban and jazz? Dizzy Gillespie mixed the two quite well.

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#36: Sep 15th 2011 at 8:11:29 PM

Fantastic musicianship.

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czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#37: Sep 29th 2011 at 8:51:00 PM

Question: I've been playing jazz for about a year, but I keep being told I'm missing a lot of essential albums. This is what I have:

  • 20th century Masters-The Millennium Collection - B.B. King
  • Most of the Brian Browne Trio's albums
  • The Definitive Collection - Louis Armstrong
  • Home - Mike Tremblay & Mark Ferguson
  • Live in Samois: Tribute to Django Reinhardt - The Rosenberg Trio
  • The Number 1 Jazz Vocal Album
  • Pas de deux - Elise Letourneau & Harry Pickens
  • Sunday at the Village Vanguard [Keepnews Collection] - Bill Evans Trio
  • Swing That Music: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong - Canadian Brass
  • Take The "A" Train: The Best of Duke Ellington
  • Vancouver 1958 - Oscar Peterson Trio
  • Verve Jazz Masters 38 - Django Reinhardt
  • The Very Best of the Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald
  • 20th Century Masters-The Millennium Collection - Bo Diddley
  • 30 Greatest Hits - Aretha Franklin

A lot of these are local artist albums. What albums do I absolutely need to get? I'm pretty sure the library will have copies, it's just that they have a really big collection, and it's a bit intimidating.

Yachar Cogito ergo cogito from Estonia Since: Mar, 2010
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#38: Sep 30th 2011 at 2:03:59 AM

Avishai Cohen:

[[youtube:v=KTfrZ8YX5-0]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1n8n3HiPmw

edited 30th Sep '11 2:07:58 AM by Yachar

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Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#39: Aug 19th 2012 at 11:18:40 AM

Haha, time for a revival!

So I'm trying to lsiten to a jazz album every night. Last night was Get Up With It, Miles Davis' journey to space.

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#40: Aug 19th 2012 at 12:49:12 PM

I just recently acquired Moth Nor Rust by Create (!). (Free download from the label, hooray.) Free-jazz and experimental stuff isn't normally my cuppa, but this is quite good.

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#41: Aug 25th 2012 at 3:24:16 PM

Even more recently acquired Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!!! and The Shape of Jazz to Come. Both pioneering and (at the time) rather controversial Free Jazz albums; both much more accessible than I was expecting.

Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#42: Aug 29th 2012 at 8:17:54 AM

[up]This Is Our Music is one of my favourite jazz albums.

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Cthulboohoo Since: Jun, 2012
#43: Aug 29th 2012 at 9:36:29 AM

While I love all the jazz posted in this thread, I think it's important to remember a time when jazz wasn't quite so serious.

I'm a jazz musician and vintage vernacular jazz dancer. So I'm a fan.

edited 29th Aug '12 9:39:23 AM by Cthulboohoo

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#44: Aug 29th 2012 at 5:16:39 PM

Yeah, Jelly Roll Morton got his start playing in brothels, and Duke Ellington was just as comfortable playing for dancefloors as he was playing for concert halls. I do like it when musicians can be serious without taking themselves seriously.

KandisRa Sweet Rˁ from 4 Since: Jun, 2012
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#45: Aug 30th 2012 at 10:02:13 AM

For something quite recent: Moritz von Oswald Trio - Fetch

I'm getting some serious Bitches-Brew-vibes everytime I listen to it.

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#46: Sep 8th 2012 at 11:01:08 AM

I'm just a sucker for all that jazz/bossa nova fusion stuff.

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#47: Sep 10th 2012 at 8:01:58 PM

Herbie Hancock's The Piano is a darn fine album.

Akalabth Self-loathing and sandwiches. from Ghost Planet Since: Feb, 2012
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#48: Dec 5th 2012 at 8:52:40 AM

http://unlogicdoo.com/lab/periodic-table-of-jazz/

A cool little website. I think it could be a good way for people who just entered into jazz to discover more artists. Plus it looks damn cool.

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
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#50: Dec 5th 2012 at 12:40:18 PM

Sad news.

Strange coincidence too, I was listening to Time Further Out just last night.


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