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Why does no one post in this forum?


Anyways, I want to listen to some jazz but I don't know where to begin so can someone help me out by dropping some names?


Oh, and if you can reccomend some blues-men too I would totally grateful.


I like: Son House, Robert Johnson, SRV and some more like Robert that I can't remember the names of.

Thesolonius Monk. [PERIOD]

Sun Ra
Herbie Han****
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Django Reinhardt

Of course you can never go wrong with Miles or Coltrane. Also, make sure to check out some nu jazz stuff like Cinematic Orchestra or Jaga Jazzist.

Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Tony Williams Lifetime
Terence Blanchard
Horace Silver
Dizzy Gillespie
Weather Report

I agree with you moses, more people need to post in here. Jazz is my favorite genre, so the more the merrier. :) Keep in mind that jazz is basically an umbrella for a ton of different styles, and these are all very, very different artists. If you listen to some and like it, let me know and I can give you more reccomendations in that style.

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Thelonious Monk (no one sounds quite like the Monk)
Cecil Taylor
Anthony Braxton
Art Tatum (best pianist I've ever heard, and the mother****er was BLIND)
Bill Evans
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Count Basie
Django Reinhardt
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Sonny Rollins
Eric Dolphy
Ornette Coleman
The Mahavishnu Orchestra

The great thing about jazz is that everyone works with everyone else, so you can pick up any recordings by any of those people, and they'll probably feature other people on the list or sidemen who worked with the others.

R. L. Burnside
T Model Ford

Any of the bluesmen on Fat Possum Records are great

www.fatpossum.com


read this for some background

www.anti.com/news.php?newsid=44

This forum is dying because not many people listen to Jazz, myself included. It is a sad state of affairs when the pop forum has overtaken the Jazz forum...

It is quite sad, Jazz is very overlooked by kids these days, i saw wallmarts jazz section the other day, pretty much all they had was Kenny G. :(

I recomend.

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Bill Evans
Stan Getz
Ornette Coleman
King Olliver
Count Bassie
Charles Mingus
Dizzy Gillespie
Art Tatum
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Django Reinhardt
Lou Armstrong
Coleman Hopkins
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Sonny Rollins
McCoy Tyner
Earl Hines
Jelly Roll Morton
Herbie Hanc0ck
Modern Jazz Quartet
Wynton Marsalis
Wes Montgomery
Charlie Christian
Joe Pass
Stanley Jordon
Max Roach
Jo Jones
The Mahavishnu Orchestra (Mixture of jazz and prog)
Soft Machine

And if you are into soft and mellow fusion type stuff...

Weather Report
Pat Metheny
Allan Holdsworth

And if you like rock with a heavy dose of jazz...

Frank Zappa
Steely Dan
Santana
Grateful Dead
Phish
Jeff Beck (mid 70s)
Greenslade
Television
Tom Waits (early years)
Blood Sweat And Tears
Gong
King Crimson (69-71 pre Wetton period)

I don't know why I posted that before-I listen to more pop than I do Jazz. But I can realise that Jazz requires a LOT more talent.

Its probably the most technicaly demanding genre in existence.

I would say that also. It does require a lot of talent. Even if the music isn't my thing, I can see that.

True, the music is so complex, but its completely improvised at least 90% of the time...I dont think anything could be that harder to play.

Maybe Bluegrass is just as hard to play, it requires a lot of skill and focus, but Jazz as a musical form is just much more complicated, i would give it the edge, even over classical music, most musicians in that genre compromise, and they have all the time in the world to practice for a musical piece, jazz musicians are not like that, they come up with stuff right on the spot, which has to be more challenging than just playing what you read on a sheet of paper.

So true, same with blues, most of the time they change the songs around and play different progressions.

yep, im learning how to play jazz guitar, and it is extremely difficult. There is an infinite amount of things to learn about jazz, it is crazy but fun. I would recommend for someone trying to get into jazz these artists:

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Bill Evans
Charles Mingus
Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrell
Bucky Pizzarelli
George Benson (be careful tho, some of his stuff is awful)
Billie Holiday (if you like jazz w/ vocals)
Django Reinhardt

Now if you want some really wacky stuff here:
Miles Davis '69-70's
John Mclaughlin
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jeff Beck 70's only
John Scofield
Tony Williams Lifetime
Wayne Shortner
Weather Report
Pat Metheny