I like to listen to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, some Wes Montgomery, George Gershwin and John Coltrane.

Modern stuff would be Pat Metheney and some early Mike Stern.

There is loads more out there though, Im just a beginner jazz fan!

Pat Metheny is coming to adelaide (my hometown) next year!

I had a chance to be a piano tech for Pat Metheny, but I didn't take it because I wanted to finish school. :cry:

Anywho, heat of the day is probably thee coolest song.

I mean, what Jazz guy uses power chords?

Please god stay here, these forums get someone who can actually hold a decent conversation and then they leave making this forum in a persistent vegitative state.

Robert Johnson might be good to look up Eric Clapton did a whole album of his stuff so that would be worth it

Hahaha thats cool, I like this place, I just avoid the crap threads on....crap basically. I am like that with the few other forums I visit.

I like other styles too, but as I said Im new to jazz but it is worth getting into.

Robert Johnson is one of the most influential musicians of this century, he is one of the blues men that most early guitar gods (Richards, Clapton, Beck, Page, etc.) were obsessed with. Most rock music can be traced back to him, in one way or another. Definitely worth looking up, you can get everything he recorded on a two disc set (Complete Recordings). However, it takes a bit to get used to him (or at least, it did for me) if you aren't used to music that is a. so bare, it's just him and his guitar, and b. of lesser sound quality, it was recorded in the mid-30's and is a bit scratchy, which adds to the hauntingness of it. His life story is the stuff of legend, also worth looking up.

Thelonious Monk
Sonny Rollins
Art Blakey
Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor

Church

Yes, you may need to listen to RnB too.