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Girl 12-30-2016 07:22 AM

What Piece Got You Into Jazz?
 
Jazz isn't always the most accessible part of the music world to listen to, but sometimes there's a song or an album that just sort of 'clicks', and gives you a better understanding of what it's all about. The same goes for other genres, as well.

For me, it was Stanley Turrentine's track Sugar.
First listened to it years back, rifling through my dad's old CDs. The cover art caught my eye, and so I played the title track; it was totally unlike anything I had ever heard before, and it caught me off-guard. A kid at the time, I always thought jazz was just some crazy-boring thing adults listened to, in order prove their maturity, but after this I just left the track on repeat, because it was just, so different. I think that's what sort of opened the door for me.

What 'clicked' for you?

Tristan_Geoff 12-30-2016 08:54 AM

I felt I've always been into the sound, from the Bebop and Cool Jazz you hear at the mall, in Disney movies, and during Christmas, to now things like Jazz Rap, Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, and Nu Jazz.

I don't think there's any one piece that got me into jazz, but I guess I first really started my listening with Monk's Dream.

Lorenzo L. 12-31-2016 08:47 AM

The very first piece of jazz that i really understood and appreciate is Footprints, by Wayne Shorter :)

FaSho 12-31-2016 08:50 AM


who starts a song like that???!!?!?!?!!?!?

Girl 12-31-2016 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho (Post 1789938)

who starts a song like that???!!?!?!?!!?!?

That's really out there.
I like it.

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff (Post 1789501)
I don't think there's any one piece that got me into jazz, but I guess I first really started my listening with Monk's Dream.

I'm actually really fond of that album, one of my favorites.

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Originally Posted by Lorenzo L. (Post 1789935)
The very first piece of jazz that i really understood and appreciate is Footprints, by Wayne Shorter :)

Never heard it, but I'll give it a listen!

Zhanteimi 01-01-2017 02:44 AM

Oscar Peterson's Night Train.

dwill123 01-01-2017 01:46 PM

Herbie Hancock - "Maiden Voyage"


DriveYourCarDownToTheSea 01-03-2017 04:42 PM

Can't say this in particular got me interested in jazz (which is only a small part of my listening anyway), but if I had to name something I'd pick this.


Psy-Fi 01-03-2017 04:51 PM

Not sure what the first one was but I'd be willing to bet this might've been it...


ChelseaDagger 01-04-2017 08:05 AM



**** you too, Jerry.


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