Jazz and all that jazz!

Hi there people, I'm trying to expand my knowledge in this area of music, currently I have a very varied taste in this going through bebop, hard bebop, and white jazz (west coast one) to Coltraine (by god he eludes me!)

I want to know what people are listening and what should I listen!

Few names, old and young:

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Gare du Nord

Room Eleven
Caro Emerald (Just released her first album)
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers
Charles Mingus (I love 'Moanin' )
Cannonball Adderley
Club des Belugas
Dave Brubeck
Wouter Hamel This is a real nice song IMO, but I'm not that impressed by the other ones.
Love this one
Kyteman

Hello!

My recommendation, seeing as how you've gotten into bebop, is to listen to the next major innovation, which is Modal Jazz. You've already touched on this with Coltrane. Another landmark exploration of modal jazz is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album.

Here's perhaps the most well-known track from it:

great advices people! I'm very fond of modal jazz, I own every cd of Miles Davis (including the 80 ones.... arrrrgh the horror!) but hey has anyone heard of Koop?



I love chick corea also, and brubeck

some more koop

Kind of along the lines of Jazzanova/Gare du Nord



I used to listen to a few jazz/big band groups back in the day :

Ah jazz! Love that genre, it's one of my favorites. My favorite sub-genres would be bebop, big band/swing jazz, cool jazz, and jazz funk. Generally, I like most of the sub-genres though. I wish jazz was actually due for a large mainstream comeback. Now it's pretty much been relegated to something of a niche genre, in my experience.

Originally Posted by Mr. J.B.

Ah jazz! Love that genre, it's one of my favorites. My favorite sub-genres would be bebop, big band/swing jazz, cool jazz, and jazz funk. Generally, I like most of the sub-genres though. I wish jazz was actually due for a large mainstream comeback. Now it's pretty much been relegated to something of a niche genre, in my experience.

It's better this way, I think. Especially in the last decade. Look what happened to genres like R&B and indie rock when they became 'popular'.

I'd rather not see Jazz bastardised like that.

@Fingon

I love Kyteman's 'Sorry'. What do you think of The Hermit Sessions, overall?

Originally Posted by ivan_the_terrible

It's better this way, I think. Especially in the last decade. Look what happened to genres like R&B and indie rock when they became 'popular'.

I'd rather not see Jazz bastardised like that.

Kenny G

Originally Posted by therussian

Kenny G

Precisely. Now imagine if most Jazz musicians became like that...

Originally Posted by ivan_the_terrible

It's better this way, I think. Especially in the last decade. Look what happened to genres like R&B and indie rock when they became 'popular'.

I'd rather not see Jazz bastardised like that.

@Fingon

I love Kyteman's 'Sorry'. What do you think of The Hermit Sessions, overall?

Overall I think it's an interesting album, it was a one-time venture and Kyteman himself will be focussing on new projects now, but I must say I was pleasently surprised by the quality and variety of the songs, I'm not a huge fan of (especially modern day) rap but in these songs it was really nice.
The main reason I like it a lot though is because I play trumpet myself and it's been a long time since the trumpet played an important solo part in a released album.
Of all the songsa on the album, I like Sorry most(wishing it was much longer) and the intro of It Circus is great as well.

Originally Posted by Fingon NL

Overall I think it's an interesting album, it was a one-time venture and Kyteman himself will be focussing on new projects now, but I must say I was pleasently surprised by the quality and variety of the songs, I'm not a huge fan of (especially modern day) rap but in these songs it was really nice.
The main reason I like it a lot though is because I play trumpet myself and it's been a long time since the trumpet played an important solo part in a released album.
Of all the songsa on the album, I like Sorry most(wishing it was much longer) and the intro of It Circus is great as well.

My sentiments exactly. It's great to hear that Kyteman will focus more on different projects.

The parts where he played trumpet were easily the best of the album (Sorry is the highlight, of course). I hope he ventures more into jazz or other kinds of fusion (besides hiphop).

He's not very well-known is he? There isn't even an English wiki page on him!

Love the squirrel nut zippers, thank you for that great band

Originally Posted by Fingon NL

Love the squirrel nut zippers, thank you for that great band

No problem

Originally Posted by Mr MM

Those are great bands. What attracted you when you first heard some jazz?

For me personally it was because the only access I had to drums in high school was in Jazz band and we had 4 drummers taking turns on songs, so just sitting back and listening to what was being played (swing, big band, quartets etc...) made it just kind of grow on me. Found out about Nu-jazz because I accidentally came across it and the song I posted off the album was played at a store I was at a few weeks ago so it brought it back into my mind.

Those are great bands. What attracted you when you first heard some jazz?

here's some of my favourites:

Cannonball Adderley + Miles Davis "Toy"

i uploaded the vid just for showing




Hypnotic Brass Ensemble "War"

A thread about Jazz is slipping onto page 2, while one about 'Avatar' remains on page 1, in the Arts forum!

We can't have that!


Some trombone: