Jazz

[muggboots]

I got that arse over tit - jazz needs to be mostly instrumental!

2 minutes then, I'm rescinding that like.

 

[Monty Pigeon]

Nice ! This is a genre of music that I've never really given a chance . Are there any enthusiasts out there who can recommend anything to break me in gently ( ooh err missus ) ?

 

[Cockney Mackem]

I wouldn't seek out jazz actively to listen to, but I do like it when it's well-used on soundtracks for films and suchlike

 

[Buzzcock]

Cheers marra

 

[Monty Pigeon]

Cheers marra

I've posted this several times before, but it deserves reposting. Modern jazz at its most beautiful - and entirely improvised.

 

[bench]

Kind Of Blue is one i'd recommend the most, it's absolute genius imo. Have a look at Chet Baker too.

 

[Monty Pigeon]

This recording will be 90 years old next year, and is still astonishing. Louis Armstrong's solo, beginning at 1:52, is one of the absolute peaks of all music, not just jazz.

 

[Teed]

Nice ! This is a genre of music that I've never really given a chance . Are there any enthusiasts out there who can recommend anything to break me in gently ( ooh err missus ) ?

This might get you started?

 

[Vinyl Score]

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

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[Buzzcock]

Cheers everyone I'll have a good go at this lot .

 

[oldmanofthemountain]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
And for something a little more exotic try John's missus Alice Coltrane's album - Journey in Satchidananda

or this tune by her which is a little more mellow

 

[JAZZMANB]

Nice ! This is a genre of music that I've never really given a chance . Are there any enthusiasts out there who can recommend anything to break me in gently ( ooh err missus ) ?

No ,just do the fusion stuff ,Thundercat and the likes

 

[Deleted member 40035]

I've been play the stones prodigal son song over 20 years and didn't even know it its a dropped D tuning with a twist.

 

[Thackeray]

I've been play the stones prodigal son song over 20 years and didn't even know it its a dropped D tuning with a twist.

So you just bumped two year old jazz thread to tell us you've been playing a Rolling Stones tune in the wrong key for 20 years?

Marvellous, thanks.

 

[Deleted member 40035]

So you just bumped two year old jazz thread to tell us you've been playing a Rolling Stones tune in the wrong key for 20 years?

Marvellous, thanks.

, behind 'know'

 

[Thackeray]

, behind 'know'

*coughWEIRDO*

 

[fyl2u]

Nice ! This is a genre of music that I've never really given a chance . Are there any enthusiasts out there who can recommend anything to break me in gently ( ooh err missus ) ?

What sort of stuff do you listen to usually?

If you want breaking in gently then I'd recommend starting at the end of jazz nearest the stuff you would usually listen to.

For example, I came from a rock background, so I found jazz fusion and jazz-funk to be good stepping stones into "proper" jazz.

Guessing you've listened to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane etc.?

Give "The Epic" by Kamasi Washington a shot. He played on Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" and did a lot of the musical arrangement. His album is a triple so long but both beautiful and exciting in parts.

Jazz needs to be mostly vocal for me or else you end up with Cleo Laine.

His latest album's really good too. Probably marginally more accessible than The Epic for a jazz noob like the OP.

 

[The Exile]

Anything with Clam on bass.

 

[fyl2u]

So you just bumped two year old jazz thread to tell us you've been playing a Rolling Stones tune in the wrong key for 20 years?

Marvellous, thanks.

I didn't notice that.