Jazz music

Icy Gull

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Now I just know that there are going to be some serious jazz fans on here, so at the risk of sounding a total philistine, can you recommend something that I may find I can listen to without screaming??

It has to be an acquired taste as I have tried and tried but don't get beyond the 2nd or 3rd tracks before it sounds, to me anyway, that all the musicians are playing different songs on their respective instruments at the same time

How many types of jazz are there? I can just about cope with trad jazz.

Am I a lost cause or can one of you jazz gurus recommend something a little more mellow without it being Easy Listening saxophone or lift music?

 

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Shizuoka Dolphin

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Jul 8, 2003

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Big fan of jazz MAGS, but jazz MUSIC? You must be joking.

 

Pantani

Il Pirata

Dec 3, 2008

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• Apr 8, 2011

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Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain. They are even selling it for a mere £5 in Resident Records at the moment.

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fire&skill

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Jan 17, 2009

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• Apr 8, 2011

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If you want a bit of Acid Jazz, try The James Taylor Quartet, especially their early albums

 

Lord Bracknell

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Jul 5, 2003

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You could always check out my cousin, the funny looking saxophonist in the yellow bobble hat.

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WATFORD zero

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Jazz ain't nuthin' but a blues quartet falling down stairs

Try this

 

The Antikythera Mechanism

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My personal favourite track is "Tanya" by Dexter Gordon from the album "One Flight Up". Timeless and smooth

 

We're the Stripes

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2 of my favourites..

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things

Duke Ellington - C Jam Blues

As above, you can't go wrong with Miles Davis & Dexter Gordon.

 

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I've just acquired that - going to give it a listen this afternoon! Edit: Meant to be a comment about Miles Davis - but it didn't quote it!

 

Easy 10

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I have yet to hear a jazz track that doesn't sound like the musicians are just making it up as they go along.

 

keaton

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Nov 18, 2004

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The best introduction albums in my opinion would be
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
John Coltrane-Blue Train
Herbie Hanock - Maiden Voyage

 

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Easy 10 said:

I have yet to hear a jazz track that doesn't sound like the musicians are just making it up as they go along.

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Listen to the track I've listed above. It single handedly got me listening to jazz.

 

WATFORD zero

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Just for you Easy, try Mrs Costello - everything very rehearsed

 

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Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall in 1938 - the night when Jazz gained acceptance.

If 'Sing, Sing, Sing' doesn't do it for you, nothing will.

 

keaton

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Nov 18, 2004

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Easy 10 said:

I have yet to hear a jazz track that doesn't sound like the musicians are just making it up as they go along.

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I think that's the point?

 

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Scampi

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Jun 10, 2009

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• Apr 8, 2011

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WATFORD zero said:

Jazz ain't nuthin' but a blues quartet falling down stairs

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Kind of Blue is imo the place to start. Fantastic album. If you can cope with that try some more miles, sketches of spain as already recommended or perhaps birth of the cool.

Check out Blue train by Coltrane, Take Five or Blue Rondo a la Turk by Dave Brubeck some Cannonball Alderly, Herbie Hancock and Ella Fitzgerald.

 

Easy 10

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Chelovek s Kino-Apparatom said:

Listen to the track I've listed above. It single handedly got me listening to jazz.

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WATFORD zero said:

Just for you Easy, try Mrs Costello - everything very rehearsed

I shall give them a whirl, ta gents.

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Icy Gull

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Thanks, some of these I've treid already and can't get along with but plenty of other suggestions to have a go with. I will wait until this evening and plug some decent speakers into my pc to get reasonable sound quality

Lord B - I'm afraid I'm struggling with your cousin's music...

 

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MattBackHome

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Apr 8, 2011

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Great.

Try any of:

Ella & Louis - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Dinah Washington/Sarah Vaughan/Billie Holiday
Quintette du Hot Club de France
Diana Krall
Count Basie

I don't particularly get on with Coltrane or Miles Davis. Chet Baker Sings is sublime IMO, but divides opinion.

I agree also that "Sing, Sing, Sing" is a decent barometer that you're still alive.

Nice.

 

keaton

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Nov 18, 2004

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MattBackHome said:

Chet Baker Sings is sublime IMO, but divides opinion.

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Nice.

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That's brilliant, I mean to add that