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smell the witch
Jun 10, 2011
I grew up listening to Swing Jazz 'cause my dad was a huge fan. I ended up developing a taste for free jazz which I would always bug him with 'cause he'd show put on such mock disdain for the cacophony:)

One great, and recent, (semi)Jazz album that doesn't seem to get the credit it deserves is Charles Spearin's The Happiness Project. Spearin recorded conversations with people in his apartment block - asking them each to define happiness - and made music around the melodies found in the speech. Very beautiful album, even though it's definitely not pure jazz as it's got some ambient and indie.

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Clovis Sangrail
Feb 18, 2011

SnakeParty posted:

what MD album is that on?

That would be Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, but I was quite sure Red Garland played on those.


Also, in addition to all the Charles Mingus albums mentioned previously, y'all should check out Mingus Dynasty as well; Far Wells, Mill Valley is one of his best pieces, in my opinion.

I guess hard bop may be favorite jazz subgenre, and I think Joe Henderson's first five Blue Note albums should be essential for everybody.

Also, two albums that I really like which seem to be overlooked quite often are Walter Davis Jr.'s Davis Cup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Leb6XLYRo) and Duke Jordan's Flight to Jordan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IiZFR625kc), so keep an eye out for them.

Clovis Sangrail fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Nov 14, 2011

Noise Machine
Dec 3, 2005

Today is a good day to save.


Clovis Sangrail posted:

That would be Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, but I was quite sure Red Garland played on those.


True, but the version I'm talking about is from his time recording for Blue Note, it's on "Miles Davis Vol 1"

BeigeJacket
Jul 21, 2005

I posted this in the recommendation thread, but I'm thinking I'll have more luck here.


me posted:

.... I've always been interested in the fretless bass (at least I think its a fretless bass) since I first heard it on the soundtrack for some Wong Kar Wai film.

The only example I have to hand is the beginning of this Pat Metheny song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9LXJUMGfBg

Preferably something Jazz and sparse, that'd be cool.

Also some dudes making a biopic of Miles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/10/miles-davis-biopic-george-tillman-jr?newsfeed=true

I think it's gonna star Don Cheadle, which wouldn't be a bad piece of casting at all.

Clovis Sangrail
Feb 18, 2011

Noise Machine posted:

True, but the version I'm talking about is from his time recording for Blue Note, it's on "Miles Davis Vol 1"

Oh, I didn't know about that one. The only Miles on Blue Note I am familiar with is his appearance on Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else (which is one of the more essential of those dozens of essential Jazz albums)

SnakeParty
Oct 30, 2011

BeigeJacket posted:

I posted this in the recommendation thread, but I'm thinking I'll have more luck here.


Also some dudes making a biopic of Miles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/10/miles-davis-biopic-george-tillman-jr?newsfeed=true

I think it's gonna star Don Cheadle, which wouldn't be a bad piece of casting at all.

BeigeJacket, are you looking for a jazz player who rocks cocks on the fretless? If so, look no further than Jaco Pastorius. The man popped off the frets on his own Fender Jazz Bass. His music veils his rather tumultuous life which tragically ended as a result of a bar fight. Still his contributions on the low-end are incredibly important with jazz-fusion group Weather Report. However, if you are looking for something a little more sparse, I know Jaco has done a myriad of recordings with John Scofield and a drummer whose name escapes me...the recordings are totally funky and feature the signature smooth bass licks of Jaco, and Scofields interesting guitar tones and nasty soloing.

SnakeParty
Oct 30, 2011
poo poo I ALMSOT FORGOT

Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobims' Bossa Nova album entices me to romance beautiful, classy women while walking along a sunny cobblestone street somewhere in Brazil, or dining on freshly caught Ahi Tuna and drinking a nice pinot over a candlelit dinner in a thatched hut as waves gently break on the beach. It makes me feel so incredibly mellow, with Getz's lithe soloing and the careful fingerings of Joao Gilbertos nylon strings.

Desifinado

However reality is that when I listen to this song I am alone in a drunken stupor (or hungover and shirtless as I am now) reminiscing of past lovers, while the only women I am currently able to swoon are classless whores...

The music still makes me feel good though :allears:

Sorry for the doublepost

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.
Getz & Gilberto would be a great album without Getz's schmaltzy sax and Astrud Gilberto's hideous vocals. And I could do with Jobim's piano too, they have their place but I don't think it's with Joćo's vocals. So basically, if it was exactly like the first two of Joćo Gilberto's solo albums, it would be worth listening to :) Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQXAhAqDuNQ

I do like Quincy Jones' Big Band Bossa Nova, cos it's mostly just Jobim's songs played as jazz rather than schmaltzified bossa.

SnakeParty
Oct 30, 2011

Ras Het posted:

Getz & Gilberto would be a great album without Getz's schmaltzy sax and Astrud Gilberto's hideous vocals. And I could do with Jobim's piano too, they have their place but I don't think it's with Joćo's vocals. So basically, if it was exactly like the first two of Joćo Gilberto's solo albums, it would be worth listening to :) Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQXAhAqDuNQ

I do like Quincy Jones' Big Band Bossa Nova, cos it's mostly just Jobim's songs played as jazz rather than schmaltzified bossa.

You make a good point, however "schmaltzy" is a matter of opinion. I quite enjoy Astrud Gilberto's voice. It is rather unique, but I could totally understand why you wouldn't like it. I agree that some of the recordings these three do together can be rather contrived and I absolutely could do without those blasted strings muddling up a good song like Felicidade. I wish I could find a recording of this song with just guitar, drums, and voice.

case in point

(pardon the really crappy youtube) I have a really lo-fi recording of this song with the street sounds of Carnivale in the background and it makes it feel really mysterious.

I love love love this song with Tom Jobim and Elis Regina. I think their call and response vocals is wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEQ-m4KSaQ
Again though, those blasted strings....

What Quincy Jones big band bossa would you recommend? any good youtubes?

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

SnakeParty posted:

case in point

(pardon the really crappy youtube) I have a really lo-fi recording of this song with the street sounds of Carnivale in the background and it makes it feel really mysterious.

I love love love this song with Tom Jobim and Elis Regina. I think their call and response vocals is wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEQ-m4KSaQ
Again though, those blasted strings....

What Quincy Jones big band bossa would you recommend? any good youtubes?

I assume you're referring to the Black Orpheus version of A Felicidade? There's plenty of more understated recordings of it, though I doubt any by Jobim, he always liked to go all the way with the over-arrangement.

This is from Vinicius de Moraes' live album with Toquinho and Maria Creuza, I totally love it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfSE6q8R-c

And for something much more skeletal, avant-sambista Tom Zé covered it in the '70s, his take is kinda unnerving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im6hPaxs_qw

I reckon the Elis & Tom version of Įguas de Marēo is perfect as it is, but that song has been recorded roughly seven billion times, so there's lots of styles to pick from. I like Joćo Gilberto's version on his '73 s/t a lot, it's minimalistic but kinda upbeat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZulqPcPag

I meant the album by that title. You'll have heard half of the songs before anyway, it's just a goofy little album of lightweight jazz and no masterpiece, hah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4IWnoYMjo

murex
Apr 30, 2009

by Lowtax
In the ways of modern jazz what is everybody listening to? Personally I've been listening to a lot of Sao Paulo Underground


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XijbNSqh0

dead56k
Sep 23, 2009

the seduction of america's youth
Anybody a fan of Miles' album Dark Magus or Agharta?

I think his crazy coked out 70's live albums are some of my favorite, definitely been an influence on a lot of the music coming out nowadays.

BeigeJacket
Jul 21, 2005

SnakeParty posted:

BeigeJacket, are you looking for a jazz player who rocks cocks on the fretless? If so, look no further than Jaco Pastorius. The man popped off the frets on his own Fender Jazz Bass. His music veils his rather tumultuous life which tragically ended as a result of a bar fight. Still his contributions on the low-end are incredibly important with jazz-fusion group Weather Report. However, if you are looking for something a little more sparse, I know Jaco has done a myriad of recordings with John Scofield and a drummer whose name escapes me...the recordings are totally funky and feature the signature smooth bass licks of Jaco, and Scofields interesting guitar tones and nasty soloing.

I tried the odd Jaco tune before, but haven't found anything that grabbed me yet.

Here's the tune from Chungking Express I was thinking of; the kinda bass I'm gabbing about comes in at 0:28.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesqo_j9Hb8&feature=related

Walter Sobchak posted:

In the ways of modern jazz what is everybody listening to? Personally I've been listening to a lot of Sao Paulo

If you'll permit me to use a rather loose definition of modern, I've been listening to John Lurie all day long, and it's been great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO12PNDVw9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6LzmWC7Ouw&feature=related

BeigeJacket fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Nov 16, 2011

KrzysztofKomeda
Jan 5, 2009
Polish jazz absolutely needs a mention here, easily the most inventive european jazz in the 60s. Krzysztof Komeda, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Tomasz Stanko, Andrzej Kurylewicz to name a few.
If anybody has a taste for the avant garde and really likes Eric Dolphy but wishes he was more tense, dark and tense, and did I say tense? And if anybody likes unique approaches to compositional structure, then go listen to Astigmatic by Komeda. In fact - here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRcg7Ec2KMQ
I guess it's obvious I'd be plugging him, but believe me it's with good reason!

Mingus, Dolphy and Coltrane's mid period have always been the big favourite listens for me, but I have enjoyed a lot of modern jazz releases since that's been brought up too. Basquiat Strings is a string quartet jazz album which is pretty crazy; if you love Mingus and you love string quartets - then it's recommended. Tord Gustavsen has released several quality albums recently too - "Restored, Returned" being one of the better.

SnakeParty
Oct 30, 2011

Ras Het posted:

I assume you're referring to the Black Orpheus version of A Felicidade? There's plenty of more understated recordings of it, though I doubt any by Jobim, he always liked to go all the way with the over-arrangement.

This is from Vinicius de Moraes' live album with Toquinho and Maria Creuza, I totally love it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfSE6q8R-c

And for something much more skeletal, avant-sambista Tom Zé covered it in the '70s, his take is kinda unnerving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im6hPaxs_qw

I reckon the Elis & Tom version of Įguas de Marēo is perfect as it is, but that song has been recorded roughly seven billion times, so there's lots of styles to pick from. I like Joćo Gilberto's version on his '73 s/t a lot, it's minimalistic but kinda upbeat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keZulqPcPag

I meant the album by that title. You'll have heard half of the songs before anyway, it's just a goofy little album of lightweight jazz and no masterpiece, hah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4IWnoYMjo

Yah, I was referring to the Black Orpheus Version. Thanks for showing my contrived over-produced samba up with your wonderful, minimalist samba, haha. Seriously though thanks, my collection of Joao Gilberto is currently inadequate and must be bigger! I have been trying to learn the guitar parts on Aguas de Marco (those voiceings are loving difficult!) and Gilberto's version gives me something a little easier to pick apart.

quote:

In the ways of modern jazz what is everybody listening to? Personally I've been listening to a lot of Sao Paulo Underground


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XijbNSqh0

That poo poo is sick

Has anyone heard of Mulatu Astatke? He is not exactly modern but what a loving groove. I think Nas sampled this song...

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.
Astatqe is still making new music, his album with The Heliocentrics from a couple of years ago is loving great.

Max Awfuls
Sep 10, 2011

BeigeJacket posted:

I tried the odd Jaco tune before, but haven't found anything that grabbed me yet.

Here's the tune from Chungking Express I was thinking of; the kinda bass I'm gabbing about comes in at 0:28.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesqo_j9Hb8&feature=related

You should probably check stuff from the german ECM label from th 70's like Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Miroslav Vitous, Palle Danielsson. the Keith Jarrett, Terje Rypdal and Jan Garbarek groups, stuff like this:

http://youtu.be/asyqeFfH8Ic

http://youtu.be/7ZXQ7co9oIE

http://youtu.be/n0OhfbWVyq8

http://youtu.be/b-OodJBbv-w

Azure_Horizon
Mar 27, 2010

by Reene

Walter Sobchak posted:

In the ways of modern jazz what is everybody listening to? Personally I've been listening to a lot of Sao Paulo Underground


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XijbNSqh0

Whoever plays with Gretchen Parlato

Her voice is my favorite female jazz voice since Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald, and Taylor Eigsti is by far my favorite modern pianist.

K-Flow
Nov 20, 2004

perhaps someone in here could tell me what the name of this song is in the background? http://gethightothis.com/blunt/ i'm pretty sure its walter wanderley, judging from the organ and the fact the .swf file in the source is named 'wanderley'. thank you if anyone can help me out

SnakeParty
Oct 30, 2011
that was, like, a million goddamn blunts

ClassActJerk
Nov 4, 2010

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

dead56k posted:

Anybody a fan of Miles' album Dark Magus or Agharta?

I think his crazy coked out 70's live albums are some of my favorite, definitely been an influence on a lot of the music coming out nowadays.

On a climbing trip back in 1994 I drove straight from Nevada to Wyoming all night long with maybe one stop for gas. Agharta was on for the entire 9 hour stretch. Just me, the sleeping climbing partner riding shotgun and open Utah road. Those 70's albums are the ones with a certain energy that very few artists ever tap into.

Anyone who has listened to Bitches Brew, should make sure they check out Live Evil. And if you really are into that then you can pick up the Live Evil Box set.

Also for BeigeJacket.
While you might not like a lot of his music, Gary Willis is a must listen to for fretless bass. I think this tune might be something you enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqS9JE3NPiE

ClassActJerk fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Nov 20, 2011

x0nix
May 25, 2001

Walter Sobchak posted:

Sao Paulo Underground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XijbNSqh0

Azure_Horizon posted:

Whoever plays with Gretchen Parlato

Her voice is my favorite female jazz voice since Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald, and Taylor Eigsti is by far my favorite modern pianist.

Great and great. Thanks for these reccommendations.

My favourite modern jazzers are James farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5tz-nXt1kY and the Neil Cowley Trio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRijZZ8uAf0

dead56k
Sep 23, 2009

the seduction of america's youth

ClassActJerk posted:

On a climbing trip back in 1994 I drove straight from Nevada to Wyoming all night long with maybe one stop for gas. Agharta was on for the entire 9 hour stretch. Just me, the sleeping climbing partner riding shotgun and open Utah road. Those 70's albums are the ones with a certain energy that very few artists ever tap into.

Anyone who has listened to Bitches Brew, should make sure they check out Live Evil. And if you really are into that then you can pick up the Live Evil Box set.

awesome. yeah there's nothing like one of those albums on a long drive at night. I definitely need to look into that Live Evil box set, I love that album a lot too. the artwork is amazingly weird.

Retarded Goatee
Feb 6, 2010
I spent :10bux: so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
I refuse to see this thread exist without a few songs from the greatest Coltrane album :colbert:

The album of course being Giant Steps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FTr6G53VU Giant Steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXf18pyEB8 A ridiculously good cover of Syeeda's Song Flute due to the orginal having been taken down.

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


Can anyone tell me where I can get me some more stuff that sounds like Vince Guaraldi? Thanks to Spotify posting pretty much all his stuff I haven't wanted any other flavor lately. Also, he hasn't been mentioned before. Does he not belong here or something?

Malaleb
Dec 1, 2008

Retarded Goatee posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXf18pyEB8 A ridiculously good cover of Syeeda's Song Flute due to the orginal having been taken down.

Syeeda's Song Flute was one of my favorite songs from high school jazz band. The melody is so simple, but when done right, it swings so hard. Coltrane's sax playing those quarter notes just barely behind the beat is my favorite example of what it means for music to swing.

polysynth
Dec 12, 2006

rock out
How about some lesser known pianists?

Mary Lou Williams, one of the greatest. worked with just about everyone and made a shitload of incredible music but still remains extremely obscure for the most part

pale blue
baby man
medi I
it ain't necessarily so

check out free spirits, zoning, black christ of the andes, and pretty much anything you can get your hands on by her. criminally underrated.

Stanley Cowell, founded strata east records with charles tolliver back in the 70s
Equipoise classic composition by cowell, loads of good versions
Maimoun

Mal Waldron, highly influenced by Monk at the start of his career but with his own sound
Warm Canto
live performance

Andrew Hill. not much to say except that he's a genius who doesn't get enough recognition. Cut a lot of classic albums for blue note, and for some more obscure labels throughout the 70s.
Poinsettia
Illusion
Siete Ocho

Cedar Walton, whose best moments are as a sideman on his own compositions. Did great things with Art Blakey as a member of the Messengers.
mode for joe
fantasy in d (ugetsu)
anthenagin

Steve Kuhn. made some nice records for ECM, good vocalist too.
lazy afternoon here he is as a sideman giving a great performance
the meaning of love after the 60s he did some good stuff on the rhodes

Walter Bishop Jr, who was mentioned but is worth a closer look. highly innovative with his theory of fourths
keeper of my soul
speak low
milestones

Joe Bonner, pretty unknown but he worked with Pharoah Sanders a lot and made some good solo albums

As a sideman with Pharoah:
Elevation
Greetings to Saud

on his own:
variations/little chocolate boy

InfuriatedMicrowave
Aug 8, 2006

As a musician who focuses mostly on popular song, The Swing Era really jives the best with me.

So they played pop music and everyone danced. What's so interesting, guy?
Good question. The answer lies where most answers lie. Slightly left of obvious. I won't call the Swing Era the most musically complex, nor the most impressive jazz genre. But it marks one of the few points in history where music that was wildly popular converged with incredibly talented musicians. That's a rarity to me. That, is something interesting.

Okay then show me something you crazy Microwave.
Alright, alright. Here are a few of my personal favorites.

I Know Why-Glenn Miller This particular clip opens with Glenn Miller's theme song, "Moonlight Serenade", and moves on onto a lighthearted, but extremely well written tune, "I Know Why"

Did You Mean It-Benny Goodman (Ella Fitzgerald on Vocals] This is one of three illegal records Ella Fitzgerald pressed with Benny Goodman. She was under contract with the Chick Webb Orchestra at the time. I guarantee this is a very different sounding Ella than you are all used to. I want to say she was around 19 at the time of these recordings.

But this isn't jazz, Infuriated Microwave, this is pop.
Good point. I was hoping you'd mention that. Before I leave for class, let me post something that may sway your opinion otherwise.

Clarinet A La King-Benny Goodman Take note that this was arranged by Eddie Sauter, one of the best, and most forgotten, composers of the Swing Era.

InfuriatedMicrowave fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Nov 21, 2011

ClassActJerk
Nov 4, 2010

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Let me add to the lesser known pianist list. I am not the greatest biographer so check out their AMG or AllAboutJazz bios.

Geoffrey Keezer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvXxoV4XvU

Richie Beirach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKXpcsAsow&feature=related

Denny Zeitlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQFyXWHZ8o8&feature=relmfu

Herbie Nichols
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS27PRQMeNM

Jaki Byard- Most well known from his time with Charles Mingus Great Quintet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqGN1aemgw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDpeJqFQAiA&feature=related

Two of the greatest European Jazz Pianist

Steffano Bollani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbCzuaPtY2E
w/ Chick Corea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOWpKT-Igq8&feature=related

Martial Solal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4T5xTqf5aY

Bear in mind this list is far from comprehensive.

ClassActJerk fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Nov 22, 2011

Azure_Horizon
Mar 27, 2010

by Reene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmCytJPqQis&feature=player_embedded

Jazz renditions of MF Doom songs. Ye gods I love jazz hop.

BeigeJacket
Jul 21, 2005

Live thread, live!

For content listen to this lovely Metheny/Meldau tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naIdW1_4Gtw

For request; someone learn me on Electro Jazz, a genre I know nothing about. What would you recommend that's heavier on the jazz-side than it is the electro?

woodenchicken
Aug 19, 2007

Nap Ghost
Looking at my playlist, here's what I'm listening to this week:

Matthew Shipp - The trio plays Ware. Matthew Shipp, William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown play pieces by David S. Ware. There's no Ware himself on this one - it's purely drums, bass & piano. You could kinda think it wouldn't have the same "edge" without the sax solos, but the players bring their A game and the album sounds very expressive, free and atmospheric.

...gently caress if I can find any of this on youtube, so here's some actual Ware, one of the pieces they've covered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx5x3ZyIJtk


Also, there's 1977's double piano extravaganza Embraced with Mary Lou Williams and our main man Cecil Taylor. It's especially interesting considering the story behind this recording. Reading about it, this concert was considered a bit of a trainwreck at the time. (this is worth a read if you are into these artists at all)
Basically, Mary was a champion of more traditional, structured music, and Taylor was as always being violent and unpredictable. Both had wildly different views of how the concert should sound, and it ended up as a sort of musical battle between the two. There was some serious frustration on both sides, and Taylor nearly ended up getting punched for playing how he wanted and not giving a gently caress.


Other than that, there's Ornette Coleman's "Science Fiction" - because I wanted to remind myself how awesome Street Woman is.

And on the jazz-related topic, there's also Blue Series Continuum/EL-P collaboration "High Water" in the player right now, because I basically need to listen to it once in a while to feel alive.

Azure_Horizon
Mar 27, 2010

by Reene

BeigeJacket posted:

Live thread, live!

For content listen to this lovely Metheny/Meldau tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naIdW1_4Gtw

For request; someone learn me on Electro Jazz, a genre I know nothing about. What would you recommend that's heavier on the jazz-side than it is the electro?

Electro jazz is basically nu-jazz, and I have a lot to recommend for you (it's my favorite genre of jazz).

De Phazz - Cut the Jazz
United Future Organization - Loud Minority (ridiculous trumpet + piano solos in this song; try to ignore the Engrish)
Jazzanova - Morning Scapes
Jazzanova - LOVE and You and I
Fragmentorchestra - De Muse

One of the things that nu-jazz seeks to do is not only blend jazz with electronica, but also to fuse it with world music stylings as well. You'll get, perhaps, more prominent and off-beat drum samples or uncommon instrumentation; however, above all, nu-jazz retains the smooth sound that cool jazz and modal jazz created long ago. It's also a genre that is primarily popular outside of the US, for some reason. It took off in Japan and Western Europe like wildfire.

I'd also suggest the recent album Spiritual State by Nujabes, a posthumous album that just came out a few days ago:

Azure_Horizon fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Dec 7, 2011

28 Gun Bad Boy
Nov 5, 2009

Never been to Belgium

Azure_Horizon posted:

Electro jazz is basically nu-jazz, and I have a lot to recommend for you (it's my favorite genre of jazz).

De Phazz - Cut the Jazz
United Future Organization - Loud Minority (ridiculous trumpet + piano solos in this song; try to ignore the Engrish)
Jazzanova - Morning Scapes
Jazzanova - LOVE and You and I
Fragmentorchestra - De Muse

One of the things that nu-jazz seeks to do is not only blend jazz with electronica, but also to fuse it with world music stylings as well. You'll get, perhaps, more prominent and off-beat drum samples or uncommon instrumentation; however, above all, nu-jazz retains the smooth sound that cool jazz and modal jazz created long ago. It's also a genre that is primarily popular outside of the US, for some reason. It took off in Japan and Western Europe like wildfire.

I'd also suggest the recent album Spiritual State by Nujabes, a posthumous album that just came out a few days ago:


Yeah I don't think I really hear the term Electro Jazz being used very much. Nu-Jazz however is something I love. Basically approaching Jazz from a House, Techno, Soul & Funk angle of attack. More dancefloor based, club based, more singles based. Actually I don't really class it as Jazz half the time really(in the classical sense anyway). Firmly putting it in the dance music pile. No idea what the traditional jazz purists think of it. They probably hate it. And yes, it is/was very, very big in Japan(who absolutely loved it, don't ask me about spending crazy money on imported Japanese 12 inches), Germany and France. Actually fairly big here in the UK as well, though I don't think it quite made as many in-roads here as on the continent. Maybe because we had that big Acid Jazz explosion and later Broken Beat came along to satisfy peoples jazz noodlings to a 4/4 beat.

Actually half the time I make no distinction between a lot of Nu-Jazz and Broken Beat, which came up during the late 90s and was made by jaded House producers, Junglists and Acid Jazz-ers, though Broken Beat has a couple more spoonfuls of 70s soul and funk thrown in. For more on that check my entry of it in the UK Bass guide.

Anyway, for those interested in the whole Nu-Jazz thing I'd definitely check out French label Wagram Records neat compilation series Saint Germain Des Pres Cafe. Mixed albums chockful of Nu-Jazz, Acid Jazz and Broken Beat goodness. I think they're up to about a dozen volumes by now, though I have to admit I've not heard the later volumes in the series as they just aren't easy to find in the UK and when they do prices are crazy. The first half dozen also feature some of my favourite cover art as well.



See it's like coffee shop themed with the thingie and with the vinyl as the coffee? Yeah I'll get me coat...

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

I'm glad to see a jazz topic here, but there is something in the OP that is bothering me. Jazz did not come from Swing, its the other way around. Jazz evolved out of the Ragtime music going out of New Orleans (explaining why its biggest stars in the 20s, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, came out of New Orleans,) and spread outwards as Ragtime died. Swing (especially big band stuff) once it became was first seen as a "white" version of jazz because it had much more material written down/arranged.

But anyway, I want to talk about what I like. Probably my favorite jazz pianist is Bill Evans, who could do no loving wrong except get super addicted to Heroin like everyone else in jazz at the time.

May I suggest a 44 minute long video on his creative process featuring little bits with Steve Allen?
http://youtu.be/Nsnh21ae6YI

Or something off my favorite album of his, Conversations with Myself? (its him overdubbed over himself 3 times)
Spartacus Love Theme

Another favorite of mine is the guitarist, Grant Green. Compared to most of the guitar stuff posted in here, it sounds very tame. But most of his early Blue Note stuff, its almost like a stereotypical sound of what you hear when you think of "jazz": very laid back, smooth stuff.

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Azure_Horizon
Mar 27, 2010

by Reene

28 Gun Bad Boy posted:

Yeah I don't think I really hear the term Electro Jazz being used very much. Nu-Jazz however is something I love. Basically approaching Jazz from a House, Techno, Soul & Funk angle of attack. More dancefloor based, club based, more singles based. Actually I don't really class it as Jazz half the time really(in the classical sense anyway). Firmly putting it in the dance music pile. No idea what the traditional jazz purists think of it. They probably hate it. And yes, it is/was very, very big in Japan(who absolutely loved it, don't ask me about spending crazy money on imported Japanese 12 inches), Germany and France. Actually fairly big here in the UK as well, though I don't think it quite made as many in-roads here as on the continent. Maybe because we had that big Acid Jazz explosion and later Broken Beat came along to satisfy peoples jazz noodlings to a 4/4 beat.

Actually half the time I make no distinction between a lot of Nu-Jazz and Broken Beat, which came up during the late 90s and was made by jaded House producers, Junglists and Acid Jazz-ers, though Broken Beat has a couple more spoonfuls of 70s soul and funk thrown in. For more on that check my entry of it in the UK Bass guide.

Anyway, for those interested in the whole Nu-Jazz thing I'd definitely check out French label Wagram Records neat compilation series Saint Germain Des Pres Cafe. Mixed albums chockful of Nu-Jazz, Acid Jazz and Broken Beat goodness. I think they're up to about a dozen volumes by now, though I have to admit I've not heard the later volumes in the series as they just aren't easy to find in the UK and when they do prices are crazy. The first half dozen also feature some of my favourite cover art as well.



See it's like coffee shop themed with the thingie and with the vinyl as the coffee? Yeah I'll get me coat...

Yeah I think it depends on which artist you seek out in nu-jazz. Jazzanova focuses a lot more on the jazzy side of nu-jazz, and a lot of their tracks would be best suited to a lounge rather than a dancefloor. But the house and funk influences are definitely widespread and help adapt jazz to the dancefloor, which I think is a good thing considering how popular dance music is nowadays.

Orbital Sapling
Oct 30, 2011

by angerbeet
I've got pretty basic jazz knowledge, though I really love a select few artists. I really, really like Mahavishnu Orchestra. I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask about it, but basically I want to listen to some music that sounds like this all the time. More specifically, the groovy electric piano kind of thing they've got going on in the intro. I could listen to that kind of music all day. Who does this kinda stuff?

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Orbital Sapling posted:

I've got pretty basic jazz knowledge, though I really love a select few artists. I really, really like Mahavishnu Orchestra. I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask about it, but basically I want to listen to some music that sounds like this all the time. More specifically, the groovy electric piano kind of thing they've got going on in the intro. I could listen to that kind of music all day. Who does this kinda stuff?

If you haven't checked out most of Herbie Hancock's early-to-mid 70s work, go get that. Everything from Mwandishi to Secrets is stuff you would like. The first 3 are more experimental, especially Sextant (which I don't like,) but the album after that, Head Hunters, is one of the best albums ever, period.

ClassActJerk
Nov 4, 2010

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Orbital, you should hear Weather Report's Sweetnighter, wherein you can hear the track 125th St congress,the track Joe Zawinul said was the birth of hip hop. If you like that then you might like Black Market, Mysterious Traveler, and Tale Spinnin. Another album that is sick is Billy Cobham's Spectrum, Jan Hammer, the same guy playing keys on Birds of Fire (the album with Miles Beyond)plays keys on this one. Finally checkout Thrust the followup to the Headhunters album, some people like that one even more.

On a different point for everyone else, out of respect to the late Paul Motian, I recommend anyone who doesn't know his work to check out the first Bill Evans trio records, and most of Paul's stuff on ECM.Especially the band with Ben Monder.

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roundmidnight
Jul 9, 2010
Plug plug plug:

I'm getting to play the premiere of NYC trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis' (https://www.nadjenoordhuis.com) music for large ensemble tonight with the Hart House Jazz Orchestra tonight and Sunday! :) She's planning to record the music next year and this is a test run. Some of the pieces are really quite exquisite and she's a lovely individual.

Also, as a fellow trumpet player, it's pretty awesome to hear someone play the instrument so vocally. Chops for days but tasteful as hell.

Any Toronto jazz goons, feel free to show up. Tonight's is at Hart House, Sunday at the Rex.

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