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I love how the comments to this video are a more "high-brow" version of the same typical lovely Youtube comments. Also this music owns.
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I'm a jazz amateur, and I was really happy to see this thread. Then I clicked through some of the links in the OP and heard Gretchen Parlato. That was utterly amazing, and I bought the album and guess what? It's all just as good. I can't describe what makes her voice so distinctive, but she's great. Her band is wonderful, as well. Very understated and elegant at times, but they can let it rip (their version of "Blue in Green" is great in this regard). I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes cool jazz, even if you don't like vocal jazz that much. By the way, it's not one of Miles' more popular albums, but I'm a fan of On the Corner. If you haven't listened to it, I highly recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS56epCP9g8
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Most definitely. I consider "The Lost and Found" to be the jazz album of last year. It's also perfect when it's cold out. Check out her cover of Herbie Hancock's "Butterfly". It's beautiful, but so is Taylor Eigsti's piano work.
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Azure_Horizon posted:Most definitely. I consider "The Lost and Found" to be the jazz album of last year. It's also perfect when it's cold out. Check out her cover of Herbie Hancock's "Butterfly". It's beautiful, but so is Taylor Eigsti's piano work. The album version with the 'sparse' acoustic guitar backing isn't that great, the rhythm sounds a bit awkward and clunky to me. The live version you mention with Taylor Eigsti accompanying on piano is so much better. Unfortunately that's kind of typical of the arrangements on her first album 'In a Dream'. x0nix fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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Jan 18, 2012 22:00
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x0nix posted:The album version with the 'sparse' acoustic guitar backing isn't that great, the rhythm sounds a bit awkward and clunky to me. The live version you mention with Taylor Eigsti accompanying on piano is so much better. Unfortunately that's kind of typical of the arrangements on her first album 'In a Dream'. Yeah, oops, I meant the live performance with Eigsti on piano, yeah.
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x0nix posted:The album version with the 'sparse' acoustic guitar backing isn't that great, the rhythm sounds a bit awkward and clunky to me. The live version you mention with Taylor Eigsti accompanying on piano is so much better. Unfortunately that's kind of typical of the arrangements on her first album 'In a Dream'.
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Just got into more traditional jazz. I am loving Four and More by Davis Davis, Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock, and A Love Supreme by Coltrane. Any recommendations for aggressive jazz like that with crazy drumming?
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Jan 22, 2012 09:25
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:That's a great performance. The live version is clearly superior; Eigsti is a great pianist and I'm continually impressed with him. You should check out his albums if you haven't. His recent, Daylight at Midnight, is perhaps his best; the songs are a little on the cheesy side but the piano work is just stellar.
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_Leviathan_ posted:Just got into more traditional jazz. I am loving Four and More by Davis Davis, Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock, and A Love Supreme by Coltrane. Any recommendations for aggressive jazz like that with crazy drumming? Check this out: Chronos by James Farm. I just can't plug this self-titled album 'James Farm' enough. They're a very modern quartet including Joshua Redman on sax, Aaron Parks on piano and Eric Harland on drums. At this end of this particular tune Aaron Parks begins a gorgeous backdrop of chords, then Eric Harland simply rips it on the skins. Bang it up and enjoy some of the illest drumming ever.
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_Leviathan_ posted:Just got into more traditional jazz. I am loving Four and More by Davis Davis, Empyrean Isles by Herbie Hancock, and A Love Supreme by Coltrane. Any recommendations for aggressive jazz like that with crazy drumming? Try: Wayne Shorter - JuJu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4iU9ZeU-A Same percussion & piano duo as A Love Supreme (Jones & Tyner). Really passionate stuff that gets more and more tumbling and tense as it goes on.
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Just heard some Jazz Liberatorz for the first time today and got chills down my spine. That flute work is just RIDICULOUS.
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Accidentally stumbled upon this thread. Thank you OP, I love modern jazz but it's very hard to find new bands, it's not a very popular genre.
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Jack Trades posted:Accidentally stumbled upon this thread. Thank you OP, I love modern jazz but it's very hard to find new bands, it's not a very popular genre. It may not be very popular, but god drat if there isn't more innovation in the jazz of today than most other genres I can think of.
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I just got back from a solo performance Mehldau did in DC. loving incredible. A woman may or may not have had a heart attack and died during the performance as well. He also wore the exact same t shirt and jacket he wore in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aRZ7RKM5S0&feature=related so when I turned a corner to wait outside of the venue and he was standing there smoking a cigarette, it was very very surreal.
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Jack Trades posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9W9rc-P9UQ Outside of Jamiroquai's first three albums Dynamite is the only really other good one. A Jamiroquai album can really be gauged by the amount of coke that went up Jay Kay's nose when they were recording it. To much and you end up with the more disco influenced later albums which really aren't too hot (not that I don't love disco mind you). You know it's bad when you fire your poo poo hot bassist and song writer (Stuart Zender) and replace him with the bassist from a Jamiroquai cover band. Stick to the first three albums and everything is solid though. On a completely pointless note, I really wish I had won an eBay auction from many years ago where someone was selling some Akais that belonged to Jamiroquais keyboard player. I don't quite know why I think that's awesome but I'd have loved it. As for that mid-90s Acid Jazz thing, that was one of the musics that I pretty much grew up on, and Galliano still remains one of my favourite acts from then. Talkin' Loud released all their albums originally and I'd say grab A Joyful Noise Unto The Creator and The Plot Thickens and you're sorted. Sadly I don't think Talkin' Loud reissued them like they did with the likes of Nuyorican Soul and Incognito (who's another great - and long lasting - Acid Jazz group, maybe a bit more on the pop edge of things, but a good edge) but they're easy and cheap to find on eBay etc. Skunk Funk Jus' Reach Believe
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Jack Trades posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9W9rc-P9UQ That's a good track but it's post-Stuart Zender who is an amazing bassist. They were just a much better band when he was on bass imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im30j3Z2B54
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Relayer posted:That's a good track but it's post-Stuart Zender who is an amazing bassist. They were just a much better band when he was on bass imo: It's great! By the way, this is one of my favorite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqIGymNEDw It's not jazz but it's soul, a brother genre, so I think it'll slide. Absolutely amazing vocals by Alice Russell, sexy saxophones, ear pleasuring bass and funky piano solos.
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Relayer posted:That's a good track but it's post-Stuart Zender who is an amazing bassist. They were just a much better band when he was on bass imo: Rock Dust Light Star is a solid album, surprisingly. I'd post links but it's way more funk than jazz.
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Just wanted to share an album I have been into recently. It's Hadrien Feraud's eponymous debut album. Feraud is a French bass bad rear end who played on John Mclaughlin's Floating Point album and a bunch of other things. Feraud's album is a cross between some 70's George Duke Albums, The Scofield Blue Matter band, and Weather Report. Their are some really chill tracks and some fast electric jazz tracks ala Mclaughlin's recent albums. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59V8q74juc- Rumeurs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGFhsXLENp8- Clair Obscur
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Anyone else excited for Esperanza Spalding's next album, Radio Music Society? Chamber Music Society was interesting, but I want to see that blended with her initial pop jazz style.
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I just watched Midnight in Paris and fell in love with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_DD_7C8_A I can't stop playing it. Already looking for a discography or something, can anyone else recommend similar styles?
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I recently stumbled upon this piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPYNIc_M1ng ('dat bass guitar and sax) Can anyone suggest bands that do similar music but with vocals maybe?
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Jack Trades posted:I recently stumbled upon this piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPYNIc_M1ng ('dat bass guitar and sax) Early 70s Donald Byrd might do it for you; although these records lean more towards soul than flat out funk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv8Oe9BQaN4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkLrMcYuc3E&feature=related
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Azure_Horizon posted:Anyone else excited for Esperanza Spalding's next album, Radio Music Society? Chamber Music Society was interesting, but I want to see that blended with her initial pop jazz style. She is amazing in general, so I am excited by default. Her first album is still probably the best imo, although I'm really liking a lot of her live covers. This one is great, it's an MJ cover so I guess it's funk but with jazz rhodes and the playing is incredible. She's great at playing and singing at the same time and makes it look effortless. The drummer is so insanely in the pocket too, he's one of those players who makes me want to quit. Sound quality kind of lovely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAdm1fbZbw Her Stevie Wonder covers are always so good (no offense ghost MJ).
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treiz01 posted:I just watched Midnight in Paris and fell in love with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_DD_7C8_A I can't stop playing it. Already looking for a discography or something, can anyone else recommend similar styles? It's very much closer to ragtime and swing than most other forms of jazz, so anything from the '20s and '30s should suit you well.
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treiz01 posted:I just watched Midnight in Paris and fell in love with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_DD_7C8_A I can't stop playing it. Already looking for a discography or something, can anyone else recommend similar styles? Sidney Bechet is in a class by himself, so listen to more Sidney Bechet first of all. Blue Horizon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoO0GMadAg Egyptian Fantasy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJlOOJlV6U are favorites of mine - on clarinet instead of soprano sax, but he's fantastic on both. I think the clarinet/sax player from the New Black Eagles does a pretty decent imitation at times: The Mooche http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8Wig3huOs For that general style of music without Sidney Bechet's sound just look for Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, King Oliver the '20s and '30s New Orleans traditional jazz sound.
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Count Basie's Complete Decca Recordings is three discs of music from 1937 - 1939 and it's one of the best investments I've ever made. I can just listen to that over and over and over again. Amazing. I also recently got Clifford Brown & Max Roach; it's the first time I've dipped into either Brown and Roach and it's pretty amazing. Brown could do some amazing things all right.
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I'm still pretty new to jazz but here's some favorites, mostly free stuff, with a few links. Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is my favorite album; Miles and Sun Ra are probably my two favorite artists. Albert Ayler-Spiritual Unity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzJsGAHsVM Alice Coltrane-Journey in Sathcidananda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDiXszQeVY Art Blakey-Moanin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKXsnDvILmI Carla Bley-Escalator Over the Hill Cannonball Adderly-Something Else Charles Mingus-The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KTUqLyNcU Charles Mingus-Pithecanthropus Erectus Charles Mingus-Tijuana Moods Dexter Gordon-Go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0-U8DPxY8 Don Cherry-Mu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ket4jlUh6Cc Eric Dolphy-Out to Lunch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MfbhWYGM8 Herbie Hancock-Headhunters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onbKsXUnI4c&feature=related John Coltrane-Ascension John Coltrane-A Love Supreme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xx-rawGfn8 John Coltrane-Giant Steps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FTr6G53VU Keith Jarret-The Koln Concert Lee Morgan-The Sidewinder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1Eo-6sDIE Miles Davis-Birth of the Cool Miles Davis-Bitches Brew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hU6G6hmt2k Miles Davis-In A Silent Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCnUpl6B46M Miles Davis-Kind of Blue Miles Davis-Live-Evil Miles Davis- On the Corner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOG_ZSEMUs Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSQVRTG0sQ Miles Davis-Tribute to Jack Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_w3-Bx9rnI Ornette Coleman-The Shape of Jazz to Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNbD1JIH344 Ornette Coleman-Free Jazz Pharoah Sanders-Karma Sonny Rollins-Saxophone Colossus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2XIWZxMKM Sun Ra-The Magic City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMEqzosjA-o Sun Ra-Atlantis for anyone wanting to check out some new jazz, here's some. Amon Tobin and Squarepusher are jazz-based electronica; Colin Stetson and Matana Roberts are both modern free jazz; Morphine is jazz-based rock; Talk Talk and Tortoise are also great jazz-based rock bands, but I feel that would be stretching the genre boundary too far. Amon Tobin-Bricolage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXU5aUbJ_W8 Squarepusher-Music is A Rotted One Note Colin Stetson-New History Warfare v II: Judges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArtAD-roFJA Matana Roberts-Coin Coin Chapter One:Gens de Couleor Libres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Hpu9Llpw8 Morphine-Good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSzV6jAkhQ could anyone post a link to a full, listenable version of Lennie Tristano's Descent into the Maelstrom? I've been trying to get to it for awhile but am having trouble finding it on youtube, spotify, etc (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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If you're recommending Amon Tobin I'd also put DJ Shadow's first album in the mix, as a good number of the tracks on it are jazzy.
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Azure_Horizon posted:If you're recommending Amon Tobin I'd also put DJ Shadow's first album in the mix, as a good number of the tracks on it are jazzy. Entroducing... is an amazing listen! Its hip-hop influences have always been more apparent than its jazz influences to me though, so I didn't list it.
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Quick question: I'm heading into New York City at the beginning of March, and the missus and I are looking to hear some music on the Thursday evening - does anyone know of any decent places to hear some live Jazz within Manhattan?
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ThCawdor posted:Quick question: This might help you out.
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I'm currently watching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(TV_series), and it's brilliant. A detailed look at the origins and spread of the genre, with countless anecdotes from the lives of the greats and the firsts. Tons of music, photographs and clips from early documentaries, accounts from old people and various jazz musicians. Wynton Marsalis does a lot of the talking, describing different players' styles with such infectuous enthusiasm and providing examples with his trumpet. The guy basically owns. Very informative and entertaining stuff, gave me a new perspective on many familiar artists and showed me plenty of those I've never even heard of. Covers the racism angle pretty heavily too.
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Sonny Rollins with Bagpipes! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c30k0/Arena_Sonny_Rollins_74_Rescued!/ e: I don't know that much about Rollins actually. Does he always begin his tunes with those long, unaccompanied solos before the rest of the band joins in? BeigeJacket fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 18, 2012 |
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woodenchicken posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(TV_series) As expected from Ken Burns this is a brilliant series. Some eras/topics I personally wasn't that interested in but I still always appreciated the general level of detail. I loved the episodes covering the 40s and 50s. The final part about modern jazz seemed a little slapdash though as I recall.
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The Ken Burns series was criticised by hard-core jazz fans as leaning too heavily on the swing stuff and pretty much ignoring the 1960s+ but I've always enjoyed it for what it is.
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Wabbit posted:Sidney Bechet is in a class by himself, so listen to more Sidney Bechet first of all. Another master of the licorice stick is Mr. Gardi Gras, Pete Fountain ala Pierre Dewey La Fontaine Jr. I don't know how prolific of a song writer he was, but he absolutely captures the soul of New Orleans Jazz. Although some of his music sounds a little hokey today, His rendition of "My Blue Heaven" is quite the groovin' tune. It makes me real happy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBuFWKCUNo
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Ron Burgundy posted:The Ken Burns series was criticised by hard-core jazz fans as leaning too heavily on the swing stuff and pretty much ignoring the 1960s+ but I've always enjoyed it for what it is.
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Can anyone suggest me a band similar to Jamiroquai? Nothing else in the OP clicked as much for me.
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