Jazz Thread, The

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Soul Jazz. Bossa Nova. R&B. Blues. Preferably 60's-70's Lounge chill-out music.
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Uptempo stuff. Spicy Latin stuff is great. I'll give a list of songs to offer a ballpark of what I like:

Song For My Father - The Horace Silver String Quartet

Soul Kitchen - The Doors

Walking IN Space - Quincy Jones

Right On - Marvin Ga­ye

Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang

Where It's At - Beck

What Is And What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin

Money - Pink Floyd

Like It Is, Like It Was - James Brown

Here's one you all should recognize
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
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Having said that, can you guys recommend me some cool Jazz songs? Smooth soul is cool, but fast-tempo is awesome too. Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.
 
Gil Scott Heron definiately counts!! I love that first album you linked. "Angel Dust" is probably my favorite song by him, it's pretty bad.

Rivers of My Fathers _ Gil scott Heron

Snunch said:
Pink Floyd? The Doors? Led Zeppelin? None of that is jazz. This is jazz.

Nefertiti - Miles Davis
Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
Take the A Train - Duke Ellington
All Blues - Wayne Shorter
So What - Miles Davis

might edit with more later but just wanted to set the thread on track
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Aww man you serious? Listen to the beat on Break On Through. It's a BOSSA NOVA beat. Light My Fire also has strokes of Jazz. I'm not saying it's pure raw Jazz but saying The Doors weren't influenced by the people you listed isn't very smart.
 
Ekypsekim said:
Aww man you serious? Listen to the beat on Break On Through. It's a BOSSA NOVA beat. Light My Fire also has strokes of Jazz. I'm not saying it's pure raw Jazz but saying The Doors weren't influenced by the people you listed isn't very smart.
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Of course they were influenced! Jazz musicians are notoriously talented at their instruments and are admired regardless of genre. Many famous rock musicians and songs were directly inspired by jazz songs, some more than others. One of my favorite songs of all time is Aja - Steely Dan, which features Wayne Shorter and Steve Gadd. Being a bit of a snob, I expected more from a jazz thread though. As much as they were inspired, the doors arent a jazz band.
 
Interesting, I was listening to portico quartet today. It's not that often I listen to a jazz band I wasnt previously aware of, then you made this thread.

It's pretty cool.

Also Mingus is the best.

Have a nice day.
 
I saw the Rober Glasper trio in Chicago a couple weeks ago. It was a pretty awesome blend of jazz and hip hop elements. The drummer was crazy talented (they all were, but as a drummer myself he stood out,) he took a tremendously exciting solo.
 
Oh, I'm aware of them; they're pretty good IIRC. I'll go take a re-listen, also,

Dog Fashion Disco, if they count - jazz / metal / a little bit of everything? I'd link, but youtube doesn't work. Pogo the Clown is my favourite song by them.

Polkadot Cadaver is their continuation post-breakup, but it lost its jazz elements, and isn't as good.
 
Some of my favorites:

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuM5suBrBy8

Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie (complete with AMV lmao)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJ7QvcNGjc

Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHtQn1t1n4

Moanin' - Charles Mingus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R36dxzbsU4g

Move - Miles Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WjU4eXYWg4

another good one is "On A Country Road" by John Carter, couldn't find a yt link for that one though

doomvendingmachine said:
The best jazz/hip-hop fusion artist I've ever listened to was Nujabes.

Nujabes - Music is mine
Nujabes - Horn in the Middle
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Nujabes owns

Snunch said:
Pink Floyd? The Doors? Led Zeppelin? None of that is jazz. This is jazz.

Nefertiti - Miles Davis
Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
Take the A Train - Duke Ellington
All Blues - Wayne Shorter
So What - Miles Davis

might edit with more later but just wanted to set the thread on track
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all fantastic. Hadn't heard Cantaloupe in a while but that's also one of my favorites.
 
Oh my god I have been trying to remember the name of cantaloupe island for so long
tank ye very much darling
 
downloaded miles davis' kind of blue the other week expecting it to be some kind of huge mind blowing jazz revolution like i had when i first got into hip-hop, but ive got to be honest, it really wasnt :/ wont give up on it quite yet though.

and yeah, jazz-fusion or jazz-hop or whatever is great shit, as im sure you can tell by my cheeky madvillain avatar on the left. gotta love dem jazz beats.
 
Stoo said:
downloaded miles davis' kind of blue the other week expecting it to be some kind of huge mind blowing jazz revolution like i had when i first got into hip-hop, but ive got to be honest, it really wasnt :/ wont give up on it quite yet though.

and yeah, jazz-fusion or jazz-hop or whatever is great shit, as im sure you can tell by my cheeky madvillain avatar on the left. gotta love dem jazz beats.
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I'm kinda in the same boat as Stoo. My first 2 jazz albums were Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme. I prefer A Love Supreme way over Kind of Blue atm, and just don't really see they hype around that album. Anyway, like Stoo, I'll give it more time, but I feel like I'm missing something everybody else gets.

@Stoo, pick up John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Just based on personal experience, it's what you are looking for.
 
The thing about jazz for me is that there are a lot of boring, stylistically conservative hard bop albums that all melt together into so much mindless blowing. That, and acoustic bass solos are usually terrible. Here's a big list of good stuff that I recommend.

Hard Bop / Post-Bop:
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
John Coltrane - Giant Steps / My Favorite Things / A Love Supreme
Jackie McLean - Destination Out!
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Larry Young - Unity

Cool Jazz:
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue / Sketches of Spain
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard / Waltz for Debby
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

Jazz Fusion / Jazz-Funk:
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew / In a Silent Way / On the Corner
Herbie Hancock - Sextant / Head Hunters
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
Mahavishu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Nomo - Ghost Rock
John Scofield - A Go Go

Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz:
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda / Universal Consciousness
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages

Jazz-Influenced Rock:
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Gong - Flying Teapot
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Van Morrison - Moondance
Soft Machine - Third
Tortoise - TNT
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
 
A kind of blue is kinda more of a jazz fans album than something to get into jazz to start with. I think other Miles Davis albums like Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain or even In a Silent Way might be more likeable to someone who really isnt all that into jazz.

And to be honest, I still dont like A Love Supreme.. I really am not a fan of free jazz.

Have a nice day.
 
Hey SSBM Roy thanks for that awesome listing. I'm checking out songs from there as I type.

Also, whoever mentioned Wayne Shorter, I just discovered him and he's pretty kickass. I'm digging Adam's Apple at the moment.

(also, I don't really like A Love Supreme either lol, hopefully it will come to me like others have mentioned in the thread)



popemobile said:
Some of my favorites:

Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuM5suBrBy8

Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie (complete with AMV lmao)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJ7QvcNGjc

Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHtQn1t1n4

Moanin' - Charles Mingus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R36dxzbsU4g

Move - Miles Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WjU4eXYWg4
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Hey thanks for thisNujabes also rocks too.


Here's some more Fusion/Jazz-Rock I LOVE. Ear-chocolate:

Crumble - Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MnU7R1dIyQ]Better Off Dead - Bill Withers[/url]

Sunny - Melba Moore (awesome piano)

Speak the Language

some dope bossa nova song idk the name haha

Cristo Redentor - Donald Byrd

Save Room - John legend

..and finally......


I Want You (She's So Heavy)
 
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