Jazz

[Extreme Ironing]

Does anybody else enjoy this diverse American art form? If so, what kind of jazz? What artists?

Personally I like the 50's and 60's modal jazz and late/post bop era the best. Freddie Hubbard is excellent, Coltrane and Eric Dolphy are great, I also like Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock from this era. Of course there are a lot of other players I listen to.

I enjoy Dave Brubeck, listening and playing some of the things he wrote down. I'm not much of an improviser. Hancock and Corea are quite interesting but I've never explored fully their music nor further afield.

I like what jazz I've heard, although it's rather limited at present. Being a fan of twentieth-century experimental and non-minimalist music, I suspect I'd like modern jazz that absorbs those influences, but I don't know of any good artists right now. Likewise, will take recommendations.

*tags thread*

A friend of mine, a very good sax player, often tells me of pieces that use riffs/bars that overlap (i.e. 10:7) but I've not had the chance to listen to much of it nor could remember any names.

Talking of modern 'classical' music: Thomas Adès?

[Gift-of-god]

I'm a sentimentalist, so I like my torch songs, and my standards. Holliday, Fitzgerald, Washington, Nina Simone, basically vocal stuff, though I like Coltrane and Miles, but I don't listen to it every day the way I listen to my ladies.

Lately I've been wanting to get into old-school acid jazz. Anybody have any suggestions?

[Farnhamia]

I'm a sentimentalist, so I like my torch songs, and my standards. Holliday, Fitzgerald, Washington, Nina Simone, basically vocal stuff, though I like Coltrane and Miles, but I don't listen to it every day the way I listen to my ladies.

Lately I've been wanting to get into old-school acid jazz. Anybody have any suggestions?

Wow, a fusion of jazz and hip-hop? May have to look into that. And how come one always has to use the word "fusion" at least once in a discussion of jazz?

I've never been a huge fan of Holliday, I have to admit. Sometimes I feel as if my appreciation of jazz is thereby deficient, since everyone else swoons over her. I can't even blame it on Diana Ross and "Lady Sings the Blues," either, since I've never seen that.

[Cannot think of a name]

Most of the standards have been covered. Saying things like Bird, Trane, Miles etc almost seems like a given. It'd almost be easier to pick people in the cannon that I don't especially like, like maybe Bruebeck without Desmond or Chick Corea half the time. But those guys are still pretty good, I'm just not into what they do.

Since we're on the third page I'm going to try and reach a little bit into the harsher free and free influenced jazz I like, like the World Saxophone Quartet, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie, Hamiet Blueit(sp?), Greg Osby, Sex Mob, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Uri Caine, Mahivishnu Orchestra, Big Satan...some I'm forgetting...

For the cat into the twentieth century/experimental composition stuff, check out Uri Caine. Not exclusively, but a lot he takes composers like Mahler and Mozart even and...well, torques them. Most of the time I hate jazz classical (not third stream, I mean when some pianist decides to swing his old piano lessons), but Caine actually does something interesting with it. Worth checking out.

I also dig some jazz with a little stink on it, like The Dirty Dozen Brass band.

[Utopia FTW]

it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing