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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:07 pm

Hello guys and gals, it's RFS coming at you with my first thread in A&F in months. Today I wanna talk about Jazz. One thing alot of people don't know about me is that I'm secretly a fan of the genre and have a long history of both listening to Jazz and playing it on trombone, trumpet and guitar. I took a jazz appreciation class for my first and last year of college and as such I've been exposed to hundreds of artists from 1920 to the modern day. What are your favorite jazz songs and artists NSers? I'll start us off with these 5 songs:

Bitches brew-Miles Davis: https://youtu.be/2AR93r-ASWI

Salt Peanuts-Dizzy Gillespie: https://youtu.be/TvIXzeDLpMw

Lester Leaps in-Count Basie: https://youtu.be/zXwXKUrRhPo

Chameleon-Herbie Hancock: https://youtu.be/UbkqE4fpvdI

Brazil-Antonio Carlos Jobim: https://youtu.be/V8goep7fVXk
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Postby Abserdia » Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:17 pm

I really like jazz but I probably don’t listen to enough.
I’m a big fan of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, you know, the usual suspects.

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - Lush Life has always been a favorite of mine.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:06 am

Huh, we have remarkably similar tastes. Chameleon was one of my first jazz albums and I got to see Herbie and the group perform it live at a reunion at the Fillmore in San Francisco. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to. I’ve had the fortune to see a lot of people right before I couldn’t anymore including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Tony Williams. All pretty great.

Another awesome show was a double header with Branford Marsalis and Sonny Rollins. I’ve met Branford, funnest part about that is him saying he remembered me. No he didn’t, we hadn’t met yet, but it was still cool. Also he fluffed off the Sony rep that wanted to talk about golf because he found out I was a music major (at the time) and wanted to talk about his rendition of the Three Penny Opera with a noted composer. The Sony rep was big mad, I didn’t get the good weed from him anymore.

Lester was my model in big band playing, I even bought a pork pie hat.

To add to the list and get a little freaky-

Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
And of course
Free Jazz double quartet with Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy

Out to Lunch Eric Dolphy

I can’t remember which Alice Coltrane album, I think her first one, really great. His kid isn’t bad either.

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Some love to some modern shit, I tried and failed to get a friend into Uri Caine.

Sex Mob is really great, lots of free jazz infused takes on modern music. They do a album of Bond music with Medeski Martin and Wood that’s fantastic. Medeski Martin and Wood, also fun.

Charlie Hunter can be enjoyable.

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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:45 am

I've only really started seriously listening to jazz in the last few years. My favourite things so far are:

Monk and Mulligan Round Midnight

Jim Hall Concierto

Wes Montgomery A Day in the Life

Horace Silver Song for my Father
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:54 pm

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:I've only really started seriously listening to jazz in the last few years. My favourite things so far are:

Monk and Mulligan Round Midnight

Jim Hall Concierto

Wes Montgomery A Day in the Life

Horace Silver Song for my Father

Let me introduce you to the phenomenon known as Jazz in 1959. Instead of looking up to jazz albums just look what came out in 1959. It will be a similar list.
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Postby Nuroblav » Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:41 pm

Jazz is an area I've been meaning to expand on - particularly artists like Dave Brubeck, Herbert Hancock and Miles Davis that I've been meaning to give a listen.

So in the meantime, have some Dave Brubeck Quartet, and hopefully I'll find some more once I've finished reevaluating some more albums.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Tue Oct 27, 2020 2:57 pm

I dont usually listen to a lot of Jazz but its enjoyable. Jazz scat singing is good, ive listened to Scatman John a few times on youtube.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:16 pm

Nuroblav wrote:Jazz is an area I've been meaning to expand on - particularly artists like Dave Brubeck, Herbert Hancock and Miles Davis that I've been meaning to give a listen.

So in the meantime, have some Dave Brubeck Quartet, and hopefully I'll find some more once I've finished reevaluating some more albums.

Time Out...1959.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:16 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:I dont usually listen to a lot of Jazz but its enjoyable. Jazz scat singing is good, ive listened to Scatman John a few times on youtube.

Check out Ella Fitzgerald
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Postby U S Eh » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:54 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Hello guys and gals, it's RFS coming at you with my first thread in A&F in months. Today I wanna talk about Jazz. One thing alot of people don't know about me is that I'm secretly a fan of the genre and have a long history of both listening to Jazz and playing it on trombone, trumpet and guitar. I took a jazz appreciation class for my first and last year of college and as such I've been exposed to hundreds of artists from 1920 to the modern day. What are your favorite jazz songs and artists NSers? I'll start us off with these 5 songs:

Bitches brew-Miles Davis: https://youtu.be/2AR93r-ASWI

Salt Peanuts-Dizzy Gillespie: https://youtu.be/TvIXzeDLpMw

Lester Leaps in-Count Basie: https://youtu.be/zXwXKUrRhPo

Chameleon-Herbie Hancock: https://youtu.be/UbkqE4fpvdI

Brazil-Antonio Carlos Jobim: https://youtu.be/V8goep7fVXk

These 2 jazz pieces are my favorite:

Lee Ritenour - Dolphin Dreams
Hue and Cry - 'Round Midnight (cover)
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:43 pm

U S Eh wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Hello guys and gals, it's RFS coming at you with my first thread in A&F in months. Today I wanna talk about Jazz. One thing alot of people don't know about me is that I'm secretly a fan of the genre and have a long history of both listening to Jazz and playing it on trombone, trumpet and guitar. I took a jazz appreciation class for my first and last year of college and as such I've been exposed to hundreds of artists from 1920 to the modern day. What are your favorite jazz songs and artists NSers? I'll start us off with these 5 songs:

Bitches brew-Miles Davis: https://youtu.be/2AR93r-ASWI

Salt Peanuts-Dizzy Gillespie: https://youtu.be/TvIXzeDLpMw

Lester Leaps in-Count Basie: https://youtu.be/zXwXKUrRhPo

Chameleon-Herbie Hancock: https://youtu.be/UbkqE4fpvdI

Brazil-Antonio Carlos Jobim: https://youtu.be/V8goep7fVXk

These 2 jazz pieces are my favorite:

Lee Ritenour - Dolphin Dreams
Hue and Cry - 'Round Midnight (cover)

You don’t really have to say ‘cover’ when it comes to jazz. Most of the stuff becomes ‘standards’ and everyone does them. So many people have done Round Midnight I have to kind of try and remember which recording was first. Tons of people have recorded it...there was a great movie that used it as its theme and name...starred Dexter Gordon in a combination of Lester Young and Ben Webster’s lives. I think it’s on like one of the video sites because you can’t stream or rent it anywhere.
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Postby U S Eh » Thu Oct 29, 2020 3:00 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:

You don’t really have to say ‘cover’ when it comes to jazz. Most of the stuff becomes ‘standards’ and everyone does them. So many people have done Round Midnight I have to kind of try and remember which recording was first. Tons of people have recorded it...there was a great movie that used it as its theme and name...starred Dexter Gordon in a combination of Lester Young and Ben Webster’s lives. I think it’s on like one of the video sites because you can’t stream or rent it anywhere.

Oh okay. Just wanted to be on the safe side.
Some people get triggered if you don't make it clear that something's a cover.

So yeah. Sorry about that.
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:39 pm

U S Eh wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:You don’t really have to say ‘cover’ when it comes to jazz. Most of the stuff becomes ‘standards’ and everyone does them. So many people have done Round Midnight I have to kind of try and remember which recording was first. Tons of people have recorded it...there was a great movie that used it as its theme and name...starred Dexter Gordon in a combination of Lester Young and Ben Webster’s lives. I think it’s on like one of the video sites because you can’t stream or rent it anywhere.

Oh okay. Just wanted to be on the safe side.
Some people get triggered if you don't make it clear that something's a cover.

So yeah. Sorry about that.
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It’s not a big deal, it’s just more like saying “www” when giving a website, you don’t have to do it.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:01 am

I like the Stan Getz bossa nova record.

Bill Evans has the best album cover photos ever.

Miles Davis does nothing for me, I seem to be in a minority on that. I like Coltrane.
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Postby Vrijmannen » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:58 am

Nice to see a jazz discussion on here. Lotta nice stuff in this thread. i'll add to it starting with easier listening to full on avant/free improv jazz

Don Cherry & Herbie Hancock - Bemsha Swing Live
McCoy Tyner - Passion Dance
The John Coltrane Quartet- My Favorite Things, Belgium
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mists of Krakatoa
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:07 pm


This might be the first time a jazz discussion has popped up on ns and someone has laid down some stuff I’ve never heard of. It’s a strange new feeling and I kind of like it. I’ll have to hit these up when I am in an appropriate space.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:38 am

Herbie Hancock's cover of Prince's Thieves in the Temple is barnstorming.
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Postby Dusendord » Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:26 am

Love me some smooth nyc jazz
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Postby Cereskia » Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:28 am

There's one interesting jazz music, Don't Scare me, papa, or the Mysterious Axman's Jazz, i've heard it when i was watching buzzfeed unsolved
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Postby My Political Fantasy » Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:18 am

I like Funk Jazz a little bit too much...
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