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Who Are Your Fav Jazz Musicians?
@Spidericemidas asked for some jazz recommendations. My go-tos are somewhat limited…. Monk, Parker, Coltrane, Miles, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Modern Jazz Quartet, Keith Jarrett, Lennie Tristano, etc. Rather stuck in the mid 20th century…. But there’s so much more, especially in the past thirty years. Who do you listen to?
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Miles Davis (particularly Kind of Blue, anything by Miles' groups with Wayne Shorter; Kind of Blue and Miles Smiles are two of the most perfect albums ever)
John Coltrane (particularly the groups with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones)
Keith Jarrett (Koln Concert any of the standards groups, also the grouos with Dewey Redman),
Snarky Puppy (favalbums: Ground Up, We Like It Here),
Charles Mingus,
Thelonius Monk,
Pat Metheny (particularly Bright Size Life)
Bill Frissell
Wayne Krantz (Two-Drink Minimum)
Bill Evans' trios
Depends on my ‘phase’.
Currently enjoy the smooth soothing sounds of Jan Garbarek and Eberhard Weber.
Not limited. That’s the center of Jazz. In my case (l’m pro, starting in 1978), for many years, maybe 60% of my collection were recordings done before 1956. Of course, according to my age, I have other favorites too, including my beloved George Duke, or Jose Roberto Bertrami (of Azymuth from Brazil). For me, respect for tradition in Jazz Music is fundamental.
Cheers.
Depends on how traditional your definition of jazz is. Pat Metheny.
Charles Lloyd
Bill Frisell
Pat Metheny
Lennie Breau
Charlie Haden
Carla Bley
Paul Horn
Oregon
This could end up being a very long list. I'll try to narrow things -- a lot.
The best concert I've seen was Branford Marsalis touring in support of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. That was a long time ago now, maybe just inside your 30 year range, but I can still remember telling myself during the concert that I really did need to breath.
OK, I can't really organize this into a sensible list, so maybe I'll just go random with stuff that might not be trad. jazz but that I really like (it's going to be kinda guitar biased),
Jim Hall, Concierto
Vernon Reid & Masque, any album really
Andy Summers (from The Police), Peggy's Blue Skylight
Pat Metheny, pretty much anything but especially Beyond the Missouri Sky,
Which brings me to Charlie Haden and pretty much anything he was involved with and that goes to ...
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (outside your 30 year range --- but still!)
Oz Noy. He's maybe more blues oriented but he does some very outside stuff that I would think of more as jazz.
Hiromi Uehara, The Hiromi's Sonicbloom stuff that had David Fiuczynski from Screaming Headless Torsos on guitar
I'll pause for a bit.
Where you draw the "jazz" line makes a substantial difference in answering this question. I tend to cast a pretty wide net; here are a few of the artists that surface regularly and/or recently:
Miles Davis, esp. Kind of Blue and the ‘68-75 electric stuff
Sonny Sharrock
Bill Frisell
Harriet Tubman
Sons of Kemet
Makaya McCraven
David Torn
Nils Petter Molvaer
Jakob Bro
Jeff Parker
Cassandra Wilson
Miles Davis
Gene Ammons
McCoy Tyner
Cassandra Wilson
Sonny Sharrock
Marc Ribot
Bill Frisell
John Coltrane
Paul Chambers
Elvin Jones
Horace Silver
Any Coltrane.
Miles - « Get up with It » period
Herbie - « Sextant » period
E.S.T.
Marilyn Crispell
Luckily I'm new enough to jazz that I can name a single one as my favourite.
Jean (Django) Reinhardt
Steve Coleman
Snarky Puppy
Ted Greene
Joe Pass
Pete Fountain
Benny Goodman
Django Reinhardt
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
oh yeah, Dave Brubeck 😀
Mid-century jazz for me is the most approachable and enjoyable by far. Bebop was too fast and technical for my tastes, and fusion too dull. Miles and his cool jazz are where it’s at for me.
But also: Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Monk, some Coltrane, and Dave Brubeck.
Just to add some variety:
Sonny Stitt
Roland Kirk (amazing!)
Cannonball Adderly
Jazz Messengers (any)
Sarah Vaughan
Bobbi Humphrey
Bobby Hutcherson
Edited to add Donald Byrd and Lou Donaldson.
Love me that 70's Blue Note funky jazz.
Terence Blanchard
John Zorn
Mingus
Monk
Bill Evans
@LinearLineman Great, thanks! This thread should keep me busy for a while! 😃 Thanks everyone for the suggestions! 👍
Today it's all these guys:
I like it all. My favorite jazz pianist is the late Gene Harris:
Had coffee now, so here's some more of my favs that are sorta jazz.
Billy Cobham, Spectrum
Jonas Hellborg, "Octave of the Holy Innocents" and "Temporal Analogues of Paradise" (very much towards fusion)
Paul Motian, with Bill Frisell, Petra Haden, and Thomas Morgan "Windmills of Your Mind." The title track is one of my favorite vocals
Miles Davis takes up the largest chunk of space in the music I have. Outside all the obvious choices I really like Agharta and Pangea from the electric period as stuff from him that doesn’t get that much exposure. I really like the guitar on these.
Yusef Lateef, "Eastern Sounds"
And that makes me think of this world fusion album that I really love, "Amanké Dionti" by Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze
Mingus is probably my over all favorite, especially "Let My Children Hear Music"
A tip for development after you find a few albums you like: find out who the other players were on those records, and look at what else they’ve done. Rinse and repeat.
For a tenor sax player I have to turn to Micheal Brecker:
For an improvising/composer I have to go with Joe Zawinul for bringing synths into the world of jazz and creating a new genre in the process:
Oscar Peterson
Thelonius Monk
Erroll Garner
Claude Bolling
Lyle Mays
Jim Hall
Grant Green
Jaco Pastorius
Paul Chambers
Stephane Grappelli
Jean-Luc Ponty
Lionel Hampton
Cal Tjader
David "Fathead" Newman
Sonny Rollins
Art Blakey
Omar Hakim
Chick Webb
Steve Gadd
Billy Cobham
Leo Morris a.k.a Idris Muhammad
Dolphy
Fo electric bass, no one changed the perception of the instrument like Jaco Pastorius.
He played with Joe Z and Wayne Shorter in the world changing band "Weather Report". For me this band knocked Miles off the hill after an amazing run as the king of jazz bandleaders.
Probably Woody Shaw. Each instrument has a favourite player though.
Mentioned in the @sawiton list is the world's best student of the guitar, Ted Greene. This video provides some clues how his understanding of music and the guitar were so very, very deep from study... he's improvising Bach and teaching a student Bach's harmonic tendencies:
I liked him a lot too. Even caught him live once. What a sad ending though.
Another of my faves. I got to take a lesson with him once at his parent’s house in Woodland Hills.