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Let's have a good thread about anything jazz related /mu/.
Tell me how you first got into jazz. What were your favorite albums in the past? What are your favorites now? Did you like jazz right away or did it take you a while to find stuff you could really get into?
Finally, what's your favorite Blue Note album? You can tell a lot about a jazz fan by their favorite Blue Note album.
>>60654646
>You can tell a lot about a jazz fan by their favorite Blue Note album.
Like what?
>>60654677
Like what kind of jazz they like
>>60654646
my favorite blue note album is ready for freddie but overall i don't care much for blue note anymore. i prefer the older stuff.
>>60654646
>>60654646
>Tell me how you first got into jazz
i'm not quite sure what the trigger was
but my parents listened to a some entry level bebop, some lounge and some bigband. one time i found my dads copy of kind of blue on vinyl and thought i'd take it for a whirl (it was during my edgy phase) and loved it. next was birth of cool. mightve been moanin or black saint
>What were your favorite albums in the past?
really love sketches of spain for a long time
then soul station
maybe after that it was the real mccoy
then mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus
then mustve been early summer by ryo fukui
then other stuff
>What are your favorites now?
again don't really know
vijay iyer really gets me going these days
actually probably count em 88 by ahmad jamal
>Did you like jazz right away or did it take you a while to find stuff you could really get into?
pretty much right away
as i mentioned my parents were always sort of into it, and there were a couple tracks i really dug as a kid, so when i listened to kind of blue it was love from then on
Finally, what's your favorite Blue Note album?
probably singwinder
or bass on top by paul chambers
>>60654646
I've done pretty much a full circle. When I was 16 I was into metal and post-rock so I started out with free jazz bc I liked how aggressive and angry it sounded. But then little by little I started getting into more bebop and early swing. Now my favorite stuff is like Dolphy and late Coltrane and Andrew Hill.
All Seeing Eye is pretty great OP. Compulsion by Andrew Hill and Out to Lunch are also favorites.
I got into jazz from appreciating shit like Zappa, prog and experimental/kraut rock of the late 60's and early 70's and locating this incredible music that was more than modern experimentation.
First jazz album that I felt like was the greatest album of all time was Bitches Brew - it combined the experimental edge with some existing theory in a package that sounded like a living modern metropolitan city in a dangerous and exciting way like no music I knew.
Only jazz album I'm sure is ahead of Bitches Brew is A Love Supreme. It spoke to me from the first listen.
No clear one Blue Note album, but I'll name three:
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Donald Byrd - Black Byrd
>>60654646
>What were your favorite albums in the past?
Mingus Ah Um and Kind of Blue.
>What are your favorites now?
Pretty much the same. I have no idea where to go for jazz. I'm deep in the rabbit hole with metal, but I'm hardly scratching the surface for jazz.
>Did you like jazz right away or did it take you a while to find stuff you could really get into?
Took me a bit. But it clicked one day and I love it.
the holdster. he is truly amaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2HlyupMt8A
>>60654646>Did you like jazz right away or did it take you a while to find stuff you could really get into?
I started with pretty basic Count Basie pieces then figured my way to more abstract forms of bebop. I think I'm starting to find my comfort zone with Coltrane's later works
Greatest jazz pianists
1. Earl Hines
2. Fats Waller
3. Bud Powell
4. Dodo Marmarosa
5. McCoy Tyner
Greatest jazz trumpeters
1. Clifford Brown
2. Louis Armstrong
3. Fats Navarro
4. Roy Eldridge
5. Freddie Hubbard
>What were your favorite albums in the past?
I only listened to smooth jazz when I was younger because my mom loved it so I didn't have a favorite back then
>What are your favorites now?
Mingus Ah Um is probably my favorite but I also like Jazz in Silhouette and Compulsion. I love most of Eric Dolphy and Thelonious Monk's work
>Did you like jazz right away or did it take you a while to find stuff you could really get into?
The genre felt really boring and forgettable at first but I guess at one point I just started listening to it from a compositional standpoint and not just how much I enjoyed it or remembered it.
>>60655262
McCoy Tyner
Herbie Hancock
Bud Powell
Bill Evans
Chick Corea
>>60655294
Miles Davis duh
Dizzy Gillespie
Louis Armstrong
Clifford Brown
Freddie Hubbard
I'm about to start a job where 4 days a week I will have to make a 2 hour drive. I'm going to be able to dig into jazz a lot more on these drives.
Seriously guys, pre-1960s jazz exists & is fucking great. Get with it.
>>60655516
I don't think anybody's disputing that. Go fuck yourself please.
>>60655648
Lurk more, fucker.
>>60655516
it does exist its just not "bebopy" enough. (for me at least)
>>60655695
bebop is really 1940s though.
>>60654646
have any of you guys created a good jazz playlist YouTube? just started listening to it a few days ago.
>>60654646
>favorite Blue Note album?
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
>>60655294
Shit list
>>60655262
shit list
>>60654646
wayne shorter is great
Some of my favorite Blue Note:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_87wul09cuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUxpc5gDxcI&list=PL07D14ED7EBD324F9&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbxtYqA6ypM
>>60655802
Kind of Blue is not on Blue Note.
>>60655516
you can say the same about post 70's jazz. I'd say pre 60's jazz gets talked about more than post 70's jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3O5HcEpRtA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbt9DDolcag
Now that I have a job I listen to very little jazz as opposed to college. I still listen to Moanin occasionally but that's it
How do I appreciate the insane sax screaming in the middle part of The Creator has a Master Plan?
Am I just forever pleb
>>60655833
wrong link, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Lc7OgIngE
it was from a miles youtube playlist
>>60655899
You don't, you just listen to this album instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Momk6tm7nkc
>>60655899
Just imagine how cool you must seem to everybody when they found out you listened to some hardcore spiritual free jazz that they're all too normie to understand
https://youtu.be/pvo49-sxzmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcszZNaCfo
Little known fact: best jazz album was made in 2002: https://youtu.be/_5n5xsPAjBE
Does /mu/ like Tigran Hamasyan?
Cool jazz or are you put off by the influx of djent kids?
>>60655874
This is a great point. What are some post 70's jazz albums you recommend?
>>60655980
Honestly didn't know Brookmeyer was still alive in 2002. Pleasant surprise
>>60656111
Mulgrew Miller- Wingspan
Kenny Garrett- Songbook
Tim Berne- Fractured Fairy Tales
Dave Holland Quintet- Live at Birdland
Matana Roberts- Coin Coin Chapter One
Steve Lehman- Mise en Abime
>>60656273
Thanks!
>tfw you're the same height as your favorite jazz musicians
>louis armstrong & miles davis
>5'5
>>60656273
Nice to see Kenny Garrett. My dad was friends with his bassist Nat Reeves back in the 70s.
>>60654646
hey m8, I'm 18 and mostly into stuff like QOTSA and The Strokes, but I really feel like gettin into jazz
what would you recommend?
Sun Ra is Bach-tier.
He's the greatest composer in the 20th century.
Have a taste of his genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmc6_w2bTE
>>60656511
>Michel Petrucciani
>3'0"
>>60657028
Bach wrote volumes of consistently great music. I think if you compiled all of Sun Ra's music that is truly "great" you'd have about 3 hours worth.
>>60657040
he was big guy
>>60657065
That's not true. Sun Ra's contributions to music in general surpass those by contemporary composers such as Miles Davis and even Charles Mingus.
He is also one of the composers with the highest amount of records (more than 100).
You are saying that Sun Ra only recorded something tantamount to 3 good albums (assuming each album is 1 hour long).
This is obviously false. Sun Ra recorded AT LEAST 30 albums that could be considered masterpieces.
>>60657129
>Sun Ra's contributions to music in general
which are what exactly?
how can one man be so based?
http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html
>>60657129
The fact that you name Miles Davis as one of the top contemporary composers is really revealing of how little you know what you're talking about.
>>60657040
>you will never be 3ft
>you will never marry a 5ft giant
fml
>>60657129
>Sun Ra recorded AT LEAST 30 albums that could be considered masterpieces.
So...What's his top 5 or so?
is John Zorn - Naked City jazz? Anymore albums like it?
>>60657331
Heliocentric Worlds Vol 1
Lanquidity
Strange Strings
Nuclear War
Space is the Place
Is there any gimmicky jazz that is actually good?
