I need a simple introduction to jazz. I was listening to some stuff on Spotify but it was too advanced for me and made my head hurt. Where should I start? Guitar oriental preferably.
>guitar oriented
>jazz
>>61815159
John Mclaughlin - Extrapolation
Thanks for reminnding me to dl this btw
Guitar oriented Jazz doesn't get better than this
>Kenny Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell
>Wes Mongtomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
>Grant Green - Idle Moments
>Django Reinhardt - Djangology
Try
Wes Montgomery - Full House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YS16yA8Ef0
Grant Green - Matador
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2J3VmZ2qyc
>>61815159
>introduction to jazz
Can't go wrong with Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
>guitar oriented
Try Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Oliver Nelson, and Henri Crolla
Thanks guys
>>61815159
Jazz guitar sucks for the most part. Bill Frissell best Jazz player by a mile.
Best introductory Jazz is A Love Supreme imo.
Listen to fusion, everybody loves fusion. Hot rats it's a nice start
>>61815232
>that good taste
mah nigga, just got wes on vinyl
>1910s
New Orleans jazz began, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation.
>1930s
swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles
>1940s
Bebop emerged, shifting jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation
>end of the 1940s
Cool jazz developed, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.
>1950s
The emergence of free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures
>mid-1950s
Hard bop, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.
>late 1950s
Modal jazz developed, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation.
>late 1960s and early 1970s
Jazz-rock fusion appeared, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock.
>early 1980s,
Jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay.
Other styles and genres abound today, such as Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, nu jazz, acid jazz and future jazz blending jazz stylings with electronic producition methods.
