Jazz Thread

[kiss & tell]

hey hip cats, what's your favourite Jazz performers?

mine would be Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus

[deviant]

great thread!

will contribute at a later time...

[Kaiproject]

haven't listened to much in a while, but being a former trumpeter..
miles davis
chet baker
dizzy gillespie

others incl:
duke ellington
thelonius monk
john mclaughlin

[mrj]

my two faves are Charlie Parker and Vince Jones

[nic]

Dr. Dre probably

[DBoy]

also see --> http://forum.melbournebeats.com/viewtop ... hilit=jazz

[ghostsoul]

Gotta say I've dug Herbie hancock and miles davis. Really like cinematic orchestra for some more modern sounding jazz stylings

[Hatsudai]

Wayne Shorter
John Coltrane

etc, etc

[system]

pharoah sanders yo

[Lephrenic]

Alice Coltrane "Journey In Satchidananda" always goes down well.

[youthful_implants]

Old skool

Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Dizzy Gillespie

Contemporary

Jimpster aka Jamie Odell
Pat Metheny
George Benson
Jazzanova
Amy Winehouse

[aroes]

Amy Winehouse

interesting that you consider her stuff to be "jazz"......far from it imo, or maybe i just haven't heard the same material as you

no denying it though, she has an AMAZING set of pipes





























see what i did there?

[quiet roar]

Yeah, Amy ain't jazz.

[Direkt]

I concur. More real r'n'b and soul IMO.

I'll take more contemporary acid jazz over the elders in the school.

[youthful_implants]

Yeah, Amy ain't jazz.

She is according to Wikipedia, and her first album Frank definitely is.

Mainstream Jazz for sure, but still Jazz.

[JAMESSSS]

I saw the Wayne Shorter quartet at the Palais a few months ago.

It was amazing!

[quiet roar]

^ Wanted to go that one. Glad to hear it was good.

Can't wait for Mulatu Astatke at the forum in a couple of weeks.


Sorry YI, I haven't heard "Frank" so I was thinking of her soul stuff. Reminds me to track it down - thanks!

[JAMESSSS]

I'd never really been to anything like it before. Very exciting.

He sounds like a really, really, really out-there guy. Very science fiction.

[system]

Old skool

Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Dizzy Gillespie

Contemporary

Jimpster aka Jamie Odell
Pat Metheny
George Benson
Jazzanova
Amy Winehouse

4hero!

[flippo]

usual suspects - hancock, davis etc.


Quite like The Necks, although purists would not call it jazz.

[youthful_implants]

Old skool

Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Dizzy Gillespie

Contemporary

Jimpster aka Jamie Odell
Pat Metheny
George Benson
Jazzanova
Amy Winehouse

4hero!

werd!

does Jacob's Optical Stairway count as well, or is that just Techno?

[quiet roar]

Free jazz festival gig at fed square tomorrow afternoon, 3-5. Featuring Mulatu Astatke!

[DBoy]

Could talk for ever about jazz - in jazz lingo to boot. Dad was a connoisseur, no other way to put it. His vinyl collection was astounding. Why I don't have it now is a nightmare of a story I don't care to repeat. It's Jazz. Lots of blue note stuff, free jazz all the way through to the horn greats. It have no doubt that been the basis for a lot of my taste in tunes.

Jazz should not be defined - Jazz music can be a loose as the players who try to interpret it. It is a concept, and an abstract one at that.
I love original jazz, especially horn stuff. Louise Armstrong is so popular for a reason. Was he Irish?

I love all new styles of jazz too. HipHop - Jazz hop. DJ Krush and all the offspring of the Japanese hiphop jazz movement. I dig a lot of the remix stuff. Some of it is crap, but there are a lot of remixes which add my current taste in music to the old flavour.
Parov Stelar is a great example of what I like about new jazz.

I'll do a mix.

[aroes]

Look forward to hearing it, I have a few of your mixes and they're all great

My grandfather, like your father, was a jazz nut with an enviably large collection. He died before I was born, but I've been lucky enough to take possession of a handful of those records. I'm not as well read as you Dboy, but through listening to grandpa's stuff, I too have developed a fondness for the horn greats. Louis Armstrong's music is like medicine for the soul. For those that don't know, give C'est si Bon or Jeepers Creepers a spin. I think I posted this in the other jazz thread, but Sonny Rollins is the one for me, and St Thomas is one of those tunes that just lifts me up, each and every time

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

[DBoy]

Thanks mate. Here is the mix. http://forum.melbournebeats.com/viewtop ... =6&t=20290
Ended up being a little more obscure than jazz really. But that is all in the opinion...

Dad would have hated this being called jazz of any kind. I am not a purist at all. I believe everything is jazz - especially life.

It is the greatest word in the English language.

[quiet roar]

I believe everything is jazz - especially life.

It is the greatest word in the English language.

And I thought I was a fan.


Sonny Rollins is great, aroes, no doubt. I love Saxophone Colossus, and The Bridge is likewise awseome.


I'm so excited about seeing Mulatu Astatke tonight, I may wet myself!

[bonsai]

Grover Washington Jnr.
Miles Davis
John Coltrane..

Amazing.

[Charlie73]

Jazz should not be defined - Jazz music can be a loose as the players who try to interpret it. It is a concept, and an abstract one at that.

so true.... was having this conversation the other day, that Jazz is one of those rare artforms that is truly at its best when it is off the cuff, spontaneous..
Where you can pay to go and see an artist and literally give yourself over to what ever they choose to serve up, where as (personally) with most other musical forms, people always go along wanting to hear this tune or that... know what i mean..

and my biggies - as an ex trumpet student, Miles Davis of course!

Theloneous Monk tho... WOW he is awesome.

Both of these guys are always on my iPoo

[DBoy]