Hope that you found some new inspiration here, and if you feel like you have some music you want to share, please do. I will try to update to OP as often as I can.
Lee Ritenour on occasion plays with Fourplay and it is absolutely great! They do a lot of great covers like Sexual Healing, etc. and get guests like Phil Collins to do a song or two. Matt Dusk
Unknown Canadian Jazz Singer, his earlier songs are a lot more Jazzy and remakes in a Jazz fashion (U2s two shots of happy, one shot of sad and The Beatles: Please, Please me, his later stuff is hit and miss.
Norah Jones
Good cover, however her own songs are just unbelievably well done like Turn me on, Tennessee Waltz (remake) and Thinkin' about you.
Some jazz fusion from Korea, using some traditional instruments. The bass player is one of my favorite ever. He has his own channel on youtube where he does sick awesome covers of anime songs...while cross dressing (but he can triple pop like no other!
I am getting some serious nerd-chills from the suggestions guys, keep on posting them and I will see if you get time to put them in a youtube playlist or add them all to the OP
Torte de Lini: I have no idea how i managed to miss posting Miles Davids
Awesome thread initiative! There's so much great jazz out there that I don't know about, will make sure to check out all the posts in this thread!
And to contribute, I give to you a personal favourite, Chet Baker. The smoothest trumpet play I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, and he has quite a nice voice as well. He did, sadly, fall victim to drug abuse, which really messed both him and his life up to a great degree. For me though, that backstory only amplifies the feel when I compare his early recordings such as My Funny Valentine to his singing in Almost Blue.
Check him out, he's worth it.
Almost Blue
Time After Time
And my personal favourite of his, My Funny Valentine
I would definitely put The Bad Plus up there as one of my current favorites, though I wouldn't necessarily call them jazz per se when sitting next to people like Charlie Parker, or The Duke, or Coltrane.
I have about 1.5 k jazz songs and I have to say there's one composer who stands above everyone else for me: (His heavy use of wind instruments play a huge role in the strong emotiveness in his music) Charles MINGUS!
One of the most emotive guitarists and arranger : Django Reinhardt
and the craaaaziest cover of his song by Tommy Emmanuel and John Jorgenson trio (violin player makes me fly to another place and I don't even know his name)
I used to play a LOT of Django jazz(I have a Doug Kyle handmade Django guitar), but then I started checking out more and more Coltrane. Then I played too much, so I got neck problems, and now I can't play anymore
One of my favorite modern piano players is Brad Mehldau. His trio is so killing. It's the traditional piano trio set-up but with a really modern repertoire and style.
Radiohead tune Knives Out
Here's him playing the standard of all standards "All the Things You Are", in 7/4!
Sound could be better on those videos but it's worth it to see them play.
Another guy that is super killing is Robert Glasper. He is as much a jazz musician as he is a hip-hop musician. He plays with guys like Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Q-Tip and other "altenative" hip-hop artists. If you're into hip-hop definitely check out his stuff. Here's a video (with good sound) of him playing some more free form stuff with his trio.
This tune kicks ass. Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock) mixed with Everything in its Right Place (Radiohead)
I can't believe that there is 3 pages and Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Nat king cole and Count Basie!! Blasphemy!! You can just youtube any of the mentioned names to find gooooood jazz music. Basically the majority of music they've made/perform is goood
I'm actually headed out to Telluride Jazz Festival on Monday to play with my quintet and watch some jazz in the mountains. Was there last year too - saw Stanley Clarke and Chuchito Valdez, among others, and it was pretty incredible.
My favorite's gotta be Art Blakey:
These guys are INCREDIBLE:
I won't post any more vids, but I also love: Joshua Redman Brian Blade Terence Blanchard (saw him @ blues alley on Thursday, it was incredible) Donald Harrison Billy Cobham Wayne Shorter Medeski, Martin & Wood Freddie Hubbard Eric Dolphy Charles Mingus
In addition to the pretty obvious "classics" that it seems everybody likes (in my mind at least), such as Davis, Coltrane, Peterson, and Monk.
@mewvolk I like that Abraham Burton & Eric McPherson quartet. My knowledge of modern jazz(as in Jazz in the past thirty years) is pretty bad and it's often hard to find the good stuff, so thanks for that
You guys should take a look at something. Just got my first CD (unfortunately it's the 4th one, still waiting for others to be available in the store but already ordered) and I'm freaking loving it!
I must say that the idea behind this collection is amazing. For the lazy: It's a set of several CD's, each with classic jazz/blues/funky tracks being remixed (don't worry, they don't suddenly turn into club music, it's the old feeling with a new vibe). Each volume comes with 2 CD's, 1 of them are remixes and the others are original performances. Some of the names include: Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Ramsey Lewis Jr., Oscar Brown and others.
On July 31 2011 08:45 happyness wrote: @mewvolk I like that Abraham Burton & Eric McPherson quartet. My knowledge of modern jazz(as in Jazz in the past thirty years) is pretty bad and it's often hard to find the good stuff, so thanks for that
Glad to hear it, man! I hadn't heard of them, either; my drum teacher went to school with Eric McPherson, and that's how I found out about 'em. I highly recommend the album "Cause and Effect."
A lot of the other stuff mentioned (but not linked) in my post is also "modern jazz" that is pretty similar - particularly Terence Blanchard and Joshua Redman. Check it out - you might like it
surprised there aren't more bill evans fans in here : /
...and how can we leave out adderley, probably my fav alto player of all time
also i really have a soft spot for george benson of all people haha, such a musical soul and happy person one of my favourite renditions of take 5 (chessey i know :D)
if you want to get into new school stuff i don't mind jaga jazzist
Lately i've been listening alot to the pianist Robert Glasper. He's doing some really cool hiphop/jazz crossover aswell as his own more standard jazz compositions:
On July 31 2011 05:54 Divergence wrote: Huge jazz fan here.
Another guy that is super killing is Robert Glasper. He is as much a jazz musician as he is a hip-hop musician. He plays with guys like Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Q-Tip and other "altenative" hip-hop artists. If you're into hip-hop definitely check out his stuff. Here's a video (with good sound) of him playing some more free form stuff with his trio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1q-t11OgBA
I'm in Vancouver for LinuxCon. I wandered into O'Doul's last night looking for a place to have a drink and hear some music and I ended up having the great pleasure of meeting Tony Foster and listening to his trio:
I don't know who the personnel are in that video but the guys he had with him last night were great. I was especially impressed by the intensity and focus of Joe Poole on drums.
BTW I also attended the Port Townsend jazz workshop this year. Were any of you at that? I have to run but I'll try to post about it later.
Very happy there is a thread for this now =). I am a history major interested in the history of Jazz, and I'm currently writing my senior thesis on Dave Brubeck's 1958 Jazz Ambassador Tour to the Middle East.
On August 20 2011 01:23 Nairul wrote: Very happy there is a thread for this now =). I am a history major interested in the history of Jazz, and I'm currently writing my senior thesis on Dave Brubeck's 1958 Jazz Ambassador Tour to the Middle East.
The jazz piano professor at my old school knows Brubeck very well and has released albums of his work (mostly his classical pieces actually). Maybe I can get in touch with him for you and get you some extra material (if you want).
Can you guys please put your videos under the spoiler tags. If everyone keeps posting them without spoilers, its gonna be painful to open the page. Thank you!
wins the thread. I was about to post some Ben Monder too. He is incredible, really widens the harmonic spectrum of modern Jazz. Way too few people know about him. Another great guitarist is Kurt Rosenwinkel (with quite some Jazz supergroup): + Show Spoiler +
Thanks OP for starting this awesome thread. I'm a huge jazz enthusiast. I'm a sucker for female vocalist and I also enjoy bossa nova if that counts as Brazilian jazz(?) Grab a glass of chardonnay:
Eye of the beholder really. Personally I would call it "jazz-inspired chillout music" or something like that, reflecting that it isn't really in the jazz tradition (backing rhythm track, heh) but definitely has aspects of it.
There is a lot of wonderful music on here. I have some choice tunes to share with you guys, so please check them out if you get a chance you wont be disappointed.
"And then i knew" Pat Metheny Group -One of the greatest melodies ive ever heard (studio version) + Show Spoiler +
"Extraction" Greg Howe - Live version with dennis chambers,tetsuo sakurai, and akira onoozoku these guys are all insanely talented. + Show Spoiler +
"Magic" Michael Urbaniak - Dude plays a mean jazz electric violin, with a very mellow bassline that is very catchy. (studio) + Show Spoiler +
"Four on Six" Wes Montgomery - One of the undisputed kings of jazz guitar, you can just imagine the thick cloud of cigar smoke presented whenever he played this in clubs. (studio) + Show Spoiler +
"Rain Dance" The Jeff Lorber Fusion - One of the groups that started what is widely considered as "jazz-fusion", jeff lorber is a multiple grammy winner in his own right. This song has a very interesting chord progression as the main theme. (studio) + Show Spoiler +
"Tuesday Night Squad" Soulive - An amazing organ trio dripping with talent. Their keyboard player plays organ/keys and key bass at the same time. He does crazy bass solos while he is playing changes or does organ/keys solos while he is playing intricate bass lines. Their guitarist will blow you away, please check out more of their stuff. Live video from allgood 2004. + Show Spoiler +
"Fade to Black" Alex Skolnick Trio - Yes everyone this is a jazz cover of metallicas fade to black, you should also check out other songs by this group, they do lots of jazz covers of popular rock/metal music. Also Alex Skolnick is the guitarist for the metal band Testament. (studio) + Show Spoiler +
"Aspirin Smoke" Panzerballet - A very refreshing take on "jazz-metal", the drummer is insanely good (studio) + Show Spoiler +
Jazz inspired metal (instrumental). I'm glad I found this thread because I've been looking for some good stuff for a while. I've been listening mostly to Bonobo and Lemon Jelly, but those don't really count.
I don't know why I don't post in this thread more often.
Anyway you should all listen to Attention Span Radio: http://attentionspanradio.net/ Radio 1 is a funk/fusion kind of theme, Radio 2 has more standards and contemporary jazz.
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You're right those guys need to be recognized.
