I was fiddling around on Pandora and came across Dizzy Gillespie. I started listening and found that I like jazz. I prefer instrumental jazz to vocal jazz.
Anyone else like this genre of music?
Anyone else like this genre of music?
Are any of you into jazz?
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I sure am!! I make my living teaching all styles of guitar and performimg jazz and classical guitar. I perform solo , duo , small groups and also with big bands. I started with hard rock and heavy metal when I was a kid and things just evolved into jazz and classical. I still love to listen to and teach my students rock and metal , but since I began performing 26 years abo , 99% of what I play is jazz and classical.
I love jazz, and I think the history of it is fascinating. From Dixieland, to swing, to be-bop, cool jazz, free jazz, everything is unique and beautiful. I highly recommend the 5-disc Ken Burns Jazz boxset. I'm referring to the audio CD's, not the documentary series. I mean, if you really want to learn a lot about jazz, go for the documentary series; it's amazing how much history and information they're able to condense into not even 20 hours. 20 hours may seem like a whole hell of a lot of documentary, but the history of jazz is so rich and diverse, Ken Burns' achievement is actually quite impressive.
But yeah, the 5-disc CD collection (also available on iTunes, I believe) gives you a little bit of everything, and is surprisingly comprehensive... for 5 discs, that is.
If you really like Dizzy Gillespie, you should check out some of the other bebop greats like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Art Blakey to name a few. And Coltrane of course.
But yeah, the 5-disc CD collection (also available on iTunes, I believe) gives you a little bit of everything, and is surprisingly comprehensive... for 5 discs, that is.
If you really like Dizzy Gillespie, you should check out some of the other bebop greats like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Art Blakey to name a few. And Coltrane of course.
Old/early Jazz & Big Band here. Modern jazz makes me insane.
Absolutely!
My love affair w/ jazz music started years ago when hanging out @ an older friend's place. When he would be on the phone w/ a babe and didn't want me to hear the conversation, he would turn on his stereo system(which i being a lad of 12 tender years was fascinated with!), put on a jazz record and place headphones on me.
little did i realize how his conversations w/ women would affect me. Then in my teenage years, when playing chess w/ a group of 4-6 friends, we would listen to jazz music while (ahem!) 'experimenting' w/ an organically grown substance.....
Moving into my age of majority, I was a DJ while in the Army(and a few years after). After playing R&B, country, and rock & roll for 3-4 hours in a row, there was only one type of music I chose to listen to when home-jazz.
marty
My love affair w/ jazz music started years ago when hanging out @ an older friend's place. When he would be on the phone w/ a babe and didn't want me to hear the conversation, he would turn on his stereo system(which i being a lad of 12 tender years was fascinated with!), put on a jazz record and place headphones on me.
little did i realize how his conversations w/ women would affect me. Then in my teenage years, when playing chess w/ a group of 4-6 friends, we would listen to jazz music while (ahem!) 'experimenting' w/ an organically grown substance.....
Moving into my age of majority, I was a DJ while in the Army(and a few years after). After playing R&B, country, and rock & roll for 3-4 hours in a row, there was only one type of music I chose to listen to when home-jazz.
marty
yes I do. my jazz collection isn't that big but it's relaxing to listen to
Amazing Singer from CHicago!!!
+1
Though I wouldn't go so far as to say that modern jazz makes me insane, but I definitely prefer older/classic jazz. My appreciation for jazz came from playing drums for the jazz band in high school. What fun times those were.
Yes, I love jazz! It was the last major genre I took a liking to. Oddly, I owe it to the old tubed FM tuner I picked up a few years back. Where I'm situated, I get excellent reception of K-JAZZ in Long Beach. I had never really hated jazz but never really liked it, either. But the signal sounded so good I started listening to the overnight program and really fell hard.
A good "in" that I found was the NPR Curious Listener's Guide to jazz. Great brief intro and then I went and picked up about 90% of the recommended discs. I've since dug deeper, but that was an excellent jumping off point.
A good "in" that I found was the NPR Curious Listener's Guide to jazz. Great brief intro and then I went and picked up about 90% of the recommended discs. I've since dug deeper, but that was an excellent jumping off point.
Having grown up on metal, punk and rock, I have spent the least few years schooling myself on Jazz. I have really got into Thelonious Monk's work and also enjoy Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie. Recently I discovered the music of a Polish horn player called Tomasz Stanko and was really impressed.
Whilst visiting Sydney in January I managed to get tickets to see the trio that supported some of Stanko's recordings. They are called the Marcin Wasilewski Trio and seeing them live was more than worth the money.
Pete
Whilst visiting Sydney in January I managed to get tickets to see the trio that supported some of Stanko's recordings. They are called the Marcin Wasilewski Trio and seeing them live was more than worth the money.
Pete
Yes, but only a certain kind. Listen to the Tom Waits track called Alice for an example of the style to which I refer.
Big fan here. I like most sub-genres of jazz. I can listen to Big Band, Bop, Post Bop, Modern, Free, Fusion, Latin or about anything in between...except Soft Jazz. Mills Brothers to Django to Miles to Monk to Scofield to Mahavishnu Orchestra to Ornette to Sonny Sharrock = all good.
I've never cared for the avant garde stuff.....Cecil Taylor, etc., but love most of the rest. If you grew up on rock and roll without exploring the blues and jazz, you have missed a whole lot!
I love both the older jazz (Miles Davis is my fav.) and much of the newer smoother jazz (David Benoit, Jeff Lorber). I have loved it since I turned 21 and had a beer in a small jazz club in San Francisco 1977.
Frank, Ella,Tony,Billie,Dean,,...
Big fan of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Dave Brubeck Quartet.
I have a soft spot for the Glen Miller Orchestra though. Moonlight Serenade was the first Jazz I ever learned to play on Sax.
I have a soft spot for the Glen Miller Orchestra though. Moonlight Serenade was the first Jazz I ever learned to play on Sax.
+1 Absolutely love Louis Armstrong and Big Band
Take Five FTW!!!!
You forgot Sammy!!!
I'm partial to Benny Goodman. I used to blast his CD's and solo with him.
I got into Jazz in high school when a group of friends and I dressed up on Fridays and went swing dancing weekly. I've loved it ever since, and miss playing in my High School Jazz Band
I didn't forget Sammy, but I do keep an eye out for him.
Diana Krall!
