Jazz lovers....

[syrinx]

A love supreme and my favorite things by coltrane. I also am a big fan of brother jack mcduff- the essential hammond sound! Rock candy is a good represenitive cut. Groove holmes is another very accesible artist.

 

[Peter_K]

Amen to all the comments preceding.

I see you are from KCMO. Must be an active jazz scene there. Here in So Fl we have FM radio with stations specializing in jazz. There are live concerts in multiple venues each week. The local Indian Casino has a jazz club that attracts first rate artists for example. Also I can recommend a magazine called JAZZIZ. It is published monthly and comes with a CD that highlights artists newest efforts. People everyone heard of and a bunch of artists new to me. You have a chance to listen, contemplate and possible buy.

Peter

 

[Cheekie]

Oh... And if you get a chance watch " in the shadows of Motown" very good movie

 

[Lee]

LMAO @ Neal..

:laugh:

MMM got me hooked with some of the great classics mentioned before. I actually just downloaded a great album off of itunes last night.

If you like the more modern stuff with an interesting twist, check out Bill Evans, Soulgrass. His style and sound reminds me of Bella Fleck.

Enjoy

 

[MiamiCubano]

Brother, you gotta have the West coast represented here.
My all time, all time, ALL TIME, favorites:

Chet Baker
Art Pepper
Stan Getz
Gerry Mulligan

Start with those two, you can do no wrong. You want to branch out a little (deeper) into the West coast scene? Try:

Eddie Costa
Stan Levey
Richie Kamuca
Herbie Harper
Marty Paich
Vic Feldman
Pepper Adams
Cal Tjader (esp. those releases he has w/ Willie Bobo & Mongo Santamaria)
Mel Lewis
Matt Dennis (unreal, unreal, unreal 50's VERY DEEPLY underground, sadly unheard of cat)
Bobby Troup (same category as Matt Dennis really, but was a Marine and wrote Route 66...his biggest claim to fame...but a stunning jazz-piano player in his own right...REALLY swung in the '50's).


Now, just so you think I don't pay homage to the East Coast...you gotta check out my all time, all time, ALL TIME East Coast favorites:

Modern Jazz Quartet (and anything w/ Milt Jackson solo)
Teddy Wilson
Lester Young
Harry Edison
Coleman Hawkins
Ben Webster
Roy Eldridge
Oscar Peterson
Red Garland
Miles Davis (ESPECIALLY, in his "Cookin'," "Relaxin," "Steamin," etc. set...you get Miles and *THE QUARTET*...including none other than Monk himself)
Leroy Vinnegar
Eddie Harris
David Newman (ol' Fathead himself...his releases w/o Brother Ray are amazing)
Sonny Stitt
Gene Ammons
Eddie Davis

Good start here, along with some of the others that our fine brothers/sisters have mentioned. You start, you'll find yourself on a life-long road to collecting some of the most obscure and hard-to-find stuff you can imagine (if you're like me anyway), spending way too much money on all manner of out-of-print items at all kinds of auction sites and such. CD is good to find this stuff (easier at any rate), but I prefer vinyl and have so much of it that my wife has to have the patience of a saint. I mention it only because, if you get bit by the bug like most do, just watch out. I think it's far worse than cigars.

Edited to add a couple of East Coast cats I dig the hell out of, but forgot to include the first-time I posted:

Horace Silver
Grant Green

 

[wam79]

LMAO @ Neal..

:laugh:

MMM got me hooked with some of the great classics mentioned before. I actually just downloaded a great album off of itunes last night.
If you like the more modern stuff with an interesting twist, check out Bill Evans, Soulgrass. His style and sound reminds me of Bella Fleck.

Enjoy

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:laugh:
And people say c-bid is the devil!!


Bill

 

[Captain Leafheart]

check out the Ken Burns PBS series. You don't even have to buy it, go take it out at your local library. Learn a bit about the music and the people while you learn what you like.

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That's an idea!

 

[Cheekie]

Brother, you gotta have the West coast represented here.
My all time, all time, ALL TIME, favorites:

Chet Baker
Art Pepper
Stan Getz
Gerry Mulligan

Start with those two, you can do no wrong. You want to branch out a little (deeper) into the West coast scene? Try:

Eddie Costa
Stan Levey
Richie Kamuca
Herbie Harper
Marty Paich
Vic Feldman
Pepper Adams
Cal Tjader (esp. those releases he has w/ Willie Bobo & Mongo Santamaria)
Mel Lewis
Matt Dennis (unreal, unreal, unreal 50's VERY DEEPLY underground, sadly unheard of cat)
Bobby Troup (same category as Matt Dennis really, but was a Marine and wrote Route 66...his biggest claim to fame...but a stunning jazz-piano player in his own right...REALLY swung in the '50's).


Now, just so you think I don't pay homage to the East Coast...you gotta check out my all time, all time, ALL TIME East Coast favorites:

Modern Jazz Quartet (and anything w/ Milt Jackson solo)
Teddy Wilson
Lester Young
Harry Edison
Coleman Hawkins
Ben Webster
Roy Eldridge
Oscar Peterson
Red Garland
Miles Davis (ESPECIALLY, in his "Cookin'," "Relaxin," "Steamin," etc. set...you get Miles and *THE QUARTET*...including none other than Monk himself)
Leroy Vinnegar
Eddie Harris
David Newman (ol' Fathead himself...his releases w/o Brother Ray are amazing)
Sonny Stitt
Gene Ammons
Eddie Davis

Good start here, along with some of the others that our fine brothers/sisters have mentioned. You start, you'll find yourself on a life-long road to collecting some of the most obscure and hard-to-find stuff you can imagine (if you're like me anyway), spending way too much money on all manner of out-of-print items at all kinds of auction sites and such. CD is good to find this stuff (easier at any rate), but I prefer vinyl and have so much of it that my wife has to have the patience of a saint. I mention it only because, if you get bit by the bug like most do, just watch out. I think it's far worse than cigars.

Edited to add a couple of East Coast cats I dig the hell out of, but forgot to include the first-time I posted:

Horace Silver
Grant Green

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OOOOH hell.... That post got a whole lot longer since the last time I logged on ......
Good work Miami- there are some there forgotten, some which are very very loved, and some I have yet to experience-

Good resource in this post!!!!!

 

[JHawk]

Thanks, everybody!! Lots of help!

 

[the gurkha]

ok I think you guys have covered the basics, check out wynton Marsalis for some good jazz. Also since your in kc head down to 18th and vine and go to the jazz museum and then check out the blue room.