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Recommend me good jazz

GurtPerkGurtPerk Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey, I'm at work right now. I'm tired of the stuff on my pod. Recommend me good jazz/big band music. I haven't listened to it in a while.

EDIT: Didn't mean to say strictly new. Both old and new are fine.

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  • Monolithic_DomeMonolithic_Dome Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Medeski Martin and Wood. Great funk/jazz trio. Their best album is The Dropper.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    New girl 'round the block: Melody Gardot. Cool big band: The Seatbelts (madly popular due to Cowboy Bebop).

    Maybe not entirely what you are looking for: Ska big bands: Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra and/or New York Ska Jazz Ensemble. Funky big bands: Lefties Soul Connection and/or Breakestra.

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  • GurtPerkGurtPerk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Oh yeah, MMW! Another great band I totally forgot about. I should try checking it on pandora.

    Are there other sites to listen to online that play just the artist or just the album instead of music "like" the artist?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    GurtPerk wrote: »
    Oh yeah, MMW! Another great band I totally forgot about. I should try checking it on pandora.

    Are there other sites to listen to online that play just the artist or just the album instead of music "like" the artist?
    Youtube and in some cases the artist's website. But really, if you wanna listen to an artist whenever you want to your only option is to get the album/tracks.

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  • limester816limester816 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    For modern jazz big band, check out the Maria Schneider Orchestra or the Uri Caine Ensemble.

    For dixieland style big band, check out Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie.

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  • GurtPerkGurtPerk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Aldo wrote: »
    GurtPerk wrote: »
    Oh yeah, MMW! Another great band I totally forgot about. I should try checking it on pandora.

    Are there other sites to listen to online that play just the artist or just the album instead of music "like" the artist?
    Youtube and in some cases the artist's website. But really, if you wanna listen to an artist whenever you want to your only option is to get the album/tracks.

    Very true. I'm pretty good with buying material from the artist themselves. I'm just limited by work right now.

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Anything Miles Davis but Kind of Blue is the most accessible.

    Edit: oh--modern, sorry. No help there. Kind of like to pretend there's no such thing.

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  • GurtPerkGurtPerk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Anything Miles Davis but Kind of Blue is the most accessible.

    Edit: oh--modern, sorry. No help there. Kind of like to pretend there's no such thing.

    Nah, old is fine. Keep 'em coming.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    GurtPerk wrote: »
    RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »
    Anything Miles Davis but Kind of Blue is the most accessible.

    Edit: oh--modern, sorry. No help there. Kind of like to pretend there's no such thing.

    Nah, old is fine. Keep 'em coming.

    Chet Baker if you're into something more slow.

    I also recently checked out Django Reinhardt a gypsy jazz guitarist, a full record gets kinda old, but his skills on guitar are amazing.

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  • Matt_SMatt_S Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Right up my alley.

    You say big band, so I'd say anything Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong maybe, and Glen Miller. Those fellas are key.

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  • Hey AshtrayHey Ashtray Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Check out Dave Holland's big band records, the Joe Henderson big band album (my favorite), Charles Mingus big band albums (both past and present), Maria Schneider as someone already mentioned, Kenny Wheeler's music for Large and Small Ensembles (amazing), and maybe some Django Bates if you want a bit more avant-garde stuff.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Duke Ellington for sure, and Frank Sinatra, no matter how overplayed he is.

    Ella Fitzgerald sings for some big band stuff if you can find it, she and Duke do some stuff together sometimes, and it comes out swell.

    Good luck.

    And I also have to recommend Thelonious Monk because he is amazing, though not big band.

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  • OhtheVogonityOhtheVogonity Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Let me recommend New Orleans brass band music. That shit be poppin', particularly The Soul Rebels and The Rebirth Brass Band.

    I'd like to second the Django Reinhardt recommendation above. If it appeals, the style is usually referred to as "hot club" sound and bands that play that way will tend to label themselves Hot Club of <city they play in>.

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  • skyybahamutskyybahamut Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Vince Guaraldi

    George Winston

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The Philadelphia Experiment.

    Chick Corea - Trio Music - Live in Europe

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  • OremLKOremLK Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Michel Camilo is some excellent newer jazz (piano-driven). Check out On Fire.
    I quite like Al Di Meola, he's been doing jazz/fusion for quite awhile and is one of the best guitarists out there. Elegant Gypsy is good.
    Back to the classics? John Coltrane. I love pretty much his entire body of work, with the peak being A Love Supreme IMO.

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  • saggiosaggio Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Pharaoh Sanders.

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  • LiveWireLiveWire Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
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