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(05/09/09 10:57 AM) |
Thanks for all the suggestions. Sounds like I have a lot of territory to explore. Based on some of the input here I picked up a couple of CD's last night
as a starting point. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue and a Best of John Coltrane. Should be able to find some time this weekend to give them a listen.
Thanks again for all the ideas. This is gonna' be fun! Joe |
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(05/10/09 12:50 PM) |
Wes Montgomery "The Incredible Jazz Guitar" . "Full House " and "Smokin' At The Half Note " are great too , but it just
doesn't get any better than this .
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Todd Stuart Phillips |
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(05/11/09 11:29 AM) |
Bearclaw Dave wrote:
For many folks Bop and Cool are too separate camps. Not unlike split between Mods and Rockers a decade later. Yorkie seems to be a Bebopper at heart.
Even the Kens Burns documentary pretty much ignored the California Cool scene, mentioning the entire movement in what amounted to a footnote, with Jerry Mulligan and Chet Baker getting all of one sentence. Even if that is the case, I believe I read somewhere that Chet Baker has more recordings on the market than any other Jazz musician in history. I found that hard to believe, until I went to Tower Records on East 4th Street and found the Chet Baker section! Absolutely tons of obscure European pressings of live shows and compliations and "prevously unreleased" etc. So he must have had a pretty serious following "over there."
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Enrico Spleen |
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(05/15/09 12:10 PM) |
Yorkie, great post. One stop shopping right there.
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(05/15/09 12:35 PM) |
Bebop/Hard Bop/Post Bop is my bag.
My 'Cool Jazz' selections aren't 'Cool jazz' at all of course, and would fit better in the post bop category, but they were just the closest I could get with something I liked. Never been keen on the Cool stuff. Yorkie |
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Bungay Jar |
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(07/18/09 6:14 PM) |
Lot's of great suggestions. For jazz guitar definitely check out the Wes Montgomery albums that were listed. I would also suggest Joe Pass's Virtuoso
series, Sonny Rollins' "The Bridge" for incredible jazz guitar by Jim Hall and Sonny's sax, and Jim Hall's "Concierto". Some of
Pat Metheny's stuff is pretty smooth, but I suspect that anything he has done done with Gary Burton (vibes) is great. Check out for example, "Like
Minds" with Chick Corea, Gary Burton and others.
You also need to listen to some Django Rheinhardt stuff. BJ |
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(07/19/09 10:29 AM) |
If you're interested in jazz guitar go back and start with Eddie Lange, jump to Charlie Christian, on to Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass. Other interesting
guys are the vastly underated George Barnes and Herb Ellis.
For jazz in general, start with New Orleans - King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, follow Armstrong to Chicago and New York, jump to Duke Ellington with his killer Cotton Club stuff and then dig into the Kansas City guys. If you dig all of the above you will be hopelessly hooked and will find all the later stuff on your own. You are on a most worthwhile quest here..... Rev George |
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(09/04/09 6:05 AM) |
67D18: +1 Glad to hear someone mention Weather Report and Mingus. (Joanie Mitchell did a tribute to Mingus that's also nice.)
There's obviously All kinds of fine stuff out there. Pick a Sub-Genre and check it out, then another and so on. You'll come across the ones that "get" you. |
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(09/05/09 3:54 PM) |
guitar = anything by Grant Greene..... the man has to be one of the most underrated jazz guitar players
hard bop = Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers, Hank Mobley, Blue Mitchell Chet Baker - The Italian Sessions is my favorite... ( my wife hates anything Chet sings on) EARLY Herbie Hancock Dave |
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jay mom n dad |
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(09/18/09 5:47 PM) |
Bungay Jar wrote:I completely agree with BJ (and everyone else, of course) with all the names, but would add for the sake of Raw Exposure that you take a little time now on "You Tube" and listen to (and learn about) the Great Ted Greene. (See http://eldoradorecords.net/) But first please Listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJdJi9wjKo&NR=1 (Eleanor Rigby by Ted Greene) In fact, compare Greene's Eleanor Rigby version to Wes Montgomery's version of Eleanor Rigby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A6bOGxMSoA&feature=player_embedded#t=140 Here's a few Ted Greene You Tube tunes below. Settle in. He was so original and gifted and sadly not too recorded! Still missed... Jay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr9XUj8kt70&NR=1 (Send in the Clowns) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su5xtkYOGkg&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDuee6blvj8 Greene Live at the Seashell: what those diners talked over and missed ....Oh my: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnCuLze3p6M&NR=1 (Seashell 5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbuqa0vdFhk&NR=1 (Seashell 6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Tqja7xwb4&NR=1 (Seashell 7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7gCmyT0eB4&NR=1 (Seashell 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=664IZgJLiaU&feature=related (Seashell 9) (PS: Sorry about the grim yellow text. Nope, I have no idea why it's presently yellow. Jay) |
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