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I didn't see it mention but if you want to hear really good vocal jazz, get a few Ella Fitzgerald's albums. I can recommend you "Mack the Knife, live in Berlin" and the ultimate collection "First Lady of Soul" which is really incredible.
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I've just recently heard Jumpin at the Woodside and Sent for You Yesterday by Count Basie and they are both simply incredible. Just absolutely amazing songs. I always thought he was just a second rate Ellington but now I can see that that is completely false and I've got to hear more of his stuff.
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I had never listened to Keith Jarrett's "The Köln Concert" before. It's a classic, but there's so much out there that it's hard to listen to everything. Improvisation as no one besides a virtuoso can do it. Jazz music is such a haven for technically adept hacks, and I think that Keith Jarrett might be part of the reason for this. Everyone aspires to what he can do. No one else can do it like this. Unfortunately, too many people try.
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Some reason there's few jazz albums that appeal to me: I think my ideal jazz is like the vince guiraldi trio who did the peanuts songs. and then the Stan getz album with girl from ipanema... anyone reccommend stuff for someone who enjoys those ones a lot
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windedsailor wrote:
Some reason there's few jazz albums that appeal to me: I think my ideal jazz is like the vince guiraldi trio who did the peanuts songs. and then the Stan getz album with girl from ipanema... anyone reccommend stuff for someone who enjoys those ones a lot
This isn't really similar, but has beautiful melodies that are very easily accessible if you haven't yet developed a taste for jazz.
Miles Davis plays Porgy and Bess. SUMMERTIME is irrestistable.
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SLH916 wrote:
windedsailor wrote:
Some reason there's few jazz albums that appeal to me: I think my ideal jazz is like the vince guiraldi trio who did the peanuts songs. and then the Stan getz album with girl from ipanema... anyone reccommend stuff for someone who enjoys those ones a lot
This isn't really similar, but has beautiful melodies that are very easily accessible if you haven't yet developed a taste for jazz.
Miles Davis plays Porgy and Bess. SUMMERTIME is irrestistable.
ooh i love that song
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windedsailor wrote:
SLH916 wrote:
windedsailor wrote:
Some reason there's few jazz albums that appeal to me: I think my ideal jazz is like the vince guiraldi trio who did the peanuts songs. and then the Stan getz album with girl from ipanema... anyone reccommend stuff for someone who enjoys those ones a lot
This isn't really similar, but has beautiful melodies that are very easily accessible if you haven't yet developed a taste for jazz.
Miles Davis plays Porgy and Bess. SUMMERTIME is irrestistable.
ooh i love that song
You'll love this album, then. I love sitting outside on a summer night and listening to it. The trumpet is, for want of a better word, sexy like nothing else.
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windedsailor wrote:
Some reason there's few jazz albums that appeal to me: I think my ideal jazz is like the vince guiraldi trio who did the peanuts songs. and then the Stan getz album with girl from ipanema... anyone reccommend stuff for someone who enjoys those ones a lot
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I've had a love of jazz guitar for a while. I love the cool sound that electric guitar brings to jazz as opposed to the hotter sounds of the various wind instruments. Recently, I've discovered what a great jazz musician Benny Goodman was. Mostly we think of him as a band leader, but his playing was truly virtuoso quality. And instantly recognizable.
Through Benny Goodman, I've heard a few things by an incredible jazz guitarist from the '30s and '40s, Charlie Christian. I had never heard of him before. His electric guitar playing from all the way back in the depression is really not quite like anything I've heard before. And he died very young. Does anyone here know anything about him? I've heard some of his work with Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk. It's scary because he's blowing them out of the water. What else did he do?
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