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Assuming you enjoy jazz: What is your favorite style, artist, album, song? What puts you off of the music (jazz) that you do not like?



I liked cool jazz for the longest and it's the style I know the most about, but I have been getting into psychadelic jazz more and more.

Mile Davis is the cliche favorite when it comes to cool jazz. I'm not positive that he pioneered the style, but he certainly defined it. Or rather, he arranged many of the songs that he recorded and made popular but he had some of the greatest jazz musicians back him up.

If I were to recommend one cool jazz CD to someone it wouldn't be a Miles Davis CD, but he certainly contributed to it. I'd suggest Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else". That recording has the greatest jazz musicians to ever play their respective instruments: Cannonball Adderley on saxophone, Miles Davis on trumpet, Sam Jones on bass, Art Blakey on drums, and the wonderful Hank Jones on piano.

My favorite Miles Davis song is "Summertime" off of "Porgy and Bess", but "Somethin' Else" is the better overall album.

For psychadelic jazz:
Artist- Charles Mingus
Album- "Mingus Dynasty"
Song- tossup between "Haitian Fight Song" and "Summertime"


As far as things I don't like in jazz? Well, I have yet to hear a jazz guitarist that I like.

Anyone else like jazz?

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Well, I have yet to hear a jazz guitarist that I like.

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My favorite jazz album is "Monk's Dream" by the Thelonious Monk Quartet, which was one of the first jazz albums I ever bought. It has always gotten me to relax, and while I feel like I know every note on the album I realize how I simply space out and enjoy the feeling of the music without paying attention to what's going on.

Other favorites include:
- Miles Davis: Round About Midnight (Coltrane's in the band, 1955)
- John Coltrane: Giant Steps
- Sonny Rollins: The Bridge
- Bird, Dizzy, Powell, Roach, Mingus - The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever

I don't know who you've listened to for jazz guitarists. I've always been a fan of Kenny Burrell myself.

Earlier this year I went and saw Sonny Rollins live. My friend who went with me did not even know he was still alive, nevermind touring. Great show, I'm glad I got to see him once.

I'd say I'm mainly into beebop and the jazz it inspired. Most of my favorites are 50's and early 60's albums, though I've gotten more and more into freedom with time. Ornette Coleman's "Science Fiction" got me hooked on freedom, I need to go pick up my own copy of that album.

Jazz I don't like? Stuff that's too melodic, or sounds like it's being played off sheet music. I love improvisation and solos, and I love that most early jazz was a band running through a few takes of each song and picking the best version. It fits the spirit of the music better.

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As far as things I don't like in jazz? Well, I have yet to hear a jazz guitarist that I like.

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i've been listening a lot to keith jarrett lately. he's the best jazz pianist i know of. his vienna concert and 'changes' i like best. the messengers are also excellent around 1960 mostly because that's when lee morgan was with them, . i like coltrane and davis sometimes, but their music mostly sounds clever, rather than artful, and god save us from clever art.

but anyway, lee morgan is 'it'. i've said this in the other thread as well, but try morgan's 'search for the new land' & 'sidewinder'. i don't know. there is just something about those two records that's eternal.

grant green is a jazz guitarist i've discovered recently and he really is excellent and i don't even like guitar all that much. 'it ain't necessarily so' is my favourite of his, if you want to give it a try, but his musical output was huge and i haven't even heard most of it yet.

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