j*** recommendations please

Posted by: anselm on 31 July 2003

just getting into jazz and i really like the album dave brubeck time out/take five, can any one recommend jazz of a similar ilk? smooth mellow with a good rhythm,

i know what like but do not know enough

Ta, Big Grin

anselm

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Posted on: 09 August 2003 by john rubberneck
Can’t go far wrong with a good set of compilations, from personal experience I got onto jazz through the set called jazz juice by Gilles Peterson and the live stuff and would thoroughly recommended it.

Stuart
Posted on: 09 August 2003 by Dan M
another Bill Evans
Try 'Everybody digs Bill Evans' - especially the track 'Peace Piece'

Odd no-one has mentioned MJQ - can't go wrong with any of there albums really.

Dan
Posted on: 09 August 2003 by fred simon
quote:
Originally posted by d marsh:
_another Bill Evans_
Try 'Everybody digs Bill Evans' - especially the track 'Peace Piece'


Everybody digs Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and for good reason. Any Bill Evans is great.

Peace Piece is indeed beautiful. It started as an intro to the Leonard Bernstein classic Some Other Time but then Bill just kept going by himself and it became a piano solo.
Posted on: 10 August 2003 by rch
Anselm,

try "Dialogues" from Houston Person & Ron Carter. You may enjoy it.
Regards

Christian
Posted on: 10 August 2003 by Kevin-W
Originally posted by d marsh:

Try 'Everybody digs Bill Evans' - especially the track 'Peace Piece'

Orginally posted by fred simon:
Everybody digs Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and for good reason. Any Bill Evans is great.
Peace Piece is indeed beautiful. It started as an intro to the Leonard Bernstein classic Some Other Time but then Bill just kept going by himself and it became a piano solo.

Very true, gentlemen. But perhaps the version of "Lucky To Be Me", EDBE's other unaccompanied piano piece, is even more lovely?

Kevin
Posted on: 11 August 2003 by Tom F
Talking of Coltrane (again) try 'Giant Steps' - that's the album which made me think that this jazz stuff wasn't atonal noodling after all.

The secret with a lot of the recommendations is that they have to be played LOUD so that you are fully immersed in the sound. Even Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz makes sense when played like that.
Posted on: 12 August 2003 by Peter Voigt
Armstrong belongs in any jazz collection.

He is a superb communicator, and a neverending source of good vibes.
Songs like Jeepers Creebers, Hello Dolly, Cabaret etc etc.
And another great thing about it is, the nice rythmic drive in the music - and in every single instrument too.

Was it Armstrong who said, that jazz lost so much, when in became undanceable (or whatever)?

Listening to some of the old Satchmo stuff allways has me dancing around in the room with a happy grin on my face. And thats what it's all about. Every single instrument is a real pleasure to "airguitar". I love it!

Of course some of the music he did was too "white and bourgeois" but the things that rocks, rocks!

BTW Dave Brubeck made some exellent re4cordings with, among others, the great Armstrong, on "vocal encounters" My favourite is "The real Ambassador"..
A song that got stuck in my head, and I loved it. Big Grin

(remember erasures "stop"?, that one did also got stuck in my head... Mad drove me damn close to self mutilation.. but thats long gone, thank God - thank you so much lord Odin!)

Cheers!

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