Any Jazz lovers on ATOT?

[dannybek]

I am really beginning to get into Jazz however I realize that jazz is a very general term and there are different types and styles.
I am looking for something that has a piano, bass, guitar, and drum and is soft and calm. Kind of like Charlie Brown music!

here is a some that I like for reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih03es8jkf0

 

[CorCentral]

Bing and Louis Armstrong/High Society
NOW YOU HAS JAZZ

 

[FleshLight]

Duke Ellington

 

[xanis]

Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
John Coltraine

search, listen, enjoy.

 

[GeneValgene]

vince guaraldi
glen miller band
ella fitzgerald
nat king cole
frank sinatra

 

[KillerCharlie]

I'm not into the soft type of stuff with guitars so I can't help you much...

I'm into the more mainstream bebop and hard bop and all the big names:
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Sonny Rollins
Charles Mingus
Miles Davis
Art Blakey
Clifford Brown
Thelonios Monk
Clifford Brown
Bud Powell
Dizzy Gillespie
Paul Chambers
Bobby Timmons

These guys are, in my opinion, the absolute height of jazz. There haven't been better players before or after them.

My favorite ensemble by far is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. They made a ton of recordings (with lots of different artists of course).

Here are a few of my many many favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...bYt5Ds&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDbrxLz20JY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...heWj8E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDTGBHM9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eNZDmI&feature=related

There's just SO much to listen to when you're listening to jazz solos: the phrasing, articulation, notes played and how they line up with the harmony, the time (are they on the front or back of the beat?), their interaction with the rhythm section, etc.

Personally (and this is just my opinion, obviously), I don't like guitars in jazz 90% of the time. Usually it's in the really smooth watered down crap. I'll dig around and see what recordings I have that sound good with guitar

 

[KillerCharlie]

If you want more info on the genres within jazz, go to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz

They do an outstanding job summing it up. Note that the cool jazz they describe is NOT the crap you find on today's "smooth jazz" radio stations.

 

[xeno2060]

Al Di Meola

 

[OCGuy]

Lakers > Jazz

 

[Fenixgoon]

bennie goodman
big bad voodoo daddy (modern)
brian setzer orchestra (modern)
cherry poppin daddies (modern)

james horner (swing swing swing, often known as the chips ahoy theme)

 

[dennilfloss]

Wonder if some misread the title.:laugh: