Jazz: From Bebop to Fusion, etc.

[Herodadotus]

This thread is here for us to discuss Jazz, from early swing like Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong to the modern jazz of today.

I'm hoping this thread can be used for not just discussion, but as a place where people not so familiar with jazz can look into groups, people, and styles and discover more music.

I'll start by posting some songs from my favorite style of jazz, Hard Bop. Hard Bop is Bebop with gospel, blues, and R&B incorporated into the rhythm section. This style was played by almost all the famous musicians of the 50s and 60s, including Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, and Horace Silver.

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So who are your favorite jazz musicians and albums?

[GuetaMinute]

Seatbelts, while being an exclusive anime soundtrack, is some amazing jazz, as well. I'm more into modern jazz but I still love listening to the classic 50s and 60s jazz.









Does stuff from Nujabes and related artists count? I love hip hop jazz and acid jazz. This is more modern.





This is more hip hop than jazz but this is the thread where it fits the most

[Herodadotus]

Dang, I can't fix the poll to include Acid Jazz, forgot about it.

And yeah, Nujabes and stuff counts, it definitely has jazz in it's roots, and jazz is one of the more adaptable types of music.

[Holy Hell]

Free jazz is a free life

I was very into cool jazz and hard bop and the usual sort of affairs that come with the scholarly method for years too (still am), but eventually one hits a point where there's less and less things to go over for the first time and retreads seem less desirable to one such as myself. I still love the stuff of course, but I always tend to be present oriented (or something new to me) and jazz has become rather... institutionalized as far as those styles are concerned.

Longtime fascination with upright bass playing because it was what I played in jazz groups (I was a classical cellist and just kinda shrugged and went "well this is close enough") too so Mingus was my most spun artist, aside with Sun Ra.

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I also like shit that makes people go "is this jazz because that's the lowest goddamn denominator I'm even hearing what is this"



It's where the good modern stuff is

[GuetaMinute]

Fuck you Holy why do you know everything there is to know about music you like even the most obscure shit it makes me feel ashamed to say I'm a musician when I don't know an ounce of what you do :(

[Herodadotus]

Man, I can't believe I actually knew all of the people in Holy's post for once. Never did listen to much Colin Stetson, but I'll give it a try again.

Mahavishnu Orchestra was something our jazz instructor made us listen to, and I still don't know how to describe it.



This song was something I've just discovered a couple days ago, and I am a sucker for open piano jams.

[BartArt]

This song was something I've just discovered a couple days ago, and I am a sucker for open piano jams.

Oh hey Hero! My man! I just mentioned Vijay Iyer in the general thread. I did not expect someone else to have posted him. If you are just getting into him I recommend listening to Histerocity it came out in 2009. I haven't listened to anything from the new album and I don't want to until I have it in my hands : þ

In other Bartjazz news, I've been listening to Chet Baker since I watched the documentary on him Let's get lost, great film. He had such a smooth voice it's unreal.

[Wagomu]

I love jazz so much from beginning to end. It took some time to completely register for me, but it has a lot of depth. You can just feel players personalities coming through in the music. That gives the instruments a lot of power and when a band channels that well, jazz becomes a force like no other.

It's hard to say which style is my favorite. I love it all, really, and my favorites are much more specific. Jazz has an interesting and incredibly interwoven scene with a very free canvas. As a result, every individual performance is a unique thing, even by the same artist in a close time frame. The quality can go up depending on who played what song when, where, why and how. The genre goes much deeper than I can fathom sinking into without drowning in it. I try to keep in tune with it as much as possible, though.

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