is anyone into jazz music?


i wanna be. i listen to some and i want to get more into it but i don't really know what to start with. some stuff i already have is

brain simpson
chet baker
dave koz
john coltrane
najee
thelonious monk


there are a few others but i don't wanna open itunes to figure out which ones. so, i duno, i wondered around the jazz section at barns and noble today. i wanna buy stuff but i don't know what.

suggestions?

@ CBers sleeping on this topic. Too many young folks on this site want to listen to that Soulja Boy. JK but yo here is my list:

Herbie Hancock
Kenny G
Boney James

And Kirk Whalum is that dude:
Anytime (Brian Mcknight)
http://www.imeem.com/cadillacslim/music/6-...whalum_anytime/

Thats the way Love Goes ( Janet Jackson)
http://www.imeem.com/people/JD9eiL/music/r..._way_love_goes/

There's always Louis Armstrong and Del Paxton. I can't think of others right now.

i really love all jazz renditions of r&b songs. louie is probably the best jazz out there and ella.

Duke Ellington w/ John Coltrane (1962). Along with Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, this is also a quintessential genre-defining album. The legendary song, 'In a Sentimental Mood' starts it off and it ends with an, equally as beautiful track entitled, 'The Feeling of Jazz.'

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Herbie Hancock!!!

Oh, and I was really into Jamie Cullum for a while. Go check out his cover of Pharrell's Frontin'.

psh, i've had that for liek 3 years now. i used to be obsessed with that too.


thanks for the suggestions so far, GIVE MORE.

^ That cover is AMAZING.

You should check out this young (well, for the jazz game) cat named Robert Glasper. He did this beautiful remix/cover/merging of Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" and Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage."



Also, another young cat: Jose James. I saw him in Central Park this summer (WITH JAMIE LIDELL! ) and he was pretty awesome, if you're into jazz singers.
http://josejamesmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/josejamesquartet

Birth of Cool, by Miles Davis is a definite go-to jazz album.

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are fantastic. Try out the Yardbird Suite. It's a very good collection.

You commented once on music I had playing on my profile here. That was bossa nova jazz and the artist was Astrud Gilberto, one of my favorites. I really think you should delve into some bossa nova. Joao Gilberto (and Astrud, of course), Sergio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz are the artists you want to pay particular attention to.

There's far too many albums to name, but try to sample out some songs. If I get a chance, I'll try to get a playlist uploaded on my profile for some sampling.

For the longest time, my favourite Jamie Cullum song was his cover of High & Dry. That was actually what got me into Radiohead for a while. Now I really really really love Mind Trick. And London Skies. And Pointless Nostalgic.

I have to listen to more 'real' jazz.



Oh, I remember I LOVE Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's Jazz Police.

Hell yeah, bossa nova! Also check out Elis Regina, Gal Costa, and Jorge Ben (their earlier stuff).

i'm about to listen to all the suggested stuff so far. i'll return with updates.

Another recommendation: Fela Kuti. If you haven't heard any of his stuff before, be prepared to love it.

FINALLY! I've mentioned him a couple times here (at cB) and it's pretty much met with tumbleweeds. lol

The young kids just don't know, Becks.

The young kids are missing out. I even mentioned Fela in the hiphop transition thread that Brandon posted.

&sigh

Oh and JC, have you listened to anything new and fabulously jazzy yet?

i wanna say yes...but not really. i had it all set the other night i was going to go on a big listening fest and all this stuff, but then i kept getting busy and distracted. so i'll be giving a better update soon.

i listened to something by most of the people you guys named and i liked the majority. i will say the sometimes some of it gets too cheesy for me...if that makes sense. which it probably doesn't, but sometimes i associate some of it with elevator or department store shopping music and that turns me off of it.


anyway people should keep giving suggestions, i am gonna listen to them.

NOBODY has mentioned ella fitzgerald? c'mon guys! oh & also peggy lee, one of her most famous songs being 'fever'

& if you're into ragtime, try scott joplin. his famous compositions include 'maple leaf rag' and 'the entertainer'.

I had that feeling about bossa nova, at first (I mean, who doesn't), but most of it really is brilliant. Give it a chance

Historically, bossa nova's link to "elevator music" is ironic since it's basically studied... nonchalance. It was supposed to run counter to the boisterous sambas of the favelas. Which was awesome, you know, until it bored people half to death.