Jazz fans, what genre Jazz do you listen to?

[Sawdustguy]

I enjoy listening to early 60's jazz like Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Bill Evans, Miles etc. as well as some contemporaries like Flim & BB's.

 

[SnakeAnthony6375]

I've been immersed in some Peter Erskine lately. He's got a couple of albums (Juni, As It Is) that are incredible. Art Blakey is always a good fall back! Keeping in line with drummers, check out Bill Stewart.

 

[scrambledegg81]

I've always been a pretty liberal jazz fan...got stuff ranging from Dave Brubeck Quartet & Vince Guaraldi Trio to Weather Report, Pat Metheny Group, Charlie Haden, Spyro Gyra, John Scofield & a few others I can't recall at the moment.

 

[Sawdustguy]

I've always been a pretty liberal jazz fan...got stuff ranging from Dave Brubeck Quartet & Vince Guaraldi Trio to Weather Report, Pat Metheny Group, Charlie Haden, Spyro Gyra, John Scofield & a few others I can't recall at the moment.

That is a great list of Jazz Musicians, all of which I own music of. I especially like Pat Metheny who I feel is one of the better contemporary Jazz Guitar Players. One of my favorite albums is "Like Minds" with Chic Corea, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes and David Holland.

 

[dunnright00]

I'm pretty much into every genre besides Smooth Jazz and most Dixieland.

Both of which I can tolerate in very small doses.

 

[Palefire]

Most all of it. Been playing jazz for many years and by now have ended up playing almost every type there is. Still love it all - straight-ahead, super out, bebop, latin, brazilian, hard bop, swing, big band, funk, etc. It's all good if done well!

Love some fusion (well, Miles' stuff from the 70's, at least - maybe that's about it), but a lot of it ends up getting a little boring to my ears, mostly when it stops swinging and becomes a chops fest. Same with smooth jazz - it's fine but not very exciting. Did you hear about the smooth jazz tribute to Monk? It's called "Straight, No Changes."

But I did study with a smooth jazz player many years ago and did learn a lot from him about just plain sounding good.

FWIW, just finished writing a dissertation chapter about Miles' mid-60's band (the one with Herbie, Wayne, Ron, Tony). Plugged Nickel Sessions, baby.

 

[arturo7]

Live


(unless it is of the "smooth" variety)

 

[dunnright00]

I've been immersed in some Peter Erskine lately. He's got a couple of albums (Juni, As It Is) that are incredible. Art Blakey is always a good fall back! Keeping in line with drummers, check out Bill Stewart.

All I know is "Snake Anthony will help you move your fine Chinese if you need help gettin' it moved"!

I'm just looking for the start of wind!

 

[dunnright00]

FWIW, just finished writing a dissertation chapter about Miles' mid-60's band (the one with Herbie, Wayne, Ron, Tony). Plugged Nickel Sessions, baby.

Definitely my favorite Miles era, with the decade after that a close second.

BTW, my oldest's middle name is Miles after, well... you know.

 

[Nic0]

I think one of my favorites is Maceo Parker and those commonly found playing with him, like Fred Wesley, Larry Goldings and Pee Wee Ellis.

Another favorite is Herbie Hancock.

Funk is probably my favorite subgenre of jazz music, if it can be so classified.

Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson.... just going down the list of stuff in my jazz folder.

 

[Jim Karr]

My favorite bassist was Jaco Pastorius. What a sound!

 

[JonK331]

70's fusion

 

[dunnright00]

I was thinking about this yesterday after posting here, and I really like the groove guitar stuff from the 60's.

Grant Green and Joe Pass come to mind immediately. Especially the stuff he did with NHØP

 

[Palefire]

I was thinking about this yesterday after posting here, and I really like the groove guitar stuff from the 60's.

Grant Green and Joe Pass come to mind immediately. Especially the stuff he did with NHØP

You want a kick-ass groove guitar record that not so many people talk about? Try "Sweetback" by Boogaloo Joe Jones. Not the most harmonically advanced material, admittedly, but it swings/grooves like crazy and Boogs plays his ass off. PM me if you want and I'll send it to you!

 

[bosunbrew]

Two of my favorite albums, to this day, are two of the earliest jazz records I bought: "Point of Departure" by Andrew Hill (with the incredible Eric Dolphy), and "Ask the Ages" by Sonny Sharrock, serious post-Hendrix guitar! I listened to jazz extensively a few years back, really expanded my musical vocabulary... I was most interested in the free jazz influence, along with Coltrane, Monk, etc... I don't listen to as much "jazz" nowadays, but it's always great to happen upon a good jazz music show on the radio, and just go along for the ride.

 

[trscstghst]

70's fusion

i really have never been a big fan of any particular type of music but find that all music is effen awesome if you just give it a chance. while the fusion jazz may be what i like frome the whole jazz era it doesnt mean that i dismiss jazz as some good a** sh*t. i just haven't had enough expouser. kinda like brewing. all music is good (although i dont agree with the message that some music is trying to convey). im sure the 18 year olds here would disagreee. music reflects our current society, if you dont like it then you dont fit in. which means you are just like your parents who didnt fit in. so if you just take a step back you realize we all fit in. or we are just are all stupid and rebelious at that age(18- 25) and we all just need to learn. (read myt sig and meditate). (meditation requires sobriety, or at least sobriety from alcohol) so what im raely tring to say is our parents were right all along. if we would have listened to them we wpuld have been bette3r off. but human nature is MF so we have to learn from our mistakes. I sugest you read the BIBLE while you wait for your brew to get done.

 

[rawlus]

acid jazz, jimmy smith, wes montgomery, etc...

 

[DirtyPolock]

Somewhat off topic but I wish I payed more attention to my history of jazz class in college. I took it because it was an easy A, but as I get older it would have been great to remember what I learned in that class