listen to JAZZ!

[Gov]

I just received the DVD-A version of Brian Bromberg's "Jaco". I have only heard alittle bit of it so far, but it sounds great!! I really like Jaco and this tribute to him is great. Bromberg is a very good bassist!!!

 

[jostenmeat]

I just received the DVD-A version of Brian Bromberg's "Jaco". I have only heard alittle bit of it so far, but it sounds great!! I really like Jaco and this tribute to him is great. Bromberg is a very good bassist!!!

cool man. I don't know that artist Bromberg. Hey have you (or anyone) heard of Albert Mengelsdorff? I heard a trio with this trombonist with a very young Jaco in a live recording in Germany, iirc, on a ECM vinyl many years ago. (My friend at the time had this amazing ECM vinyl collection. He was both an excellent classical and jazz musician to boot, and was regularly playing with Peter Erskine. Don't know if he still is). Anyways, Jaco was surely freekin', but this Albert guy was playing three pitches at a time! And it was very cool stuff that I remember. I wonder if this could be found on cd...

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I just received the DVD-A version of Brian Bromberg's "Jaco". I have only heard alittle bit of it so far, but it sounds great!! I really like Jaco and this tribute to him is great. Bromberg is a very good bassist!!!

I am a huge Brian Bromberg fan. I have four of his CDs, of which my favorite is Wood II. He is good with an ensemble, but insanely great when playing solo. (The only thing about his recordings that I don't like is his use of extremely close miking, which makes the bass sound unnaturally loud.) He is also the only player I know of who performs the equivalent of lead guitar parts on a "piccolo bass".

 

[caupina]

I love jazz too!!!!. especially fusion, ie: Pat Metheny Group. I posted a thread some time ago about Scandinavian jazz, Tord Gustavssen Trio, E.S.T., also there are some Polish guys, their names are hard to recall but all of them play in the Tomasz Stanko Quartet, very nice music. I like anything with guitar, pianos and trumpet (Chris Botti is one that comes to my mind and also Acoustic Alchemy on the guitar side....smooth jazz). Finally Lyle Mays solo project is awesome!!!!!!

 

[Wafflesomd]

Smooth jazz is boring.

Big band jazz, now that's good stuff.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Smooth jazz is boring.

To each his own. I love it. (In fact, it is my second favorite style after new age.)
Are there any good modern groups playing big band jazz? I enjoy the style, but except for Wynton Marsalis, the only recordings I have heard are antiques. Too bad the masters like Chick Webb and Benny Goodman lived before today's outstanding recording equipment.

 

[caupina]

Smooth jazz is boring.

Big band jazz, now that's good stuff.

I don't think so, but it depends on what band you're referring too. There are some smooth jazz groups that I don't find appealing but at the same time there are some straight-jazz bands that I can't "understand" (hard to assimilate for lack of a better word)

 

[jostenmeat]

Hey ALL! new here so take it easy on the n00bie :-D

its seems like nobody cares about jazz music anymore. they think its all about rap and pop rock or whatever but without jazz and legends like Ella Fitzgerald there would be no modern music scene. thats why i did this Ella Fitzgerald album that just came out called "Love Letters From Ella". It has some collaborations with Count Basie and the London Symphony Orchestra. it sounds great too because its in hi-def audio. do yourselves a favor and check it out sometime myspace or good or something

-john, umg

So John, congrats on the successful thread! I know that there are a few Ella compilations with the live performance of How High the Moon (in Berlin iirc). Is that one of them? Some of the most amazing scat I've heard. Well, heh, the only other comparable stuff I've heard was also by Ella. Once heard on the radio a live performance (in Santa Monica? iirc) with Stan Getz where she went nuts. (Don't like Getz much from the little I've heard except for his earlier bop stuff...)

Anyways, I've got a disc with Ella and Basie, and Organ Grinder Swing is pretty good on it as I recall. It would be great to hear it in hi-def, but I don't have a hi-def player!

 

[Maddys]

I have been just getting back into Jazz, and really enjoy Gary Burton, Robert Walters.

 

[stratman]

I need to speak up for Can't Buy a Thrill. I always liked Dirty Work. There was a time when I felt I should have written that song.

Jim

Read this, fascinating....Denny Dias' take on the recording of Katy Lied. http://steelydan.com/dennys3.html It gives you a feeling of how things were done at the studio, notice how concerned they were with the sound and final production. That is one of the reasons these recordings sound so good.

 

[zhimbo]

Smooth jazz is boring.

I finally knew I married the right woman when she uttered the words: "Smooth jazz is the Devil's music."

 

[jostenmeat]

I have been just getting back into Jazz, and really enjoy Gary Burton, Robert Walters.

Though its been a long time since Ive listened to it, and that Im not a very huge Towner fan, I love Burton's work with him on Matchbook (and some other disc too that I can't remember). Pretty cool textures between vibes and guitar!

 

[masak_aer]

I am a jazz fan ranging from Pat Mateheny, Steely Dan to Diana Krall (which my wife loves so much as well). She is mostly into Smooth Jazz. We usually end up with more collection of Smooth Jazz since she has more say to what we buy.

 

[Davemcc]

Anybody remember a band called Hiroshima? It was one of my favorites back in my vinyl days. That was before the unfortunate ultimatum regarding my many crates of albums. I haven't replaced it on CD yet, but I'd like to. It's been so long, twenty-odd years, that I can't even remember the songs.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Anybody remember a band called Hiroshima? It was one of my favorites back in my vinyl days. That was before the unfortunate ultimatum regarding my many crates of albums. I haven't replaced it on CD yet, but I'd like to. It's been so long, twenty-odd years, that I can't even remember the songs.

I have a brand new one from them (it was released a couple of months ago.) It is quite good.
While I am here, I want to put in a plug for a new group called Floratone. Their self-titled debut is awesome (very bluesy, swampy jazz), and their members include the amazing Bill Frisell.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Now that is a good list of music!!!!

Getting back to jazz, here is my current top 10:

Lee Ritenour-Smoke & Mirrors
Stefon Harris-African Tarantella
Mike Stern-Who Let the Cats Out?
Mindi Abair-A Life Less Ordinary
John Pattitucci-Line by Line
Sonny Rollins-Sonny Please!
Madeline Peyroux-Half the Perfect World
Spyro Gyra-The Deep End
Brian Bromberg-You Know that Feeling
Andy Narell-Tatoom

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Now that is a good list of music!!!!

Why thank you, kind sir.

 

[stratman]

Anybody remember a band called Hiroshima? It was one of my favorites back in my vinyl days. That was before the unfortunate ultimatum regarding my many crates of albums. I haven't replaced it on CD yet, but I'd like to. It's been so long, twenty-odd years, that I can't even remember the songs.

I have their first 3 CDs, they did the music for Ming Tsai's food show: East Meets West. Contemporary jazz pop with an oriental flair, good band.

 

[Davemcc]

I just ordered Hiroshima's first album and their "best of". I will also pick up "Third Generation" soon. I've decided to rebuild my R&B/Jazz collection. I also just got Spyro Gyra's Breakout, the Clark/Duke project, George Benson's Breezin', Grover Washington Jr.'s Winelight, as well as some Earl Klugh, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones and Lee Ritenour.

This should bring me up-to-date circa 1982, just replacing the ones I liked pre-marriage, kids, divorce, marriage, etc.

 

[stratman]

I just ordered Hiroshima's first album and their "best of". I will also pick up "Third Generation" soon. I've decided to rebuild my R&B/Jazz collection. I also just got Spyro Gyra's Breakout, the Clark/Duke project, George Benson's Breezin', Grover Washington Jr.'s Winelight, as well as some Earl Klugh, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones and Lee Ritenour.

This should bring me up-to-date circa 1982, just replacing the ones I liked pre-marriage, kids, divorce, marriage, etc.

Getting the good stuff back, don't forget David Sanborn, Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton.