Jazz Recomendations
 

I've been listening to jazz quite a bit lately. I find it's helpful for work. Long hours recording data or typing... it's soothing and stimulating. Mostly I've been listening to Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk lately. I've always thought of myself as pretty jazz-aware, but I really just listen to the same five or six artists, all of them classics (monk, evana, davis, coltrane, gillespie) and a few others.

If you could recommend me any chill jazz from other artists, I'd appreciate it. No swing or be-bop please. I enjoy it, but it's not what I'm in the mood for. I want mellow, 50'6 and 60's shit. I've done experimental stuff too, and that's just not cohesive to the work environment, so keep it simple please.

Piano and drums are primarily what I'm looking for. Trio's along these lines.

Help is appreciated.

i'm kind of the same in that i mainly know 3 or 4 artists (Davis, Parker, Coltrane, Baker)
i've been blown away by John Coltrane this year. Love Supreme and Accension have been on my stereo more than anything else recently. He knocks me out.

but thats not what you're asking for so i'll offer Dave Brubeck for a very chilled and laid back listen
and *high five* for jazz

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I don't know if it's the type of jazz you're into but I fucking love Archie Shepp.
A fantastic dude, at least check some of his stuff out.

I don´t also know is this what you are searching for, but ethiopian-jazz-man Mulatu Astatke is great! All his 1960-1970 stuff is put into Ethiopiques 4 -compilation, instruments on the songs are piano, organ, drums, bass, guitar, vibraphone and brass. And all the songs are instrumental.

Some of Herbie Hancock's pre Headhunters stuff might fit the bill. Especially his Maiden Voyage and Speak Like a Child LPs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmRQ0PBtXU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTNLWi-xAkE

And if you don't mind his later more fusiony side Man-Child is a terrific album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNaOnO876s

Chet Baker is about as chill as you can get. There's a good documentary on him called "Let's Get Lost" which may help the initiation.

Bugge Vesseltoft might interest you. His music is mellow for sure, provided you don't mind the muzak tendencies. Cinematic orchestra might suit your taste. Maybe Portico quartet?

McCoy Tyner - 'The Real McCoy'

everybody in the world should own Coltrane's My Favorite Things.

seconded!

Thirded. She said she was already into Coltrane doe.

Thirded. Check out the '69 live version from montreal jazz festival.

i have a cheap bootleg cd with 2 different versions of my favourite things, no idea where they were recorded but they're fucking incredible

he's the pianist for Coltrane right?

For a while yeah.

E. Noisefield, if you're looking for more jazz then just look at the members of the jazz groups you already like. You like Coltrane so you might like McCoy Tyner, Rashied Ali, Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders, Paul Chambers etc.

Thelonious and Miles also, they tutored a lot of the greatest jazz band leaders of all time. Every player worth a shit could probably be tracked back to those 2 somehow.

check on the tyner/trane relationship. A lot of tyner's recordings are pretty nice, I recco Extensions and Asante, Fly Like the Wind also pretty nice.

for a newer pianist, one of my current favorites is Vijay Iyer. His solo and Tirtha recordings are pretty fantastic. Great songwriter, too.

Brubeck! Of course. I've heard him a few times. Should have thought of that.

Also, props for liking Ascension. You're talking parts I and II combined, right? The reissue? That shit blows my mind every time I hear it. It's probably the single most interesting piece of music I've ever heard.

Off to download Take Five. Thanks!

Thanks! Good suggestion. I'm looking for good drummers and pianists, so I'll just check the liner notes of the records I have. Also, I've heard of Pharoah Sanders, but never actually listened. Any particular recommendations?

louis armstrong? this statement shows that you literally have no understanding of jazz history, seriously nobody who has listened to jazz for more than a year could read that sentence without wanting to vomit, also the fact that the original post says no bebop or experimental and all that you listed fits in those categories(to be fair most jazz recorded in the 50s and 60s does besides easy listening shit,which was still mostly bebop based, so this thread is fraught with peril)

i know it's just a forum but stop trying to teach people things you don't know yrself

Shut the fuck up, you know nothing about me. I've listened to jazz for a good 5-6 years actually, had jazz theory classes, play jazz guitar, played in jazz band. Yeah, okay, Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie etc. I'm mostly concerned with jazz from mid 50s to the end of the 60s so I'm fucking sorry for recommending things from that era and making a statement that covers that era. Now go choke on your daddy's load and get off my case.

And yes, like you said, most jazz from the 50s and 60s sides with bebop or experimental. Nothing I can do about that, I spoke about things I knew.

jazz theory classes huh.... what exactly does yr ridiculous statement have to do with theory? absolutely nothing, sorry for thinking you're stupid but you constantly say stupid things and then try look knowledgeable, it doesn't work. yr statement was 100% ridiculous and an insult to jazz, theory classes and playing a fucking guitar do nothing to qualify the statement, that's completely irrelevant, stop saying stupid shit and then rationalising it in a manner that allows you to continue thinking you're brilliant, davis and monk did not come out of a vacuum without learning things from the thousands of bandleaders who preceded them, you've shown in this thread that you not only don't know about jazz, but you don't even respect it or like it.

jazz theory abuse victim classes huh.... what exactly does yr abuse victim ridiculous statement have to do withabuse victim theory? absolutely nothing, abuse victim sorry for thinking you're stupid butabuse victim you constantly say stupid things and abuse victim then try look knowledgeable, it doesn't work. yr statement abuse victim was 100% ridiculous abuse victim and an abuse victim insult to jazz, theory classes and abuse victim playing a abuse victim fucking guitar do nothing to qualify the statement, that's completely irrelevant, stop abuse victim saying stupid shit and abuse victim then rationalising it in a manner that allows you to continue thinking you're brilliant, davis abuse victim and monk did not come out of a vacuum without learning things from abuse victim the thousands abuse victim of bandleaders who abuse victim preceded them, you've abuse victim shown in this thread that abuse victim you not only abuse victim don't know about jazz, but you abuse victim don't even respect it.

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Anyway thank you keep poppin pimples for trying to fuck with me even though I was just trying to be helpful. Gas yourself.

Yeah. Coltrane's my most listened-to jazz artist. I have tons of his stuff. Some of it I've never even heard before- bad recordings of live shows and the like. But he's been a go-to for me for years. I just want to expand

That's actually the exact era I'm looking for, so thank you.

Oh, duh. Just remembered WES MONTGOMERY, a guitarist who I probably spelled incorrectly. He had a long history so I'm sure there's a chunck of his catalogue somewhere you'll really dig, man.

Haha Wes Montgomery? Dude you don't know what you're talking about quit pretending to teach people something you don't know anything about!!!!!!!

Oh. Thank you for correcting me. I appriciate it. Repped.

Not looking for guitarists. I can't passively listen to guitar at work really, because I play and I imagine what's being played and envision myself playing it. Heh. That's kind of why I'm looking for piano/drum stuff. Also because those are the chillest of all instruments.

Someone recommend me a classic jazz album by a drummer, wherein the drummer is the focal point and the band plays around him/her.

Thanks all. And no reason to get pissy with eachother. Derek was just trying to help.

Right now downloading:

Art Blakey- Mosaic
Elvin Jones- Dear John C