Some good Jazz bands/musicians?

Deliverance · 12-10-2005, 12:00 PM

I like to listen to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, some Wes Montgomery, George Gershwin and John Coltrane.

Modern stuff would be Pat Metheney and some early Mike Stern.

There is loads more out there though, Im just a beginner jazz fan!

boris jawaka · 12-11-2005, 04:16 PM

Pat Metheny is coming to adelaide (my hometown) next year!

TheBig3 · 12-12-2005, 08:54 AM

I had a chance to be a piano tech for Pat Metheny, but I didn't take it because I wanted to finish school. :cry:

Anywho, heat of the day is probably thee coolest song.

I mean, what Jazz guy uses power chords?

TheBig3 · 12-12-2005, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Deliverance

I like to listen to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, some Wes Montgomery, George Gershwin and John Coltrane.

Modern stuff would be Pat Metheney and some early Mike Stern.

There is loads more out there though, Im just a beginner jazz fan!

Please god stay here, these forums get someone who can actually hold a decent conversation and then they leave making this forum in a persistent vegitative state.

Leady · 12-12-2005, 10:09 AM

Robert Johnson might be good to look up Eric Clapton did a whole album of his stuff so that would be worth it

Deliverance · 12-12-2005, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Please god stay here, these forums get someone who can actually hold a decent conversation and then they leave making this forum in a persistent vegitative state.

Hahaha thats cool, I like this place, I just avoid the crap threads on....crap basically. I am like that with the few other forums I visit.

I like other styles too, but as I said Im new to jazz but it is worth getting into.

jazzfromhell · 12-12-2005, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Leady

Robert Johnson might be good to look up Eric Clapton did a whole album of his stuff so that would be worth it

Robert Johnson is one of the most influential musicians of this century, he is one of the blues men that most early guitar gods (Richards, Clapton, Beck, Page, etc.) were obsessed with. Most rock music can be traced back to him, in one way or another. Definitely worth looking up, you can get everything he recorded on a two disc set (Complete Recordings). However, it takes a bit to get used to him (or at least, it did for me) if you aren't used to music that is a. so bare, it's just him and his guitar, and b. of lesser sound quality, it was recorded in the mid-30's and is a bit scratchy, which adds to the hauntingness of it. His life story is the stuff of legend, also worth looking up.

~~hiu~~ · 12-15-2005, 03:26 AM

Thelonious Monk
Sonny Rollins
Art Blakey
Coltrane
Charles Mingus
Ornette Coleman
Cecil Taylor

OccultHawk · 05-10-2018, 07:25 PM

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Jayben · 11-11-2018, 05:33 PM

Yes, you may need to listen to RnB too.

12-11-2005, 04:16 PM	#62 (permalink)
boris jawaka Chrome Plated Megaphone Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 163	Pat Metheny is coming to adelaide (my hometown) next year! __________________ "Artists are artists, because they have an extra sensitivity - a skin less perhaps than other people; and the great ones have an uncomfortable habit of being right about many things, long before their time" - Benjamin Britten, 1951

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TheBig3 killedmyraindog Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 11,172	I had a chance to be a piano tech for Pat Metheny, but I didn't take it because I wanted to finish school. :cry: Anywho, heat of the day is probably thee coolest song. I mean, what Jazz guy uses power chords? __________________ I've moved to a new address

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Deliverance Groupie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK Posts: 10	I like to listen to Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, some Wes Montgomery, George Gershwin and John Coltrane. Modern stuff would be Pat Metheney and some early Mike Stern. There is loads more out there though, Im just a beginner jazz fan!

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Leady Groupie Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Staffordshire Posts: 14	Robert Johnson might be good to look up Eric Clapton did a whole album of his stuff so that would be worth it

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~~hiu~~ Account Disabled Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,174	Thelonious Monk Sonny Rollins Art Blakey Coltrane Charles Mingus Ornette Coleman Cecil Taylor

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Jayben Groupie Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 10	Yes, you may need to listen to RnB too.