good jazz???

Guybrush · 08-30-2012, 01:39 PM

The classics already mentioned are great like Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk etc. To those I could add that I quite like Oscar Peterson who was a brilliant piano player and that I these days also often like to listen to collaborations by Bill Evans (piano) and Chet Baker (trumpet) who together play some deliciously mellow takes on old classics.

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

I will say that I think most jazz fusion from the 70's and 80's is crap. Except for Weather Report and anything else that Jaco Pastorius did.

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Originally Posted by Holerbot6000

Not liking most 70's Jazz fusion is a good start. ^_^

What's with the fusion hate?

I love many flavours of 70s fusion rock, finding it exhilarating, beautiful and often challenging - in a good way of course. My favorite 70s fusion group may be Return to Forever. The band was at its best, I think, when its lineup consisted of Al Di Meola on guitar, Stanley Clarke on bass, Lenny White on drums and, of course, Chick Corea on keyboards. Here's an example song :

Gorgeous!

I also quite like a bit of gypsy jazz. My current favorite then is dutch guitar virtuoso Jimmy Rosenberg who is a guitar genius. Here's one of his more mellow tunes.

Holerbot6000 · 08-31-2012, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by tore

What's with the fusion hate?

Sorry - I was being a bit of a wise ass. There is indeed a lot of good fusion music, but I do think there is also a lot of BAD fusion music, probably more than in any other sub genre in Jazz. At it's worst, it's just a lot of virtuoso posturing, and I think that was very appealing - everyone wanted to be the next Jaco Pastorius - so, for every good fusion album, there were probably 10 bad ones. Just my opinion of course.