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Title: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: baumer on 9 Mar 2011, 07:10 pm: I have pretty wide jazz tastes but lately I've been wearing out my copy of "She Was Too Good To Me" by Chet Baker. I like the "Sunday morning sit back, read the paper and relax" attitude of it. It's nice to have on as background music when you're working on something else and not have to analyze just what the heck Coltrane meant by that last crazy run of whatever.

Unfortunately, I don't have much of this type of jazz in my collection. I have a little Stan Getz and Bill Evans but was hoping that some of you could direct me to some other artists/cd's of this nature.

Thanks,

Doug
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: steve k on 9 Mar 2011, 07:17 pm: Some mellow guys I would recommend are: Art Farmer, Charles Lloyd, Tord Gustavsen, Stefano Bollani, Joshua Redman for starters.
steve
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: richidoo on 9 Mar 2011, 09:12 pm: Some of my favs:
Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond, especially the early recordings like Jazz Goes To College
Astrud Gilberto sings Jobim, w/Getz
Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces on Pablo Records
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
Coltrane with Johnny Hartman
Coltrane Lush Life
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Sketches of Spain, Porgy and Bess
Pat Metheny Over on 4th Street (solo guitar)
Billie Holiday Lady In Satin
Jane Monheit
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: jhm731 on 9 Mar 2011, 09:15 pm: Get yourself a subscription to Jazziz, and you'll get some great sampler discs.

Also, do you have internal radio connected to your system?

Lots of great Jazz stations out there on the web.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: DARTH AUDIO on 9 Mar 2011, 09:53 pm: Anything off the ECM label.. There's some great Sunday morning coffee and newspaper music!! My Sunday morning wouldn't be complete without my ECM catalog!!
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: rajacat on 9 Mar 2011, 10:06 pm: Ben Webster...Soulville

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Mr. Mellow Laidback :)
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: baumer on 10 Mar 2011, 01:23 am: Thanks for all the suggestions guys. There are some I've heard, and some that are brand new to me. I'll be checking them all out in the next day or two. I can stream from my Duet so I'll tune in to some stations.

Steve, I've heard of J. Redman but those others will open a whole new door for me.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Doublej on 10 Mar 2011, 02:09 am: To name a few:

Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights
Amhad Jamal - Live at the Pershing
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert, Standards

If you go to www.allmusic.com you can punch in an artist, see all of their mood,s styles, and similar artists and see top albums and songs of a particular mood or style. Very cool stuff.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: morganc on 10 Mar 2011, 02:13 am: Herbie Hancock: HeadHunters...... unbelievable if you like your jazz with a little funk. :thumb:
I second the David Brubeck
Charles Minghus also
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Jazzman53 on 10 Mar 2011, 02:46 am: Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Foundations - Jody Proznick Quartet
Fever - Connie Evingson
Blues-ette - Curtis Fuller Quintet
Idle Moments - Grant Green
No Room For Squares - Hank Mobley
Song for My Father - Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers
Standards - The Three Sounds
Mental Cruelty - George Gruntz
First Rain - Inga Swearingen
Dreamer - Eliane Elias
The Jobim Songbook - David Hazeltine
Love Scenes - Diana Krall
Inner Urge - Joe Henderson
Unity - Larry Young
Blues in the City - Laverne Butler
Sugar - Stanley Turrentine
Unsung Heroes - Teirney Sutton
This is Criss! - Sonny Criss
Ain't But a Few of Us Left - Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Grady Tate
Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley
Cool Struttin' - Sonny Clark
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Hear Clifford Brown on 10 Mar 2011, 03:34 am: Some artists in addition to those already mentioned that you might want to check out:

Cannonball Adderley
Clifford Brown
Sonny Chris
Tadd Dameron
Gill Evans
Chico Hamilton
Freddie Hubbard
Bobby Hutcherson
James Moody
Wes Montgomery
Art Pepper

More recent:
Eric Alexander (also the group One For All)
Monty Alexander
Kenny Barron
Gary Burton
Bill Charlap
Cyrus Chesnut
Graham Dechter
David Hazeltine
Bobby Hutcherson
Roy Hargrove

And some of the greatest Latin jazz I’ve ever heard with wonderful vibes:
The Estrada Brothers
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: FullRangeMan on 10 Mar 2011, 04:57 am: Jazz standars by the famous trio(tenor, piano, a-bass), recorded in 1958, stellar performances.
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> Never go to a psychiatrist, adopt a cat or dog from the street. On the streets pets live only two years average.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: FullRangeMan on 10 Mar 2011, 05:15 am: Another good one:
Electric Jazz with full horns and strings sections, the best album on CTI Records catalogue IMO.
Perfomed by a bunch of newbies musicians as:
Me.Eumir Deodato/keyboards, John Tropea/e-guitar, Jeff Berliner/e-guitar, Ron Carter/a-bass, Stanley Clarke/e-bass, Billy Cobham/drums, Airto Morreira/percussion, Ray Barreto/congas and others.
Great sound quality, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder studios, Sep1972.
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> Never go to a psychiatrist, adopt a cat or dog from the street. On the streets pets live only two years average.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: baumer on 10 Mar 2011, 01:13 pm: Thanks again for all the recommendations everyone. I checked out the Jazziz website and
will be subscribing today.

There's plenty of enough stuff here to keep me busy for a few days. :thumb:
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: baumer on 10 Mar 2011, 02:28 pm: Quote from: DARTH AUDIO on 9 Mar 2011, 09:53 pm
Anything off the ECM label.. There's some great Sunday morning coffee and newspaper music!! My Sunday morning wouldn't be complete without my ECM catalog!!

It's funny you mention this. I was on their website just the other day. I have a couple other non-jazz titles from them the I really like and was looking for some new stuff.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Bob in St. Louis on 10 Mar 2011, 02:29 pm: These have all been mentioned, but as a "laid back jazz kinda fella", I'd put an exclamation mark by these guys. All of which are instrumentals.

Tord Gustavsen
Ben Webster
Amhad Jamal

And a new one for the list:
Count Basie - Specifically the XRCD of "88 Basie Street"

Bob
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: DARTH AUDIO on 10 Mar 2011, 03:37 pm: ECM music: This is a good start!! Enjoy
Mathias Eick
François Couturier
Julia Hülsmann Trio
Jan Garbarek
Bobo Stenson
Iro Haarla Quintet
Ketil Bjørnstad
Nik Bärtsch´s Ronin
Norma Winstone
Anat Fort Trio
Food "Quiet Inlet"
Steve Tibbets
Arild Andersen
Manu Katché
Paul Motian
Stefano Battaglia
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble
Tomasz Stanko Quintet
Stefano Bollani
Jon Hassell
Vassilis Tsabropoulos
Enrico Rava
Arve Henriksen
Trygve Seim
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Mitsuman on 10 Mar 2011, 05:17 pm: I didn't see Thelonious Monk on anyones list, nor Jean-Luc Ponty, nor Weather Report, nor Spyro Gyra, nor Herbie Mann. :D
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Scottdazzle on 10 Mar 2011, 05:30 pm: Here are some of my recommendations for essential classics

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Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: HsvHeelFan on 11 Mar 2011, 05:02 am: You can't go wrong with the Oscar Peterson Trio or Oscar's few solo works.

I've got some Oscar with Big Bands, but it's not very mellow. Swingin' Brass with the Oscar Peterson trio is from '59 and it features the Russ Garcia big-band. It's fairly up-tempo and rockin'.

HsvHeelFan
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: lonewolfny42 on 11 Mar 2011, 05:13 am: A few you might like (off the top of my head) :

Joe Henderson .....So Near So Far (Musing for Miles) (http://www.amazon.com/So-Near-Far-Musing-Miles/dp/B0000046P4/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1296367098&sr=1-8)

Double Rainbow: Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (http://www.amazon.com/Double-Rainbow-Music-Antonio-Carlos/dp/B0000046YR/ref=sr_1_10?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1296367098&sr=1-10)

Lush Life: Music of Billy Strayhorn (http://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Music-Billy-Strayhorn/dp/B0000046KH/ref=sr_1_11?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1296367098&sr=1-11)

Oscar Peterson....... Night Train (http://www.amazon.com/Night-Train-Oscar-Peterson/dp/B0000047D4/ref=pd_sim_m_26)

Horace Silver ......Song for My Father (http://www.amazon.com/Song-My-Father-Horace-Silver/dp/B00000IL27/ref=pd_sim_m_49)

Miles Davis....Milestones (http://www.amazon.com/Milestones-Miles-Davis/dp/B00005B58Y/ref=pd_sim_m_42)
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: baumer on 15 Mar 2011, 02:35 pm: Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I've got a few things on order and should be listening to some
cool new jazz by the end of the week. :thumb:
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Elizabeth on 15 Mar 2011, 04:34 pm: "All Music Guide to Jazz" book is a very useful tool. I own two copies! Still available via Amazon. Even the earlier editions are great for looking for music.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: jimdgoulding on 14 Apr 2011, 09:46 am: Mosaic- Art Blakey the The Jazz Messengers (Blue Note).
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: etcarroll on 14 Apr 2011, 10:19 am: "I like the "Sunday morning sit back, read the paper and relax" attitude of it."

For this kind of listening, I go with;

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Ella Fitzgerald - The Best of the SongBooks
Bill Evans - Quintessence
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: richidoo on 14 Apr 2011, 02:30 pm: If you like "She was too good to me" (great side) then you'll like this one:

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Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: Sonny on 14 Apr 2011, 02:55 pm: Jim Hall's Concierto is just wonderful! I too second the choice!
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Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: 95Dyna on 29 Apr 2011, 08:23 pm: So many great suggestions so far but not a mention of the Ray Brown Trio:

Live at Scullers
Bass Face
Red Hot Ray Brown Trio
Summer Wind
Soular Energy.

Any of the Ray Brown Gene Harris (jazz pianist extrordinaire) collaborations are a can't miss. My recommendation of one to start with would be Soular Energy. I have it on a Pure Audiophile Records 180g double LP that is just superb.
Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: etcarroll on 29 Apr 2011, 11:56 pm: Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Cookbook vol 1

This is slowly climbing up to become one of my top 10, if not top 5 for the song 'In the Kitchen'.

But you have to like the sound of a Hammond B3, as that's what Scottie Girl is playing on this.

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Title: Re: Help expand my jazz collection
Post by: blutto on 30 Apr 2011, 04:45 pm: Quote from: Elizabeth on 15 Mar 2011, 04:34 pm
"All Music Guide to Jazz" book is a very useful tool. I own two copies! Still available via Amazon. Even the earlier editions are great for looking for music.

...there is also The Blues in Jazz section that is found in the All Music Guide to The Blues ( a companion volume to the jazz book quoted above )...this section collects most of the Saturday/ Sunday morning type recordings and puts them nicely in one spot ( with the bonus of being part of a great blue reference guide )...

Cheers

blutto