I don't know if there's already a thread about it but i can't find it.

Any jazz fans around? Cool,latin,free,fusion,soul or whatever you find groovin'

These days i'm in love with this lady :-*
Esperanza Spalding

  I have a Cole Porter vocal jazz set that I like alot.  It's called Night and Day...

  Years ago, maybe ten years, I was watching a figure skating competition on TV and someone skated to this absolutely beautiful song that may have been a Cole Porter/George Gershwin collaboration and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what the song was called and where I can find it...

christ that's brilliant.

i have some jazzers i like, though i'm sorta into rock as my main thing.

check out mmw in sao paolo. i found this on youtube a few weeks ago and watched it all the way more than once. it's an amazing set and the whole set is posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvieFaevs7s

those cats go in all sorts of different directions -- balls-on 2-4 beat rock, hip hop, even some classical and worldwide -- but mostly i think of them as an acid.traditional funky 1-3 beat experimental jazz combo. i think right now theyre the best practicing the art though i don't know much about the art so take it with a grain.

best old-school jazz guitar player out there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvdU7f-q7I

wes montgomery. his octave slides and fast modulations are legendary in guitar circles. astonishing. but his composition and arrangement are also magnificent.

and then there's these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ophw7rvZcyc

a goofy cliche car-chase, 60s-spy-movie cocktail lounge hybrid, played with attitude and raging talent. and plus, they are the straightest-edge married-with-children type guys to ever grab the public spotlight and openly pretend to be gay. for reasons all their own.

corduroy! come back! we need you now, more than ever. :\'(

A thread after my own heart!  I love jazz, mostly smooth, but jazz.  I'm going to have to see if there is a Celtic thread too.

Anyway, back on topic.  I get to listen to live jazz every weekend (I go when I can make it).  They play a little bit of everyone, some I've heard and some I haven't.  When Randy is there on drums/harmonica, he will also play a blues tune "Doxy" that is fantastic.

So many favorites, so little time.

   I have a Cole Porter vocal jazz set that I like alot.  It's called Night and Day...

   Years ago, maybe ten years, I was watching a figure skating competition on TV and someone skated to this absolutely beautiful song that may have been a Cole Porter/George Gershwin collaboration and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what the song was called and where I can find it...


I love Porter,when it comes to lyrics no one can beat him 8)


christ that's brilliant.

i have some jazzers i like, though i'm sorta into rock as my main thing.

check out mmw in sao paolo. i found this on youtube a few weeks ago and watched it all the way more than once. it's an amazing set and the whole set is posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvieFaevs7s

those cats go in all sorts of different directions -- balls-on 2-4 beat rock, hip hop, even some classical and worldwide -- but mostly i think of them as an acid.traditional funky 1-3 beat experimental jazz combo. i think right now theyre the best practicing the art though i don't know much about the art so take it with a grain.






Medeski are LOVED around here,they are just brilliant.


best old-school jazz guitar player out there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvdU7f-q7I

wes montgomery. his octave slides and fast modulations are legendary in guitar circles. astonishing. but his composition and arrangement are also magnificent.


Wow that was awesome i didn't even knew him,i must investigate.


and then there's these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ophw7rvZcyc

a goofy cliche car-chase, 60s-spy-movie cocktail lounge hybrid, played with attitude and raging talent. and plus, they are the straightest-edge married-with-children type guys to ever grab the public spotlight and openly pretend to be gay. for reasons all their own.

corduroy! come back! we need you now, more than ever. :\'(


Oh yes i have to be forever thankfull to Tia for introducing me to Corduroy :-*


A thread after my own heart!  I love jazz, mostly smooth, but jazz.  I'm going to have to see if there is a Celtic thread too.

Anyway, back on topic.  I get to listen to live jazz every weekend (I go when I can make it).  They play a little bit of everyone, some I've heard and some I haven't.  When Randy is there on drums/harmonica, he will also play a blues tune "Doxy" that is fantastic.

So many favorites, so little time.


Ah that is so cool, back in Lisbon i used to go to a place called the Hot Club they had live sessions every weekend, nothing beats some live jazz 8)

Some old school perfection

Dizzy and Louie - Umbrella Man

I love Jazz. My Dad is a saxophonist and a trumpet player. I played the trumpet for years and always loved jazz improv, just wailing!

Now with the job I do, I work on a lot of jazz concerts and have met some of the top performers around including Lou Marini, Jon Faddis, John Pizzarelli and Wynton Marsalis.

more old school! this couple from the 1940s started off trying to take popular jazz in a new direction and, ironically, they basically ended up inventing rock music even though they were jazz, traditional, and 40s/50s era popular. not a rock lick in em. (well, okay, there were some proto-rock riffs in les's bendy pentatonic style, but mostly i think he was doing rockabilly.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ffdwBUL78

probably really the biggest thing they pioneered was massive multi-track recording. but les paul and mary ford created the best electric guitar ever, the les paul standard (a guitar made out of solid granite, without which you'da had no jimmy page), the les paul sg (without which you'da had no cream-era eric clapton), as well as less conspicuous inventions like the humbucking pickup... they also basically invented tape effects, speeding up and slowing down recording tape to create different musical moods and effects. without his innovation, you'd have had no status quo, no pink floyd, no beatles... anyone who depended on delay, chorus, flanger or phasor effects to make their music has les paul and mary ford to thank. plus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Df09Sodpk

...you can tell mary ford was an uberfeminist. i bet they used to play guitar together for hours at home and then bang like starving bunnies. and i bet mary got on top a LOT. :D

mary tragically passed away way back in 1977 but last i heard les was still running a club, even though he's con the wrong side of 90 and only has feeling in three fingers of his left hand, he still finds a way to play. he invents new ways to play with fewer fingers. always inventing, till the end.

les and mary, you two make me proud to fly the stars and stripes.

you'll notice that les and mary were also innovators in the milli-vanilli, lip-syncing department. no one's perfect. :-[

I'm loving this thread!

My favorite brazilian jazzer
Ed Motta

Now let me see....(old lady strokes her chin)

They used to have a couple of places in Boston Jazz Workshop, and Palls Mall, the there was Lennys on the Turnpike.  Every weekend there was someone, I got to see Miles Davis, Hugh Masekela, Keith Jarrett, Roland Kirk(he actually played Fenway Park), Art Tatum, Orntte Coleman, Sonny Rollins, to name a few.  There are many I didn't get to see of course.  But some great names are Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus, Charley Blakely, and Dizzie Gillespie, again to name a few.  I would love to see Wynton, but don't go out as much as I used to, by a long shot.

Cole Porter isn't really Jazz, he is showtunes. Gerschwin was brilliant.

Didnt know Esperanza Spalding, but I am digging it.

I typically enjoy 80s/90s smooth jazz such as such as Gregg Karukas (my favorite), Keiko Matsui, Peter White, and Shakatak, and Paul Hardcastle.

Gregg Karukas - Chasing The Wind  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpoMWaRXEkU


I also enjoy 60s bossa/samba such as Stan Getz, Elis Regina, Astrud Gilberto, and Tom Ze.

Elis Regina / Tom Jobim - Waters Of March   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97BwLXtLTT0&feature=related


And I like Flamenco music (traditional of course), and modern flamenco such as Armik and Ottmar Liebert.  They have a jazzy feel to them.

For some reason, I just cannot get into the big band jazz of the 30s-50s.

Didnt know Esperanza Spalding, but I am digging it.

I typically enjoy 80s/90s smooth jazz such as such as Gregg Karukas (my favorite), Keiko Matsui, Peter White, and Shakatak, and Paul Hardcastle.

Gregg Karukas - Chasing The Wind  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpoMWaRXEkU


I also enjoy 60s bossa/samba such as Stan Getz, Elis Regina, Astrud Gilberto, and Tom Ze.

Elis Regina / Tom Jobim - Waters Of March   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97BwLXtLTT0&feature=related


And I like Flamenco music (traditional of course), and modern flamenco such as Armik and Ottmar Liebert.  They have a jazzy feel to them.

For some reason, I just cannot get into the big band jazz of the 30s-50s.





I love Gregg's "Girl in a Red Dress".  Peter White has some fantastic tracks out ("Bueno Funk" being one of my favorites).  I like KM's "Black River" and anything by Paul Hardcastle (with and without Jazzmasters).  I think my fave PC is "Desire" but "Rain Forest" is great, too.  I have some CDs with Stan Getz and Marcus Belgrave (he is from Detroit and sings "What a Wonderful World" just like Louis Armstrong.

i apologize for both my les paul and mary ford links. they're actually awesome but neither are jazz.

as i remember i started off find some les paul actual jazz links (i swear they did some) but then i started wandering off looking for the best ones and forgot that jazz was the original idea behind the whole thing.  :-[

i apologize for both my les paul and mary ford links. they're actually awesome but neither are jazz.

as i remember i started off find some les paul actual jazz links (i swear they did some) but then i started wandering off looking for the best ones and forgot that jazz was the original idea behind the whole thing.  :-[


No worries as far as I'm concerned.

No worries as far as I'm concerned.
thx stats

i'm wondering when the biopix's comin out

thx stats

i'm wondering when the biopix's comin out


American Masters on PBS did a docu on him.  Maybe you can find it somewhere.

www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/paul_l_stub.html

I'll admit that jazz isn't exactly my strong point... :-do know one thing: you can't talk jazz and leave out this one lady (and not just because she's Dutch! ;)).

Sophie Milman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xjcoBat2E8&feature=related

No one has mentioned Louie Armstrong.  :( 

No one has mentioned Louie Armstrong.  :( 



I sort of did, but in a roundabout way.  I really only like his "signature" song and I feel like I am listening to him live when Marcus Belgrave, a flugelhornist/trumpeter from Detroit sings it because he sounds JUST LIKE Louis on "What a Wonderful World".

No one has mentioned Louie Armstrong.  :( 


There's a clip of him and Dizzy Gillespie on the 1st page, Kathie :)

I'm not sure if this guy is 'pure' jazz or 'smooth' jazz or something else  :-\\  Anyway we liked his music when we heard him in Vegas.

Carl Ferris

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I dig it, Karen :)


Miles and Coltrane excelling at So What

There's a clip of him and Dizzy Gillespie on the 1st page, Kathie :)


OMG that fabulous.  You can't get much better than those two.  As for Astrud Giberto "The Girl From Ipanema" is absolutely lovely.  Of course I'm not sure if that counts as jazz or lounge music. :-\\

OMG that fabulous.  You can't get much better than those two.  As for Astrud Giberto "The Girl From Ipanema" is absolutely lovely.  Of course I'm not sure if that counts as jazz or lounge music. :-\\


Ah we call it bossa nova, but it does have a jazzy feeling to it 8)

Ah we call it bossa nova, but it does have a jazzy feeling to it 8)


It's got that wonderful breezy feel to it.  I can listen to it repetitively.

OMG that fabulous.  You can't get much better than those two.  As for Astrud Giberto "The Girl From Ipanema" is absolutely lovely.  Of course I'm not sure if that counts as jazz or lounge music. :-\\



One of my favorite songs.  Can just imagine myself on a beach in the tropics

Can't have a Jazz thread without including the fusion supergroup. Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Lenny White and Al Di Meola.


Return To Forever...Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant pt. 1....  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3sT5Ucyw_0&feature=related


Return To Forever...Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant pt. 2...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YShQZUMe7g&feature=related                                                 

Alot of great ones mentioned :)

There was a great British jazz group in the early 80s called Shakatak.  They fused jazz with funk elements and created some really beautiful songs.  Here's two of them ...

Invitations:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmM85kJZKY
Night Birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkpZjnckAc

Anthony Braxton: Iridium, Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnxT3MGC-w4

Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum Duo Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUUQqpudBZ0

Art Ensemble Of Chicago live with Cecil Taylor (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah5OVkgUtF8

Cosmologic: X Marks the Spot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPlA9CTo3EE

Mark Dresser Duo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyp3ltph4sc

Marty Ehrlich doing his number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZgjsDIyQd0

Sun Ra Keyboard Solo (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWPl0AexnA

Latest crush Jason Moran

I've never seen this group perform live, but I have heard the drummer when he comes up to Big Rapids to play with others.  I didn't do a search for "Doxy" so I don't know if he plays it with his group, but check them out (this is just one of the videos they have available):



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illlK3qd_5k

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I love it,thank you for that!  8)

More fusion.....

The Dixie Dregs    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-zvHWBdY8Y&feature=related

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I love it,thank you for that!  8)



Glad you liked it.  I get to hear the drummer this weekend and next Saturday.  :) 8)  These are the BEST weekends!