How do I into Jazz?
>>53034260Start at pic related
>>53034301>>53034260cool jazz sucks ass
>>53034340Why do you not like it?
>>53034260Hannibal Buress makes jazz?
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to comeCharles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Siner LadyCecil Taylor - Unit structures (this might be a little to much for a starter, but keep it in mind)Sam Rivers - Crystals>>53034340This.
>>53034364it's boring cocktail party music. nothing ever happens.
>>53034433Why do you not like cool jazz?
>>53034447it's boring cocktail party music. nothing ever happens.
Why do people don't like cool jazz? It was what opened my mind to the genre, that and big band.
I'd like something like soil & pimp sessions but I haven't found anything like it, or maybe I've been searching on the wrong places https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHpbxkKVnEU
>>53034340take 5 isn't cool jazz you shit.
>>53034340>In a Silent Way>Cool
>>53034495they listened to Chet Baker and Dave Brubeck and then never dug any deeper into the music
>>53034260Jazz becomes much more interesting the more you know about it structurally. The genre is all about improvisation, and the musicians having mastered their instruments. There's a recurring chorus or chord progression throughout the song, and the musicians take turns soloing over it. What makes it interesting is each musician's unique style coming out in the music during their turn to solo. A band can play the same song twice, and the two takes will be completely different as they improvise new melodies over the chorus.Free jazz and solo pieces are a bit different, but that is the basic premise of a lot of jazz.
>>53034367I first thought that was a statement and went looking for it
>>53034260Check out Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, probably the most accessible jazz album around.
>>53034260This album and Chet Baker Sings are two of my favorite jazz albums. They're pretty easy to get into too.
>>53034260Listen to anything by the Mingus Big Band. They may be a legacy band but goddamn they may be one of the best big band of the last 30 years. That famous recording of Moanin that everyone thinks is by Charles Mingus (because the Youtube video everyone watches that just says Charles Mingus - Moanin) yeah, that's them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY
>>53034260Or for a better, album by album list here we go:Start with the basics:Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (duh)John Coltrane - Giant StepsDuke Ellington - Jazz at NewportDave Brubeck Quartet - Time OutCharlie Parker - Charlie ParkerThen go a little deeperMiles Davis - MilestonesJohn Coltrane - A Love SupremeThelonious Monk - With John Coltrane at Carnegie HallCharles Mingus - Uh UmSonny Rollins - Saxophone ColossusCharlie Parker - The Quintet at Massey HallMore to Listen toMiles Davis - Round about MidnightMiles Davis - Bitches BrewWeather Report - Heavy WeatherJohn Coltrane - Blue TraneOrnette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to ComeCharles Mingus - The ClownJoshua Redman - Freedom in the GrooveMiles Davis - Birth of the CoolDuke Ellington - Such Sweet ThunderDuke Ellington - Nutcracker SwingDuke Ellington - Far East SuiteDizzy Gillespie - Groovin HighMiles Davis - WalkinMiles Davis - RelaxinMiles Davis - CoolinMiles Davis - Miles AheadHerbie Hancock - Maiden VoyageArt Blakey - MoaninJohn Coltrane - My Favorite ThingsJohn Coltrane - AscensionMahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of FireChick Corea - Light as a FeatherEsperanza Spalding - Radio Music ScocietyBrad Meldau - Brad Meldau Trio LiveBela Fleck and the Flecktones - Bela Fleck and the FlecktonesBela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic HippoBela Fleck and the Flecktones - Left of CoolBela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the QuickThe last section is what came to mind listed as I though of them.I tried to avoid collections so there is a lack of jazz from the bebop era and earlier.Artists like Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins (especially Body and Soul) Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, etc are important.
>>53036527Continuing from aboveThe importance of Miles Davis the Duke Ellington Orchestra cannot be overstated.The Ellington was the greatest big band ever, the pieces that Duke and Billy Strayhorn wrote took jazz from popular music to the status of art music. It wouldn't be until Charles Mingus that someone came close the writing ability of Duke and Strayhorn for mixed ensembles.For Miles Davis, pretty much every who is everyone following the Be-Bop era (and even in that era) either played for/with Miles Davis or for an musician who became famous in Miles Davis' bands.SaxophonistsCharlie Parker (Bird was the person who mad Miles)John ColtraneSonny RollinsGerry MulliganWayne ShorterCannonball AdderlyBranford MarsalisTrombonist J. J. JohnsonBassistsPaul ChambersRon CarterMarcus MillerDave HollandPianistsBill EvansHorace SilverWynton KellyHerbie HancockJoe ZawinulChick CoreaRed GarlandKeith JarretDrummersElvin Jones (later with Trane in his Quartet)Philly Joe JonesJimmy CobbBilly CobhamAlso Miles was at the forefronts of Be Bop and Hard Bop and pretty much invented Cool Jazz (Birth of the Cool), Modal Jazz (Milestones, Kind of Blue), Post Bop (his second great quintet stuff), and Jazz Fusion (Bitches Brew and onward).