How can I get into Jazz?
Follow the groove, how players interact with each other.
You listen to it...
>>54124744StickyAlso, nice dubs
>>541247441. acquire jazz albums2. listen to jazz albums
>>54124744You have to learn about the tempo.
>>541247441. listen to a jazz album2. decide if you like it or not3. listen to another jazz album 4. goto 2
You pretty much have to be a musician
>>54124744listen to early jazz first. Swing, New Orleans Jazz, and Rag-influenced jazz are a lot less complex than Bebop and Third Steam 50s and 60s stuff. don't go for Trane and Miles first, instead, pick up Duke, Armstrong, Goodman, Shaw, and Tatum. Hell, you might even wanna start with Ragtime.>>54124760 is good advice. Jazz is all about interaction.
>>54124744get some super entry level shit, decide what you like about it, then keep listening to other shit with similar sounds. or decide you don't like it or need a change, and get the opposite
It's also pretty essential to listen to some live jazz, and would help to learn something about jazz theory and performance by taking a class/reading books/etc. I didn't really "get jazz" until I heard it performed live and understood more about how it works.
>>54124820Ty bye
Start with your local jazz radio station, see what you like
>>54124843no offense, but this chart is rubbish.JTG's charts are better, since they actually detail the styles of jazz that entry-level albums represent. this one is just plain vague.
>>54125139This.One of the best made charts for any genre.
>>54124821This is very good advice. Good job, anon
>>54124990>your local jazz radio stationThat's dodgy territory. You may just end up with KennyG.fm .
>>54124843>give me something traditional!>recommends a Monk albumThis chart needs to be reworked.
It sucks and I’m tired of hearing about it. Believe me I’ve tried getting into Jazz, like you. I just hate the parts I hate about it more than I like the little things there are to like. The batting average is just so low I can’t bear the dead time between highlights being filled with all that noodling. It’s vain music.
>>54125242It must suck leading an existence like this.Do you also hate classical music?
>>54125167Can't speak for a lot of that list but damn that piano trio column is on point.
>>54125213like i said, this chart is rubbish. it's literally all buzzwords and no substance. for example, what makes Maiden Voyage "daring" and not "chill", when it's a modally-focused cool album just like Kind of Blue? in fact, it could be considered even less daring because in 65, when it came out, modal jazz was nothing new.i'm not trying to jerk off JTG, but he put great work into >>54125139 and >>54125167.
>>54125242>I don't like it so nobody canok retard
Eh, I'm listening Benny Goodman right now.
>>54125308Thoughts? He's not a bad place to start, very catchy but well made stuff. He's the kind of person you could recommend to nearly everyone. Even normies.
>>54124820agree with this post, anyone looking to get into jazz would do good to start with these artists. just listen to "west end blues" and you'll be on the right path
>>54125139>>54125213>>54125306I haven't actually looked at that chart in a long time and I don't know much about jazz, so sorry for posting something misleading. It does look like the other charts in this thread are better and more detailed.
>>54125213was gonna say the same exact thing
>>54125242>>54125257>>54125307Pretty sure this is an Albini quote
>>54124787Not quite my tempo.
>>54125596fuck you're right im a retard
>>54125655destroyed :)In all honesty, I am not a fan of Jazz.I like Classical, but I am too entry level to consider myself a fan. I adore what i have heard so far
>>54125687k
>>54125715:)
>>54125779:*^)
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>>54125139>>54125167>I recommend smoking marijuana while enjoying your jazzlol did not see that one coming, nice
>>54125864¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>54125888We had a big argument over on /jazz/ about this a while back. There's a few copies of this chart floating around where that's been edited off.
Learn to play. There's really no point in listening to jazz if you can't understand everything that's going on. It's like watching a foreign film where dialogue I important but you can't understand the language and they didn't included subtitles.I always cringe when non-musicians try to have a discussion about jazz with me."that sax sounded awesome xD!"
>>54125139>Unit Structures>Free Jazz
>>54126568That's a bit mean. You can certainly appreciate it without playing it and there's enough superficial stuff to discuss with someone who doesn't have theory that having a conversation with someone who is just enthusiastic can be as interesting as one with someone who has got theory.
>>54126568>I always cringe when non-musicians try to have a discussion about jazz with me.as opposed to what"that (more in depth description of what you're hearing) sounds awesome xD!"
>>54126568This is the reason jazz is dead. Music that requires an education to be able to play and understand is irrelevant. No relevant form of music is ever taught in school or is "needed to be played to understand what is going on."
>>54126568Do you really think the average person in the big band/swing era knew what was going on harmonically? Most people didn't, they just enjoyed the sounds, danced and loved the feeling of the music.
>>54126568Learn to play. There's really no point in listening to shoegaze if you can't understand everything that's going on. It's like watching a foreign film where dialogue I important but you can't understand the language and they didn't included subtitles.I always cringe when non-musicians try to have a discussion about shoegaze with me."that Hoover sounded awesome xD!"
>>54128531Learn to play. There's really no point in listening to vapourwave if you can't understand everything that's going on. It's like watching a foreign film where dialogue I important but you can't understand the language and they didn't included subtitles.I always cringe when non-musicians try to have a discussion about vapourwave with me."that FL Studio sounded awesome xD!"
>>54128531>>54128559>>54128371>>54128307>>54126568>Getting shat on this hard.
>>54128694i didn't even get shat on, i just liked the meme that>>54128531 started. i actually agree with the guy to some degree
>>54128307On the surface, this seems like a sound argument, but young students have more access to instruments and music lessons now than any time during the 1920's-1970's. Back in the 1930's, you were either self-taught, had some sort of connections, or could afford to get lessons. Any kid attending a public school (in the US, at least) can learn the sax or trumpet.