I require some more jazz music.

[TakingBackSunday]

I have all of the Miles Davis essentials, obviously -- Bitches Brew, Kind of Blue, and Sketches of Spain, as well as some other miscellaneous ones.  I have a great Louis Armstrong collection, but I could always use more and I never know where to start with him.  I have a bunch of early big band stuff too, from Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington.  In terms of new (or nu, I guess) jazz, I have that These Are The Vistas by The Bad Plus and Jaga Jazzist's new album, but not much else.

Based on everything I have, what direction should I head towards to collect some new material?  My favorite is definitely Cab Calloway's music and Davis' Bitches Brew.  One-Armed Bandit is wonderful too.

edit:  Oh, I have a bunch of Nina Simone as well.

[Don Flamenco]

Herbie Hancock -- Maiden Voyage
John Coltrane -- A Love Supreme, My Favorite Things
McCoy Tyner -- The Real McCoy
The Horace Silver Quintet -- Cape Verdean Blues
John Zorn -- The Gift
Charles Mingus -- Blues and Roots, Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Those all hover around what you've already heard.  It's gonna be hard finding stuff like Bitches Brew that isn't also by Miles Davis (lots of imitators and stuff people will say is "like" Bitches Brew but nothing that comes even within a mile of it)...but his stuff from the album Miles In the Sky through the end of the 70s is all pretty eclectic and wonderful...his work from the end of the 70s is downright insane.

The cool thing about Coltrane and Davis -- pick out a disc of theirs that you like, check out the liner notes, and get discs by people who played with them-- you'll have a stack of pretty much all the best jazz in no time.

[etiolate]

Hrm. Not a big Jazz buff. Bennie Goodman might work for you, though less lively than Calloway. Count Basie's stuff for big band, too.

For newer jazz, I like Fourplay, Boney James and Diana Krall. Boney James might even get you laid.

Female vocalists: Sarah Vaughn and Billie Holiday.

And Django Reinhardt for something peppy like Calloway but different from the rest of the suggestions I just made.

Oh, and
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[TakingBackSunday]

The cool thing about Coltrane and Davis -- pick out a disc of theirs that you like, check out the liner notes, and get discs by people who played with them-- you'll have a stack of pretty much all the best jazz in no time.

That's what I love about jazz, particularly in the older days of the genre.  It seemed like that entire scene was just a Who's Who in incredible jazz talent that foreshadowed so many great careers in the future.  And sometimes, sadly, great potential careers that never panned out.

Thanks for the recs, guys.

[Great Rumbler]

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[TakingBackSunday]

Heh.

[Himu]

dave brubeck quartet

mames has covered the basics

[Himu]

Also since yer a beatles fan, look into george benson, particularly the other side of abbey road album.

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[Himu]

you need some bossanova and even though it really ain't jazz in its purest form...some afrobeat

I will turn you into a darky, brandnew. come to the dark side.

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bebop is good too, but you shouldn't ignore stuff like billie holiday, even though a lot of people consider that more in the pop vein but don't believe them. jazz has different sounds.

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[recursivelyenumerable]

mingus: mingus mingus mingus mingus, and pithecanthropus erectus
thelonius monk: brilliant corners
ornette coleman: the shape of jazz to come

[Phoenix Dark]

Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

Soil & Pimp Sessions - Pimp Planet
how can you resist the album cover
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[etiolate]

If you liked that Gloomy Sunday by Billie, the original is not jazz, but often referred to as the "hungarian suicide song" and the legend behind it is pretty cool.

This I find to be the most haunting version:

[Eric P]

start with Art Blakey, then move on to anyone who was in his quartet.

"The only way Caucasian music will swing, is from the end of a rope" -Art Blakey.

[Beezy]

  @ PD with the Soil & Pimp Sessions recommendation. Thanks though, I haven't listened to that in a while. I completely forgot about it.

[BlueTsunami]

Chet Baker?

I also adore this Herbie Hancock track (with Tina Tuner on vocals)

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There's also Pat Metheny (as a solo artist) and Pat Metheny Group. His guitar work has this dreamy highly affective quality about it and he attacked Kenny G for being a hack

[Saint Cornelius]

I've really been digging Mulatu Astatke recently.



Wes Montgomery is the sure shot as well.



Finally, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Jean-Luc Ponty. He's the first jazz musician I was exposed to. The dude played with Zappa!

[Disposable White Guy]

On a somewhat related note, anyone have any fuzion recommendations?  A Stanley Clarke upright solo came up today during some random play in the car and I realize that I pretty much have some Return to Forever and Clarke solo stuff and that's it.

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[Don Flamenco]

Rediscovering this awesome album:


Get this if you want some damn good Fender Rhodes playin'

and apparently my On the Corner Complete Sessions box set is OOP and worth a couple hundred.  Crazy!  

Does anyone know any good shit that involves a lot of subdued playing where the bass takes the lead? I heard something like this many years ago, but never found anything like this. It was just bass stuff all the way. Trumpet/sax barely involved. Very smooth... anyone?

Sounds a bit like the Super Bass shows:
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Bass-Brown-John-Clayton/dp/B000003D5F

though this is just three bassists the whole time, no drums or anything.  

[BlueTsunami]

While looking for a streaming rendition of Yesterday from Donny Hathaway, I found out about this album....





The Orchestral arrangement behind the jazz piano is amazing, the music goes from grand to personal very affectively. The last minute of "Wave" (the track I posted) is about as uplifting as it gets.

[BlueTsunami]

BrandNew, you neeeEEEEEED to get "River: The Joni Letters". Shit is so good. I posted a single track from it but I'm listening to the whole album now and Herbie, Herbie, Herbie <3 Its also full of great vocalists...

Luminary guests lend vocals to a song apiece: Norah Jones ("Court and Spark"), Tina Turner ("Edith and the Kingpin"), Corinne Bailey Rae ("River"), Luciana Souza ("Amelia"), Leonard Cohen (with an unsettlingly sanguine version of "The Jungle Line"), even Mitchell herself ("Tea Leaf Prophecy").

http://www.amazon.com/River-Letters-Tracks-Amazon-com-Exclusive/dp/B000V9RRPQ

Another track from the album...

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[Smooth Groove]

Sophie Milman sounds like a more romantic version of Diana Krall and she's pretty hot: