help me find more jazz that I like?

Question

I'm looking to expand my jazz collection. I have a pretty good grasp on the basics, but there's so much jazz out there that I dislike, so I find myself a little lost.

I like stuff with a strong emphasis on piano and/or upright bass, but I'm pretty open-minded. Artists I already know of and love are Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, and Dizzy Gillespie. I also like pretty much all big band I hear. I'm not very fond of vocals in jazz, and from the little I understand my taste tends to run towards be-bop. I'll take any advice offered, but I'm particularly interested right now in tracking down some really good jazz pianists.

Oh, and I'd prefer stuff from back in the day, like maybe pre-1970s, but again, I'm pretty open-minded.

Answer 1

Duke Ellington

&

Count Basie

Answer 2

Traditional Jazz recorded among the years 1923 and 1931, performed via smaller models (four-nine musicians). My favourite musicians are: Bix Beiderbecke, younger Benny Goodman (-1933), younger Louis Armstrong (-1930), Jack Teagarden (-1933), Frank Teschemacher, younger Gene Krupa (-1931), Annette Hanshaw, Red Nichols (-1930), Adrian Rollini (-1930), Jabbo Smith (-1929), early Duke Ellington, (-1929), younger Billie Holiday (-1937), Miff Mole (-1929) Although I like additionally Hardbop and NuJazz, I'm extra into that historic stuff. If I'm now not taking note of jazz, it is classical track similar to Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Rachmaninoff.. My severe opinion on xylophone is that I do not find it irresistible as a jazz software. Milt Jackson and Lionel Hampton perhaps exceptions however I'm now not so much into xylophone...

Answer 3

Some bebop / hard boppers for you to sort out but first listen to :-



Jazz At Massey Hall rec' 5/53 on Original Jazz Classics OJC 044 with Parker,Gillespie,Powell,Mingus,Roach.



And then the following :-



Clifford Brown - Alone Together rec' 8/54 - 1/56 on Verve 526373-2

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch rec' 2/64 on Blue Note 98793

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme rec' 12/64 on Impulse 051155-2

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners rec' 12/56 on Original Jazz Classics OJC 026

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus - rec' 10/60 on Candid CCD 79005

Milt Jackson - Bags Meets Trane rec' 1/59 on Atlantic 81227 3685-2

Max Roach In 3/4 Time rec' 9/56 3/57 on Verve 000202102.



Some hard bop pianists for you :-



McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy rec' 4/67 on Blue Note 97807-2

Bud Powell - Bud Playes Bird rec' 10-12/57 & 1/58 on Roulette 8 37137

Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers - rec' 11/54 on Blue Note 46140-2

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters rec' '73 on Columbia CK 65123

Red Garland - High Pressure rec' 11-12/57 on Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 349.

Answer 4

Jazz vocals in the 40s may be scat singing or jive singing but in the 50s you find groups like The Double Six of Paris, Swingle Singers, Blue Stars of France, the Hi-Lo's, and more recently, Manhattan Transfer, or New York Voices.



My favorite jazz pianist is Bud Powell although Nat Cole was great at the piano, and Jazz bassist Ray Brown.

Answer 5

Being a tenor saxophonist, My personal favorite songs are Giant Steps, Lazy Bird- By John Coltrane. I like A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie. I love Bloomdido by Charlie Parker. Also Art Blakey. BUT if you want piano look up Thelonious Monk Tracks! Hope this helps!

Answer 6

So you like bop? Then give Kenny Garrett, Chris Potter, Steve Coleman, Phil Woods, and Cannonball Adderly a try.