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My passion for Jazz music has been reignited since watching Sakamichi no Apollon (and made me listen to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Moanin') !!

This topic is for you guys and gals to recommend and share your favourite Jazz artists and/or songs from any era.

So post your favourite Jazz artists and/or songs which you recommend listening to (and its sub-genre if possible)!

OH, and to start off I recommend: "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane (tenor saxophonist). here's a link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30FTr6G53VU

ps: Sakamichi no Apollon is the SHIT!! (pardon my language)

Well, Ella, Louis and Billie stay da shit in my heart, but I also enjoy very much to listen to: Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Jamie Cullum, Matthew Herbert Big Band.

Also, listening to Pink Martini makes me feel sexy. :)

Oh and Claude Nougaro... A French singer, huge fan of jazz, was a marvel to me. I miss him.

Before I watched the first episode I was wondering if they'd be playing original tunes or jazz standards, and now I'm wondering what other jazz standards they'll (hopefully) be playing.

Here's another Art Blakey performance of a classic Duke Ellington number:

A couple of some albums in the store in the background in the first episode of Sakamichi no Apollon:

What a way to make your first post & thread.

Love jazz but know next to fuck all about it. Still might as well contribute.





The first one the simpsons lol & the second was through 2pac.

Keiko Matsui is at the moment my favourite artist, its all pretty much instrumental jazz no vocals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzqsWxau_gI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHr5onkucpY

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCRI1Kf6Bk

Not sure how to post it as a window as i dont post alot but enjoy

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Try this, I'm sure most of you haven't listened:

Hopefully the protagonist listens to some Keith Jarrett sometime in the show.



Jarrett, Coltrane, Ayler, Brotzmann, Mingus, Dolphy, Komeda, and Kaoru Abe are all terrific jazz artists.

Oh man. This show surprised me so much. I didn't read the summary to it; just watched it since it was getting lots of hype.

When the jazz kicked in... I fell in love with this show!~

Okay -- here are some of my recs.

I LOVE Jazz Fusion. It's one of my favorite genres. Fusion (if you don't know) is the blending of Rock and Jazz into one amazing genre. It's upbeat Jazz with rock influences basically.

The masters of Jazz fusion include but are not limited to: Dennis Chambers (amazing drummer), Greg Howe (great guitarist), Victor Wooten (... this man plays a bass almost better than most guitarists can play guitar). Also check of Bireli Lagrene. Fantastic guitarist.

Here are some fusion songs you may like (particularly if you liked JUST the drumming or even the songs in the background):

I love this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSH28tEk0q8
The drumming is amazing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Qw9TwJOEM
And here's some organ/sax play for ya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7xUeurLcE

I go on for ages rec'ing some Jazz.. I love this stuff.

You can never get enough Coltrane.


I hope they keep making "recommendations" every episode.



That's the second recommendation of him I hear today. I'm so downloading some of his work.

I would recommend his album "Machine Gun". Very abrasive and intense album, not only one of my favorite jazz albums, but one of my favorite albums overall.

Hegemony, if you like fusion, I hope you know Magma

With insane drumming by Christian Vander :


In live it's totally eargasmic It was one of the best concert of my life ^^


Some recent jazz :

- Avishai Cohen (bass) :


- Ibrahim Maalouf (trumpet) :

I'm not familiar with Jazz but there's a band called BadBadNotGood that makes instrumental music that's a mix between Hip Hop and Jazz. Their newest album only just came out, and I think it's worth a listen.

I can't believe there's not only an anime about jazz but you awesome people are actually discussing jazz in a thread. what's more, most of you listen to some of the greatest musicians this music has to offer.

I have been a jazz pianist for almost 20 years. I've played with guys like Joe Lovano, Billy Drewes, Dan Wall, Ed Schuller, Sean Jones, Jamey Haddad, Joe Locke, and too many more great players to name. (I even played one concert with the late great Louis Bellson!)

Like a lot of cats before me, I live and die by the music and I can safely say that I take jazz as seriously as anyone on MAL and would be delighted to discuss jazz-related topics or make individual recommendations to anyone.

There are a couple short tracks on my old MySpace page for the skeptics or those who just like hearing new music.

I think everyone in this thread is awesome and hope to make some new friends. :)

-Michael

Jazz was something I strayed away from because of how different it is... But after taking a look at some of the videos on here... I think I'm a fan now. This is pretty damn epic.