any good jazz ?
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Maybe you should try something like the Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters (Verve) 8)
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It is not Jazz but very good instrumental music.
My wife just give me a Pink Martini CD 8)
www.pinkmartini.com
It is not Jazz but very good instrumental music.
"Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis is a must-have.
Some of the recent Joshua Redman quartet/quintet albums are good - "Moodswing" and "Freedom In The Groove" are awesome, IMO. McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clark did a decent album a while ago - can't remember what it was called... "McCoy Tyner With Stanley Clark" maybe! Some of the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette albums are great as well, although are a bit more, um... "muso" than most mainstream jazz shit - "Tokyo '96" is my favourite.
On the jazz-funk side of things, "Headhunters" by Herbie Hancock and Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" are definitive albums. If you're more into funk/soul grab a load of James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Fred Wesley/JB's and Tower Of Power albums (the 60s/70s stuff, not the cheese).
MuFu.
P.S. Actually Herbie did a tribute/collaborative album quite recently called "Gershwin's World" with Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder etc. That's definitely worth checking out.
Some of the recent Joshua Redman quartet/quintet albums are good - "Moodswing" and "Freedom In The Groove" are awesome, IMO. McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clark did a decent album a while ago - can't remember what it was called... "McCoy Tyner With Stanley Clark" maybe! Some of the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette albums are great as well, although are a bit more, um... "muso" than most mainstream jazz shit - "Tokyo '96" is my favourite.
On the jazz-funk side of things, "Headhunters" by Herbie Hancock and Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" are definitive albums. If you're more into funk/soul grab a load of James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Fred Wesley/JB's and Tower Of Power albums (the 60s/70s stuff, not the cheese).
MuFu.
P.S. Actually Herbie did a tribute/collaborative album quite recently called "Gershwin's World" with Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder etc. That's definitely worth checking out.
MuFu said:
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. To me, jazz is all about instruments and what you love to hear. Me, I'm a trumpet guy, so you'll usually see me listening to Miles, Dizzie, Wynton, Maynard, Harry James, Mike Vax, or Stan Marks. Like that. Satch too, of course, but not a lot of quality recordings of him.
