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10-16-2002, 06:57 AM
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No - not that sort of chart  - so like the top 20 Jazz albums in your home town if you know. What Jazz albums are popular.
I am genuinely interested in what Jazz albums people are buying - but for a starter :
VIRGIN MEGASTORE'S Jazz chart
Unbelievably orderly queues forming outside…
Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street, London W1
1 Nils Petter Molvaer NP3 Emarcy
2 Dave Holland What Goes Around ECM
3 Anouar Braham Le pas du chat noir ECM
4 Iain Ballamy Veggie Rune Grammofon
5 Joe Zawinul Faces and Places ESC
6 Joshua Redman Elastic Warners
7 Miles Davis In a Silent Way CBS
8 Stacey Kent Collection Candid
9 Martin Taylor Solo P3
10 Fourplay Heartfelt RCA Victor
This is where I buy a lot of my Jazz albums - well more accurately where I browse for Jazz albums!
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10-16-2002, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Hampshire, UK | | | There isn't a Jazz chart displayed in the music shops near me. So I've no idea what people in my area are buying. However, (in best west-country accent) this month, I 'ave mostly been buying...
Herbie Hancock - The New Standard
Herbie Hancock - Dis Is Da Drum
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10-16-2002, 01:19 PM
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10-16-2002, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | Ahhhh, Canada.... the Mecca of jazz! I searched high and low for Vancouver, and then Canadian jazz charts. Based on what I've found, I can tell you that jazz is an alien concept in this country. I did find this Canadawide "Jazz" chart, but can't vouch for its reliability. I've never heard of some of these artists, and my guess is some of them ain't jazz, Bubba.
Top Ten Chart For
27 September 2002
# ARTIST TITLE LABEL
1 Joey DeFrancesco * Ballads And Blues * Concord
2 Patricia Barber * Verse * Blue Note
3 Chucho Valdes * Fantasia Cubana: Variatio * Blue Note
4 Brad Mehldau * Largo * Warner
5 Raymond Scott * Kodachrome * Basta
6 DJ Spooky * Optometry * Thirsty Ear
7 Les Hommes * Les Hommes * 18th St. Lounge
8 Eddie Palmieri * La Perfecta II * Concord
9 Hugh Ragin * Feel The Sunshine * Justin Time
10 Spring Heel Jack * Amassed * Thirsty Ear
Based on Jazz/Blues airplay on Canadian campus/community radio. |
10-16-2002, 02:02 PM
| | Registered User
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So, basically, whenever stuff came in from the Jazz labels of note (such as Blue Note, Putumayo, etc.) it would make the charts. I would also question that chart's reliability, if it came from c/c.
Like you say, X, a lotta that stuff probably isn't really jazz (although let's not start an argument on it, mmmkay?) since their categorizations also leave one scratching one's head at times. |
10-16-2002, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | Quote: Originally posted by thrash_jazz
Like you say, X, a lotta that stuff probably isn't really jazz (although let's not start an argument on it, mmmkay?) | No argument from me. It's just that when I read "DJ Spooky", I start to wonder. |
10-16-2002, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | Nils Petter Molvaer probably isn't "jazz" either, though it's exemplary of ECM's current output. |
10-16-2002, 02:33 PM
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10-16-2002, 04:59 PM
| | | | Yeah, maybe(?).
Thirsty Ear does have some nice stuff by Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Charles Gayle, Mat Maneri, etc.
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10-16-2002, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Queens, N.Y.(Near JFK Airport) | | Here's what's going on at J&R Music World. Go through the entire site, it's pretty extensive.
Here's the Jazz section: http://www.jandr.com/JRMusicPromoPag...Name=GP%2EJAZZ
And what's up with this?  She can sing? Click on the CD just below the Tom Petty CD. http://www.jandr.com/JRMusicPromoPag...NEWRELEASESALL
Jennifer Hewitt. I LOVE her. 
Mike J.
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10-16-2002, 06:28 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | Hey! Why isn't this excellent thread in the recordings forum? We are talking about charts of recordings, right? Furthermore, the recordings forum needs more jazz threads.
I'm not the mod here, so I don't know if I can move the thread. I'll try. Let's see what happens.
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10-16-2002, 06:29 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | Well, I tried and it seems that the mod of one forum can't move threads from another forum to his own, so the thread stays here.
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10-16-2002, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | Pretty impressive! They actually have a Top 20 list which seems to be a legitimate "jazz" chart (as opposed to our half-arsed, sorry excuse for a Top 10 Jazz chart). Then again, you're in Nueva York! |
10-16-2002, 07:22 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | Here is the Billboard/CDNow top ten jazz chart as of 27 September 2002.
1. Diana Krall: "The Look of Love"
2. Patricia Barber: "Verse"
3. Karrin Allyson: "In Blue"
4. Joshua Redman: "Elastic"
5. Dave Holland Big Band: "What Goes Around"
6. Brad Mehldau: "Largo"
7. Duke Ellington: "1969 All-Star White House Tribute"
8. Various Artists: "Verve/Unmixed"
9. Branford Marsalis Quintet: "Footsteps of Our Fathers"
10. Cassandra Wilson: "Belly of the Sun"
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10-16-2002, 07:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | Considering her popularity (I like her), and the fact that she is Canadian (a Vancouverite for that matter), I'm surprised That Diana Krall didn't make it to our list. |
10-16-2002, 07:35 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | Diana Krall is a favorite of mine. This particular album has been out nearly a year now and has topped the jazz charts much of that time. I am just as surprised as you, Xavier, that her CD does not appear in your Canadian jazz chart.
I wish I had her talent and her looks. Ah, heck! If I can't have her looks, I'd still be very pleased to have her talent.
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10-17-2002, 03:08 AM
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10-17-2002, 01:32 PM
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10-17-2002, 01:46 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | Embellisher, many, many thanks for the favor. We need many more jazz discussions in "Recordings."
Oh, by the way, I still think of myself as Jason Oldsted too. JO and Boplicity are alter-egos.
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10-22-2002, 11:19 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | I suppose the question now is - how many of these albums are actually "Jazz" and not something else?
Has anyone noticed how the Classical Charts have been besieged by manufactured groups which consist of attractive young women who appear dressed in revealing clothes on the cover? 
Thery make a "nod" to Classical music by doing versions of popular Classics and with huge Marketing Campaigns, zoom up the charts. Of course you don't need to sell so many albums to get high in these specialist charts, so the legitimate releases get pushed down and eclipsed in stores - incredibly depressing! 
But what can we do about things like this as fans of "specialist" music?
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