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09-20-2012, 04:28 PM
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Hey guys.. what are some players to listen to that i could learn the jazz language from that are easy to understand and play..
Im thinking of more guys like Louis Armstrong or lester young..
Guys that play slower that are easier to trasncribe to learn some jazz language as opposed to the more faster coltrane etc stuff..
do you understand my question?
Transcribing guys that are challenging but not impossible to get slowly better..
Thanks
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09-20-2012, 04:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Check out Sweets Edison, Ben Webster, Arnett Cobb for starters. Roots of jazz, steeped in the blues, very easy to hear, but still hip.
Might also listen to some Grant Green. Not everyone is a fan, but again easy to hear, inside the changes, repeats himself...A LOT.
Good vocabulary.
I understand your question perfectly. It's a very good question.
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09-21-2012, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Los Angeles, Ca. | | | Jim Hall and Paul Desmond together. EASY TO LIVE. Nice album. I listen to it over and over. |
09-22-2012, 07:31 AM
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09-22-2012, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by John Crosley  Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue. Nice Jazz Blues album. Major Holley on bass keeping it swinging and solid. | AMEN! |
09-22-2012, 09:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | Excellent question. Generally speaking, earlier jazz tends to be harmonically simpler than later jazz like bebop, so you're on the right track with Louis Armstrong and his contemporaries. Having said that, there are some simpler movements later on, including some modal jazz, and some of the West Coast / "cool" jazz. You can't go wrong listening to Miles' playing on KINDA BLUE, and then branching out from there.
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09-23-2012, 12:31 AM
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09-23-2012, 04:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Cartersville, Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kreider204 Excellent question. Generally speaking, earlier jazz tends to be harmonically simpler than later jazz like bebop, so you're on the right track with Louis Armstrong and his contemporaries. Having said that, there are some simpler movements later on, including some modal jazz, and some of the West Coast / "cool" jazz. You can't go wrong listening to Miles' playing on KINDA BLUE, and then branching out from there. | I was going to suggest Kind of Blue, but thought parts of it were a bit more complex than the OP is looking for. But I will second this and raise Brubeck's Time Out as well
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09-24-2012, 03:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chipping Norton, Oxon, England | | | Back in my school days My Fair Lady hit the London stage. At that time we listened to all kinds of music and the MFL tunes were good so we bought and listened to the LP. Then Andre Previn recorded the jazz version, with Shelley Mann and Leroy Vinegar. Listening to both those records, particularly the way Previn improvised on the original songs, gave me all the early grounding I ever needed. It showed how jazz was 'put together'. And Vinegar was one of the best walkers ever. |
09-25-2012, 03:20 PM
| | | | Ive listened to all the suggestions so far and they have been outstanding guys...
please everyone and anyone recommend all you can
midnight blue was perfect!!!
man now i am starting to hear famous licks from the source; if i listen to the right people i know i can just get an amazing vocabulary of jazz
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09-28-2012, 05:29 PM
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