Are you a jazz man or a blues man? Or woman?

Jazz man.
Fusion, but I also like rock fusion, progressive styles, avant garde jazz, even some acid jazz at times. Bepop is good too.

 

i'm a fat sideburned rocker. so i am for blues...

 

I like everything

Well maybe not death metal so much, or opera

or Backstreet Britney Sync

These days I mostly play blues, but am starting to get my feet wet in jazz. I've been listening to jazz for 30 years, though.

The trick to "getting" jazz for a blues guy is to listen to the bluesy jazz guys. Probably 50% of the recorded jazz repertoire is nothing but blues.

Organ combos with tenor sax and guitar are a good place to start...Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, etc. Also the sax "honkers" from the 50s, especially Jimmy Forrest ("Night Train") and Illinois Jacquet. You should then check into the early Count Basie sides (try the "Swingsation" compilation).

There are a number of great blues singers who worked in jazz bands: Joe Williams (with Basie), Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Rushing (also with Basie)...you can't go wrong with any of these guys, also a cool early 60s Lou Rawls album with Les McCann called "Stormy Monday" that is sort of a soul/jazz/blues hybrid.

Finally, I'll toss in the standard recommendation for Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" which has no real blues tunes on it but should be very accessible to anyone who likes blues.

 

Mingus. Benny Goodman. Ellington. Cab Calloway. To name a few.

Louis Jordan. T-Bone Walker.

I know what you mean, though. Jazz might have started with blues, but much of it has lost that root, IMO.

 

Blues. Muddy Waters and stuff like that.

 

First let me say that I enjoy most blues music....

Now...Blues has a generic feel to it in that it all sounds relatively the same and is very basic to play. (As is rockabilly.) Blues timing is also consistent. There is really nothing else to know about the blues once you find that groove.

This said, I can't wait to get into a jazz group

 

Make mine polka!


But after that, definitely Jazz, then blues... not that I don't LIKE the blues, it's just that jazz appeals to me more.

 

Blues for me, specifically the 3 Kings, Albert, BB, and Freddie.

 

My favorite band is G.love and the special sauce, I don't even know what to call it but it's kind of a white boy urban blues with funk, Oh well I don't feel too bad because even G.love can't describe what kind of music it is.

 

er, 6/8 I think...

(shome mishtake shurely... hic!)

- Wil

Oh, by the way - I listen to all music. There is Good Music, and there is Bad Music - the trick is determining which is which, but as FZ said "...Music is The Best"...

 

Blues guy here. The Three Kings are right on. Add in a little Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf and Luther Allison.

 

im a punk rock kid

but im into jazz too, not so much blues, its too slow

 

i like to LISTEN to blues slightly more, but it's a little boring to play bass to, i'd much rather try to improvise a walking line to some jazz changes. i'm tryin' to be a jazzer, i'll get there someday.

 

Blues into Jazz. After playing in a blues band for about 4 years I go pretty bored with it. Jazz I can never get bored with. As far as blues I really can't listen it unless it is someone I still find exiting like Roy Buchanan.


Kennie Wayne Shepard is not the blues.

 

No 'real' Blues?!
"Freddie Freeloader" is a 12-bar Blues...blantantly!
And when Bird blows "Blues In F" @300+ bpm...it's still a Blues!

Caramba!

 

i'm a jazz guy to the core.


give me giant steps at 250 and i'm happy.


and btw, 6/8 and 3/4 aren't the same, 3/4 is perfect time, imperfect prolation, and 6/8 is imperfect time, perfect prolation, as stated by Phillipe de Vitry.



damn...too much early music history class for me.


jason