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Double Bass Recommend some Jazz.

mebusdriver

mebusdriver

Jun 11, 2001
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#1
I'm looking for some new music. I've been playing along with various recordings of some standards for a jazz combo I'm in. I've discovered that my favorite group setting is a quartet with most of the focus on the key players. I've been getting into Monk a lot and I love his compositions and they way he always keeps the melody in mind when soloing.

I like jazz that has really strong melodies that dominate the songs and are more about the composition. Not really into the 7 minute chops sessions. I was hoping to get some recommendations of some artist, new and old, or some albums like this that you guys love. I play with a big horn section so these guys are always making me check out horn players. But I'm really more drawn towards the key players. I just don't know of many of the "greats" or the really popular guys. Thanks for any help!
 
#13
You can't go wrong with any of the Blue Note recordings from the early 60s. Dexter Gordon's "Go!" is a recent favorite of mine from that era. Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Jimmy Smith all recorded on that label, and it's all good! +1 to "Hubcap", also...
 
#14
dalo320 said:
I'm sure many will chime in. But if you like keys players, there's no better place to start than Bill Evans IMO. Although all of his albums are great, check out Explorations,Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and Live at the Village Vanguard.
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millertx said:
+1 I really like his Portrait of Jazz
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These two erudite TB'ers happen to have mentioned 4 of my favorite albums in their posts! Minor quibble: it's "Portrait In Jazz".

For some quartet/quintet stuff, I've recently become somewhat obsessed with Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil" and "Juju". Every track is so outrageously good on both of those albums.

I look forward to seeing others' suggestions too. Happy listening!
 
#18
My goodness, is there REALLY an elephant in the room?



Mid-period Miles Davis. Start maybe with the Hank Mobley quintet, which would be "Carnegie Hall" and "Friday and Saturday at the Black Hawk." If you crave melody over chops you are pointing toward Miles -- not, of course, that he or his bands lacked chops.


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Two elephants? No way!



There is a ton of melodic Coltrane. You're not looking for 7-minute chops-fest? "Coltrane Plays The Blues." "Ballads." "Blue Trane." I could listen to "Blue Trane" for a long, long time.



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Three elephants? In one room?



That Sonny Rollins guy, he's pretty much all melody all day. "Saxophone Colossus." "The Bridge." "Way Out West."



Pretty damn crowded room!
 
#19
Id recommend starting out old school. John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong are some of my favorites.

My Dad is a jazz pianist and Ive always been around jazz I mainly listen to rock though.

Modern jazz is just different. Still good though. I do prefer swing jazz and big band from the 20s to early the 50s.
 

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