Post What Jazz You're Listening To

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I thought I would get a new thread started dedicated to what Jazz you are listening to...

It's a broad church, manouche, bebop, fusion, blues-jazz, as long as it is jazz...

Post a video...

Concert Biréli Lagrene 2016 - Mouvements & Isn't She Lovely



Provide some information about the artist or a link to where more information can be found...

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Miles Davis - Tutu… as in, the whole album....

Anyone like Andy Brown? Great trad guitarist....
 
Tutu is a great album.

I have not heard of Andy Brown. I found this video...

 
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He's really good, but should ditch the Peavey. It distorts when he really bears down (like when he plays Berembau). A Twin with JBL's or a Jazz Chorus or Ampeg would work better.
 
An old favourite for me here in Australia is a local named Vince Jones - seen him live a few times.

I'd say he's at the "poppy" end of the Jazz spectrum, easier for the non-aficionado to appreciate.

Vince is an exceptional vocalist and trumpeter - there's not much guitar in the following tracks, though he has employed top-notch guitarists in his band over the years :


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Bs0hnuYLA[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HIwrQyGexg[/youtube]
 
I’ve been studying Desafinado in my lessons and have really been enjoying this rendition. Hearing the words in English helps me when I’m playing the melody on guitar. Not a big-name act or anything, just a really tasty execution  of a great song.

[youtube]-YkK5eSlX7M[/youtube]
 
Anyone checked out Louis Cole and KNOWER?

This is more straight ahead jazz (the singer is in KNOWER, too).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1vc9wV_lY

This one redefines the word tight.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEmD17kYsE
 
Is GB jazz enough?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIkHn3FKBYY[/youtube]
 
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubWGxdVdMw[/youtube]
Back in the late 70's and 80's (maybe the 90"s) they called this smooth jazz.
From Buffalo, NY
 
Abdullah Ibrahim, f/k/a Dollar Brand, "Blues for a Hip King".  Sublime groove here.


[youtube]YQDx4QXN52k[/youtube]
 
More

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNQ_A9r_hBA[/youtube]


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynn5ek56pVI[/youtube]
 
Caught half of a jazz show yesterday afternoon, performed by the man who is going to give my 12-year old daughter a few saxophone lessons (tenor).
He's a real talent, plays gigs all over NYC and outskirts and has connections to and has played with some pretty substantial names.
He plays tenor as well, most of what he played was that small combo jazz of the post-bop 50s-60s. Really nice.
He was using the performance as a showcase for a number of his students and some friends, ect.
His students were high school age and just plain phenomenal.

He's going to give her her first lesson (she has played tenor for a year in school and played Clarinet for a year before) tomorrow.
He will assess where she is--I think my wife agreed for about five lessons at first and see how she does.


Anyway, besides that, the jazz I listened to most recently was Miles Davis' Miles in the Sky. I think just about anything recorded by Miles' second great quintet is superb. I mean, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Handcock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams? Very difficult to name many bands with that much talent.
 
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Larry Carlton & SWR Big Band - Room 335


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfPs0VwhoYc[/youtube]
Click to expand...


Great tune from one of the grand-daddies of "smooth jazz."  Carlton hasn't lost a step, and he's on the high side of seventy. The big band arrangement feels a little wonky, though - the samba groove seems just a little cross-threaded, if that makes sense.  It's in time, but it's not as fluid as I'd hope.


Nevertheless, Larry's control and taste and dexterity are unassailable. 
 
Decided to return to this classic from 1986, possibly Jaco's last truly coherent effort as a studio player.  Here he appears in a trio with drummer Brian Melvin and pianist Jon Davis, who also shine on interpretations of a passel of standards.  Alas, Jaco was already in his spiral of mental illness, drug and alcohol use, and erratic behavior by this point, all of which would culminate in his death a year later.  But the music remains, and the music is stellar.


[youtube]BG0N0-Aiz2E[/youtube]
 
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