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Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?

Let me explain, I have tried to like jazz for over 30 years. I rarely find something I like. To me it sounds too disjointed, like everyone is trying to out do the others and they are all playing a different song. I know there has to be some good instrumental smooth jazz artists I am missing. If you have any suggestions of whom to try let me know. Some that are on my Jazz playlist is Pat Metheny-"It's for you"   Bill Frisell _"Heard it through the grapevine"  Holly Cole, George Benson... for an example of things I do like.

 

I'd love to have a 100 song Jazz playlist. So what'ch got for me?

Thanks

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fcasimiro
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Tom Scott and the LA Express - Tom Cat

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akg_ca
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Think light jazz, like CHRIS BOTTI …..


https://youtu.be/gdwDa3YlgTg

 

 

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yoyoyaya
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@OP Chet Baker, Paul Desmond. And though some people hate CTI recordings, a lot of Wes Montgomery's CTI recordings are very listenable. And speaking of Wes Montgomery, Lee Ritenour's Wes Bound is an outstanding recording - in the quality of its engineering and musicianship.

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echolane
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I am exactly like you.  I’ve tried for decades to like jazz.  It just doesn’t grab me much at all.  However, I have one recording I could gladly listen to again and again.  It’s the only jazz record I can say that about and I have a small collection of recordings by very well known jazz artists.

I came across this recording thanks to Michael Fremer.  He was invited to speak at our Audiophile Foundation and he talked about this recording.  I decided that if Michael Fremer recommended it I would buy it.  I have a perfectly good turntable and a relatively large vinyl collection, but I don’t buy LPs any more as I’m hooked on streaming my own large CD collection.  I made an exception and I am very very glad I did.

the recording  is named “Rufus Reid and Caellan Cardello.  It’s just a piano and a double bass.

The recording was done in a small performance space in NYC and billed as “New Directions in Jazz Piano”

rbstehno
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I subscribe to Qobuz and Tidal using Roon and if I wanted to listen to jazz, from Roon I would go into Genres, then it gives you 20-30 options of what kind of jazz you want to listen to: contemporary, fusion, soul jazz, smooth jazz and many more. Subscribing to Qobuz/Tidal allows you to you to listen to millions of tracks in each genre without ever buying anything

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