To clear the air, I have not been trying to like Jazz for 30+ years, I am coming back to try and learn what I like because I have a great system and a lot more time. (I rebuilt my Audio System from my 15 years absence from it because life had other ideas.) I want to explore new music now. @howardlee You are absolutely correct, my head is spinning with all the suggestions it is absolutely overwhelming. I realized 2 days ago I have 75-100 Jazz CD’s on the bottom shelf of my collection. I collected Jazz when I was in my 30’s (I am 70 now) that I can play and research what floated my boat long ago. I have many from the suggestions on the 4 pages of this thread so far. It’s nice to hear others have the same question as I, I am not alone here. Jazz lovers sure a passionate group! Happy Holidays to all.
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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You got your 100 songs yet? You’re right- it ended up being a great thread- there are plenty of names I haven’t heard of before in this list, need to make note of these and check them out. Not sure what your streaming options are OP but the wonderful thing about Roon Radio is you play one song you find that floats your boat, and it plays other tracks similar to it, with the same music "style" and as a result you discover wonderful new tunes you never knew existed, similar to reading threads like this. Hope your favourite teams won yesterday. |
Here are some Jazz playlists any one of you can use or cull from. (A while back I tired to start a playlist Qobuz Playlists Exchange but it fizzled..much updating to those lists now anyway) For stepping into Jazz, Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper are easy entry giants to listen to. "Cleveland blues" By Sonny Stitt and "Patricia" by Art Pepper have rocked my world for decades. https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329909 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329915 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329919 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329923 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329930 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329935 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329940 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329941 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329942 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329943 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329944 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329946 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329945 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329947 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329948 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329949 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/8893054 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2329951 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3213225 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3340452 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3463023 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3480249 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3546345 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/5339546 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/5543617 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/6387584 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/6641277 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/7172436 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/8018652 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/9578285 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/9783006 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/11059042 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/12345073 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/12893162 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/13234132 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/13900631 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/15434064 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/15947438 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/16262535 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/16447242 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/17003464 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/17644214 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/19134843 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/21732983 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/21733004 https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/2332249 |
To appreciate and like jazz one has to understand, and more importantly, "HEAR and PROCESS" the chord structures and chord progressions. Without that ability, jazz sounds like a lot of unstructured notes randomly put together. The term Jazz was coined in the late 19th century based on the music genre originated from New Orleans but classical composers like Bach and Mozart could have been called the jazz musicians in their days. Just listen to any classical performance that is called "Variations on a theme by ...." and if you can make out the melody on each variation then you can "hear" jazz. Jazz has evolved into many forms but if you give the chord progression of a song to a group of jazz musicians they can play together based on it without needing to know what song they are playing. Each musician can take turn improvising using that progression while the others provide support based on the same. If you can hear when one of them stray from the progression then you can "hear" jazz. If you can't chances are you won't like jazz. Some of these chords and progressions can be very complex. Brazilian jazz has very weird chords and you have to be able to recognize them when you hear them. Most popular music has simpler chords and progressions with an easily recognized melody. |
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If you already have that many jazz cd’s, one of them must be Dave Brubeck- Time out.
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