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
Well, I like "Complete Communion" with Don Cherry. However, the following displays his "signature" abrasive edge that (contrary to my earlier characterization) is not limited to the upper register of the horn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyszt16CjNo I’m fine with players who vary the texture of their tone. I simply find unrelieved abrasiveness fatiguing. It’s like a knife with a burr on the blade that "snags" everything it touches.
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First off let me say thank you to @larryi for suggesting to us here to check out Gato. I try to give comments with thankfulness in my intentions when I post here. Someone told me long ago that, ’someone’s dog can be another’s hit’. And that same person told me there are only two types of music, ’good and bad’. My first ever Gato Barbieri ’album’ I bought was Caliente! He did a cover of Marvin Gaye’s I want you and I’ve been a fan ever since. Fast forward, in my quest to learn Portuguese I discovered more about his music. @stuartk you have introduced me (us) to more music than I can count, and I appreciate you for that. You also take to the time to write about said artist’s in a way that shows you are also a wordsmith and it is enjoyable to read your posts. Along with that, your wit shines through and now and then you make me/us chuckle and it’s just so darn refreshing as I know you mean no harm, no foul. |
Dunno that I'm any more eloquent than you on the topic of Jazz but thanks for your kind words. My first exposure to Gato was something similar... and so, I was quite surprised by what I heard when the needle dropped on the first Flying Dutchman release I'd gotten my hands on! I do enjoy his note choices/melodic sense. It's just that "edge" that gets to me. But as I've grown older, my tolerance for such things has diminished. When I was young, it was the more "outside" the better. Now, I prefer more consonance. Life is "dissonant" enough! I suspect my transition into Jazz was made easier, having spent so much time listening to the Dead and the Allman Brothers.
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