JAZZ and all of its colours!!

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Comment by Ashes Ashes on January 23, 2010 at 8:43pm

I'm just starting to get into jazz. Any suggestions of some good albums/songs I should check out?

Comment by David Murray on January 15, 2010 at 11:21am

A great event not to be missed by all JAZZ AFFICIONADOS!!!
"M'Boom meets The World Saxophone Quartet" @ Birdland NYC
From January 19th until 23rd 2010.

Comment by Adjei The Sound Sculptor on October 1, 2009 at 10:23pm

Check Out.

www.blackjazzrecords.com

Click the radio option for great jazz music podcasts

Comment by Sekou on August 2, 2009 at 2:36am

Money Jungle- Duke, Mingus and Roach

Comment by Amber Ferrell on July 27, 2009 at 3:38pm

Yea I was listening to Black Satin one day and it was during the time I wanted a set of Tablas and I was really excited when I heard the opening. It was pretty sick.

Comment by Rhinos Have More Fun on May 27, 2009 at 1:32pm

Lord...

The other day, I copped this Miles tribute CD called Miles from India. It is a collaboration of some Miles alumni and some Indian musicians (including some vocalists) covering some classics. I really like it--if you give The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions box set a good listen, anyone can see the worldbeat vision that Miles had back in the late 60's-early 70's. This one offers further Indian interpretation of some great cuts.

Comment by Rosenda on May 12, 2009 at 11:45am

Sounds good. I grew up hearing a lot of bebop and avant garde in my house and dad's car (that guy Leon Thomas with the howling deep and high octave at the same time yodeling sound scared the shit out of me when I was young!!) and also a lot of Latin Jazz and Louis Jordan and Duke Ellington.

Actually you know when I really started liking it on my own? Mid to late 80's, when Joe Jackson did an album of old jazz and jump blues covers. It led me back to the originals. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington, (pops used to sing You Go To My Head a lot), Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Machito Perez (he named my late brother after him), Miles Davis, John Coltrane. Eric Dolphy is also a particular special up top favorite of my dad. And you know me and my sister tracking down old reissued cd's of Eric Dolphy and Lucky Thompson (whom my pops took lessons with on saxophone when he was young) at Amoeba also led to me discovering all kinds of music and artists!!

Compound sent me some great Sun Ra tune awhile ago. And I've seen quite a lot of live shows when my job had many years of its Summer Nights jazz series from early to late 90's. Man, they had everybody out there old and new. Buddy Collette and his group played many times as well the new crowd of swing music with LaVay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Vi Redd did a show and Gerald, that guy is a legend!! He did a seperate show where he brought his student jazz band from UCLA to do a "history of jazz" show. Amazing.

Comment by PolarVibez on May 8, 2009 at 11:54pm

Ah.. now this is a cool group :)

Comment by jahluv on May 4, 2009 at 7:51pm

For my Jazz peeps...
http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/
-check the sidebar as well...