Recently discovered jazz...

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Durham Toffee

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Hi again all.

Aside from having an immense girlfriend and being far more ridiculously happy than I can remember, I've recently discovered the joy of jazz.

Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, etc.

Anyone else love a bit of jazz?

Any recommendations for artists I should look up? I do love the Roaring Twenties stuff, but I'm open to new stuff.

Love the trumpet sound mostly. Very classy stuff.
 

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Durham Toffee said:
Hi again all.

Aside from having an immense girlfriend and being far more ridiculously happy than I can remember, I've recently discovered the joy of jazz.

Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, etc.

Anyone else love a bit of jazz?

Any recommendations for artists I should look up? I do love the Roaring Twenties stuff, but I'm open to new stuff.

Love the trumpet sound mostly. Very classy stuff.
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arch stanton said:
theres been some radio programmes on Miles davis recently that I've listened to. Some of it is OK and I get why people like it. Some of the other stuff is lots of people playing different songs at the same time. I don't get that stuff.
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True that.

I don't like that stuff.

I'm heavily into cherry picking stuff and creating my playlists rather than just doggedly sticking to a genre.
 
When you're done with the obvious stuff, get onto Flying Lotus. Nephew of Alice Coltrane, makes some of the most incredible modern jazz out there. Cosmogramma being his magnum opus.

My wife got me onto jazz in a big way. Kind Of Blue remains my favourite, but got a lot of time for Sarah Vaughan, what a voice.
 
I'm glad you are ridiculously happy but hell's teeth jazz? It's just noise. I used to torture myself once a week at the Philharmonic pub (Boss boozer in Liverpool for those who don't know) jazz nights because somebody I fancied went there. I'm still emotionally scarred by Victor Brox and his bass tuba. And I never pulled the object of my desire.

Having said all that, and there is an exception to every rule - Cab Calloway.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
I'm glad you are ridiculously happy but hell's teeth jazz? It's just noise. I used to torture myself once a week at the Philharmonic pub (Boss boozer in Liverpool for those who don't know) jazz nights because somebody I fancied went there. I'm still emotionally scarred by Victor Brox and his bass tuba. And I never pulled the object of my desire.

Having said all that, and there is an exception to every rule - Cab Calloway.
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You jazz tart.
 
anjelikaferrett said:
I'm glad you are ridiculously happy but hell's teeth jazz? It's just noise. I used to torture myself once a week at the Philharmonic pub (Boss boozer in Liverpool for those who don't know) jazz nights because somebody I fancied went there. I'm still emotionally scarred by Victor Brox and his bass tuba. And I never pulled the object of my desire.

Having said all that, and there is an exception to every rule - Cab Calloway.
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anjelikaferrett said:
I'm glad you are ridiculously happy but hell's teeth jazz? It's just noise. I used to torture myself once a week at the Philharmonic pub (Boss boozer in Liverpool for those who don't know) jazz nights because somebody I fancied went there. I'm still emotionally scarred by Victor Brox and his bass tuba. And I never pulled the object of my desire.

Having said all that, and there is an exception to every rule - Cab Calloway.
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There's so much more to jazz than scabba-doo-bab free form silliness. Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra... it's a massive genre that is too easily dismissed.
 

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