panzade wrote:Amen Timber..
Look for Stan Getz and Bob Brookmeyer(underappreciated trombonist) in "Better Together"
"Back then they called it "cool", but this is real jazz played smoothly. Mellow mood music with sensitive interplay between the two principal performers, backed by a fine rhythm section (pianist Steve Kuhn, bassist John Neves and drummer Roy Haynes)."
Getz/Gilberto ...of course(1 and 2)
Any early Bill Evans albums(With Scotty La Faro on bass)" Live at the Village Vanguard" - one of the greatest live jazz albums.
Now that you're into piano...check out Monk. Thelonious wrote melodies that endure...he just wasn't as swift on the piano as say...McCoy Tyner.
On trumpet...no one cooler than Chet Baker...He sang cool and played cool trumpet(But Not For Me).
He even died cool...overdose of smack.
In this post you have named most of my favorites, any specific tracks? I have some of those full albums but am especially interested in Thelonious tracks.
panzade wrote: Thelonious Monk-In walked Bud,
Well You Needent
Ruby My Dear
Round Midnight
Just saw these recommendations, and will check them out.
Thanks!
Piffka wrote:Really good stuff here. This is mostly a book mark, but nobody seems to have mentioned Dave Brubeck -- isn't his music "cool jazz"? Among many great songs: Blue Rondo, Take Five, It's a Raggy Waltz, Three to Get Ready.
Thanks! I'm listening to Take Five right now.
Stan Getz's O Grande Amor is my favorite so far, the Brazilian influences make some of these Getz tracks so much more melodic for me.
Craven de Kere wrote:.. the Brazilian influences make some of these Getz tracks so much more melodic for me.
Understandable given your background. For me those albums were a springboard into Brazilian music...Gilberto and Jobim were unknown here in 1965.
I found what i think is a missing link so to speak. I always wondered where Miles got the idea for the simple blues framework of "Kind Of Blue". I think I know. I've been listening to "Blue Monk" a Monk-Davis collaboration, and I think Miles was inspired by the simple blues "head" that Monk provided back in 1954.
I'll have to get around to sampling the other recommendations tomorrow.
If anyone else needs a track discovery list here is what I am listening to now:
Duet Solo Dancers - Charles Mingus
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Jump Around - House of Pain
Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Qui - Joao Gilberto
Birth Of The Cool Theme [Live] - Miles Davis
Boplicity - Miles Davis
Budo (Hallucination) [Live] 2 - Miles Davis
Budo (Hallucination) [Live] - Miles Davis
Budo - Miles Davis
Darn That Dream [Live] - Miles Davis
Darn That Dream - Miles Davis
Deception - Miles Davis
Godchild [Live] - Miles Davis
Godchild - Miles Davis
Israel - Miles Davis
Jeru - Miles Davis
Moon Dreams [Live] 2 - Miles Davis
Moon Dreams [Live] - Miles Davis
Moon Dreams - Miles Davis
Move [Live] 2 - Miles Davis
Move [Live] - Miles Davis
Move - Miles Davis
Rocker - Miles Davis
Rouge - Miles Davis
S'il Vous Plait [Live] - Miles Davis
Solar - Miles Davis
Symphony Sid Announces the Band [Live] - Miles Davis
Symphony Sid Introduction [Live] - Miles Davis
Venus De Milo - Miles Davis
Why Do I Love You? [Live] - Miles Davis
The Girl from Ipanema (origina - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Doralice - Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Qui - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
Desafinado :: Off Key - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
O Grande Amor - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
So Danço Samba - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema (45rpm e - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
Ruby My Dear w/ Coltrane - Thelonious Monk
Walkin' - John Coltrane & Miles Davis
In Walked Bud - Thelonious Monk
Thanks all.
Hot damn, Craven!! I have that Getz/Gilberto album as well! Real fun!
Eddie Harris - Listen Here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000335B/qid=1104853994/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-4822721-7031143?v=glance&s=music
One of my favorites: Les McCann & Eddie Harris - You Got It In Your Soulness
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033T6/qid=1104854083/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-4822721-7031143
Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing albumn is great as well. The song Heading North is a pretty good sample off of the albumn.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007I2KT/qid=1104854175/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/104-4822721-7031143
I'm not a huge Coltrane fan but the song Traneing In off of the Traneing In albumn (and my favorite skate video of all time) is a pretty good song as is Soft Lights& Sweet Music off of the same albumn.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1002405
Nice stuff jpn
I love O'Connor because he'll play fiddle on any kid of music.
Check out Daryl Anger and Mike Marshall albums for some fine fiddle and mandolin work...especially Chiaroscuro
Elmer Bernstein -Theme from The Man With a Golden Arm- (next to Brubeck and Miles Davis my favorite jazz.
Here's a review excerpt of that great soundtrack:
Perhaps the most striking thing about the music is how atypical it seems for Bernstein. From the opening drum solo to the syncopated brass riffs that litter the score, little is in a style for which he is famous.
The credit to Shorty Rodgers as jazz arranger does make one wonder how much influence he had over the end product, perhaps Bernstein wrote the melodic content and Rodgers arranged it for performance by his group, the Giants. Either way, the result is a raucous and bracing title tune and kicks off one of the first full scale uses of jazz in a film score. As the liner notes mention, jazz had been used on occasion in earlier scores, but never as the basis for the entire score.
It is perhaps surprising just how strikingly aggressive jazz can be, tracks such as Breakup are strident, tense and utterly enthralling. Since man cannot score on jazz alone, some of Bernstein's more typical writing style makes itself apparent, notably during the lovely Molly, which subdues the main theme into a delicate string melody. However, in the end it's the jazz that has the greatest impact, a stomach churning musical assault that excites in a way that only a handful of scores are able to do.
panzade wrote:Nice stuff jpn
I love O'Connor because he'll play fiddle on any kid of music.
Check out Daryl Anger and Mike Marshall albums for some fine fiddle and mandolin work...especially Chiaroscuro
Panz... that is some really really good stuff. Thanks. At Home and on the Range: The Duo Live sounds like a really good albumn as well.
oh those gilberto/getz/jobim tracks - I love them - play them often on the way to teach - mellow ....
how about Russo: Street Music - 3 pieces for blues band and orchestra - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Corky Siegel playing harmonica (sheer magic) - absolutely fantastic music. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa (Deutsche Gramophon)
I think Corky was part of one of my favorite blues bands back in the 60's, the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band
Lost my fave cassette of O'Connor...Heros
1 New Country
(Ponty) 3:54
2 Devil Comes Back to Georgia
(Crain/D/D/E/H/K/M/O) 4:09
3 Fiddlin' Around
(Gimble) 4:49
4 Gold Rush
(Monroe) 4:36
5 House of the Rising Sun
(Traditional) 7:52
6 Diggy Diggy Lo
(Miller) 2:48
7 Sweet Jole Blow
(Kershaw) 2:21
8 Sadness/Darlin' Waltz
(P.D.) 3:27
9 Jerusalem's Ridge
(Monroe) 3:27
10 Sally Johnson
(Traditional) 5:09
11 Ashokan Farewell
(Ungar) 4:52
12 This Can't Be Love
(Hart/Rodgers) 5:27
13 Ain't Misbehavin'
(Brooks/R/W) 5:30
14 Nomad
(Shankar) 8:00
Keith Jarret at thhe Bluenote
Jimmy SMith
Ray Charles and DAve Newman together
chuck Maangione "The children of Sanchez"
chuck mangione"The land of makebelieve"
ray charles "a song for you" (not jazz I know, but tthis and is version of America the beautiful bring tears up in the old farmerman)
Quincy Jones "Stockholm Sweetenin" an homage to Miles
Quincy Jones orchhestration of Ray Charles "One Mint JuleP"
Mike Post-"Theme from NYPD"
anything by Jacques Loussier
panzade wrote:I think Corky was part of one of my favorite blues bands back in the 60's, the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band
really? it must be the same one - I'll have to do some research -my dad loves Street Music with him playing (he discovered it and 3 generations of us now own the cd!) and he loves his jazz so he'd be delighted to find more - he thought he was brilliant (so did I)
I gave away my giant Keith Jarrett set.
Saved Spellbinder from Szabo.
Saved Collaboration from Miles and Almieda.
Saved all of my Getz, Gilberto stuff.
Have one McCoyTyner, treasure Eddie Harris's Listen Here,
and when me and x fixed our house in the redlined district in Venice in '76, we played full volume... Glenn Miller and the Stones. Yes, I know, derivative.
I know you don't care that I list these, except that it is aggravating, Craven, but some other folks might enjoy.
Not cool jazz but I'm going apeshit to Miles Davis's Blue 'N' Boogie right now.
