I’ve tried it. I don’t get it. Does anyone?

Yes.

But if you don’t get it, don’t worry about it.

Yes, Miles Davis brilliant. John Coltrane less so.

Nice.

There’s so much good new jazz around at the moment – look at the Gondwana record stuff and GoGo Penguin :

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UtAV_azaBc[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jHzdMo-YCc[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk[/video]

Yes. What did you try? It’s quite a broad genre really.

Jazz for me is like cheese and wine.

It’s what other people do.

I’m NOT (edit!)a big jazz fan, I quite enjoy “Jazz at the Pawnshop”. An interesting bit of music and the recording is excellent. This is one of the tracks.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m1dBB-5jn8[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bda9kpBa6xQ[/video]

Liking that GoGo Penguin.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufux5z0vo0I[/video]

Yes but as above it is a very wide genre.
However you can sample quite a wide variety of it simply by working your way through Miles Davis’ back catalogue.
For more mellow stuff, try Esbjörn Svensson Trio or Pat Metheny (although not all of it; Zero Tolerance For Silence is hard work).
Oh and John Zorn produces some very interesting stuff. He’s rather prolific and sometimes not that accessible, but his film based albums such as Big Gundown are tremendous.
And Go Go Penguin are indeed ace.

I quite like the jazzy stuff that Gilles Peterson plays, also Acid Jazz, some good playlists on Spotify. Chill Acid Jazz Marc is a good playlist. And try Rafa Gas.

Prince, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa were all on the Jazz fringe.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qgqSLYLZ0[/video]

I might get carried away…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv59-LsG3vg[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GpfT2sa9eg[/video]

Have a listen to A Go Go by John Scofield, very funky and stunning guitar that isn’t a load of noodly fretwank

bump

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDiXszQeVY[/video]

Jazz? Yes please.

Great bump Harry the spider. The chat forum topics now go from jazz to mags. Jazz mags anyone.

Bumpy

Saw these guys a few years ago, and the audience was smaller than the band for much of the gig!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujMxUUP7zA0[/video]

Or completely different:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i1QNwH4K5Y[/video]

Charles Mingus – Blues and Roots

A niiice place to start:
[video]https://youtu.be/N02Ao5jESmE[/video]

Or how about?

[video]https://youtu.be/Gsz3mrnIBd0[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nppb01xhfe0[/video]

I remember being in Tower Records jazz section and they played this, and the whole room went silent listeningto it :

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtRNxePV5Vs&list=PL-b_tdOCw0I7WUEev3Qu-I7Eu_gg5zJJT&index=6[/video]

From the same album :

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpPe1tlKlY&list=PL-b_tdOCw0I7WUEev3Qu-I7Eu_gg5zJJT&index=1[/video]

[video]http://youtu.be/tSGUPsAeL34[/video]

It’s world suicide day today so maybe don’t listen to some of the Art Pepper just in case…

I first heard this at jazz/blues (or was it blues/jazz?) festival on the Isle of Lucy:
[video]https://youtu.be/i_m-gyi5Fno[/video]
Good look, great drummer.

It’s world suicide day today

Correction. It’s world suicide prevention day.

Don’t get them mixed up.

Saw Jimmy Smith live in London, unfortunately he had just broken his arm so had to have a bass guitarist next to him playing all the low notes 🙁

https://youtu.be/7C6Km74cwgY fat albert rotunda by Herbie Hancock jazz funk goodness.

I remember watching the Beiderbecke tapes and the Barbera Flynn character gave a very concise description of the different types which I always remember when listening to jazz. When asked what she new about jazz she said” there’s Hot Jazz, Cool Jazz and waiting for the tune to start Jazz”

I like Hot Jazz

Arguably the most easy to access and basically essential Jazz Album of all time is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. If you don’t like it then you’re probably right Jazz isn’t your bag as almost every Jazz fan owns a copy.

Grew up with it – my Dad was a fan. Spent teens in pubs listening to local gigging bands. Listen to lots of other stuff now but always go back to it from time to time. It’s a very broad category – can’t imagine anyone not liking ANY jazz though of course not everything will hit the spot.

Really can’t say I like jazz, a bunch of great musicians playing great tunes, except none are playing the same tune…
However, there’s some jazz-influenced music I love, like Steely Dan/Donald Fagen, and Zappa.
It’s surprising how much British prog has jazz influences, like King Crimson, Soft Machine, Gentle Giant, and particularly Greenslade, who I’ve just downloaded after not playing any of their stuff for well over twenty years: I’d forgotten just how much jazz is in their music.

Jazz?

Yeah, baby. 8)

Charles Mingus ‘Oh Yeah’