Dr. Lonnie Smith.

jazz is such a big part of new orleans culture i love it. perfect chill music, and always live performances going on all over the place when i was a kid.

Got a CD by these guys; loads of fun and great music Jazz/Blues

I'm giving a kid a ride home from a poker game. I pop a cd in the player. He says, "You still pay for music? That's adorable!"

Hank Mobley is quite a good one for some fast paced and chill jazz.

Hank Mobley is quite a good one for some fast paced and chill jazz.

I don't know anything about jazz. I heard this song and like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S50KW1eCU

Im looking for similar songs / artists. Prefer something laid back (and almost melancholy) as opposed to faster jazz.

Thanks

EDIT: Prefer some vocals but not a must.

Harry James and friends

I've been listening to a lot of Coltrane and Mikes Davis lately...on vinyl, 'cause I'm cool like dat.

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Ray Brown Trio... on my old rig (VPI classic 2/Klipsch Cornwall)

Hey guys,

I am completely clueless about jazz. But me and my fiancé are coming to New York for the first time to get married and have a honeymoon and I thought checking out a jazz club would be cool.

So if you guys can give your recs. that would be great. We'll be staying near central park, so places near that would be preferable.

Thanks.

^^^Most big city jazz joints in my experience are all over the place, totally depends on who's playing imo.


Think this roughly translates to "Prelude to a Shootout at the Dade Land Mall"

One of the best, recorded in 1927

Wynton Marsalis and friends for some great jazz; perfect for a summer evening..

Dead Man Blues by Jelly Roll Morton



Dead Man Blues by Wynton Marsalis (worth listening to again)



Both albums showed above are great - should be owned by anyone that loves Jazz.

RIP Pete Fountain, with a Classic Jazz tune: Basin Street Blues

From the recent Smithsonian Magazine, the first "Jass" record, great read:

/first-jazz-record-introduced-millions-records-jass

This could have been posted in the still dead thread but it fits here better I think:

prolific-author-and-jazz-writer-nat-hentoff-dies-at-91

From above link:


He [Nat] also was a lover and frequent writer on jazz music. From age 11, he was hooked on the genre after hearing the song "Nightmare" by Artie Shaw coming through an open door at a record store.

"It just reached inside me," Hentoff told NPR's Guy Raz in 2010. "I rushed into the store, 'What was that?' "

Over the six decades he spent covering jazz, he attended plenty of performances and met many musicians.

He "got to be very good friends" with jazz great Dizzy Gillespie. At one point, he sat in on a recording session featuring Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins and Max Roach. "The music just became part of you as you heard it," Hentoff said of the experience.

His most memorable show he attended was Duke Ellington "with his full orchestra" at Symphony Hall in Boston, playing the jazz work "Black, Brown and Beige." "It was the history of black people in the United States from slavery to the present," Hentoff told NPR in 2010. "And it was so extraordinary. At the end ... people were so moved they could barely applaud until they gave a standing ovation."

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Has anybody ever read a book that traced the influence of the steam engine (boats and trains) on American music?

Was listening this morning to some Arturo Sandoval so want to post this:

Also listening to Stan Getz and Bill Evans:

Cool ^^^

Was listening to the Seatbelts this morning:

I don't mind listening jazz music all the time. Maybe, I have said this before: To me, jazz is the classic music of modern times.