Who knows jazz? I don't. But after sampling jazz here and there for awhile, I noticed, I like hard bop. Started getting some CDs late to listen further. If you have any good suggestions, do let me know.
Hard Bop.
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I have no idea about Jazz. But sometimes I listen to it on low volume, in the living room. I like it with piano too. It's relaxing, I think it would be good for smoking a pipe.
Can’t go wrong with these! Thanks for posting - I see a couple I don’t have and need to get!
I love jazz. I like hard bop—especially the Hubbard album mentioned in the linked article. Lately I lean more towards this mystical strain of cool jazz—I don’t know what the sub-genre is called—but Charles Lloyd, , some yusef lateef, Chico Hamilton, Jimmie giuffre—dreamy stuff that often features flute solos.
That’s what I thought, to get some more of those recordings.
Advice yeah keep going. Jazz is a great genre and Hard Bop is a great sub genre. Though with Jazz I also have the same recommendation as I do with pipe blends. Get into an album or two and listen to them hard and often. There is enough going on to keep it fresh at least in the stuff I like. You know you've listened to an album enough when you can at least idea the track # and album it's off of from the first three notes.
It's my experience that Bop is generally easier to understand compared to the later "modal" jazz. The Bop forms (chord progressions) are more closely related to the blues (e.g., I-IV-V) whereas later jazz is less structured or just harmonically more complicated. For this reason I often play Bop (from the 40's and early 50's for example) for listeners who do not have a long history with jazz.
Charles Mingus !
Technically post- bop but well worth the investment!
Technically post- bop but well worth the investment!
If you'd like some more guitar oriented stuff check out Grant Green, Kenny Burrell and Wes Montgomery. They've all worked in the genre of hard bop.
John Coltrane 'Blue Train'
Sarah Vaughan 'Sarah Vaughan' with Clifford Brown
Sarah Vaughan 'Sarah Vaughan' with Clifford Brown
And then there's Miles.
Wes Montgomery:
A Day In The Life was fantastic !
Of course Ron Carter can rock anything.
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So much to say on this subject.
Horace Silver - Cape Verdean blues.
Wes Montgomery - smokin at the half note.
Wes Montgomery - Full House
All essential
Horace Silver - Cape Verdean blues.
Wes Montgomery - smokin at the half note.
Wes Montgomery - Full House
All essential
Anything with Art Blakey is a good start. The 'Free For All' album from the link is a real ripper.
John Coltrane is worth checking out. Bags and Trane is good album he did with Milt Jackson. There are many more good examples of his work.
I'll second or third a mention of Mingus. Some pretty amazing work.
For something a bit different checkout Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. Both have a different approach to music, somewhat outside of normal Bop or Hard Bop but I find them both interesting. I got to see Ornette Coleman several years back with Ron Carter on bass. It was pretty special.
John Coltrane is worth checking out. Bags and Trane is good album he did with Milt Jackson. There are many more good examples of his work.
I'll second or third a mention of Mingus. Some pretty amazing work.
For something a bit different checkout Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. Both have a different approach to music, somewhat outside of normal Bop or Hard Bop but I find them both interesting. I got to see Ornette Coleman several years back with Ron Carter on bass. It was pretty special.