Cool Jazz

[sage216]

Favorite album is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.

Im also into Bossa Nova and stuff like that.

 

[Coraxian]

Bohren & Der Club of Gore, awesome dark jazz group from Germany.

You know how they say you learn something new every day. Well today, the new thing I learnt is quite cool.

Thanks

 

[lemiel14n3]

[audio]http://lj.ashel.ru/mp3/01-Jeeves_Wooster.mp3[/audio]
Jeeves and Wooster theme- Anne Dudley
[audio]http://pathfinderpat.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/danke-schoen.mp3[/audio]
Danke Schoen- Wayne Newton(Fun Fact: That's a man)
[audio]http://hmsoundtracks.narod.ru/songs3/04_Mack_The_Knife.mp3[/audio]
Mack the Knife- Bobby Darrin
[audio]http://www.brunohantson.com/mp3_wls/Dave%20Brubeck%20-%20Take%20Five.mp3[/audio]
Take Five- Dave Brubeck
[audio]http://imreors.tripod.com/minnie_moocher.mp3[/audio]
Minnie the Moocher- Cab Calloway

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Chuck is soooo smooth XD

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I love me some Bebop XD

[sub][sub]Trumpet player here.[/sub][/sub]

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are my all time favorites, and John Coltrane and Miles Davis are up there too.

'Basin Street Blues' is probably my favorite song ever.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Seeing a lot of my favs in this thread, and I'd like to add some others you don't see named so often;

Freddie Hubbard:
Horace Silver:
He has fantastic slow-paced songs too.

And this thread needs some Swing Revival bands:
Big Voodoo Daddy:
Royal Crown Revue

Honestly though, I could keep going.

[sub][sub]Trumpet player here.[/sub][/sub]

Aaaaaaaand my Envy-meter just shot through the roof.

Bohren & Der Club of Gore, awesome dark jazz group from Germany.

Good gods I wasn't expecting that. I think my ears just came! Honestly, this should be in the soundtrack of Deus Ex or something, it's perfect for cyberpunk.

 

[Sinister1211]

AH! Awesome videos here by far!

I love all jazz except maybe free jazz. I play trumpet so naturally I tend to listen to trumpet players more often than others.


GRP All-STAR BIG BAND
Cherokee (trumpet quartet(TOTALLY AMAZING!!!))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzWPNFX7sc

Arturo Sandoval
(Being amazing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJrp9q8G3qk&feature=related

Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard
Cantelope Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwmDNPegnM

 

[similar.squirrel]

I love me some Dave Brubeck, and I don't know if SquirrelNutZippers are strictly jazz, but I like them too. Oh, and Gypsy Jazz is great. Folks like Joscho Stephan and Django Reinhardt.

 

[20thCenturyBoy]

Here's an example of Canadian vocalist jazz. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Melody Gardot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRYrKulDBmo

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Unfortunately I do not know many jazz musicians aside from the usual like Louie Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, ect. Mostly I prefer swing and other upbeat and fast paced jazz. I have Benny Goodman Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Royal Crown Revue, and The Cherry Poppin Daddies. I've also enjoyed Lee Presson and the Nails (goth swing) though I do not own any of their albums. Tom Waits is one of my favourite musicians and though he mostly does blues he also has some jazzier tunes.

For something interesting a favourite band of mine was called Soul Coughing. Their first album was a strange jazz rock electronic fusion with dada beat poetry style lyrics. I think its fun stuff personally. Here's a taste...

 

[Spacelord]

I really like nu jazz - adding contemporary (usually electronic) sounds and recording techniques to the tried and true jazz formulae. Stuff like Jaga Jazzist, The Embassadors, Nils Petter Molvaer and Pink Freud. All huge recommendations!

 

[kurokotetsu]

I still hold my memory of going to the Blue Note in NY. It was a semi-mystical experience. Also the first (and almost only) club I've gone was another jazz club in New year in the same city. I do love me some jazz, although I don't listen as much as I should. Satchmo is great, and Miles has something special. Stan getz, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holigay, I love them all, but here it isn't that easy to get discs. I'm quite in love with the Japanese band, Soil 'n' PIMP Sessions, with their incredibly energetic mix.

 

[Macabre9037]

I really like Bebop Jazz, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker etc. I'm also a pretty big fan of New Orleans jazz and of course who doesn't like Miles Davis? Also my mom gave me one of her old Chuck Mangione albums, so theres that as well.