Jazz

[jazzy]

Rather partial to the West Coast variety myself. Vince Guaraldi is my favorite:



Also a big fan of Dave Brubeck:

2 very good choices amigo. Vince is massively underrated

 

[jazzy]

The issue with jazz is people think it's just one thing. It's like saying you like rock, arctic monkeys are rock, godflesh are rock - they don't sound the same

Jazz essentially means 'free' so it can be anything, to an extent

That's a very avant garde view. There are some many chordal structures to jazz apart from Ornette Coleman , Eric Dolphy , Sun Ra etc al

 

[jazzy]

Mingus is always the answer

Difficult to disagree

 

[jazzy]

Wonderful , wonderful LP

 

[jazzy]

Alice Coltrane is the answer here anyway, just swerve 90's cocktail jazzz

Alice isn't everyone's entry point to jazz maestro

 

[jazzy]

2 very good choices amigo. Vince is massively underr

 

[jazzy]

Rather partial to the West Coast variety myself. Vince Guaraldi is my favorite:



Also a big fan of Dave Brubeck:

Are you into Art Pepper?

Great West coast sax player

 

[Toffeeback]

2 very good choices amigo. Vince is massively underrated

Guaraldi was the one that got me into jazz in the first place - actually through his Peanuts work, which I absolutely love. But most people if they know him at all only know that Peanuts music. Obviously, he did a lot more than that.

Once I got into things more, I saw that same sentiment expressed in a lot of places - from fans and even other musicians - that he was always underrated for whatever reason. I suspect because of that commercial work; a lot of people probably wrote him off as some kind of sell-out, I guess.

 

[jazzy]

He wasn't prolific, I've got about 4 recordings by him

Very cool , very laid back and very listenable

 

[Toffeeback]

Are you into Art Pepper?

Great West coast sax player

I'll admit I've only listened to a bit of him. For whatever reason, I tend to gravitate towards pianists. I also like Bill Evans, who obviously isn't West Coast but is still in the cool jazz tree, anyway. I do have a reasonable mix of jazz records that includes many non-pianists (Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Coltrane, Miles, etc.), but I find myself coming back to Guaraldi, Brubeck, and Evans more often than not.

 

[Toffeeback]

He wasn't prolific, I've got about 4 recordings by him

Very cool , very laid back and very listenable

Yeah, I wouldn't say prolific, but there's a surprising amount of stuff, but for the fact that some of it is quite hard to find. Plus he did quite a lot of work on things where he wasn't the credited leader - stuff with Tjader, etc. And the duo with Bola Sete.

I've got almost everything that was ever put out in several formats under either his name or the Vince Guaraldi Trio, including some pretty rare ones. Still a couple of CDs I'm missing that are just about impossible to get.

 

[jazzy]

3 great piano choices

Check out Wynton Kelly , Herbie Hancock and a classic West coast sound Victor Feldman ( although he's ( was ) actually English )

 

[jazzy]

Yeah, I wouldn't say prolific, but there's a surprising amount of stuff, but for the fact that some of it is quite hard to find. Plus he did quite a lot of work on things where he wasn't the credited leader - stuff with Tjader, etc. And the duo with Bola Sete.

I've got almost everything that was ever put out in several formats under either his name or the Vince Guaraldi Trio, including some pretty rare ones. Still a couple of CDs I'm missing that are just about impossible to get.

Oh you like Cal Tjader too.
Very good pedigree.

You must like Stan Getz too?

 

[Toffeeback]

Oh you like Cal Tjader too.
Very good pedigree.

You must like Stan Getz too?

Yeah, I've got a bit of Getz in the collection as well.

 

[Bedfordblue]

The Somewhere_Soul Instagram account often has some decent new Jazz albums etc (along with other genres)