inspired by the Friday boredom favorite instrumental thread, i know there have to be at least a few jazz heads here other than myself....

my favorites:
miles davis (fan of all eras except the gil evans shit)
red garland
paul chambers
ron carter
jimmy smith
eddie harris
eddie lockjaw davis
hampton hawes
horace silver
john coltrane
charles mingus
stanley cowell
grant green
milt jackson
lee morgan
joe henderson
cal tjader
donald byrd
art blakey
cannonball adderely
freddie hubbard
bud powell
bob james (yes, just for nautilus and angela)

Les McCann and Eddie Harris Live at Montreaux - Compared to What? is one of the greatest tracks ever laid down.
And I am not talking just jazz - I mean any genre.

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Trane
Miles
Monk
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Roy Eldridge
Louis Armstrong
Sonny Rollins
Johnny Lewis

dude, yes.

there's so much. i could post a mix of some 'out to lunch' tunes if anyone's interested. have always wanted to do it but never really got around to it.

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I like jazz alot. As a lil boy I was always mesmerized by Billie Holiday's voice when my aunt would play the records. Loved her. I really only know the usual suspects as far as jazz goes tho:

Duke
Dizzy
Louis Amrstrong
Coletrane
Miles
Ella
Billie
Count
Charlie Parker
Thelonius

I like Herbie Hancock too

I also grew up listening to alot of Cuban Jazz and quite a few collbed with the american jazz players

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I ain't that big of a jazz fan, but Coletrane is pretty darn good.

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--yet I can't look away."

Yes, suckers, post Out to Lunch! for all. What a sweet album that is. "Hat and Beard" is like Ren & Stimpy music.

I love Coltrane, of course, but I think Miles did a better job of Going Experimental than he did. A Love Supreme is great and all but I prefer Giant Steps and My Favorite Things. Never got into Ascension.

Cuban jazz is fun. I like Ray Barretto's stuff.

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by the way you want to hear some great jazz, salt lake city is a hot spot for it.

Oscar Peterson does inhuman things with a piano.

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Ascension is the sound of a panic attack committed to tape. My favorite Coltrane record is A Love Supreme, but My Favorite Things is pretty great, too.

Ray Barretto had a run of brilliant work lasting like twenty years. Guy was a genius.

Most of the current jazz I like is typically Scandinavian in origin. Definitely check out Atomic. It's like updated Joe Harriott arrangements, with that combination of raw power and dazzling musicianship. Unreal stuff.

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I kinda consider My Favorite Things just kind of perfunctory. I mean it's good and I like it, just it's pretty straightforward.

I'm kind of a sucker for piano so I have a strong love for Red Garland, Monk and even Jimmy Smith

give me some guitar players...i need to expand my horizons anyway.

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jim hall

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grant green
kenny burrell
george benson

although I will admit I don't really like jazz guitar at all.

Phil Upchurch, though maybe he's more soul than jazz. Who cares, he's awesome.

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Wes Montgomery.

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django reinhardt.

Just picked up Donald Byrd's "Free Form" over the weekend, original pressing, and it might be the greatest record pressing I've ever heard. It just sounds so beautiful, crisp, clear... very good condition.

cool...
downloading django, george, jim, and wes now.

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Couldn't agree more. I've only got a couple of his albums but I think you'd be into this, Doug. Chicago guy, too.

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not having any luck finding phil upchurch.

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Try this: http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/2008/06 ... hurch.html

great album

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Not sure if this truly falls under jazz but I about wear out my
Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas cd every December.

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Vince Guaraldi is awesome....

check out merry axemas I and II

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http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/2008/06 ... -feel.html
This one's even better.

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Stumbled on a great Bill Evans album I never knew existed. A bootleg of sorts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyeF-JcCV0

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John Germaine

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For months I've been trying to tell people about this amazing song I heard on WDCB last fall called "The Lights in the Sky Are Stars" but it was never on youtube. I looked it up today and it was just uploaded yesterday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbf-Oz4CRx4



RIYL Bela Fleck, Keith Jarrett and the ECM sound in general, steel drums and mandolins together at last

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