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dionisio
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So, the always tricky top ten.. Hum, without any order Ornette Coleman Dizzy Gillespie Louis Armstrong Leroy Jenkins Stephane Grappelli Lee Morgan Bud Powell Thelonious Monk Jon Hendricks John Coltrane don't you think it's funny that nobody else talked about louis armstrong? Sometimes i feel that he's kinda forgotten, at least for me i do listen to a lot of different jazz, mostly free, experimental and bebop.. ok, and a lot of swing big bands and manouche mostly, bt every time i listen to pops, i dunno, everything changes, it really makes the difference, the way he plays or sings, the simplicity, the power.. the humor ! What is your opinion about him? Oh and lately ive been discovering peter evans, in fact more is work with the Mostly Other People Do The Killing and damn, i'm getting really addicted to these guys. Outsie the list, ofcourse there is a bunch of people that i would like to put there, but it's the tricky top thing.. Mingus, Ella, Bernardo Sassetti, or the brazilian Egberto Gismonti (even that you can say that its not really jazz), the third stream Mark Feldman and his wife Sylvie Courvoisier, Stuff Smith (I know i am a violinist, i can't help it, bt he's quite amazing ahah), john carter, terry jenoure (again, jazz... ), zorn, Sarah Vaughan, Cecil Taylor, Serge Gainsbourg. Boris Vian, the duke, i could continue as everybody else, but this is mostly it [ and edit, i didnt notice that in fact somebody talked about armstrong, bt still my opinion remains, i really feel a lot of times that people dont think of him in the same way that we talk about diz, miles or other giants, maybe it's just me, i hope so ! ]
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stuccohomes
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1. Miles
2. Keith Jarrett
3. Michael Brecker
4. John Coltrane
5. Wes Montgomery
6. Django Reinhardt
7. Branford Marsalis
8. Wayne Shorter
9. Pat Metheny
10. Herbie Hancock
.....but some days its also - Jaco Pastorius.
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MilesBeyond
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I'll just do five, with a little blurb for each.
Wes Montgomery I'm a guitarist, and Wes was to the guitar what Bird was to the horn . As far as I'm concerned, the greatest guitarist who ever lived. Smokin' At The Half Note is my musical Bible. I listen to it regularly, and every note on it has influenced my playing profoundly. Miles Davis The man was so much more than a great trumpet player. A true visionary with an incredible talent for bandleading, he was always innovating and always bringing in the most cutting edge players to achieve that with him. Jazz newbies and aficionados alike praise Kind of Blue as being the greatest album of all time, and with very good reason, and it was one of two albums that made me want to play jazz. He'd be my #1 if I wasn't a guitarist. John Coltrane His incredible passion for jazz as an art form came out in everything he played. His vision of music as an expression of higher spiritual truth is actually audible in what he plays. Not to mention the fact that he redefined the word "virtuoso." Giant Steps was the second of two albums that made me want to play jazz. Jim Hall The second member of the First Big Three of Jazz Guitar (him, Wes and Joe Pass), his rendition of Round Midnight off his Live! album really opened my ears to the guitar's potential for dynamic expression that's almost horn-like in its soulfulness. A true master of expression. Thelonious Monk/Charles Mingus Incredible visionaries both, Monk redefined music with some of the most complex and idiosyncractic jazz ever written, while Mingus' constant probing of the depths of possibilities of jazz as an art form makes his music a joy to listen to. I remember being blown away the first time I heard Pithecanthropus Erectus: An instrumental jazz suite depicting the rise and fall of the human race? This isn't your grandparent's dancing music! |
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Noak2
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Charles Mingus
Eric Dolphy Peter Brötzmann Anthony Braxton Pharoah Sanders Alice Coltrane Ivo Perelman Barry Guy Cecil Taylor Sun Ra
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Drummer
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The first ten jazz artists to come to my mind are :
Ornette Coleman Sun Ra Henry Threadgill John Coltrane Wayne Shorter Miles Davis Weather Report Tim Berne Charles Mingus Hermeto Pascoal |
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Sean Trane
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darkshade
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I've avoided this thread for a reason, I like too many artists to narrow it down to 10
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Sean Trane
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Again, I'll stay away from the 70's JR/F groups, which would probably hog 9 out of 10 spots
Sooo I'll mostly stick to pre-67 jazz artistes and again in no particular order
Mingus
Coltrane (this includes McCoy Tyner and Alice, both of which will havev their best works in the 70's)
Davis
Lateef,
Brubeck
Shorter/Hancock (pre-70's)
Sun Ra
Eric Dolphy
Lionel Hampton
Satchmo Armstrong
Mentions to Ellington, Bird and Monk Edited by Sean Trane - 06 May 2011 at 1:29am |
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dwill123
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Art Tatum
Miles Davis John Coltrane Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker John McLaughlin Herbie Hancock Charles Mingus Ella Fitzgerald Thelonious Monk |
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Krilons Resa
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John Coltrane
Charles Mingus Andrew Hill Eric Dolphy Wayne Shorter Fredrik Ljungkvist William Parker Paal Nilssen-Love Ken Vandermark Omer Avital ...I guess. |
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That shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand, says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
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SaltyJon
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Yeah, it's the good stuff.
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Abraxas
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Lots of "hippie jazz" there.
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Hawkwise
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Hendrix Jazz ? sadly we will never know but it seems he was heading in that direction before his death
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"If you're trying to be hip, be hip." - Miles Davis
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SaltyJon
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John Coltrane
Mingus Pharoah Sanders Sun Ra Eric Dolphy Thelonious Monk Ornette Coleman Alice Coltrane Dave Holland Rashied Ali Pretty much no particular order. As you can see, I tend to gravitate more towards the free side of things. |
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Prog Geo
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Sorry, but do you consider that Jimmy Hendrix is a jazz artist? |
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Zarathustra
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Miles
Hendrix
Pastorius Coltrane Bill Evans McLaughlin Bruford Corea Stanley (Clarke) Herbie |
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ConnorE
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clark
jones jarrett holland brubeck sikala hancock roach davis coltrane
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The Manticore
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Zawinul
Corea
Di Meola
Ponty
McLaughlin
Bruford
Clarke
Shorter
Burton
Jackie Orszaczky .......and just outside the top ten would be;
Zappa
Pastorious Vitous
Kawasaki
Cobham
Hiromi
Kazumi Watanabe
David Jones (Aussie Drummer) |
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
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triceratopsoil
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Mingus Mingus Mingus Davis Mingus Coltrane Ellington Gillespie Mingus Rich
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Abraxas
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I'll be a bit obvious in the first ones:
1. John Coltrane: unbelievable saxophone player, but that's only half of it. He was an artist, a full-fledged dedicated musician. He's amazing, be it for his own take on My Favorite Things, the entire A Love Supreme or dozens of other fantastic moments. 2. Miles Davis: although I've heard only half of his discography, his pure diversity and musical pursuit is incredible. Also, he has released some of the finest music releases, both In a Silent and Kind of Blue are exceptional and unique. 3. John McLaughlin: he has become probably my favourite guitarist of all-time in the last couple of months. His Mahavishnu work was outstanding both for his fiery and compositions, but delving deeper, with Shakti, Davis, solo, he simply is a genius as a guitarist. 4. Herbie Hancock: similarly as Miles Davis, his exploration for new grounds is always fascinating, even if at times the results weren't that good. Having composed classic Post Bop material, highly original avant-fusion and some killer funky stuff. He's the man. I don't want to contninue because I just realised that this list may not be really that definitive, except the first 2 or 3. Honorable mentions: Charles Mingus (if only I knew more of his work and digged it), Larry Young, Pharoah Sanders, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, McCoy Tyner, Mike Ratledge, Monk, Bruford, Cobham... Also Zappa and Santana, but that would be going less jazz..
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