Your all time 10 fav jazz Artist
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Topic: Your all time 10 fav jazz Artist
Posted By: Hawkwise
Subject: Your all time 10 fav jazz Artist
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2011 at 5:21pm
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So who is it that does it for you in the jazz world what 10 Jazz artist hold that special little something for you ? not necessarily the biggest or even the best but who have that little something special to you personally And after all we like are list don't we ? so.. 1 John Coltrane . Really yet to hear album he has been involved with i haven't liked he just got that something for me 2. Stanley Clarke Just for Journey to love album which i love oh so much and was the first Jazz album i bought all those years ago and still to this day one my all time Fav,s 3. Chick Corea So Much good music from the Man RTF his solo stuff just love this guys Music. 4. Paul Chambers . Man that guy just played with everybody who was anybody in the Jazz world what a Bass Player. 5. Miles Davis Nothing to say really he was the Man. 6. Jean- luc Ponty Love his Music simple as that. 7. John McLaughlin, First real Jazz artist i got really into back in 75. 8. Wayne Shorter Brillant . love his work did with Joni Mitchell and three solo albums Night Dreamer Speak No Evil and Juju brillant . 9. Gong for Shamel and Gazzuse and i love the band to bits and lucky enough to of seen them more times that i can count over the years since 1975. 10. Glen Miller for my Dad  ------------- "If you're trying to be hip, be hip." - Miles Davis |
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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2011 at 6:23pm
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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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Posted By: triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2011 at 8:05pm
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Mingus Mingus Mingus Davis Mingus Coltrane Ellington Gillespie Mingus Rich
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Posted By: The Manticore
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2011 at 8:46pm
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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) ------------- When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. |
Posted By: ConnorE
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:04pm
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clark jones jarrett holland brubeck sikala hancock roach davis coltrane
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Posted By: Zarathustra
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 10:59am
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Miles Hendrix
Pastorius Coltrane Bill Evans McLaughlin Bruford Corea Stanley (Clarke) Herbie |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 11:03am
Sorry, but do you consider that Jimmy Hendrix is a jazz artist? |
Zarathustra wrote:Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 7:09pm
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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.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 7:11pm
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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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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 7:15pm
Lots of "hippie jazz" there.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 7:18pm
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Yeah, it's the good stuff.
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Posted By: Krilons Resa
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 9:26pm
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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. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2011 at 7:53am
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Art Tatum Miles Davis John Coltrane Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker John McLaughlin Herbie Hancock Charles Mingus Ella Fitzgerald Thelonious Monk |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 03 May 2011 at 11:52am
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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
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 03 May 2011 at 1:25pm
I've avoided this thread for a reason, I like too many artists to narrow it down to 10 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 06 May 2011 at 1:28am
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Posted By: Drummer
Date Posted: 21 May 2011 at 8:00am
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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 ------------- http://enterpanopticon.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Noak2
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2011 at 7:44am
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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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Posted By: MilesBeyond
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 4:59pm
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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! |
Posted By: stuccohomes
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2011 at 6:10pm
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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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Posted By: dionisio
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 9:06am
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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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Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 9:19am
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^ no doubt Louis Armstrong is one of the giants, either he's being taken for granted or people discard him because he's too 'easy' (not enough experimental/AG) for them. ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 9:19am
| Excellent, we've been needing more Bop fans around here, as for Satchmo, our own Matt has been going on about his new massive Armstrong CD collection he just picked up. I have a few reviews up for the guy, I actually have a couple of old Armstrong vinyls from the 50s. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 6:10pm
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Off the top of my head Miles Davis Herbie Hancock John Coltrane Dave Holland John Scofield Chick Corea Pat Metheny Jaco Pastorius Thelonious Monk Charles Mingus ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 6:11pm
Satchmo is great. We just don't have a lot of fans of really old jazz, like 20s and 30s jazz. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2011 at 3:06am
 (hi daddy), but I don't regret it .... and although I don't EVER feel the urge of ever listening to him again, it doesn't mean that I don't consider him a giant of jazz ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....  |
Posted By: darkprinceofjazz
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2012 at 6:59pm
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Miles Davis John Coltrane Charles Mingus Jackie Mclean Wayne Shorter Buddy Rich Don Ellis Herbie Hancock Joe Henderson Andrew Hill |
Posted By: Rokukai
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 7:58pm
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Man Joe Pass Kenny Burrell Yusef Lateef Donald Byrd Herbie Mann McCoy Tyner Jack McDuff Gabor Szabo Grant Green Eddie Harris |
Posted By: Rokukai
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 8:03pm
| I love seeing Andrew Hill on your list. What a great, unheralded artist |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2012 at 8:14pm
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^ I've only got one of his, an and obvious one - Point of Departure what else do you think should I buy? ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 2:34am
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Compulsion!!!!!
with the "!" in the title....
 Definitely his more "involved" 60's albumIn the 70's, Nefertiti and Divine Revelation have some very interesting moments too, but were uneven ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones.... |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 5:27am
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^ excellent, thanks, Sean - added to my list, looking forward to it!
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Posted By: HURBRET
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2012 at 11:28pm
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1. Coltrane 2. Jaco 3. Mingus 4. McCoy Tyner 5. Bill Evans 6. Ahmad Jamal 7. Hiromi 8. Chick Corea 9. Kieth Jarrett 10. Eric Dolphy You can tell I'm a pianist... |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 7:50am
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^ not a Herbie Hancock fan? Or is he 11?
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 11:40am
appârently no Bud Powell either ------------- my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones.... |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 12:41pm
or Count Basie. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 10:06pm
| ^ considering the other ten people on his list, that would be an odd choice ... or maybe you're spoofing the comment above you, I dunno. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 12:22am
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6.Arron Goldberg 5.Ornette Coleman 4,Trio M 3.Frank Zappa 2.Dave Brubeck Quartet 1.King Crimson ------------- |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 12:35am
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^ go Dave at number 2! All right, let's see if I can manage a 10 artists only (in no order) Miles Davis Herbie Hancock Bill Evans Charles Mingus Don Ellis Dave Brubeck Freddie Hubbard John Coltrane Peter Knight Janko Nilovic (sometimes I might swap him for Chick Corea or John McLaughlin) ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 12:53pm
The latter ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 1:11pm
Sorry Mike, I shoulda known 
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