I only delve now and again into jazz on the piano, improvising, working out my own versions of old standards etc. But what I do know a little bit about is the world of Jazz as music one listens to! From Keith Jarrett to Herbie Han###### to Canonball Adderley, I'm very into it!
I'd like to know if anyone here listens to jazz on a regular basis and if so, what? MY favourite jazz composer is Herbie Han######, who is most famous for his debut album's hit track 'Watermelon Man' - which is a really fabulous tune.

Well, how about you?

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Tsk indeed! How frustrating, Herbie Han-rooster is about what I'm getting at...

Hi there!

I'm an avid Jazz listener and player - I'd recommend any and all of the following...

Miles Davies - Kind of Blue, Miles Ahead, Miles in the Sky, ######es brew, sketches of Spain, Birth of the cool, etc...
George Benson - It's uptown, George Benson cookbook, 'talkin verve' collection, box set anthology etc...
John Coltrane - Anything really- especially Trane's blues and a Love supreme..
Kenny Burrell - 'blues, the common ground', and 'guitar forms'.
Jaco Pastorius - Invitation
Oliver Nelson - More blues and the abstract truth
Medeski Martin and Wood - the Dropper, combustication
Pat metheny - One quiet night (Like many a voluminous back catalogue but I prefer his later stuff), Letter from Home (bit cheesy!)
Pat Martino - anything at all! In particular 'All sides now'
Wes Montgomery - any
Charlie Parker - any collection or best of...
Joe Pass - Songs for Ellen, Virtuoso
Courteney pine- Devotion
Wynton Marsalis - Midnight blues
Martin Taylor - Nightlife, artistry
John Scofield - Uberjam
Duke Ellington, Count Basie - anything at all!
Sonny Rollins - any best of or compilation!
Charlie Hunter - Natty dread, self titled, latest release...
Dave Holland quintet -
Django Reinhardt - any compilation
Bill Evans - Conversations (I think!)
Herbie Han-rooster's 'Directions in Music'
Esbjorn Svenson trio - Seven days of Falling
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The list goes on! Admittedly alot of guitar based music here but then, being as I'm a guitarist... Some good stuff in there to start with though...

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yeah - 'common term used for female dog- Brew, good album!

You like guitar? and Django Reinhardt?? I know what you would love - the Rosenberg Trio. Absolutely fabulous, get their Live at the North Sea jazz festival album.

Chris 118!!! I was talking to somebody only today (in a music shop) about the Rosenberg Trio - it wasn't you, was it?! The person gave me his phone no and I promised to put him in touch with some Hot Club enthusiasts.

Seriously though I've been a fan of the Django style for years and have been playing in a Django-style band for more years than you'd like to know.

Saw the Rosenberg lot once at the Upton-on-Severn Jazz Festival (I'd been playing there too They were beyond brilliant, they really were.

Have you ever come across the Belgian gypsy jazz quartet Waso? Fronted by the somewhat legendary Koen de Cauter? Also rather wonderful...

Violinia

Hello, no, it wasn't me - there are more than two people in the UK who like the Rosenberg Trio! And secondly, no, I haven't heard of that jazz quatet, but I might look them up.

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Hello, no, it wasn't me - there are more than two people in the UK who like the Rosenberg Trio! And secondly, no, I haven't heard of that jazz quartet, but I might look them up.

No, lol, I know that!

Actually the Waso lot now call themselves "Les Bohemes" and can be checked out here: http://www.lejazzetal.com/bohemes/band.htm, although I actually prefer the old jazz stuff they used to do when they were Waso and had some different members, all Flemish.

Ah, sigh, those were the days...

Violinia

QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Sep 4 2004, 06:42 PM)

Bahahahahahahaha!!!! The silent monitor is at work. Herbie Han####??? Do you mean Herbie Han-rooster? Double-LOL!

Erm, anyone here from S######horpe?

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Erm, anyone here from S######horpe?

I'm not from that delightful Lincolnshire hotspot, but I had a great time practising my Adam Carse exercises when I was young.

Violinia

Whoops, just checked and it slipped through! Which wasn't the point of the exercise at all - oh, never mind..