The Jazz Thread

[Winter-John]

These guys are great. Their music sounds like it's come out of some old 40s detective movie. It's excellent for driving home late at night

 

[PurpleStorm]

 

[aerius]

Good points all. Kind of depends at what point a musical genre has fully separated from it's progenitors...

And this:

There's an alternate universe where Black Sabbath decided to go into jazz instead of metal...

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[tonysmasseuse]

 

[bootsy]

Got cheap Herbie Hancock/ Kamasi Washington tickets yesterday, pretty excited.

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Pretentious nonsense.

This isn't some high society shit. This is a vital part of Americana that influenced many genres of music including pop, rock, heavy metal, and rap. For you to label it "pretentious nonsense" merely shows how ignorant you are when it comes to music history.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Programed beat?

To be fair a lot of fusion Miles sticks to a pretty standard beat I spose.

 

[Straight_Edge]

Not very knowledgeable about jazz and the little I do know can be traced back to a fling with a hipster girl during college, the one person she put me up on who I really dug and still listen to occasionally

 

[Madmick]

I've mentioned it many times before, but Largo has long endured as my favorite jazz album, and maybe my favorite album, period:

Spoiler: Brad Mehldau's Largo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_(Brad_Mehldau_album)
https://music.apple.com/us/album/largo/73256991

YouTube: Largo (Full Album Playlist)

His "Paranoid Android" cover of Radiohead is probably still his best known music, and it's on this album, but my favorite three are below. They're ageless. Doesn't matter how many times I hear them. Only love them more:








Another contemporary jazz pianist I love:




The H3H3 podcast flat out has better musical themes than anybody else out there. Check out what this guy did to it. Not a syncopated beat, but it still feels like jazz to me. If you have a real sound system, crank it. This is why nothing beats a Bechstein for uprights. It's almost hard to fathom the sound that comes out of this thing (and over a YouTube 160kbps compression):


Check out what people do with the themes. This is why jazz is fucking awesome:






Jazz is better appreciated the more you train your ears. Sometimes it helps to hear the pieces deconstructed (this is true for all music). That tutorial does just that with a separate theme from the podcast. It's quite pleasant:



36-second solo riffing on the podcast theme. Dat resolve at 0:26...



.....

 

[Madmick]

P.S: Anybody who says this sucks should just head back to metal shop, and not worry about wearing protection. It isn't important you keep your hearing, anyway:

 

[Deleted member 110072]

 

[bootsy]

 

[Violent Violin]

Got cheap Herbie Hancock/ Kamasi Washington tickets yesterday, pretty excited.

Sweet! Let us know how it was

 

[Daverisimo]

My son is mathematically inclined and very type A. He can’t stand jazz. I’ve always linked the two.

I have a degree in pure mathematics (focusing mostly on modern algebra and model theory), and I love (and have played) jazz.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Dig this, daddio

 

[Anung Un Rama]

all you hep cats gotta peep this



real cool, dig?

 

[bootsy]

 

[bootsy]

 

[Violent Violin]

If anyone has the rest of The Happy People, please post! Fucking great album