SRV-Zeppelin Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Just wondering what your opinions are. I've been on a total jazz binge lately; not playing so much guitar as piano, but I've been listening to a lot. I really like the bluesy-jazz (like Joe Bonomassa, for example) and the energetic "club scene" piano / sax / trumpet, etc type music. Not a big fan of the slow or "alt" jazz, but I've found lately that I've really got a thing for the genre in general. Currently watching a video playlist of the Monteal Jazz Festival on Youtube. I highly doubt this is going to convert me from Gibson, Marshall, Classic Rock, or Blues... but I am really, really enjoying the music. So... anyone else? Or am I the only one here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshole Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 im taking a jazz class in college, its really cool stuff that some of these musicans are playing very complex/groving music. Its fun to play, great to listen too. its almost like everybody is soloing at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRV-Zeppelin Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 im taking a jazz class in college' date=' its really cool stuff that some of these musicans are playing very complex/groving music. Its fun to play, great to listen too. its almost like everybody is soloing at once.[/quote'] Groovy! (as it were...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I must not be sophisticated enough for Jazz, I haven't found any that I really like. I've tried to listen to as many different types of jazz as I can find, but to me it sounds discordant and strange. My .02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I love jazz! There are so many great jazz guitar players. A lot of rockers don't care for jazz because there isn't enough distortion, but what you DO have is massive soloing. I'm a better lead player than rhythm and thats why I love instrumental jazz - it's nothing but one big solo with some hooks to keep it cohesive. Check out some of these guitarests - some you've heard of and probably some you've not Larry Carlton - Most here probably know him - played on early Steely Dan and a TON of studio stuff. Check out his solo stuff Jeff Golub - used to be the guitarest in Billy Squire's band Craig Chaquico (spelling?) used to play in Jefferson Starship - remember the video "We built this city" that's him Joe Pass Paul Jackson Jr Paul Brown Al DiMeola Russel Malone Grant Guiessman - check out "buisness as Usual" or "Time Will Tell" album Stanley Jordan George Benson Four Play Pat Martino Jim Hall This is only scratching the surface - hot guitar licks by all of these guys... if you dare to listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepfreik Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 SRV-Zeppelin you are not the only one, not by a long shot! I listen to jazz every night when driving home from work to relieve my stress. No other music seems to do that for me so i stick with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I do like Bela Fleck and the Flecktones...does that count as jazz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I feel the same way about jazz and bluegrass. I love to watch talented musicians of any sort and would have a good time if I were watching live. I wouldn't go get a jazz CD though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepblue Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I like dinner Jazz, and for guitar I enjoy Lenny Breau...he was amazing. Other then that its too out there for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlekenny Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 My guitar teacher is a jazz freak so we spend a lot of time learning some jazz stuff along with the theory behind it. It can be really confusing but it helps a lot and is pretty fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 When I listen to jazz, it is never guitar players - Miles, Monk, and 'Trane for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshole Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I must not be sophisticated enough for Jazz' date=' I haven't found any that I really like. I've tried to listen to as many different types of jazz as I can find, but to me it sounds discordant and strange. My .02[/quote'] i totaly agree, sometimes jazz can sound undirectional and very confusing, but thats what makes it the way it is, you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 i totaly agree' date=' sometimes jazz can sound undirectional and very confusing, but thats what makes it the way it is, you know?[/quote'] Yeah back the day (Charlie Parkers time) heroin was well known in jazz circles; I can't help but think that had an influence on the music. Surf, I love monk too... not too crazy about miles though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGBENDS Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 When I listen to jazz' date=' it is never guitar players - Miles, Monk, and 'Trane for me.[/quote'] Ditto. I also listen to the Big Band Jazz greats. These guys' music just energizes the heck out of me (Buddy Rich Band, Count Basie and his Orchestra, Gene Krupa Band, Dave Brubeck). Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, & Ed Shaughnessy were the best drummers to play for human ears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUbYiFXT_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Check out some of these guitarests - some you've heard of and probably some you've not Larry Carlton - Most here probably know him - played on early Steely Dan and a TON of studio stuff. Check out his solo stuff Jeff Golub - used to be the guitarest in Billy Squire's band Craig Chaquico (spelling?) used to play in Jefferson Starship - remember the video "We built this city" that's him Joe Pass Paul Jackson Jr Paul Brown Al DiMeola Russel Malone Grant Guiessman - check out "buisness as Usual" or "Time Will Tell" album Stanley Jordan George Benson Four Play Pat Martino Jim Hall This is only scratching the surface - hot guitar licks by all of these guys... if you dare to listen. I'd like to add Les Paul to the list :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmngretsch14 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I'm a jazz fan myself, and the Jazz guitarist off that list that is most needed is Wes Montgomery. My personal preferences for jazz are bop or cool jazz, preferably stripped down--not a jazz orchestra guy--I really like Sonny Rollins, the first Miles Davis Quintet (w/ Trane) and Monk, just to name a few. Jazz may not be my primary taste (bluesman myself) but I really do dig it and if you really get into it it can give you a new perspective on expression and general form of music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80LPC Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 What list would be complete without Charlie Christian, Django or Holdsworth ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanner1994 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 jazz is great, i grew up listening to my dad play jazz all the time when i was a toddler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Nahum Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 When I decided to get serious about playing electric guitar about ten years ago (as opposed to owning one), I chose jazz - or rather, the teacher told me that's what he could teach aside from blues and rock - which I had pretty much left behind. I found that jazz offered the student a lot of tools including: - a whole new chord vocabulary that you need to understand, not just play, so you can move onto - different ways of voicing and combining them - how to analyse a chart in terms of tone centres and choose scales for soloing - how to use the scales to best effect - a set of musically interesting standards that you can play with a bunch of people you have never met before and sound pretty good - through all this, build creativity so that you are not just copying somebody else's chops Oddly enough, for the first year or so, I enjoyed learning jazz but not listening to it. This changed when I saw "Jazz on a Summer's Day" and realised that I was watching some of the great music of the 20th century. After that I latched onto Bird, Coltrane, Monk, Powell, Bill Evans etc. Who can say that the 50s were dull when this was happening??!! RN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepblue Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I'd like to add Les Paul to the list So true...lets not forget that our beloved Les Pauls were originally designed as Jazz guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshole Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 my brother is taking the class as well, he gets some crap from all those artist liberal starbuck drinking jazz major students (im not saying all of them are) because he plays his guitar as low as jimmy paige. when all the other students have there classical guitars higher than there eyebrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 What list would be complete without Charlie Christian' date=' Django or Holdsworth ?[/quote'] Couldn't agree more. I came to Charlie Christian quite late and regret the delay. Anyone into Django should also check out Oscar Aleman. They were contemporaries and Oscar played in Paris, for a time, too. One of the very first guitarists I started listening to (and he made me feel very inadequate) was Joe Pass. Scarily good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Arm Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones do indeed qualify. I love them. Don't often think of banjos as jazz instruments, but he pulls it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 As I said after that short list I posted - it's only scratching the surface. There are a bunch of great Jazz cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I grew up in the fifties. Jazz was a much larger part of the music then so I heard it all my life and still listen a lot of it. All kinds. Not only is it good listening, you can learn a lot about music in general, and all the ways music can be improvised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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