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Any other jazz fans post your favorite artists and songs.


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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin AKA Hubcap
    Hi Anthony,

    How about some fusion/electro jazz.

    I present Yukimi Nagano (produced by Hird)


    She fronts a group called Little Dragon but does a lot of compilations with other artists/groups/producers.

    Here she is with Sleepwalker


    And with Ge-ology


    And one other


    As you can probably tell I really like Ms. Nagano. Her voice is mesmerizing, inviting and she possesses great range to boot.

    Who else do you recommend?
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    I can sum mine up without a video...

    So, this jazz musician dies, goes to the pearly gates, and meets St. Peter, who shows him around. In the biggest room in Heaven, there's a band playing. Billie singing, Monk on the piano, Armstrong back in the horn section, and 'Trane is blowing sax. Up front, a black trumpet player is leading the ensemble, with his back turned to the audience.

    "Is that...?," asks the incredulous musician.

    "No," replies St. Peter. "That's God. He just thinks he's Miles Davis."
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    I never got into jazz but as a teenager in the 70's a new genre was created called "jazz fusion" which is a combo of jazz and R&B.

    The music is very jazzy but the rhythms are a lot easier to follow.

    In the 1970's...

    The jazz musicians were losing audience as rock, disco, funk and the other genres chipped away at it's former dominance.

    People like George Benson and Grover Washington Jr. couldn't make a decent living with their normal jazz so they decided to add easier to follow rhythms to their music and jazz fusion was born.


    I have since come to appreciate early jazz including the big band sounds up until the 1950's.

    I'm not crazy about the be-bop of the 1950's and the jazz of the 1960's but I absolutely love the jazz fusion.


    Here are my top jazz fusion hits:



    Mr. Magic:
    Let It Flow Grover Washington Jr.


    Always There &
    Friends & Strangers: Ronnie Laws


    Everything from the Crusaders album of "Those Southern Knights"

    Life On Mars
    Profit Named KG
    Rings Of Saturn: Dexter Wansel


    Change
    Places & Spaces
    Falling Like Dominoes Donald Byrd


    Lifeline
    Mystic Voyage
    Vibrations Roy Ayers Ubiquity


    Chameleon
    Actual Proof
    Spank-a-Lee
    Entire Thrust Album Herbie Hancock

    Grazing In The Grass Hugh Masakela


    Tough & Tender
    Lifestyle John Klemmer


    Windjammer Freddie Hubbard


    Hard Work John Handy

    Land Of Make Believe Chuck Mangione


    Dujii
    Summer Madness
    Blowing In The Wind Kool & The Gang


    Sun Goddess Earth Wind & Fire


    You can find most of these hits at youtube and then you can convert them to itunes format online at YouTube to MP3 Converter - Video2mp3 - Converter and include them into your itunes library.


    Here's a good example of the jazz fusion I listened to as a teenager.

    Ronnie Laws - Always There!


    All The Best!!

    TL
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  • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
    Here's a guy I just saw recently for the 4th or 5th time: Chucho Valdez from Cuba. This guy is amazing. His dad still plays at 93 years old and his son is also a great pianist:


    Here's another Cuban who played with Chucho for many years in the group Irakere: Paquito D'Rivera playing a beautiful version of Mozart's Adagio:

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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony_Hall
    Originally Posted by Kevin AKA Hubcap View Post

    Hi Anthony,

    How about some fusion/electro jazz.

    I present Yukimi Nagano (produced by Hird)

    YouTube - Love Again Ft. Yukimi Nagano, by Hird

    She fronts a group called Little Dragon but does a lot of compilations with other artists/groups/producers.

    Here she is with Sleepwalker

    YouTube - sleepwalker afloat (ft yukimi nagano)

    And with Ge-ology

    YouTube - Ge-ology Ft Yukimi Nagano - Blues Alley

    And one other

    YouTube - yukijobo - supernova sky

    As you can probably tell I really like Ms. Nagano. Her voice is mesmerizing, inviting and she possesses great range to boot.

    Who else do you recommend?
    For some odd reason her voice really reminds me of Bjork's if she had decided to become a jazz musician.

    Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus is a fantastic album.


    Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator View Post

    I never got into jazz but as a teenager in the 70's a new genre was created called "jazz fusion" which is a combo of jazz and R&B.

    The music is very jazzy but the rhythms are a lot easier to follow.

    In the 1970's...

    The jazz musicians were losing audience as rock, disco, funk and the other genres chipped away at it's former dominance.

    People like George Benson and Grover Washington Jr. couldn't make a decent living with their normal jazz so they decided to add easier to follow rhythms to their music and jazz fusion was born.



    Here's a good example of the jazz fusion I listened to as a teenager.

    Ronnie Laws - Always There!
    YouTube - RONNIE LAWS, ALWAYS THERE, ORIGINAL VERSION,


    All The Best!!

    TL
    Not sure if you'd be interested but there's this other great musician named Sun Ra who makes these crazy psychedelic jazz albums. This is the best explanation I've found so far.

    "sun ra used his intuition to reproduce sonically the structures of the universe. the people who dont get his art are not open to nature but only to academic forms that only exist in the human mind. when i listen to heliocentric worlds i feel i'm listening to the cosmos, a free structure of neverending variety"


    Also the guy completely believes he's from Jupiter or some other planet like that. Which only adds to the greatness.

    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    Always have been a Monk fan, always will be.

    If you can, there's an EP that he and John Coltrane recorded together. It's about as good as you can imagine it would be.
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