Jazz Favorites: Thot I'd start a new kind of thread. Here is possibly the best jazz piece ever. So What, from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Got your favorites? Add them.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Thot I'd start a new kind of thread. Here is possibly the best jazz piece ever. So What, from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Got your favorites? Add them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

tramsey Loc: Texas

Good thread

I whole lot of years ago I won a trip to New Orleans and stayed in the French Quarter and got to hear Al Hirt do this peice in person at his place on Bourbon St

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVnHVce0pI

SteveR Loc: Michigan

tramsey wrote:

Good thread

I whole lot of years ago I won a trip to New Orleans and stayed in the French Quarter and got to hear Al Hirt do this peice in person at his place on Bourbon St

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVnHVce0pI

Al was a favorite of mine. I was able to see him in person at the Meadowbrook Music Festival at Oakland University's outdoor venue. Afterwards, my girlfriend and I went backstage. He was great to talk to. We were the only ones to venture back.

tramsey Loc: Texas

I didn't get to talk to him. He played a couple of times and then left. :-(

Sheeba Loc: Maryland

Anything by Paul Hardcastle

SteveR wrote:

Thot I'd start a new kind of thread. Here is possibly the best jazz piece ever. So What, from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Got your favorites? Add them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

SteveR wrote:

Thot I'd start a new kind of thread. Here is possibly the best jazz piece ever. So What, from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Got your favorites? Add them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

Steve
I love the album "Kind Of Blue", I never get tired of listening to it.
I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to offer up more than one song.
The first Jazz album I bought was "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, I bought it because I heard the song "Take Five" and had to have it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpnWuk3RjU
Here's a couple songs more I really, really like
'Corcovado" from Getz/Gilberto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWX5HH16vc
"Maputo" from Double Vision by Bob James and David Sanborn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBR4VHMY_A

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Since Mac beat me to posting Brubeck, I'll toss in another favorite of mine...Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Love It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSq_nwoG43s&feature=related

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

The ad was pretty good.can't beat a good meercat

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

We saw him prior to his club closing in New Orleans. He played a full set and even signed CD's after. You could tell his health was not the best, but what a performance and an opportunity to shake his hand, in a great setting. Gary

tramsey wrote:

Good thread

I whole lot of years ago I won a trip to New Orleans and stayed in the French Quarter and got to hear Al Hirt do this peice in person at his place on Bourbon St

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVnHVce0pI

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Thanks Mac. I don't have that Brubeck, though I'm familiar with it. I'll have to pick it up. I hope to hear some great sounds and order some albums from what I hear. Corcovado was great, too. Speaking of Brubeck. Here's a tune you'll remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI20jb4Pmsg

SteveR Loc: Michigan

SteveR wrote:

Thanks Mac. I don't have that Brubeck, though I'm familiar with it. I'll have to pick it up. I hope to hear some great sounds and order some albums from what I hear. Corcovado was great, too. Speaking of Brubeck. Here's a tune you'll remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI20jb4Pmsg

And another, to get you up and going to work on a Monday morning!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEd3Xj_KoVc

jackare

Almost anything by Ella, Sarah Vaughn, George Shearing, Duke Ellington, Basie-etc!! Can't forget Bill Evans' 'You must believe in spring'!! the first time i heard that i was driving and i had to stop my car and just listen!!

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Two more of my favorites. Night in Tunisia, Dizzie Gillespie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYXn1DP38s

And Night Train, Oscar Peterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSsEm4p2-Xc

jazzplayer

SteveR wrote:

Thot I'd start a new kind of thread. Here is possibly the best jazz piece ever. So What, from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Got your favorites? Add them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

Steve - You chose one of the tunes from my most favorite Miles collection, "Greatest Hits" (playlist here.)
I tried to find a link for one of my other most favorites, "Mingus Fingus#2" (Charles Mingus), but haven't tracked it down yet...

Anything by Miles, Mingus, Parker, Coltrane, Dolphy, Dizzy, etc. works great for me, as well as the "greats" like Duke & Basie, of course. And I particularly like the songwriting of Wayne Shorter. I also have a weakness toward the "fusion" genre, so I especially like to listen to post-Miles artists like John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea etc.
Here's one of my old Chick faves, Straight Up and Down, recorded relatively soon after his stint with Miles' band.
Oh yes, and Oscar Peterson is the BEST piano player EVER! (imo!)

That said, I find that I don't really do a whole lot of music listening in general these days, except to whatever NPR happens to be spinning when I'm in the car... (and I always try to find an excuse to drive someplace during the "Jazz Sunday" program!)

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Probably his best album. As a jazz enthusiast I am more partial to jazz piano and the late Bill Evans was the pianist in Miles Davis's sextet that backed him on this album.