Based on a thread I looked at awhile, I checked out Diana Krull (Krall?). She's pretty good. I can dig it, but she's maybe...a little boring at times.
So, whose got good taste in music? What sort of jazz artists should I be checking out?
Joe Satriani is pretty awesome. Nice and smooth with some decent guitar talent to keep it from being to elevatorey.
Portishead isn't really jazz, but is in that mellow vein with a nice gritty and gloomy feel for when the sun is shining just a bit too bright and your life is going just a bit too well for your liking. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 05-08-2006 at 09:25 PM.
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Verily, Vorbis doth proclaim:
Django Reinhardt is an undeniable, inescapable staple.
And very suitable for wine sipping, I might add.
Dexter Gordon is gonna be a good shot for you. It's actual jazz and his usual stuff is very relaxing.
And I couldn't be more turned on.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Ozimander wrote:
Tom Waits is not music to sip wine to, really.Dexter Gordon is gonna be a good shot for you. It's actual jazz and his usual stuff is very relaxing.
Well- no. Bourban, brandy- yes.
I've already suggested Nina Simone to him. He was down with that. Unfortunately I'm stuck in a 'folk bands with banjos!' phase right now.
"Saxophone Colossus", by Sonny Rollins might be the sort of thing you'd like. Very warm, very bluesy, yet also very wine-sippingly good.
There's always Vince Guaraldi, the guy who did the music for the Charlie Brown specials. Any of his soundtracks for that franchise are excellent.
And though it's more of a longshot, Jamie Saft's recent "Astaroth" is very good. It's the pianist's renditions of some of John Zorn's Masada compositions, so it has a very Jewish-music feel to it, but it's still very much Jazz.
As for Tom Waits, the sheer force of his voice prevents any sort of elegance from occuring. Regardless, his music is pretty consistently great, and you'll probably learn to love "the voice": very cathartic, very soulful, very raspy. Stiddy fucked around with this message on 05-11-2006 at 01:21 AM.
