Need Help with Jazz

[X-man]

hi, i'm a music fanatic and a musician at heart, i'm young, 17, and i love jazz, everything i've heard, its amazing, though i'm a punk rocker and everything, alot of the musical evolution and thinking is very related to punk rock, excpet the culture isnt as different. I want to learn more about jazz, but music wise, i'd like to get into the culture and history later, but i just want to listen to some music for now and i was hoping you could help me out.

I know a little about different styles of jazz, and its alot like punk rock, some are different yet still jazz.

I was hoping you could reccomend some things that are liek piano, guitar, sax, up beat kinda jazz, like you imagine in a club and its smoke filled, and its really lively. And also relaxing jazz, whatever, just something cool, i already know some miles davis, but i was thinking something real lively i guess just that imagie you get of jazz. Thanks heaps.

[GA Russell]

Here are a few:

Herbie Mann - Standing Ovation at Newport

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004L8DC/qid=1035854331/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/103-7158975-8734257?v=glance

Steve Marcus - Count's Rock Band

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JFYG/qid=1035854714/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-7158975-8734257?v=glance

Groove Holmes - Living Soul

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JHC0/qid=1035854791/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-7158975-8734257?v=glance

[clifton]

Here's a few more: David S. Ware "Surrendered" and "Corridors And Parallels". Ware is an expressive saxophonist with an audience among punk rockers who like good music regardless of label. Miles Davis "Miles Smiles". A real burner with some pretty stuff too. Dave Douglas "The Infinite" one of the best CD's of the year. Charlie Parker "Jazz At Massey Hall". My favorite musician, my favorite CD. The artist on "Jazz At Massey Hall" is billed as The Quintet, which consists of Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. Good luck and good listening.

[Joel]

I know its an old thread but for the rocker youths out there,

Blast these in your speakers!

Derek Bailey- Mirakle
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

and some newer ones for blasting;

Al Dimeola - Flesh On Flesh
Dean Brown - Here


and mellow down with these;

Allan Holdsworth - Sixteen Men Of Tain
John Abercrombie - Night
check out Ethereggae

some straight ahead/contempo;

John Scofield - I Can See Your House From Here

and then the Classic;

Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar

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* all albums listed are guitar centric.

[jazzypaul]

The Bad Plus -- These Are The Vistas

Happy Apple -- Youth Oriented

Sexmob -- Den of Inequity

Masada -- Live in Jerusalem

Charles Mingus -- Pithecanthepus Erectus or Blues & Roots

Art Blakey -- Free For All

Cannonball Adderley -- Country Preacher

[Odium]

Get some :

Allan Holdsworth
Tribal Tech
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Cosmosquad
Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report

I think theese bands have more incommon with punk than most straight jazz so make sure to check them out.

[Bill Barton]

Kip Hanrahan

[lanigiro]

yeah man, being a punk rocker your going to want to listen to the jazz fusion.

like others listed, most definietly allan holdsworth and al dimeola. two of the greatest jazz fusion artist in my opinion. Al dimeola was also recently awarded fastest jazz guitarist by some mag. Its for sure true.

[bogdon]

the Punk/Jazz bassist is Jaco Pastorius.
Jaco changed the way everyone thought about what an electric bass is, and NO ONE has topped him since his death in the early 1980's.

CHECK out http://www.jacop.net He even wrote a bizzarre tune called "punk jazz" and its scarey as hell!









www.BogdonMusic.com

[guy]

the Punk/Jazz bassist is Jaco Pastorius.
Jaco changed the way everyone thought about what an electric bass is, and NO ONE has topped him since his death in the early 1980's.

CHECK out http://www.jacop.net He even wrote a bizzarre tune called "punk jazz" and its scarey as hell!

I thought "Punk Jazz" was a pretty disappointing track given the name. Just a brief fast bass solo (whoop dee doo) followed by an unremarkable ballad.

Guy

[Fender Rhodes Freak]

For a punk take on jazz I suggest listening to John Zorn & The Lounge Lizards. Also, you might wanna try some 1960's free jazz, by the likes of Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp & The Art Ensemble Of Chicago.