Jazz anyone ?

[Audio Al]

Here you go Al - tonight, the BBC4 schedule is just for you.

Only just got in so missed half the Dave Brubeck

Thanks for the heads up

[Mr Kipling]

Thanks Chris. I have tried a few Chet Baker tracks. I remember his albums being reviewed in Hi-Fi Answers. What I've heard though hasn't done it for me. Same with Dexter Gordon. Maybe I've just been unlucky so far. This has taken me back to listening to Alan Dell's show on Radio 2 years ago. He had a really nice presentation style and voice to match.

[The Grand Wazoo]

How about some Ben Webster then?

[Mr Kipling]

No. Haven't tried BW. See what I can find. Thanks

[The Grand Wazoo]

He did some great stuff with Oscar Peterson & Coleman Hawkins.

[Barry]

How about some Ben Webster then?

Ben Webster -Smoooooooooth, very smooth!

His collaboration with Stan Tracy on 'Soho Nights' is well worth checking out:

[Tarzan]

So who like Jazz

I am currently listening to an LP

Newport 1958 by

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Love a Sax , Clarinet , Double Bass , Jazz piano and a crisp sharp Trumpet

and the drums with the ?? " not drumsticks " they have lots of little hair type things and make a shhhh sound when rubbed on the drum , Crap description sorry

I like Jazz to a point but the far out arrangements are a bit like a car crash , not welcome

A bit strange Al. as enjoyed the " far out" arrangements of The Thirteenth Floor Elavators so much round mine

[Audio Al]

A bit strange Al. as enjoyed the " far out" arrangements of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators so much round mine

Did I maybe I need another session with 13 F E

[Audio Al]

Yes, that's a pretty good list for getting going - plenty of scope for exploring what interests you around those albums.
This box of 25 albums is pretty good value too

The following albums for £35:

1. Louis Armstrong - Plays W.C. Handy: Original Jazz Classics
2. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi
3. Art Blakey - The Jazz Messengers
4. Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
5. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
6. Dave Brubeck Quartet - TIME OUT
7. Duke Ellingtont meets Count Basie [1999 Remaster]
8. Helen_Merrill & Piero Umiliani Orchestra - Parole E Musica
9. Charlie Mingus - Tijuana Moods
10. Chet Baker - Chet Is Back!
11. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
12. Sonny Rollins - Sonny meets Hawk!
13. Martial Solal - Newport '63
14. Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan - Two of a Mind
15. Benny Goodman Quartet - Together Again
16. George Benson & Quartet - It's Uptown
17. Nina Simone - Sings the Blues
18. Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here
19. Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea + Seattle 1963
20. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
21. Stan Getz - The Best Of Two Worlds
22. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
23. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
24. Wynton Marsalis - Marsalis Standard Time
25. Charlie Parker, Monty Alexander, Ray Brown, John Guerin - Bird

Looks like I will be going in a new direction with my music
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Buying new any pointer how to do this , do you have to get up at 5am to do it
Maybe I need to Google " Buying New "

[WOStantonCS100]

Much like classical, I would not even know where to begin; been listening to it all my life.

I just got through listening to George Cables - Cables' Vision.

Top three would be:
The Essential Charlie Parker
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Herbie Hancock - Thrust

Then in no particular order and non-exhaustive:
The Astrud Gilberto Album (& The Shadow of Your Smile)
Bob James - One (& Two)
Grant Green - Visions
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (& Seven Steps to Heaven)
John Coltrane - Black Pearls (& Traneing In / Om "don't even look at this if you don't really want a challenge")
Earl Klugh - Heart String (& Magic In Your Eyes)
Flora Purim - Butterfly Dreams (& Stories to Tell)
George Benson - The Other Side of Abbey Road (& The Shape of Things to Come)
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (& Waltz for Debby)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (& The Inner Mounting Flame)
Donald Byrd Band & Voices - A New Perspective (& Street Lady)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Red, Black and Green (& Virgo Vibes)
Joe Pass - Portraits of Duke Ellington
The Manhattan Transfer - Vocalese (& The Spirit of St. Louis)
Jon Hendricks - ¡Salud! João Gilberto, Originator of the Bossa Nova (& Evolution of the Blues Song)
Eliane Elias - So Far, So Close (& Illusions)
Michael Brecker - Don't Try This At Home (& Pilgrimage)
Eddie Harris - Plug Me In (& The Electrifying...)
Jean-Luc Ponty plays the music of Frank Zappa: King Kong (& Enigmatic Ocean)

etc. etc.

More obscure groups/artists:
Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash
Sex Mob
Dave Fiuczynski
Aquarium Rescue Unit
Wayne Krantz

etc. etc.

I'm gettin' all giggly just typing all this stuff. Time to go back and do more listening.