What good jazz cds have you been listening to?

[morjaz]

What's everyone listening to....I'm just wondering if people could post what their favorite jazz cds have been lately.
I'd have to say that I have listened to John Pizzarelli more than any other jazz....just love those swinging vocals....and just great guitar playing....
also Diana Krall with her voice and piano.

[namaste]

I'll second the Diana Krall. But usually I'm too busy practicing to listen to jazz anymore. But with a wicked case of tendonitis still very much alive I may just have to do some more listening.

[slowpoke]

Well I've just recently gotten into jazz the past couple of years so I'm constantly searching for more. I listented to it before but the albums I had I could count on one hand. I've been trying to increase my record collection as well so...

some good listens
Joe Pass - Virtuoso - this is the album that really opened my eyes to jazz, out of all the Coltrane, Hancock and Davis records I had listened to I never really 'got it' until this one. It just seemed to resonate with me more so than so many things I had heard before and made me realize all the things I could do on my guitar and in my mind that I hadn't even thought of doing. That takes some doing too, because I had played both bass and drums in my school jazz bands and my brother listened to a lot of jazz and went to school for it... so for an album to open my ears/mind that much has to be something really special.

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy - such a great record, the sound quality on this one makes it even richer
Oscar Pettiford Memorial album (bass master plus Tal Farlow on half the album)
Johnny Hodges - Everyone Knows
Wes Montgomery - Full House, Beginnings (a two LP set bluenote reissue that features early recordings with his brothers)
Wardell Gray - Wayout Wardell - a really good sax record, plus Barney Kessel

[morjaz]

It looks like I'm pretty lucky when it comes to listening to music.I listen to jazz albums whilst driving in and out to town......but I do a lot of signwriting at home and can therefore listen all day long......which I often do.
It's great to hear new stuff....particularly when after a couple of listens you suddenly "get it" as happened yesterday while getting into the piano stylings of Keith Jarrett'
Slowpoke asks in another thread where the new jazz is at.THat's a question I'm interested in too....
"The Bad Plus" has been recommended as a good listen for new sounds.This is a piano trio who have covered rock songs(e.g.Smells like teen spirit) and converted them into jazz.I'd recommend checking them out if looking for something fresh....

[pete]

Django Reinhardt - Peche De La Mouche. His more "modern" approach to jazz.
Anything by Dian Krall - what a voice and good looks too!!
Nat King Cole - a compilation. I love his guitar players lines.
Cannonball Adderley, the best of. - a cracking example of his work.
Tchavolo Scmitt , loutcha - I am a great 'Gypsy jazz' fan. Tchavolo is my favourite in the genre(After Django of course), tasteful but not speed obsessed like the Rosenbergs

[6string]

The most recent that I've found to really like that I haven't seen posted here yet is John Scofield. A great listen if you get the chance.

[morjaz]

Pete...I.m a gypsy jazz fan too.......and I'd like to throw in the names of The Robin Nolan Trio,Hot Club de Norvege,Angelo Debarre.And an American guitarist playng European jazz...John Jorgenson..he plays some good gypsy jazz.......and I'm told was guitarist for Elton John also....
I'm presently reading a book called Princes Among Men which is an account of the gypsy music scene in the Balkans...where most gypsies live.......it's pretty wild.....the clarinet is one of the main instruments there
but I love to play this stuff......seems like I've always known how to play Nuages

[alfonso]

I agree with you totally about the guitarist who played with Nat, his name was Oscar Moore, there's a clip on youtube.com if you just type in Nat King Cole you'll see it, the best one is Route 66, or that's my favorite, I listen to alot of Wes Montgomery, mostly Boss Guitar & The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes M. Also I listen to Joe Pass and I have a really good one that I got awhile back it's by Warren Nunes who was really popular here in CA., it's called Half Moon Bay, he passed away I guess right after making his only CD. I'm new here but I see alot of recognizable names from another forum so I'll be back after work. ;D later

pete said:

Nat King Cole - a compilation. I love his guitar players lines.

[pete]

Morjaz, Angelo Debarre is my favourite as is Tchavolo Schmitt. Both great. If you want a good understanding of our culture read "Bury me standing." As for balkans Gypsy music try Saban Bajramovic or the legendry Taraf De Haidouks - man they will both blow your head off for different reasons. Ando Drom are a lovely more "Folksy" band as are Kalyi Jag both really good bands in their respective fields of Rrom music.

Alfonso - I love oscar Moore. I have a c.d of his with Carl Perkins on Tampa Records which I like as well but nowhere near the level of greatness with Nat. That three piece set worked well for all three members of the band with enough space to breath and be creative.

[morjaz]

Hey there Pete.....yes Angelo is definitely the man! ;D.....I have heard tracks by Saban and you're right..it's pretty mindblowing stuff. I'm going to listen to more of Saban....and also the people you mentioned.......There is so much going on in that music!
In the book I read it said that Saban was King(of gypsy music)but also that Esma Redzapova was Queen. ...so I listened to her also......and also pretty mindblowing.
I dig the gypsy culture ...and I can relate to it.
I'll order up that book and check it out.

[seansdadj]

Sorcerer by Miles Davis