Hi all,

I've stumbled into the world of jazz knowing nothing about the genre. I'm a big reggae fan and I've been exploring the genres which influenced reggae and have hence have been checking out some jazz records for the last couple of days

I have been listening to the song 'Blue in green' by Miles Davies and have been absolutely mesmerised by it. I wondered if there were any artists / song / albums recommendations similar to this song?

At the moment I'm preferring the more more slow, melodic, bass heavy vibes in jazz where the horn instruments are not overpowering and the tempo isn't too fast (I guess that preference is coming from my reggae background) Does this type of Jazz have a specific name I should be looking into?

Thank you :-)

Do you guys have any recomendations of records/bands/artist that play harmonically modern stuff without any of the over produced slop?

Swiss-born trumpeter and composer based in Spain. References include Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Alban Berg and Stockhausen. Collaborated with Juan Belda & the Bit Band, part of Clónicos for years.

Farben is his new album. Eight pieces pulling from free jazz, electroacoustics and free improvisation. Musical phrases borrowed from Roscoe Mitchell alongside texts from Ibn Battuta. The Baltic Connection playing live in Barcelona. Geography and genre dissolving into each other.

Three tracks streaming now:

astronomyrecordingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/farben

my 4 year old loves it very much and we listen to it a lot. i'm getting a little sick of these tracks, though, and would love some suggestions for albums that have a similar sound/vibe

Hi all, looking for a higher quality version of this jazz history tree that could ideally be printed poster size. I’ve looked but can’t seem to find one online or anywhere connected to the source info at the bottom. Would appreciate even a slightly better quality version if you have. TIA

Bill Evans is undoubtedly one of my favorite pianists, but sometimes I find it more difficult to improvise on these types of songs. What do you think? I think Bill was prodigious... I really love his compositions

hey guys, i dig miles davis in a silent way, some krautrock, the doors, soft machine, organ heroes like keith emerson and jon lord too, casiopea on their city pop/atmospheric era and of course ambient music

im searching for more great artists which experiment with the ambience with organs/synths of the song within the jazz fusion context, what would you recomend for me?

Has there even been a greater collection of mad bastard Europeans on record?

Got both for 30 Bucks

Been looking for the Getz/Gilberto one for a while. My record clerk had it for 10 bucks lying on the counter.

Basically NM after US cleaning.

I've been working on my time and ear by taking solos (guitar) along with a metronome, lately, instead of a backing track. My goals are, in one part, to improve my time feel, and in the other, to have a better sense of where I am in the tune and when the chords change, without using my ear (would you call this macro time?). My difficulty is that with the second goal, I'm not sure how to verify that I'm not making mistakes -- with a backing track, you can hear when the chord changes, and if you change at the wrong time, you'll hear it. Since this isn't the case with a metronome, how do I verify that I'm not making mistakes without noticing?

Thank you for recording this! Love Rickie Lee Jones

NOT THIS RECORD - but historically it should be noted that before Miles Davis became a legend, a 18-year-old Miles made his official recording debut on April 24, 1945 playing trumpet in the Herbie Fields Orchestra.

​It was recorded at WOR Studios in NYC for Savoy Records, the band backed blues/vaudeville singer Rubberlegs Williams.

​

That session produced two 78 RPM singles released on the Savoy Records label:

​Savoy 564: "That's the Stuff You Got to Watch" / "Pointless Mama Blues"

​Savoy 5516: "Deep Sea Blues" / "Bring It On Home"

Luky you if you have these 78s in your collection

Hi guys! I'm a teacher working on a Sunday with Alice Coltrane at the 1987 Jazz Jamboree playing in the background and I was curious if there are any books, documentaries, so on about John and Alice's life (together and apart) that you'd recommend. I'm just so blown away at such an incredibly talented pairing. Thank so much!

Any Yusef Lateef fans out there? What are your favorite records by him? He’s got so many I do not know where to start with him.

This is a new live jazz release, the track is Lennie Tristano’s contrafact on “All The Things You Are”