Big band, funk, latin...any genre really. Who's a fan?

I personally lovelovelove anything Jaco Pastorius related. Also like Freddie Hubbard and Minnesota natives The Bad Plus (represent!).

I've worked a couple of Bad Plus shows here in SF, I like Jaco OK, Stanley Clarke a bit more, but to me jazz bass is all about Mingus.  But I'm pretty much a 'Trane, Miles, Sonny Rollins and Rahsaan Roland Kirk kind of person, but I like the Miller/Goodman/Basie stuff a lot too.

I momentarily forgot about Mingus. He's the god of the upright, while Jaco is god of the electric. At least in my opinion...

 I love his work on Black Market by Weather Report, but its the stuff he did with Joni Mitchel on Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter(one of the most freaking amazing recordings ever, at least to my ears), Mingus, and Shadows and Light.

I don't know enough to know actual artists, but what I've heard I like.

Try these popular (and easily accessible) favorites....

Dave Brubeck - Take Five
John Coltrane - Blue Trane
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Return of the 5,000 lb. Man
Benny Goodman - Live at Carnegie Hall
Count Baise - April in Paris
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Duke Ellington is monumental, way too much stuff to list, but here's a favorite of mine to start with
Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live

That's just a start, Ellington wrote over 1,000 composistions, John Coltrane recorded over 75 different records, Ella Fitzgerald recorded over a 40 year period, Miles Davis's invented 3 different jazz generas - Warning! Once you start down this road and get it, rock will just be 3 chord crap for the most part.

That's a pretty good list... I'm not really able to name names and such when it comes to jazz, but I do like it and recognize most of those

Sure, I still love rock... Even the 3 chord crap stuff    But I also like variety and there is definitely a boat load of great jazz stuff to enjoy

Great list. Let's not forget! Django Rhinehart, Thelonius Monk, Getz/Gilberto!

I'm a big fan of John McLaughlin - not his more modern jazz rock stuff, but the standards and Shakti stuff.

But my touchstone for jazz is A Love Supreme, the Coltrane album.

Yep.  Just wish I could play well enough to do it properly myself.

I like the early stuff , and bebop more than the big-band style, with favourites John Coltrane and Charlie Parker from the days when I played sax. Also Dave Brubeck and the MJQ, from seeing them when TV was in it's early days. Vibrophone just oozed cool when I was a little tacker! at 7!

I've got an MJQ album I haven't heard since I was 20 - Sait-On Jamais (they made it for the soundtrack of a French film) - I'm really looking forward to getting a turntable!

But my touchstone for jazz is A Love Supreme, the Coltrane album.

I used to tell people when they asked if I went to church "No, but I get up on Sundays and listen to A Love Supreme."  Close enough for me.  But that's kinda where you end up, not where you start.  That's not just 'as good as jazz gets' ALS is right there with Beethovan's late string quartets, the complete recordings of Robert Johnson and Blonde on Blonde.  I was just suggesting stuff that's pretty easy to hear and understand if you're just coming into jazz.

Quote from: tekla on March 03, 2011, 10:33:35 PM
Try these popular (and easily accessible) favorites....

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

I played this on YouTube and realized I'd heard it before and it's been one of my favs.  Etta James is another one, not really sure if that's "jazz" or not.  Definitely like the slower stuff.

My college music teacher always said that categories and genera existed for two reasons.  One for people who were real fans and students so they could talk about it, and second for idiots so they could say stuff like "I only like two kinds of music, Country and Western."  Etta is jazz at times, soul, blues, R&B and all that stuff goes back and forth and intermixes.  Like what is Ray Charles?  Depends on the song right?

Quote from: tekla on March 04, 2011, 07:55:00 AMI was just suggesting stuff that's pretty easy to hear and understand if you're just coming into jazz.

I was a lucky boy - ALS was pretty much the first jazz I ever heard, coming out of my brother's stereo (along with John McLaughin, as it happens) when I was around 11. What you find accessible depends on your taste - some of the Mingus I love is way more frenetic and hard to grasp - I though this thread was just about whether people like jazz .

Oh, my housemate is listening to a lot of Alice Coltrane too at the moment, which is pretty mellow and lovely.

I've been on a real kick for Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy for about the last month, but I'm not sure why.  And it's never the wrong time for Stan Getz.

Eric Dolphy bass clarinet solo = better than ice cream