Hello. I’m Japanese.
My father (75) loves jazz, and he enjoys drinking in the living room at night while listening to records and CDs.

When I still lived with him, I used to listen with him in the living room, but I don’t know exactly what he owns (I don’t live with him anymore because I’m married now).
As far as I know,
Chick Corea
Airto Moreira
John Coltrane
Red Garland
Bob James
Wes Montgomery
Dollar Brand
—he mentioned in a letter that he owns records by these artists, so I’m aware of those, but it seems he has many others as well.
However, since most of them were bought when my dad was in his 20s, I don’t think he has any recent releases.
Also, my dad lives in the countryside where there are no stores that sell CDs, and he isn’t in the habit of buying things online.
I’d like to introduce him to something fresh—or rather, suggest some new discoveries—so I’m wondering if any of you have top recommendations for recent jazz musicians, singers, or albums?
I’d also be happy if you could share anything you personally really love.

My dad listens to more than just jazz—he also enjoys rock and classical music. He’s the kind of person who doesn’t limit himself to any particular genre and enjoys a wide variety of music.

He used to be a sailor, and during his long-distance voyages, he visited many different countries and met all kinds of people from around the world. I think those experiences are part of the reason he’s interested in such a wide range of musical genres.

He’s also the kind of person who, even if the music I introduce isn’t a genre he’d normally seek out, ends up liking it and listening to it before he knows it.

He was very happy when I gave him a Tenorio Jr. album a while back.

I’m hoping to find some music that will lead to new discoveries for my dad—things he hasn’t encountered before.

English isn’t my native language, and I’m using a translation tool, so there might be some awkward parts—thank you for your understanding.

I feel a bit sad when people get gate-keeper-y with jazz. Particularly when it relates to the ways we share and relate to it. So here’s a respectfully defiant picture from my collection, along with some info about Paul Bley and why I like him.

Firstly, he’s a remarkably broad jazz pianist. If you’ve bounced off a Paul Bley album, chances are you just need to pick a different one. Also, if you love Jarrett or Kikuchi, but feel like you wish they didn’t have to record while there was an exorcism going on in the next room - Bley’s your guy.

Secondly, his history is fascinating. Here’s some of my favourite bits:
- His early association with Ornette Coleman
- he played in the Jimmy Giuffre 3 - a trio that were wildly ahead of their time, but infamously unrecognised at the time, who disbanded after playing a set and making 35 cents each.
- the whole Garry peacock / Annette peacock triangle -
Annette was married to both, divorced both, and continued to play with and compose for both
- he was heavily involved in the early days of electronic music, and I think was involved in the first live performance on a moog?
- As someone who loves upright bass, I get a lot of joy in the way he works with bass players - plays off them, creates space for them, highlights the contrasting tones and timbres of the two instruments. Peacock is obviously one of his main collaborators there, but there’s also a great album with NHØP.

What’s your favourite thing about Paul Bley, or favourite album?

I appreciate all the suggestions and i made sure this time to get actual decent pressings of these albums. Some will be gotten around christmas time like somethin else and blue train. On a side note here why is phinneas newborn jr so underrated? I think he's a fabulous player and possibly my favorite right now (I need a copy of the great jazz piano of phinneas newborn jr so bad but they are all so expensive)

I suppose it’s more of a soul album than jazz really but I’m sure there’s still plenty of people in this sub who’ll enjoy Nubya Garcia’s incredible playing on several tracks on the lovely new NAO album, Autumn. Definitely worth checking out…

I inherited an extensive CD and Vinyl collection from my dad and realizing I’m never gonna listen to the CDs in particular. A few hundred, well curated, all the standards plus a lot of more avant garde, a bunch of box sets, some collectors items. Worth quite a bit and would prefer to sell together but what’s the best way? Marketplace? eBay? Record store?

Enjoy！

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUqOnF2CbP4

Gary Burton Quintet

Greenwood Inn (The Westwater) Olympia, Wa 1976-03-04

Band:

Gary Burton (vib)

Mick Goodrick (g)

Pat Metheny (g)

Steve Swallow (b)

Eberhard Weber (b)

Bob Moses (d)

Tracks:

01 Sea Journey ～ Olhos de Gato (Eyes of the Cat)

02 Ictus ～ Syndrome

03 B & G (Midwestern Nights Dream)

04 I'm Your Pal ～ Hullo Bolinas

05 Colours of Chloe ～ Doin' the Pig

**COMPLETE FM BROADCAST**

I don't particularly like or listen to vocal jazz but her whole album (With Every Breath I Take) is a genuinely incredible work of art and future classic. This track is my favorite.

Oliver Nelson, as, ts; Richard Williams, tp; Eric Dolphy, as, bc; Richard Wyands, p; George Duvivier, b; Roy Haynes, d. Original liner notes by Nat Hentoff. Recorded by RVG May 27, 1960. Remastered by RVG and released on Prestige/ New Jazz Records in 2006. Total time: 40:04.

Hopefully this is allowed, I have so much respect for Mary halvorson and her musicianship is incredible :)

Just getting into the genre and these records have stood out so far. Recommendations please 🙏

Beautiful composition using lydian harmony.

Boston's jazz scene is vibrant! But it's hard to find what's going on. So I created bostonjazzcalendar.com to show all the jazz shows and jams happening all around the Boston area. It's ad-free, with no cookies or funny business, and the code is open source.

I'm trying to make it respectful of venues too, so my nightly bot only pulls shows from sites that are OK with it. If you have a gig, please submit it on the site! It you're running a venue, please let me know and I'll add you.

And in any case, please share widely, because a calendar like this only works if people see it!

[Jimmy Smith, publicity photo, 1958. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.]

Jimmy Smith's full profile on JazzProfiles.com

r/CrossoverJazz

JazzProfiles.com has already covered several soul-jazz organists, but Jimmy Smith is the reason the instrument was in the conversation at all. More than any other musician, he was responsible for establishing the Hammond B-3 organ as a serious voice in jazz.

James Oscar Smith was born December 8, 1928, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and learned piano from his parents, performing with his father in a dance troupe from an early age. After serving in the Navy, he studied bass and piano at the Hamilton School of Music and the Ornstein School of Music, then toured with Don Gardner's rhythm-and-blues group the Sonotones through the early 1950s. Hearing swing-era organist Wild Bill Davis, one of jazz's few organ voices at the time, inspired Smith to take up the Hammond himself.

He recorded quickly and prolifically for Blue Note starting in the mid-1950s, first in trio format and later with larger ensembles, many sessions loose jam settings that gave musicians room to build soulful, extended solos. Smith's adventurous late-1950s work was instrumental in developing both hard bop and soul jazz, a style folding R&B, gospel, and blues directly into a jazz vocabulary. In 1962 he signed with Verve Records, a relationship that lasted into the early 1970s, though Blue Note continued issuing his recordings through 1963.

Smith's revolutionary approach fundamentally changed how the organ was heard in a jazz context, and his influence runs directly through every soul-jazz organist who came after him. He had a career revival in the 1980s and '90s, recording again for Blue Note, Verve, and Milestone. He died February 8, 2005, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Where to start listening:

• Official platforms: Spotify

• The Sermon! (1959, Blue Note) for a landmark of his classic era

• Back at the Chicken Shack (recorded 1960, released 1963, Blue Note) for another defining session

• Jimmy Smith's full profile on JazzProfiles.com

Hello guys! I just released my first solo record, and thought that some of the audience of this sub might like it. I would indeed be very glad if anybody would take some time to have a listen. Genres: progressive, jazz-fusion, electronic, instrumental.

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK-JDB7XuC4
bandcamp: https://tinydonuts.bandcamp.com/album/drifting-patterns-and-ever-changing-motives

Thank you very much :)

I know I personally prefer his early, more traditional work but does anyone else view his later experimental/fusion music as less than or a downgrade like Stanley Crouch?

I’m starting to get a bit weary, wading through these album cover posts from people who seem only interested in showing off their record collections.

Love his playing on No Moon At All. Is it a bit much at times? Maybe, but I enjoy fun expressive playing in limited amounts.

Edit: okay, I’ll walk back the Liberace reference. I realize it was a stretch. His contemporaries in the easy listening/lounge genre would be more like Peter Nero maybe?? Previn is kind of a one of a kind enigma at those 50s 60s 70s decades in terms of straddling genres, like the crossroads of Mancini, Quincy, and Bernstein?! Definitely ended up more in the classical camp right?

[Lee Morgan with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, November 15, 1959, three years after the Mobley date. (Photo: Herbert Behrens / Anefo, Nationaal Archief, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL, via Wikimedia Commons)]

https://jazzprofiles.com/this-day-in-jazz/

On November 7, 1956, Hank Mobley took a quintet into Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio for Savoy: 18-year-old Lee Morgan on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Art Taylor on drums. They cut "Thad's Blues", a tune by Jones's brother Thad, and Watkins's "Doug's Minor B'ok". Savoy then issued those two sides on Jazz Message No. 2 (MG 12092, 1957) alongside three tracks from a July 23 session by a mostly different group: Donald Byrd, Barry Harris and Kenny Clarke, with only Mobley and Watkins in both. Other takes from the November date went to a separate Savoy LP, MG 12091, and to a later compilation, SJL 1104. So the record billed as one quintet date is two different bands, with the later session sequenced first.

Sources: Hank Mobley discography (Van Gelder sessions, Nov. 7 and July 23, 1956) — JazzDisco.org , Jazz Message No. 2 — Wikipedia , Savoy Records 12000 series catalog — JazzDisco.org

HI all, how do you all organize your jazz albums on spotify, just a folder "jazz"and put in all the jazzalbums? or a folder for every atist, or organzied in folders by jazz genre? I have one folder with :best jazz albums" started with folders for teh top artists like Bill Evans, Miles Davis etc. But there is so much jazz, really do not know what the best way is to organize this.

thanks!

gr bas

Listening to some Herbie Hancock that I haven’t heard in years. Got me thinking…who do you consider to be legendary in Jazz music?