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Jazzy ATOTers, what do you listen to?

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I want to listen to some jazz. Not up beat or fast jazz, slow jazz. The kind you would listen to in a smokey lounge late at night, after the weekend costumers have gone home and the band is winding down for the night. The kind you listen to with a sexy, soft spoken girl on your arm.

What do you suggest? Smooth, slow jazz?
 
Miles Davis
Dexter Gordon
Coleman Hawkins
Ronnie Earl - Kind of high end blues, Not jazz, but jazzy
 
Smooth jazz or jazz? Smooth jazz is not jazz. Just dreamy-sounding songs. No improv, no standards. Aka: elevator music. If you want smooth jazz, go to the Weather Channel and just wait every eight minutes for a new tune to come on. Or go YouTube a group called "3rd Force". Very elevator-music-sounding.

You should check out Bill Frisell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Louis Armstrong. Of course Wynton Marsalis and Duke Ellington.
 
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SphinxnihpS said:
Ask the right people They are definitely not here.
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My jazz collection is probably bigger than most people here's entire music collection. The problem with naming individual artists is most do other kinds of music. The OP is pretty much looking for ballads. It's like asking what rock band does anthem rock. There's a bunch that have some, but you can't name a set of artists where that's all they have ;^)
 
I'm a big fan of Diana Krall for new stuff
For the older jazz, my favourites are:
Billie Holiday
Thelonious Monk
Oscar Peterson
Etta James
 
om3gawave said:
Smooth jazz or jazz? Smooth jazz is not jazz. Just dreamy-sounding songs. No improv, no standards. Aka: elevator music. If you want smooth jazz, go to the Weather Channel and just wait every eight minutes for a new tune to come on. Or go YouTube a group called "3rd Force". Very elevator-music-sounding.

You should check out Bill Frisell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Louis Armstrong. Of course Wynton Marsalis and Duke Ellington.
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The Weather Channel, I understand, plays music from a guy named Ryan Farish. While it's excellent background music for, say, reading, it's absolutely not smooth jazz.

For smooth jazz, I like:

Paul Hardcastle / Jazzmasters
Peter White
The Rippingtons / Russ Freeman
Keiko Matsui
Euge Groove
Marc Antoine

And so forth.
 
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