I’ve listened to a lot of different music over the years. I listen to music so much all day mostly as background noise… I recently moved to a new place, and the neighbor sometimes plays Jazz in the weekends. I seriously open the windows and turn off my own music. Something about it is just soo nice and chill. Something with the vibe, I don’t know. The closest genre I listen to similar to Jazz, is Downtempo. Here for reference: Youtube Music | Spotify
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Classics are classics for a reason, so that is doubtlessly where you should begin: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.
It’s probably the best jazz album ever produced - certainly one of the most important ones - and the opener So What is pretty much the perfect jazz song, with Miles’ solo on it being everything a jazz solo should be.
Dave Brubeck Quartet
There’s some really great suggestions here, I’ll add a few as well. I’ll start with some newer stuff, will be piano and organ heavy, but that’s what my husband plays so we tend to listen to that a lot. You should use this as a good way to meet your neighbours! Pop over and ask what they’re playing. Enjoy exploring the world of jazz, its mighty fun :)
The Bad Plus
GoGo Penguin
Bill Laurance
EST (Esbjörn Svensson Trio)
Bill Frisell (more guitar, has a bit of bluegrass. Blues Dream is one of my all time favourite albums)
Billie Holiday (really can’t go wrong with anything from her)
Dave Brubeck- Take Five (classic album)
Kieth Jarrett- Koln Concert (another fav)
Etta James - At Last (her voice! Amazing!)
I’ll probably be back to add some more haha.
Edit - thanks for the rec with the Spotify link! Really liking that.
Edit 2 - my husband suggested Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz, def more in the realm of beats.
- Miles Davis (Bitches Brew)
- The Weather Report (Sweetnighter)
- Maynard Ferguson (Carnival)
These are some of my personal favorites, all of which my dad introduced me to. I will also mention that I didn’t like the first two the first one I heard them. Took me a few listens to “get it”.
Welcome! Here’s some of my favorite artists
Bobby Hutchinson
Wes Montgomery
Ronnie Laws
Idris Muhammad
I would add:
Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
“Take Five” by Dave Brubeck
“Giant Steps” by John Coltrane
One approach would be going through “the classics”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_standard
I find some of the best introduction to the whole jazz ethos is to go old-school with Big Band and '20s jazz in general. You can get people started down the path to radical improvisation by the tighter, more constrained forms of that era and then guide them toward the more … ah … challenging stuff.
Okay, so I’m a very recent passenger on the jazz train. Went most of my life not enjoying it because the stuff I was hearing didn’t work for me. Then I ran across a gentleman, Abraham Laboriel that changed that. This video is of of the first I watched that flipped the switch in my head.
See, I figured out after hearing that stuff that it was mostly jazz horn I wasn’t a fan of, though that’s slowly changing. I definitely like bass, drum, and piano forward stuff the best.
Just gonna drop a few links for your perusal at leisure. There’s no way to tell what you’ll like or not, so I’m just picking a handful of stuff that makes me groove with it.
But I think it’s important to note that jazz is a pretty big umbrella. The kind of smooth jazz that’s closest to the down tempo stuff you’re already into is even pretty broad in itself. My take is that jazz is less about clear delineations of style and more about the relationship between the player, their instrument, and the audience. When it’s a group, they sink in and follow each other around a theme, and that’s when jazz gets great.
When you find stuff like that where a group is in sync and flowing, I think you’ll eventually find that it calls to you even if it doesn’t fit what you already like.
Someone recently recommended Chet Baker. Check out the album “Chet”.
Some good suggestions in here already but I’ll throw in wynton Marsalis for some classic jazz and pat metheny for some fun jazz guitar
Slightly different but I’ve digging acid jazz recently (sons of kemet, the comet is coming are a couple)
Miles Davis comes to mind first.
