Favorite Jazz artist?

The post on classical music had me thinking about another style of music I live... Jazz! Do we have any jazz enthusiasts in the house? If so, let me know your favorite artist. Mine would be John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Tito Puente and Charlie "Bird" Parker.

yes..

Miles Davis
Sun Ra
Wadada Leo Smith
Herbie Hancock


I tend to gravitate towards post-bop and impressionist and/or fusion.

Nothing unusual in my taste in jazz:

Miles Davis-Bitchs Brew. Sketches of Spain

John Coltrane-A Love Supreme

The Weather Report-Heavt Weather

Al Di Meola

Charlie Parker and many others.

Lee Ritenour
Bruce Hornsby
David Sanborn

Bill Chase
Charles Earland
Sun Ra
Tito Puente
Billy Cobham
Alphonse Mouzon
Tommy Bolin (check out Spectrum and Mind Transplant).
Return To Forever


so many more...

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
James Morrison (Australian trumpeter)
Al DiMeola
Kurt Elling
Pat Metheny
Harry Connick Jr

Chuck Manogie

Tim Weisberg!!

akeldama wrote:

Sun Ra

good to see another Sun Ra fan. What do you have/what are your favorites? The catalog is so vast..

Sutekh wrote:

Kurt Elling

Ah! Another Elling fan! Awesome! As I am a choir director with a vocal jazz ensemble, I tend to listen to a lot of vocal stuff. Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, John Pizzarelli, the aforementioned Kurt Elling, New York Voices, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Obviously, I'm a huge jazz fan.

Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus
Dexter Gordon

Pharoah Sanders
Alice Coltrane
Albert Ayler
Eric Dolphy
Bobby Hutcherson

Stanley Clarke
Weather Report
Coleman Hawkins
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk

Jaco all the way.

man he's great but I don't love him like *that*..

Jaco Pastorius is possibly the best bass player to ever pick up the instrument. Too bad his life was cut short. I should mention some of my instrumental faves, too: Miles, Trane, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Laurence Hobgood (Kurt Elling's pianist), Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Weather Report, and many others I'm too lazy to look up right now!

Y also like Brubeck, Monk and Charles Mingus... I totally forgot to mention them. Wow, it is inice to see sucha wide range of Jazz tastes around here... nice. Weather Report, Chuck Mangione, Yellow Jackets...other great ones.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Sun Ra

good to see another Sun Ra fan. What do you have/what are your favorites? The catalog is so vast..

I have:

The Nubians Of Plutonia (my fave)
Nidhamu
Horizon
The Magic City
Atlantis
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Live-Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold

I forgot Cab Calloway and Count Basie.

akeldama wrote:

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Sun Ra

good to see another Sun Ra fan. What do you have/what are your favorites? The catalog is so vast..

I have:

The Nubians Of Plutonia (my fave)
Nidhamu
Horizon
The Magic City
Atlantis
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Live-Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold

interesting, out of those I only have 'The Magic City' and 'Atlantis'. 'Lanquidity' and 'Jazz in Silhouette' are good as well. I'll have to get 'Nubians..' and then I also want 'Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy'. I was at the main library a couple of weeks ago and there was a small jazz-oriented square with some CD's and books on it in the middle of by where the DVD's are, and one whole side of it was the famous picture of Sun Ra in his glasses, done up all Warhol-like. Ironically, none of his albums were sitting on it, and a lot of people walking by probably have no idea who it is.

Dave Brubeck
Vince Guaraldi
Miles Davis
Tony Bennett
Frank Sinatra

among others. Jazz is fantastic to relax to.

Love me some Charlie Parker.

I'm also a pretty big fan of Roberta Flack.

Bow before the Weisberg and his bicycle shorts.

John Coltrane-A Love Supreme.....I must have played this album a gazillion times when I had just started college. Still gives me the goosebumps to this day.

Far beyond his pure jazz era, but I heard some stuff from Miles Davis 'Pangaea' live album today and it's astounding. He took the swing and dragged it through dark, multicultural corners, and it was all improvised in Japan.