Can you help start me on my appreciation of jazz music?
I am just getting started enjoying jazz music. As instruments go, I love piano, bass and trumpet in that order. Can anyone suggest some artists that I would enjoy combining those instruments, or utilizing a few of them?
Claude Bolling is a great jazz painist and composer. He teamed up with classical flutist Jean Pierre Rampal to produce two great albums called Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano. You should immediatley recognize some of the tracks. They received radio play when released and have been used as music beds for commercials and news packages. They both feature only the piano, flute, drums, and sting bass. Two virtuoso’s blending and battling through two great albums. Check out Bollings other works as well.
Another great album with more emphasis on trumpet with piano and bass is by the Yellow Jackets. I have a couple of their recordings but would only recommend Mirage a Trois. It is very upbeat and crisp with lots of syncopation and rhythm.
Jazz is such a wide music category and tastes carry vary tremendously. Don’t forget some of the older artists like Duke Ellington and George Gershwin (perhaps more classical than truley jazz – An American in Paris – the music used for United Airlines commercials). There is some great music with the early mastes too.
Enjoy the music – the other answers have some great artists too!
listen to klye ribako, he’s canadian
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I am not familiar with that aspect of jazz but I would check out Charlie Parker, look on the net and find some older jazz, you can’t go wrong with that. Probably not what you are looking for but Manhattan Transfer is awsome also Al Dimiola is mostly guitar but talented and a nice guy, I met him when he played in Arizona about 6 years ago.
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"Kind of Blue" CD by Miles Davis
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Miles Davis is a great jazz trumpet player. You could also check out Chris Botti. He’s more contemporary but still a great trumpet player none the less.
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Miles Davis
Wynton Marsalis
Dave Brubeck
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Claude Bolling is a great jazz painist and composer. He teamed up with classical flutist Jean Pierre Rampal to produce two great albums called Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano. You should immediatley recognize some of the tracks. They received radio play when released and have been used as music beds for commercials and news packages. They both feature only the piano, flute, drums, and sting bass. Two virtuoso’s blending and battling through two great albums. Check out Bollings other works as well.
Another great album with more emphasis on trumpet with piano and bass is by the Yellow Jackets. I have a couple of their recordings but would only recommend Mirage a Trois. It is very upbeat and crisp with lots of syncopation and rhythm.
Jazz is such a wide music category and tastes carry vary tremendously. Don’t forget some of the older artists like Duke Ellington and George Gershwin (perhaps more classical than truley jazz – An American in Paris – the music used for United Airlines commercials). There is some great music with the early mastes too.
Enjoy the music – the other answers have some great artists too!
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