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Now I am discovering the joys of jazz music.

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Apple Music playlists are introducing me into the wide and varied world of jazz. A lot of it is very energetic and upbeat, while others make me want to smoke a joint and relax alongside the jams. I am now interested in learning about the history of jazz music, since I already gave myself a crash course in classical music history a couple of years ago.

It is great to have a wide variety of musical styles within my tastes.
 
Have a listen to some Tom Waits, particularly his early albums like Closing Time, Nighthawks at the Diner (the intro to the song Better of Without a Wife is very funny too!) and Small Change! :-)
 
A history of Miles Davis music covers a lot of different jazz styles, from bebop, Charlie Parker era, to smooth jazz, "Kind of Blue" and avant gaurd like "Bitches Brew".
But being a guitarist my favourite artist and style is Larry Carlton, he also played on Steely Dan songs like "Kid Charlemagne". I wrote a song for my son, Miles, based on Larry Carlton's "Room 335", called "Miles Down the Track".
 
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A history of Miles Davis music covers a lot of different jazz styles, from bebop, Charlie Parker era, to smooth jazz, "Kind of Blue" and avant gaurd like "Bitches Brew".
But being a guitarist my favourite artist and style is Larry Carlton, he also played on Steely Dan songs like "Kid Charlemagne". I wrote a song for my son, Miles, based on Larry Carlton's "Room 335", called "Miles Down the Track".
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Since I was a kid in the early 80s, I've been a fan of "smooth jazz". Like a hybrid of jazz, adult contemporary, and R&B. It's taken on many names over the years, like yacht rock, yacht soul, quiet storm, smooth jazz, west coast AOR, etc. Back then I called it black space music, because you could feel the space between all the notes and instruments. Never been a fan of crashing guitars that drown out everything. I often listen to the guys on Out Of The Main, and that's actually one of the definitions of yacht rock, that every instrument has its space.

One of my go to songs is Larry Carlton's version of Sleepwalk.
 
I often listen to a smooth jazz "station" when I'm at work. I prefer it to some of the music my coworkers listen to just because it has no words to distract me.
 
If you haven't heard this one, it is in every note pure, awkward in its humanity, kind of like a conversations and how it is both silly, sanguine and just perfect, notes that are crunchy and ethereal or simply remininiscent, : reminds me of taking piano lessons as a kid at some parts. But Thelonious, he is so good that the mistakes are beautiful:

 
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Jaco Pastorious and Weather Report if you're interested in the fusion end. John Zorn is also an interesting artist to dive into, since he's done almost everything (just look into his Naked City project alone, what with it incorporating jazz, country, grindcore, and other disparate styles).
 
Some friends of mine in a marimba band got really excited about a jazz concert coming to our town hall and bought me a ticket. I had to leave at the intermission. If it were not for the beat, I'd have had no idea that the musicians were "playing together." It was just cacophony to me. I later traced this genre back to Ornette Coleman, and have purged about 2/3 of my old collection to scrub out his influence. I still like all of Ella Fitzgerald and friends, and various jazz fusion trends, but my attention span is tattered enough without trying to split it into one channel per instrument.
 
Never fails to amaze me just how many "stations" there are now on the Internet playing specific genres of music. A good reason to use freeware programs like "Shortwave", as it can find all kinds of such stations or channels. This one is ported to pretty much all the major operating systems:

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If anyone is wondering, the United Arab Emirates seem to broadcast the highest quality streaming media.
 
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That's great! One place I have enjoyed is the Green Mill in Chicago (An old Capone property). Their house band that does Gypsy Jazz is Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitane. They host a celebration of Django Reinhardt every year.
 
MildredHubble said:
Have a listen to some Tom Waits, particularly his early albums like Closing Time, Nighthawks at the Diner (the intro to the song Better of Without a Wife is very funny too!) and Small Change! :-)
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For an amazing cover of a well worn Disney song, here is Tom Waits version. You will never hear that song the same way.
 
MildredHubble said:
Yes! You recommended it to me last year I think and I got the record with various people doing Disney covers! Stay Awake, I'm pretty sure that was what it was called :-) Its great! :)
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Quite right. It opens with word jazz by Ken Nordine. His work was played on WBEZ, Chicago and I used to listen to him. An amazingly eclectic mix. I love the ending. A soulful rendition of when you wish upon a star, by guess who?
 
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