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Generally though I like jazz bands that are just drums, double bass piano and vocals, I think that covers a lot of ground and the only real style of modern piano playing I enjoy listening to or playing.
There is a lot of snobbery and noses turned up at Jamie Cullum but he's done some terrific tracks and albums, his vocals may not be for everybody but his piano playing and the arrangements he and his bands put together are brilliant at times
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Keith Jarrett - Koln
Are some that spring to mind for me
I do also like some of the ballads and so on. Whilst I get the expertise and skill behind bebop and the like, musically it leaves me cold.
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Most 50's & 60's stuff is great
Jimmy Smith, Grant Green, Ahmed Jamal, Miles Davis etc etc
Not a Coltrane fan
70's and on Keith Jarrett (at the deer head Inn is a nice standards album)
80's: Pat Metheny Group - esp still life talking and Travels
Modern Stuff:
European jazz like EST & ADHD
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Avishai Cohen
Brian Blade Fellowship- Landmarks (standout)
Kamasutra Washinton's Harmony of Difference (nice)
Nice dinner party Grooves: Ernest Ranglin - Below the bassline
Are we allowed stuff like John schofield, return to forever etc
Bob James
Herbie Hancock
Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby
Favourites would include:
The Verve Big Band Sessions by Dizzy Gillespie
Ellington Live at the 56 Newport Jazz Festival
Atomic Swing by Count Basie
The Fabulous Sydney Bechet
Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter songbook
Jazz Samba by Stan Getz with Charlie Byrd
But given that they don't even play the same thing once, it's more of a background music for me, or if it was played live in a bar kind of thing.
I used to play solo jazz piano in a Rat Pack themed cocktail bar in Vienna, and a lot of my improv sections between songs were inadvertantly bebop esque which is fun to find out now
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A song I truly love is Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins..... so smooth, so much character and feel jumps out of this recording, on which apparently he just turned up with no rehearsal and was recorded in one take.
As for modern jazz, just last week I stumbled across a jazz pianist from Brazil, Amaro Freitas his new album is superb and I highly recommend you all listen to it, great live performance of the opening tune here:
https://youtu.be/PcFHeJ9SGkM
https://youtu.be/h3_nJMvXLM0
I like jazz live more than as a recorded music on the whole but I certainly like some even if it’s maybe more peripheral artists than the big name bebop ones. I’m not a big fan of the guitar widdlers who suck the life out of it (YMMV) although I appreciate that some of my choices will just be noise to some people. Mentioning no names…
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Charlie Christian / Dizzie Gilespie - After Hours
Grant Green - Blue Breakbeats
Wes Montgomery - Smokin at the Half Note
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Django Reinhardt - any compilation
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Yep - I'm sure a lot of guitar folks who think they hate jazz couldn't fail to like Wes Montqomery. I like Smoking at the Half Note too, but my fave live album of his is Full House. Love Django too. My first exposure to his stuff was the stuff he recorded just before he died where he was playing electric guitar. Love the Charlie Christian stuff with the Goodman band and most things by Grant Green. Not that wild about Joe Pass although he's obviously stellar in terms of both technique and musicality. Just doesn't quite do it for me. My fave of his is the duets with Ella Fitzgerald.
Surprised nobody has mentioned George Benson. My fave there is the early stuff like It's Uptown, the George Benson Cookbook (especially this one!), Giblet Gravy.
Other jazz guitarists I like include Herb Ellis, Oscar Moore, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, and, more currently, Bill Frisell and Julian Lage.
But "jazz" is so huge and diverse. How can anyone who loves music say they don't like jazz? Well, I know the answer to that because it used to be me :-). It's a great listening (and playing) journey to take - and the guitar players are only the tiniest part of it.