This is a thread about Jazz music.

I know that today's music is filled with rock and hip-hop genres of all sort, but I would call Jazz one of the only barely-known classics to the general everyday youth. Jazz references however, be it Bebop or Swing, are in full blow although many people may not have even listened to Jazz.

I highly recommend listening to a few tunes to those who wish for a clean and crisp rhythm and whom are tired of today's general music. I suppose you would call this a step into Nostalgia.

Anyhow, tl;dr - Jazz music; discuss.

 

omg I love you.

I said recently in a thread that I was wanting to know more about jazz and have a listen around the genre.

I don't know like anything about it so I won't even pretend to make suggestions but whatever, I am starting to get into it.

*Bump for life D8*

 

Yeeeesss. Jazz ftw, it needs more love. I can't wait until high school when the jazz band is actually good.

Not only is the genre extremely catchy and an easy listen, but it's also great to play because of all the creative outlets and explorations of music structure. I enjoy the fact that no jazz song ever sounds the same twice.

 

A good amount of jazz is good. I like Miles Davis.

 

During my Junior and Senior year in HS, I was in the Jazz Band. :registro5B15D:

 

Jazz is pretty good, it is relaxing.

A thing I have noticed about Jazz is that you can always figure out a story behind a rhythm made by it.

 

I like jazz music. I prefer the jazz with more of a classical sound then the smooth type. Maybe songs like this → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwO5TZdNWok or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Hbh_-IRs8&feature=related

I could only think of Louis Armstrong at the moment. xD

 

i like its smooth and relaxing rhythim
it puts my mind at ease

 

But, what you said is a little wrong.
Jazz is quite well known throughout our population today. You just don't hear it as much as you hear Soulja Boy.

 

Miles Davis is a musical genius.

I love Louis Armstrong, he was a sort of relative pioneer in music at the time, not to mention his songs will always hold my brain in splendour. Satchmo will always stay close to my heart.


For those who haven't yet listened to any Jazz proper, I suppose this part of my post will be recommendations.

Anything by Miles Davis is delicious, and if you are a fan of the saxophone John Coltrane is also nice. Dizzy Gillespie is possibly the best trumpet player I have ever heard. Charlie Parker is great for much more upbeat music. As Spaze stated above, Louis Armstrong is an excellent hear if you wish to listen to Jazz primarily from the 1920s themselves.

Swing is also fun to hear. Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and handful of others are quite nice.

My favourite Swing and Bebop songs will always respectively be Sing, Sing, Sing and either Afro Blue or Will-O-Wisp. Special mention goes to Kind of Blue and A Night in Tunisia.

 

I grew up listening to Jazz, but it was always instrumental and on some station that I never knew, but I always scour around the internet for some songs.

Favorites, however, include Frank Sinatra, John Coltrane and, most of all, Ray Charles.