/jazz/

[Mason Cook]

General jazz thread.

I'm just getting into jazz so give me all your best recs, opinions, flow charts or whatever.

[Leo Gonzalez]

RIP Connie Crothers

[Christopher Watson]

Never heard of her. Is that her best album?

[Ian Long]

Yeah it's a good one, she was at her best doing solo piano imo , there's a couple of pieces on this album where she plays solo. Any of her solo piano albums are a great listen .

[Michael Fisher]

Been trying to learn this piece.

youtube.com/watch?v=v4CQPBRbnXs

I've got it learn all the way to 0:53

I have to buy the rest of the music to learn the rest.

[Robert Rodriguez]

>Got it learned.**

[Jackson Hughes]

Barché Lamsel from the Charles Lloyd/Bill Frisell collab is probably the single best 2016 Jazz piece I've heard so far but Henri Texier's Sky Dancers is still my Jazz AOTY. Any more 2016 stuff i should know about?

[Gavin Gomez]

>nice quads

That's a good first step. You could do yourself a really big favor by learning the chords and trying to figure out the rest by ear. When I first started out, I dug out a used composition notebook and scribbled rough transcriptions on the empty pages. A lot of it was learned by ear, and even though I didn't learn complete songs, it helped so much.

If you've already found a few albums you love, go and download the Real Book and search for as many titles that you recognize.

Also, learn all the heads of your favorite songs by ear. It's actually a fun challenge.

After a while, find a teacher and/or join a beginner-friendly jazz group.

I think it's great that you're getting into jazz. Hope it brings you to a nice community like it did for me and a ton of other people I know.

[Jonathan Price]

Michael Formanek

[Gavin Evans]

>that guy who posts a youtube link to a track from a videogame or anime soundtrack and asks what genre of jazz it is