how do I into jazz? tried listening to several albums but nothing clicked
How do I into jazz? tried listening to several albums but nothing clicked
Nathaniel Fisher
Bentley Wilson
Just listen to the good ones
Ryder Gutierrez
Do you know how to play an instrument?
How music theory do you know of?
Jaxson Phillips
This. (is actually not important at all)
>source
I'm a multi instumentalist and composer
Nathaniel Richardson
ok so how do i into jazz
Daniel Brooks
what music do you like and any info on why might be helpful
Ayden Peterson
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Dominic Carter
>Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
>Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
>Wes Montgomery & The Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' at the Half Note
>John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
>Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
>Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
If you don't like that I'm not sure what to tell you
Tyler Lewis
Try different subgenres/periods of jazz, one of them will click eventually. Also check out ECM label
James Adams
Just go onto youtube and search some classic names and listen to stuff until you find something you like: Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver, Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, john coltrane, thelonious monk, dizzy gillespie, coleman hawkins
>Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
>Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Don't listen to these, they are probably 2 abstract 4 u
Jonathan Nguyen
>hey guise is not important to know theory and how to play an instrument to "get" jazz
>btw I know a lot of instruments and I like jazz
Aaron Hall
Christian Baker
Theres over 100 years of it in wildly different styles and you ''tried listening to several albums''?
Wyatt Johnson
Try:
The song Take Five (Brubeck)
Count Basie - Breakfast, Dance and Barbecue
Kind of Blue
Black Saint & Sinner Lady
Ellington at Fargo
In a Silent Way
Jazz at the Philharmonic, Live at Santa Monica Civic '72
Sintara Live at the Sands
Key to appreciate jazz is listening to it multiple times, to know what's coming.
Oliver Edwards
>to know what's coming.
Surely that contradicts everything jazz is about?
Nathaniel Lewis
shut the fuck up you bitch
Nolan Phillips
what did you listen to?
this chart is good, helped me a lot getting into jazz
Evan Sanchez
I don't mind jazz, but it's certainly not one of my favorite kinds of music.
Jack Wood
Wtf does that have to do with this
Aiden James
Check out
>Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots
>Clifford Brown & Max Roach - S/t
>Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
These are all good and easy to get into. If they click, go from there.
Bentley Thomas
The poster claimed that I like jazz.