Jazz Listening List
Ever expanding. Have a song/artist or something cool suggestion? Email me.
CLICK HERE (or scroll down) for short cuts of cool and different jazz videos.
CLICK HERE (or scroll down) for overall great jazz albums
Examples are listed as: SONG • Artist • Album
Piano • Bass • Drums • Saxophone • Trumpet • Trombone • Other
Ever expanding. Have a song/artist or something cool suggestion? Email me.
CLICK HERE (or scroll down) for short cuts of cool and different jazz videos.
CLICK HERE (or scroll down) for overall great jazz albums
Examples are listed as: SONG • Artist • Album
Piano • Bass • Drums • Saxophone • Trumpet • Trombone • Other
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PIANO
Song For My Father • Horace Silver • Song For My Father Spain • Chick Corea • Akoustic Band Watermelon Man • Herbie Hancock • Takin' Off Blue Rondo A La Turk • Dave Brubek • Time Out Havona • Weather Report (Joe Zawlinul) • Heavy Weather Emily • Bill Evans • Portraiture Charlie Brown Theme • Vince Guaraldi • A Boy Named Charlie Brown Straight, No Chaser • Thelonius Monk • Straight, No Chaser In A Mellow Tone • Oscar Peterson • The More I See You Doodlin' • Horace Silver • Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 2 Cantaloupe Island • Herbie Hancock • Empyrean Isles Elephant Blossom Blues • Gene Harris • Gene Harris at the Maybeck One O'Clock Jump • Count Basie • One O'Clock Jump (single) Autumn Leaves • Chick Corea • Akoustic Band La Fiesta • Chick Corea • Return To Forever Get Happy • Bud Powell • Ken Burns Jazz Disc 3 On Green Dolphin Street • Bill Evans • The Best of Bill Evans on Verve BASS
Jaco Pastorius • (The best bass player ever. EVER.) Donna Lee • Jaco Pastorius Soul Intro/The Chicken • The Birthday Concert Stanley Clarke School Days • song & album Marcus Miller Power Paul Chambers Whims of Chambers" Ron Carter Stardust Others: Dave Holland, Charles Mingus, Victor Wooten, Charlie Haden, John Patitucci DRUMS Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Caravan |
TRUMPET
The Sidewinder • Lee Morgan • Sidewinder So What • Miles Davis • Kind of Blue Freddie Freeloader • Miles Davis • Kind of Blue Up Jumped Spring • Freddie Hubbard • Backlash Gospel John • Maynard Ferguson • Master of the Stratosphere Inside Out • Randy Brecker (The Brecker Brothers) • Heavy Metal BeBop Above and Below • Randy Brecker (The Brecker Brothers) • The Return of the Brecker Brothers Open Up Wide • Bill Chase • CHASE All the Things You Are • Chet Baker • Best of Chet Baker Plays Kaiso • Etienne Charles • Kaiso Horn of Puente • Wayne Bergeron (The Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band) •XXL Speedball • Lee Morgan • Hard Bop & Beyond Blues By Five • Miles Davis • Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet La Fiesta • Maynard Ferguson • Master of the Stratosphere Spinning Wheel • Maynard Ferguson • Master of the Stratosphere Cherokee • Clifford Brown • Memorial Album Caravan • Dizzy Gillespie – Timeless TROMBONE “The Eminent Volume 1", "Volume 2" - J. J. Johnson "Imagination" Curtis Fuller "Free for All" Frank Rosolino “Say That To Say This” - Trombone Shorty (2013) Five Spot After Dark - "Blues-ette” - Curtis Fuller Others: Wycliffe Gordon, Slide Hampton, Kai Winding, Melba Liston, Jimmy Cleveland SAXOPHONE
John Coltrane • tenor sax Giant Steps • Blue Train Charlie Parker • alto sax Now's the Time • Ornithology • Confirmation Michael Brecker • tenor sax, EWI Sygyzy • Nothing Personal • EWI Solo Sonny Rollins • tenor sax Sonnymoon for Two David Sanborn • alto sax Upfront (album) Paul Desmond• alto sax Take Five (with Dave Brubek) Others: Ornette Coleman, Grover Washington Jr., Wayne Shorter |
SHORT CUTS
These videos show a variety of cool, unusual, and/or great jazz playing.
Bari Sax Solo-This guy transcribed and played the famous Wynton Kelly piano solo from "Freddie Freeloader". This was from the even more famous "Kind of Blue" album by Miles Davis.
These videos show a variety of cool, unusual, and/or great jazz playing.
Bari Sax Solo-This guy transcribed and played the famous Wynton Kelly piano solo from "Freddie Freeloader". This was from the even more famous "Kind of Blue" album by Miles Davis.
GREAT JAZZ ALBUMS
These albums are some of my favorites, as well as some that are regarded as all-time greats.
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" • 1959 If you own one jazz album, this is a good one. A MUST for trumpet players! The first three songs are classics.
These albums are some of my favorites, as well as some that are regarded as all-time greats.
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" • 1959 If you own one jazz album, this is a good one. A MUST for trumpet players! The first three songs are classics.
