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Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?
Let me explain, I have tried to like jazz for over 30 years. I rarely find something I like. To me it sounds too disjointed, like everyone is trying to out do the others and they are all playing a different song. I know there has to be some good instrumental smooth jazz artists I am missing. If you have any suggestions of whom to try let me know. Some that are on my Jazz playlist is Pat Metheny-"It's for you" Bill Frisell _"Heard it through the grapevine" Holly Cole, George Benson... for an example of things I do like.
I'd love to have a 100 song Jazz playlist. So what'ch got for me?
Thanks
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This is easy because I’m not a big fan of pure Jazz or traditional Jazz, but I love Smooth Jazz or Contempary Jazz of the 80’s and 90’s. Here’s some artists to start with that won’t disappoint. Fourplay, Boney James, Richard Elliot, Hiroshima, Bob James, Rick Brawn, The Rippentons, Lee Ritnour, Soul Ballet, 3rd Force, Randy Crawford, Brian Culberson, Peter White, Larry Carlton, Art Porter, Paul Taylor, Herb Albert, David Sanborn, Dave Koz, and Russ Freeman. There’s many more, but AVOID Kenny G... If you want a few select albums that knock your socks off... The Rippentons LIVE Across America, Boney James - BackBone and Fourplay Fourplay (debut abum). If you like either of these 3 albums then you’ll be hooked and want more.
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During the mid 70's, the Dead displayed a Jazz influence insofar as incorporating chord changes beyond triads and modal improvisation. Odd time signatures were already part of their approach. But so did many many artists at that time. None were playing Jazz, as I see it. I'd say Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder were on a whole other level in this regard. Others may disagree. |
@stuartk Thanks for the clarity as I really don’t know that much about The Dead. All I know about the Dead is their fan base showed levels of Devotion unseen by any other ensemble I’ve ever seen and the little I did happen to hear was to me kinda organic before the term was ever coined. Now Stevie Wonder, after his albums Talking Book, Music of My Mind and Innervisions to me he and his music were uncategorizable and completely Transcendental. You could go on and on for a lifetime trying to explain his music. Words just don't cut it.
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