Adding Roon to your Qobuz will give you a much better instrument for searching similar music. Plus very nice dsp possibilities.
Bobo Stenson?
Jazz like this? Suggestions
I've been listening to "The Gotland Sessions" by the Magnus Ringblom Quartet for a good while now, and absolutely adore it. However, I have tried unsuccessfully to search for Jazz in a similar vein, having exhausted his catalogue on Qobuz
I'm no expert on Jazz, but enjoy the mellow, dreamy jazz served up by Magnus and co; could someone with more Jazz knowledge point me in the right direction?
I stream exclusively from Qobuz
Thanks guys 👍🙂
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You might enjoy the collaborations between Huston Person and Ron Carter. And as brother @gosta says, Roon shows more tunes by the Magnus Ringblom Quartet. |
@painter24 Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" |
@dougsat thanks for that. I had the "On Vacation" album already listed a couple of weeks ago, which I really like, I've added "The Good Life" too and will explore Mr Bronner more. I've listed Carl Winther for tomorrow's listening session as well Thanks guys, really appreciated 👍🙂 |
More on the smooth jazz side, but give David Benoit a try. American Landscape or A Midnight Rendezvous to start. Or maybe some of the recent stuff from Emmet Cohen. Uptown in Orbit. Till Bronner was mentioned above. There’s a great album by Till and Bob James - On Vacation. Or just about anything Bob James. |
"Piano Jazz" Stockholm Jazz Quartet "Sunday At The Village Vanguard" Bill Evans Trio "The Trip" Art Pepper "Chet (Keepnews Collection)" Chet Baker https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/8893054
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I’m not familiar with Magnus Ringbloom, however just listened to a little of the Gotland Sessions. As I understand it, you’re looking for a subset of jazz characterized as Cool Jazz. This was a late 40’s to mid 50’s style. Miles Davis Album Kind of Blue typifies this genre. Someone above also stated Chet Baker’s album Chet. This is another good example. More importantly to get beyond the narrow band of jazz music classified as Cool, you can look for musicians or groups who play Ballads. These are down tempo by nature, so have more if the relaxed approach typical in Cool. Hope you find this helpful. Enjoy your jazz journey! |
Exactly the reason I dropped Qobuz. This is a primary function of streaming (for me) and I find Spotify the best platform for doing such a search. Search for Magnus Ringblom and then select Magnus Ringblom Radio. An endless playlist of his work along with countless others of similar style and instrumentation. If their SQ isn’t to your liking, write them down and go fiddle with Qobuz to seek each artist. |
+1 @gosta |
@plumptonvinyl +1 for Passport... Nice one...! |
@stuartk There is nothing wrong with improvisation per se. But necessarily if a a large percentage of performances are mainly improvisational. performers will be unable to maintain a high standard for many of them. Absent the ones that could be classed as 'poor', many will tend to be similar and continue for lengthy periods along similar lines. I think this is what FZ meant by 'noodling'. I might call it 'being on the road a while but not getting far' or, perhaps, 'taking the long way around'. Some might find too much of this tedious. As in all things, quality is what counts. |
@painter24 Thank you! Wow I love this. New music to listen to! Goes right back to the thread I started on new music: Why do we stop listening to new music? And I'm going to track down some of the other suggestions from this thread. Happy listening... |
too much improvisation makes a performer unable to maintain a high standard? BS like that can only be said by a non-performer, a non-musician the jazz style you prefer can be heard worldwide in any elevator. Improvisation is the heart and soul of jazz music it’s effect on a musician is to increase the performer’s standards increase the performers skill. I mean it’s CREATION I and my entire family are musicians please stick with your OP Nothing wrong with that it’s your opinion I read this hoping a post would pop up that took it back to audio like the audiogon readers like to see, learn from, raise their standards, and enjoy Conversations as to what they know about because they have experienced it Like this My younger brother is player and professor of jazz studies The first time he heard my Maggies, I’ll just say when he went home he found a dealer and bought a pair of his own after all it was Ella. |
I you cue up one of their albums and let it play to the end and let Qobuz go on it will start playing random artists that they feel are of the same. I have found some new bands doing this. Another would be using pandora by making the artist the station and they to will play like bands. Then just start hitting down who you like. |
Hi guys, apologies for not responding sooner; been strung out with work. Thanks for all the suggestions, great response 👍 Some I'm already familiar with: Coltrane, Davies etc, some I'm definitely not familiar with. You've given me loads to pour over. I'll be adding them to my Qobuz for a good listen as soon as time permits. Other albums I love - Stanley Turrentine with the 3 Sounds "Blue Hour" and the Dexter Gordon - "Ballads" My formative years as a teenager were the 80s, and 90s as a young adult, so grew up with "alternative" music; what I also have found are some bands who use this heritage and fuse it with some Jazz sensibilities. Anyone interested, check out the band "I just Came Back from the Moon" Thanks again guys, genuinely appreciate this 👍🤩 |
Unquestionably, improvisation is the defining element of jazz. |
As @petaluman said, check out much of the ECM catalog, past and current. While most of it will be more 'progressive' than the Magnus Ringblom Quartet, it will also be somewhat introspective in tone and mood, like the Magnus Ringblom Quartet. In other words, despite a lot of the artists on the ECM label being as quiet sounding, it will still have more fire in the soling, complexity, and get a bit more ’outside’ (without being avant-garde). Here’s a short list of what this great label has to offer: Eberhard Weber - Colours of Chloe. Later That Evening, Yellow Fields Pat Metheny - Bright Size, Watercolors, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts Jan Garbarek - Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet, Of Mist and Melting Tord Gustavsen - Extended Circle, The Well Azimuth - Depart, Ralph Towner - almost anything with Towner on it is worth checking out. As well as his own recordings, he guests on a lot of other recordings. Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, Jon Christensen - The Sea, Sidsel Endresen - Exile Anat Fort - A Long Story, And If
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Gene Harris Quartet (anything) Kenny Baron Woody Shaw Frank Morgan ("Mood Indigo" is quite good) Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto (anything) If you want to get more Metheny-esque, there's always the "world fusion ensemble" Shadowfax, You might find more similar music on the Windham Hill label (George Winston as an example, a jazz piano that tends to David Benoit's softer numbers). |
@moto_man after a strenuous working week in the UK's National Health Service, Mr Ringblom & Co's is the first album that's lined up while me and Mrs Painter settled down to chill with a few beers and glasses of wine; just the tonic 🙂 |
@painter24, I hear you! Jazz just helps me relax after a long day! I also listen to Gary burton/Ralph Towner’s album Matchbook… the acoustic guitar and Burtons Vibraphone is sublime. You’re lucky that your wife enjoys it. Mine hates jazz(?), but likes hip hop. Go figure. At least our tastes intersect with classic rock! |
@painter24 Thanks for the thread! |