Jazz like this? Suggestions

@painter24 Thanks for the thread!

@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!

@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 🙂

Magnus Ringblom Quartet is music that I have never listened to.  Great mellow stuff!  Thanks for the suggestion!

I’m not big on the smooth stuff but Till Bronner does a nice Estate. Check it out 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNCcuquw2Y8

Listening to Magnus Ringblom Quartet as I type this... very nice (ain’t the internet somethin)

I haven’t seen it mentioned but I would recommend

Paolo Fresu

Mare Nostrum  most similar 

Alma
Eros

have a similar type feel but maybe even more so.

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).

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

Some additions similar to MRQ that I didn't see listed above:

Brent Jensen: The Sound of a Dry Martini  (basically a Paul Desmond tribute)

Ben Patterson: For Once in My Life

Houston Person: Live in Paris

Hank Jones: For My Father

Unquestionably, improvisation is the defining element of jazz.  
These artists communicate in real time.  
This fluidity of expression when listening to music like late-‘40s Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker through mid-to-late-‘70s music by The Art Ensemble of Chicago or Anthony Braxton (and everything in between) is unique to this music.

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 👍🤩

So many 

Early Miles

Coltrane

Art Pepper

Houston Person

Jimmy Forest

I can give you specifics but there is a bunch from these cats.  

@jolywins 

"Improvisation is the heart and soul of Jazz music".

Amen, brother!

Great topic because I’m just scratching the surface.  Can someone experienced with this genre of jazz create a shared Qobuz playlist??? Thanks. 

Try "Misty' by the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio. Remarkable.

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.

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.

Try out music-map.com. Hope that helps.

@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...

MRQ is kinda like soundtrack music…for like a melodrama.  You need to dig deeper till your mind becomes one with the multiverse!  Eventually you must confront your inner 60’s jazz club hipster avatar and listen to John Coltrane live at the Village Vanguard.  I believe in you!

PUG!!  I have a pug…Emma 9 years old

Chet is super cool and laid back…great recording.

Chet Baker

(Keepnews Collection)

Riverside label

@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.

@clearthinker 

So, you mean: Jazz absent the improvisational; aspect?

That ain't Jazz!  

@plumptonvinyl  +1 for Passport... Nice one...!

I would check out titles by Bill Charlap. You may also like Emmet Cohen's classic series featuring Ron Carter.

Bob James and Earl Klugh's album "Cool".  You'll feel better immediately.

+1 @gosta 

@deadhead1000 

Right On 

- Bright Sized Life by Pat Metheny Excellent choice!

My favorite Metheny record too.,

Hi,

I would recommend the following:

Tingvall Trio - All albums but I love Vägen

Emil Brandqvist Trio - Falling  Crystals and Layers of life.

Passport - Ataraxia

i hope you enjoy them

gary

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. 

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!

There are many such music especially from Quboz/Tidal/Spotify play list.
Try Oscar Peterson some albums really sound like what u like, Paul Desmond and many more.

"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

No mention of Pat Metheny, his first album was the first Jazz Album that really got me to listen to Jazz. I still think it's his best, but they are all enjoyable.

In fact, I think I'll give his first album a spin right now.

Best I know of:

Oscar Peterson Trio

We Get requests

You look good to me

Sounds Like Symphonic Jazz to me. 

Anyone who can top that?

I confess that I haven't yet had a chance to hear the Magnus Ringblom Quartet, but you might want to check out ECM Records.  Their European style of jazz has more classical influence, less swing or R&B.

@clearthinker

Only in limited quantities?

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.

Edit: I see you’re already familiar with On Vacation. I’ll also add Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring.

Jazz in limited quantities is OK.  Just try to avoid noodling.  FZ.

Bernt Rosengren Quartet - I’m Flying

@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 👍🙂

Till Bronner - The Good Life

Carl Winther Trio - Relaxin 

@painter24 Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" 

Look to "Cool Jazz" artists and the "West Coast" sounds. Too many great pianists/horn players to list.

Start by going bacwards to the sources in the late 40's-50's.

@gosta ​​​​​@ps thanks for the suggestions both. I'll check these out. I did have Roon a while back but preferred the Innuos app sound-wise, but that's a different conversation 🤔🥴, maybe I'll give it another go; my system has evolved since then.

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.

Adding Roon to your Qobuz will give you a much better instrument for searching similar music. Plus very nice dsp possibilities.

Bobo Stenson?