Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Favorite Jazz and New Age?

Here are a few of my jazz favorites:

1) Keiko Matsui. One of my favorite artists. If you've never heard her, start with "Live" or the "Collection" She's a jazz pianist but occasionally you can find her music in the new age section. Most of the time she is considered "smooth jazz". Personally, I can't stand the "smooth jazz" genre in general, but Keiko mixes it up a lot.

2)The Bad Plus-These Are the Vistas. I don't have the new album, but this one is very enjoyable and they take a very different approach to jazz.

3)Charles Mingus-Ah Um. A classic. This is the only album I have of him, but I like this one a lot.

4)Medeski Martin & Wood...most anything from them. Funky & groovy!

Monk
Coltrane
Miles D.
John Scofield
Stanley Clarke
Acoustic Alchemy?
Bela Fleck
etc,etc,etc.

Yeah, I wasn't sure whether Fleck fit in this category, but he's amazing. As are the Flecktones, which sometimes I think should be called the Wooten-tones.

I'm amused - Eldridge is out of favof here???

Definitely Acoustic Alchemy, album Back On the Case, The Beautiful Game, and Radio Contact, one of the most dynamic and best recording I've ever heard, they are my preference for auditioning speakers

- Rob McConnell
- Glenn Miller
- Buddy Rich
- Louis Armstrong
- Canadian Brass
- Duke Ellington
- Ulu
- Miles Davis
- Coltrane
- Gene Krupa
- etc.

Jazz FM 91.1 in Toronto is where it's at if you like jazz (or stream it on the web at www.jazz.fm)

- D

I like the 50-60's Blue Note:

Art Blakey
Dexter Gordon
Herbie Hancock
Lee Morgan
also
Charles LLyod
Monk
Cotrane
Miles

The WORLD'S BEST Jazz Station is WBGO, Newark, NJ. It is
streamed at http://www.wbgo.org/listennow/

enjoy

Chuck

For those interested, Acoustic Sounds announced this jazz set in their latest newsletter:
http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=14996&keywords=NL110304

New Age CD's you should check out:

1)Yanni, "To Chase a Dream"
2)John Tesh, "Dream-Chaser"
3)Kitaro, "Chasing Dreams"
4)David Lanz, "The Chase of a Dream"
5)Enya, "Dream of the Dream-Chaser"

Seriously dude, you gotta check those out...they rock!!!

(Hey, I kid, I kid!) -JT

I purchased an LP some years ago, Digital Duke (GRP) that was a tribute to Duke Ellington by modern artists who jammed to his tunes.

I was so blown away by both the tunes, and my setup at the time, that when it was issued on CD I purchased that as well.