Your all time 10 fav jazz Artist

So who is it that does it for you in the jazz world  what 10 Jazz artist  hold that special  little something for you ?
not necessarily the biggest or even the best but who have that little something special to you personally

And after  all we like are  list don't we ?

so..

1  John Coltrane  .

 Really yet to hear album he has been involved with i haven't liked  he just got that something for me


2. Stanley Clarke 

 Just for Journey to love  album which i love oh so much and was the first Jazz album i bought all those years ago and still to this day  one my all time Fav,s

3. Chick Corea

So Much good music from the Man  RTF his solo stuff just love this guys Music.

4.   Paul Chambers   .

Man that guy just played with everybody who was anybody in the Jazz world what a Bass Player.

5.  Miles Davis

Nothing  to say  really he was the Man.

6.  Jean- luc Ponty

Love his Music simple as that.

7.  John McLaughlin,

First real Jazz artist i got really into back in 75.

8.   Wayne Shorter 

Brillant  . love his work did with Joni Mitchell and three solo albums  Night Dreamer    
Speak No Evil    and Juju brillant .

9.  Gong for Shamel and Gazzuse  and i love the band to bits and lucky enough to of seen them more times that i can count over the years since 1975.

10.    Glen Miller   for my Dad
    


 


Edited by Hawkwise - 23 Apr 2011 at 5:31pm

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Edited by ConnorE - 24 Apr 2011 at 11:05pm

Zarathustra wrote: Miles Hendrix Pastorius Coltrane Bill Evans McLaughlin Bruford Corea Stanley (Clarke) Herbie

Sorry, but do you consider that Jimmy Hendrix is a  jazz artist?

Hendrix Jazz ? sadly we will never know but it seems he was heading in that direction before his death

Yeah, it's the good stuff. 

Art Tatum
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
John McLaughlin
Herbie Hancock
Charles Mingus
Ella Fitzgerald
Thelonious Monk

I've avoided this thread for a reason, I like too many artists to narrow it down to 10 

The first ten jazz artists to come to my mind are :

Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Henry Threadgill
John Coltrane
Wayne Shorter
Miles Davis
Weather Report
Tim Berne
Charles Mingus
Hermeto Pascoal

I'll just do five, with a little blurb for each.

Wes Montgomery

I'm a guitarist, and Wes was to the guitar what Bird was to the horn . As far as I'm concerned, the greatest guitarist who ever lived. Smokin' At The Half Note is my musical Bible. I listen to it regularly, and every note on it has influenced my playing profoundly.

Miles Davis

The man was so much more than a great trumpet player. A true visionary with an incredible talent for bandleading, he was always innovating and always bringing in the most cutting edge players to achieve that with him. Jazz newbies and aficionados alike praise Kind of Blue as being the greatest album of all time, and with very good reason, and it was one of two albums that made me want to play jazz. He'd be my #1 if I wasn't a guitarist.

John Coltrane

His incredible passion for jazz as an art form came out in everything he played. His vision of music as an expression of higher spiritual truth is actually audible in what he plays. Not to mention the fact that he redefined the word "virtuoso." Giant Steps was the second of two albums that made me want to play jazz.

Jim Hall

The second member of the First Big Three of Jazz Guitar (him, Wes and Joe Pass), his rendition of Round Midnight off his Live! album really opened my ears to the guitar's potential for dynamic expression that's almost horn-like in its soulfulness. A true master of expression.

Thelonious Monk/Charles Mingus

Incredible visionaries both, Monk redefined music with some of the most complex and idiosyncractic jazz ever written, while Mingus' constant probing of the depths of possibilities of jazz as an art form makes his music a joy to listen to. I remember being blown away the first time I heard Pithecanthropus Erectus: An instrumental jazz suite depicting the rise and fall of the human race? This isn't your grandparent's dancing music!