Essential early jazz
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Topic: Essential early jazz
Posted By: Vompatti
Subject: Essential early jazz
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 2:30pm
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I went to a second hand record shop today and noticed how little I know about jazz before the bop era. So, which would be the essential artists and recordings to look into if I choose to expand my collection to the pre-50's stuff?
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 5:38pm
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Some very essential artirts of pre-bop would be: Fletcher Henderson Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Beautiful music from an era that is never coming back, enjoy!
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 23 May 2011 at 5:44pm
| Whoops, I forgot Lester Young, pure magic. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 2:50pm
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Thanks, I will check those out.
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Posted By: funkyrhodes
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 6:25pm
| In addition Jelly Roll Morten, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie also deserve a listen, along with many others |
Posted By: triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 24 May 2011 at 7:18pm
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Jelly Roll Morton is awesome
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 1:58am
This is a sensible list, but I'm thinking that Glen Miller and the Benny Goodman-Lionel Hampton-Charlie Christian connection should get a mention in your list.
I was often subjected to this kind of jazz when a kid , because my father had a bunch of albums of the times and even brought me to two concerts when I was 5 or 8 . I saw Roland Kirk and Lionel Hampton in clubs in Brussels
However, I find it difficult to listen to pre-50's jazz nowadays... it's just so dated.... really sounds like oldtimer's music.
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js wrote:Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 8:01am
| Glenn Miller is awesome, and essential indeed. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 29 May 2011 at 9:35am
| ^ I'd probably go with the more rockin Count Basie. I have a couple Basie reviews up on here about how some of his music pre-dated early rock and RnB. |
Posted By: chuckyspell
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2011 at 12:59pm
| Art Tatum! |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2011 at 1:06pm
| word |
Posted By: Jazz Pianist
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2011 at 5:03pm
Don't forget Gershwin 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2011 at 7:15pm
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No one's mentioned Stephane Grappelli yet...
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2011 at 3:48am
That man lasted a long time, especially when you consider the partner guitarists that book end Grapelli's career, Django Reinhart and John Etheridge.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2011 at 3:58am
Yes, Grapelli and Reinhardt are one of rare examples of Europeans being able to break the US jazz-hegemony before WWII.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2011 at 3:59am
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How about naming some landmark albums of early jazz recordings (yes I know albums didn't exist until the invention of the LP around 1950) that should be in jazz fan's collection, e.g.
Bennie Goodman: Legendary Carnegie Hall Recordings 1938
and If these still exist, the Robert Armstrong remastered series, issued by the BBC in the 80's - the Bix Beiderbeck one comes to mind.
I'm trying to nail the more important /essential Jazz At The Philaharmonic recordings (I have Nat King Cole/Les Paul brilliantly jamming, pity about a less than perfect transcription) - which seem to have been made through most of the 40's. This is the problem listening to BBC Radio 3's Jazz Records Requests - forgetting to write down tunes/musicians that appeal for those brief moments on Saturday afternoons.
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