Jazz – Is it ok to Hate it? And My Top Five Jazz Albums
Jazz is a vast impenetrable forest popualted by strange men in sandals. In this video I ask if it is ok to hate jazz, and what my five favourite albums are.
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@stevehyperdriver
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
A jazz drummer told me years ago that the art of playing jazz is to play whatever you like, but just make sure you all start and finish at the same time.
@VintageStereoCollectorChannel
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Nice vid. I have 4 of the 5 but I need to play some Nina Simone, wonderful voice.
Beeb playing a bunch of Chet Baker lately.
@jazzypetelindemann8565
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
love ur reviews , Im a Jazz fan and rock fan and you picked a great 5 top Albums 🙂 , How good is Kind of Blue ..
@steveurick3044
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
one minute on Coltrane? hmmm….
@99tonnes
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I'm sure it's ok to like and dislike whatever. (Whose permission are you looking for?) Hatred seems a bit strong though, you might want to get that looked at.
@Gk2003m
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
It’s ok to hate jazz. Shows a lack of many things in the hater, but it’s OK.
@KERSTEN27
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Thelonious anyone?
@WhatJeanWants
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Everything by the Bill Evans Trio are my favorite jazz albums. I recommend checking out their albums. Purely sublime music and performances!
@Broonzied
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I do like a little jazz from time to time. I have found though that many in the 'Jazz community' tend to view music as a hierarchy with, you guessed it, jazz at the apex looking down on lesser forms below. This really could deter you from exploring the genre a bit deeper. For me its just another view in a wide panorama. I guess I am just an old guy who believes blues, folk and rock are surbordinate to nothing in the musical realm.
@jam1087
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
One of my absolute favorite live albums is Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane live at Carnegie Hall, Sweet and Lovely is such a beautiful number. Kind of Blue is also one hell of an album but so is Bitches Brew, especially if you've decided to eat mushrooms and need some good jams to accompany you
@BionicRasta
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I only came to know jazz thru Hip Hop samples, so i tend to like the late 60s to mid 70s period of funk fusion such as David Axelrod, Lonnie Liston Smith, Blue Note boogie stuff like Lou Donaldson, Grant Green, Jimmy Mcgriff, etc, which has more of a groove to it, but as a genre overall its not really my bag, especially when improvisation gets crazy as in free jazz or spiritual jazz, also 1950s trad jazz that appealed more to middle age white people in particular like art teachers.
@robertoc2485
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I love Brubeck – good choice
@rdombroskijr
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I was in 4th grade, and my school hosted a “join the band!” night where we were introduced to all of the band instruments (sorry, no Bassoon) and met the band teacher, Leo Henning. It took me about a second to choose the Saxophone. We scooted home where Dad put some Stan Getz on the turntable. My love for Jazz had been piqued.
Thanks again Dad!
@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Earth, Wind & Fire GRATITUDE, their legendary album.
@marklaviolette6474
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Yes I hate jazz
@kongmik
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Why ask that when you have no problem hating other things…is it the N thing?
@TheScunion
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Well……Lou Reed sucks!
Nuff said.
@djacobmadrigal
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
It’s okay to hate anything as long as it’s not toward people.
@sansovino4124
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I don't like jazz, except for a very few Brubeck and Loussier tracks. My problem with it is that it seems to be all about the musicians showing off, rather than the music itself.
@Trobtwillis
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Jazz is a very wide umbrella term for several musical styles. What do these styles have in common? Well, for a start, no triads, and no power chords; must have thicker chords with 7ths, and sometimes even 9ths & 11ths. Elegant dissonance. Good improvization skills are important.
I've heard some absolutely wonderful Jazz. I've also heard some uterly awful Jazz too.
@cutthroat2147
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Jazz is America's version of classical music. And if you love music you should listen and study it. Start with coltrane and miles.
@LynneConnolly
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Put a jazz drummer into rock music and it's like kindergarten to them. A lot of rock drummers came from jazz.
@borderlands6606
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Jazz was the introductory riff of an intellectual BBC show. It was men in bowler hats. It was people applauding solos because everyone around them was. It made me want to do a Vic Reeves style mad dance and be escorted from the premises.
@jordil6152
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
If you're doing a music marathon, maybe starting with Pink Floyd, Genesis, or Yes, you can either branch out to ambient or go deeper with fusion, modal, or free jazz. Miles' Agartha after Darkside of the Moon or Dark Magus as a response to Interstellar Overdrive.
Not to mention Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, which is mandatory listening for anyone who fancies any of the aforementioned bands.
@dmk7700
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
My (5)
Kind of Blue / Miles Davis
Take Five / Dave Brubeck
Giant Steps / John Coltrane
The Blues And The Abstract Truth / Oliver Nelson
Speak No Evil / Wayne Shorter
@danielhkhk7283
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
It's ok.
@thecreativeguitarlounge
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I was introduced to Jazz by a friend who lent me Miles Davis's Tribute to Jack Jones. I loved it but probably, as a guitarist, because John McLaughlin played on it. I then bought Kind of Blue and Cookin at the Plugged Nickel. I love all of those but haven't developed a great love of the genre in general.
@t_albino
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I think why I personally love jazz is its hard to pin down nature, and the fact that it morphed and shape shifted its way into so many different styles and forms over the years. Influencing the nature of improv in rock, early funk and soul, and how it made hip hop around the late 80s/early 90s sound even cooler.
I'm more of a jazz fusion,jazz funk or jazz with a twist kind of lover, but whatever form its in, it's infectious.
Loads of great great jazz still being made out there – my personal recommendation is the Jazz is Dead series of albums/collaborations.
@Rainonasphalt
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Jazz is okay. It's not nearly as terrible as blues. Whenever someone is learning to play guitar for the first time, it always sounds like blues, so I guess it doesn't take skill.
@davidlee6720
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
johnny hates jazz anyway.
@StephenSeabird
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Just listen to Ian Carr's Nucleus on the album, 'We'll Talk About It Later'. Staggering musicianship and as dynamic as any rock band.
@thatonedude1003
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
I listen to jazz every day. It has bolstered my appreciation for rock, pop, hip-hop, etc. To understand Jazz…you have to really listen…and read.
Listening to a Jazz album while reading about it makes it really come to life.
@taffmanetothyme7
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
In a way, I think it's almost idiotic to hate jazz, unless you "hate" many styles of popular music, that owe so much to jazz, as an influence.
You mentioned many styles that at the very least, "doffed their cap" at jazz.
With that in mind, I'd probably agree that the aforementioned favourites in your list, are all deserving of praise, most especially, Miles Davis, whose modal style of jazz has gone on to influence various forms of contemporary music since it's debut in 1959.
And for me, the most listenable jazz, is as a result of that influence.
For example, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, just for openers. Like yourself (I presume), I like jazz that does bear repeated listenings, and of course that applies to my preference in other genre's. Thanks for the thought provoking vid! 👌
@andybetts6584
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Rock….three chords listened to by millions
Jazz…millions of chords listened to by three
Seriously some lovely stuff in such a wide genre and really we are all pedestrian listeners
I would trust a jazz buff about as much as a wine buff
It is all the emperor's new clothes
@stewartgavin1302
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
People forget about Larry Coryell. One of my favorite Lps is Fairyland a 1971 recording from Switzerland. Rough free style live jam w/ Coryell, Chuck Rainey ( bass ) Pretty Purdie ( drums ).
Mind Blowin' Jams.
@Weshopwizard
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Coltrane -Blue Train
Mingus Ah Um
Dave Brubeck Take Five
Cannonball Adderley -Something Else.
@1ouncebird
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Lou Reed said that? Makes total sense. The guy was musically as boring as watching paint dry.
@Lesiga1
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Ummm…. stick to rock, really. You didn't need to do this.
@ganazby
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Great choices.
My top six, in no particular order:
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.
Miles Davis: Nefertiti (everything he did, really).
Coltrane: A Love Supreme.
Ralph Towner: Solstice.
Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchitananda.
Pharoah Sanders: Karma.
And oh so many more.
@PUNKinDRUBLIC72
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
It's ok to hate whatever music you don't like, I love 70'punk,80's hardcore punk and Acid House. I'm sure many of you don't,it doesn't affect my life. Like what you like and dislike what you don't,each to their own!🏴
@thepartimemusician65
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Speak no evil by Wayne Shorter is a gem.
@mainsailsound983
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Nice picks and thoughtful commentary
@sjbang5764
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
"Jazz is not dead it just smells funny." Who said that? I know you know. Brilliant choices, actually.
@richos5535
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Noice
@j7jov32
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Came home from work last saturday night after an intense shift and put Kind Of Blue on my turntable. I've been doing that seven nights in a row now.
@BuroAan
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
What a lame list.
@Devoid_Freud
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Keith Jarrett!
@michelvondenhoff9673
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Listening to Keith Jarrett Köln Concert. The story behind it is as jazz azz the gig itself.
Barely know of any jazz but this I really like 👌
@GreenMorningDragonProductions
October 23, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Straight Jazz is like straight sugar for me. No thanks, but infuse something with a bit of it though, and it can sometimes work. Have you ever done an electronica top 5 BTW? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that ])