Can somebody recommend me some more jazz?

[Kid Presentable]

My shits mad limited. I want smooth and saucy shit to study to. The uh good stuff.

[taquitos]

"13 Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology" is pretty saucy. Or just any Mingus.

also, Vince Guaraldi Trio, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Quite Saucy.

[abcdefz]

Smooth and saucy? Are you including Latin?

I wouldn't go for Mingus, if you're looking for smooth and saucy. Saucy, maybe, but not much of his stuff is very subdued. He's more of a
cross between Ellington's orchestrations and crazed bop. Great, great, great great stuff -- one of my favorites -- but it doesn't seem to hit
your sweet spot.

Maybe if you could say who you consider to be "sweet and saucy" it would help.

[Funky Pepp]

I like Oscar Peterson and The Jaque Loussier Trio a lot.

I also found some cool Jazz-Records on iTunes these days - Jazz & 90's and Jazz & 80's (nice jazzversions of well-known songs)...

[taquitos]

Yeah, I couldn't think of anything smooth and saucy, so I just went with saucy.

[abcdefz]

My bad -- "smooth" and saucy.

Hopefully some examples will be provided so we get some context.

Bill Evans is good for the smooth; not so much the saucy.

Big John Patton is good for the saucy; not so much the smooth.

[Kid Presentable]

I've only really covered a couple of eras of Miles Davis (Cool, Kind of Blue, Bitches - the third one doesn't really count) and a little David Axelrod. I have a double disc Nina Simone, and some old random big band shit my Dad was into as well. As far as modern stuff, it's really just Nuyorican Soul. I don't really consider smooth and saucy to be finite, boundary setting terms, I just want some older style shit, I guess. I've been thinking about John Coltrane?

I said it was limited. Don't judge.

[abcdefz]

Coltrane's career is amazing, but some of his later stuff just sounds like noise to some folks. Just depends on how far you're willing to follow him. Most of his stuff on Impulse! is the exploratory stuff. Of that, I'd go with Meditations or A Love Supreme and see if you like either of those.

Of his more traditional stuff, try Blue Train, Soultrane, or Coltrane (the OJC album -- not the Impulse album [which is terrific, though]).


Classic shit off the top of my head (trust me -- I'm leaving out a LOT):

The Okeh Ellington - Duke Ellington
Money Jungle - Duke, Mingus, Roach

Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans (he's all over Kind of Blue and really helped shape that album)

Ah Um - Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Mingus

Song for My Father
Blowin' the Blues Away - Horace Silver

Empyrean Isles
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock

Art of the Trio, Vol. 2 - Brad Meldhau

Sweets by Harry Edison

Idle Moments
Green Street - Grant Green

Confirmation: The Best of the Verve Years by Charlie Parker

Thundering Herds 1945-1947 - Woody Herman

Ready for Freddie
Hub Tones - Freddie Hubbard

Go! - Dexter Gordon


For jazz vocals:

At Duke's Place -- Ella Fitzgerald

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
Swingin' Easy - Sarah Vaughan

Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim (amazing cool, cool Latin jazz)
A Swingin' Affair - Frank Sinatra

Lady Day: The best of Billie Holiday

The Beat of My Heart - Tony Bennett

Dinah Jams - Dinah Washington

Abbey is Blue - Abbey Lincoln



It's a start, anyway.

You might be surprised how much of this shit is at your public library, by the way.

[Kid Presentable]

Word. Thank you, A-z.

[hpdrifter]

Haha, when I saw the thread title I knew a-z would be all over it.

[abcdefz]

And we haven't even gotten to Ornette Coleman or Big John Patton or Cecil Taylor or Sun Ra or Wes Montgomery or

[mikizee]

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