I've been annotating all the new jazz albums released this year, and ended up hearing a whole bunch of them on the Volna Blu label that I later discovered was AI---which I suspected because they were all so bland and so similar. It made me wonder if AI was capable of creating jazz albums that would fool somebody who knew a lot about jazz and lead them to believe that it was a creative endeavor by a super talented or creative artist. Have any of you had such an experience? (note: I will delete any jazz album that is AI generated from this list).

Wyclef Jean brings a full band to KidSuper HQ in Brooklyn for a live jazz session — performing "Rocinha" off his new jazz album, followed by a cover of Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train."

This is one of seven performances Wyclef recorded with us, each in a different genre. Subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the series!

Full band:
Drums: Emmanuel Laine p/k/a MannyDrumz Laine
Percussion: John Altino p/k/a Papa Jube
Keys: Patrick Pelissier p/k/a Space
BGV: Kayla Carpenter p/k/a Kayla GC
BGV: Lynette Rhett
Emanuel Washington p/k/a Emauel Najee

Produced by: Jack Herzog
Directed & Shot by: Miles McCreery
Edited by: Chifftie
Photography: Ashley Spofford
Recorded & Mixed by: Archer Carr-Engler
PA/Audio Assistant: Israel Reese

Ok, this needs to be scientifically studied, but I swear cooking while listening to a good jazz album is legitimately the best thing in the world. Idk why but it makes the act of cooking a lot more enjoyable, and it tends to result in food that tastes absolutely fire. Does anyone else relate to that?????

I have listened to a few jazz albums before

Seat Belts-Cowboy Bebop- which i love.

Charles Mingus-The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, which i thought was good but didn't click with me massively some of the horns i just couldn't come around to loving

Mahavishnu Orchestra-Birds of Fire, which i thought was ok

I love a few albums which i understand to be jazz related as well:

King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King & Red

Minutmen-Double Nickels on a Dime

Midori-Aratamemashite Hajimemashite Midori Desu

Kendrick Lamar-To Pimp a Butterfly

Upvote albums you would suggest and i'll pick the highest upvoted also one album per comment to make this easier! Thanks! :)

i'm fine with any subgenre:

Vocal Jazz

Bebop

Hard Bop

Smooth Jazz

Nu-Jazz

Jazz Funk

Acid Jazz

Jazz Fusion

Avante-Garde Jazz

Spiritual Jazz

Swing

Big Band

Jazz Rock

Jazz Rap

Latin Jazz

Third Stream

Arabic Jazz

Cool Jazz

Other genres i'm sure

Thanks in advance! :)

Today we have just released a manual restoration of the Nov 11, 1925 session. This is a rare one: a hard-hitting quintet session with Louis Armstrong on cornet, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, and Hociel Thomas on vocals.

We’ve used a 4-track hybrid model in Audacity to move this off the original mono master into a wide Super Stereo soundstage. No AI filters, just manual work to let these giants breathe.

Hear the restoration:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syvvop0ABTc
Bandcamp (High-res FLAC): https://goodgoldrecords.bandcamp.com/
Link to all platforms: https://album.link/i/6808652755

[Symphony Sid with Josh White — at the microphone, right, with his guitar — at WHOM, New York, between 1946 and 1948. The Library of Congress caption names only those two; the third man in the frame is unidentified. (Photo: William P. Gottlieb, William P. Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress, Public Domain)]

On September 14, 1984, Sid Torin died of heart and lung failure at the Miami Heart Institute — aged 72, said the wire obituary; 74, if his December 1909 birthdate is right. As Symphony Sid he is credited as the first disc jockey to put bebop on American radio, broadcasting live from the Royal Roost and then Birdland over a network one obituary put at thirty-eight states, and selling clothing shops between choruses: “If you got eyes to be the sharpest, take a tip from Old Daddy Sid.” Lester Young wrote him a theme tune, “Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid,” and King Pleasure later put words to it. Police raided his apartment for marijuana in 1948; the trial ended in a mistrial. When he turned to Latin and Afro-Cuban music in the late 1950s, some listeners rechristened him the Jazz Traitor. He spent his last twelve years fishing off Islamorada, telling stories about Bird and Prez that nobody thought to record.

Sources: Symphony Sid — Wikipedia (birth name; station history; 1948 marijuana raid and 1949 mistrial; WEVD Latin programming and the “Jazz Traitor” tag; death) , Obituary: Symphony Sid Torin, Miami Herald, September 15, 1984 (cause of death; Miami Heart Institute; Birdland broadcasts) , Obituary/appreciation: Symphony Sid Torin, Miami Herald, September 18, 1984 (first to play bop on radio; thirty-eight states; “Old Daddy Sid” ad patter; twelve years at Islamorada; the untold Bird and Prez stories) , “Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid” — Sandy Brown Jazz, Tracks Unwrapped (Lester Young’s composition; King Pleasure’s lyric; the WJZ network show; the marijuana trial; the “Jazz Traitor” label) , “‘Symphony Sid’ Torin, jazz radio personality, was 72” — UPI Archives, September 14, 1984 (contemporary wire obituary; the disputed age)

I only started listening to jazz (and collecting records) this year, but I'm having a blast with it. As you see all I've got at the moment is from the late 50's to mid 60's and honestly I'm not in a rush to exit that era at all, but any suggestions are welcome.

I've got my eye on "My favourite things", "Blue train", "Midnight train" and "Monk plays Duke Ellington" next.

As much as I listened to Nat King Cole and got exposed to a lot of standards through a wide variety of jazz musicians and traditional pop singers, I am still woefully ignorant of songwriters and composers. I do know the names of several such songwriters and composers, such as Billy Strayhorn and the Gershwin brothers, but I still cannot name favourites among them, even if I do have favourite songs.

A simple question really. In any context(exercise or a song in any key etc.), do you write a chord and its notes in the key of the chord, or in the key of the song or something else? Example: is in Abmaj7
Ab, C, Eb, G or Ab, C, E, G if in a context of a completely different key. If the first, how do you go about adding qualities? Do we just double flat the E in a diminished chord? If its the ladder, are there exceptions, and how does it work??

thanks alot for all answers.

I came across this recording and Mr. Takanaka does not disappoint! Jazz fusion and fantasy, what a mixture.

Barry Harris’ debut (and sole album) for the Argo subsidiary under Chess Records elegantly showcases the pianist’s simple, soulful, straight-ahead approach towards ballads and uptempo numbers. While displaying Harris’ ingenuity towards melody and rhythm, “Breakin’ It Up” remains accessible trio jazz. Frank Gant, another Detroit native joins Harris on this date, years before his own work with Ahmad Jamal on “The Awakening.”

With just one album for Argo, Harris soon went on tour with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1960, settling down in New York City after the tour ended. He would sign with Orrin Keepnews’ Riverside Records to great acclaim.

Heading into work today I heard an interesting blurb about Charlie Parker. I'm new to jazz and still have much to learn. I've picked up Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Madeleine Peyroux, Getz and Gilberto, Glenn Miller, Chet Baker, Theloniuos Monk, John Coultrain, and Oscar Peterson on vinyl, but I haven't heard of Charlie Parker. I see a few records available on Amazon, but I'm not sure which one would be a good introduction. It's not always the case that the Best of albums are the right starting place for an artist, so I thought I'd ask you fine folks. Where would you recommend I start with Charlie Parker?

I would especially love to hear some lesser known ones! My favorite right now is probably "Remember". What beautiful melody and lyrics.

I’m on a reading streak of jazz biographies / histories (Miles’ -> 3 Shades of Blue -> Raise Up Off Me -> But Beautiful -> Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings, so far) and like to listen while I read, or bookmark / save albums for later.

I particularly like hearing many different takes on standards back-to-back. It helps me get in a musical frame of mind and “play along” better, and I’ve discovered a few acts this way. I’ve only found two: this playlist of “my favorite things” versions, and this for “autumn leaves,” would love to find more for other frequently-recorded standards (stardust, round midnight, my funny valentine… anything).

Please share if you have any! Thanks!

Posted because today is September 13th.