jazz recommendations thread - /mu/ (#127120110) [Archived: 931 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:08:59 PM No.127120110
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Hello, /mu/
I've been meaning to get into jazz recently. It feels kind of a like a deep rabbit hole of a genre and I don't know where to start looking.
So far I really like Pt. II from A Love Supreme and wish to find more like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZFqMR1cuM
I liked the music in Whiplash, too.
I would also like to find jazz with focus on complex drums, that is faster paced and with a sort of messy, louder sound to it. I'm less interested in the chill kind of jazz. What subgenres or keywords should I look into?

feel free to talk about other jazz related topics to make better use of this OP
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:21:11 PM No.127120189
only good jazz is early jazz
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:23:27 PM No.127120214
>>127120110 (OP)
If you want complex drums, maybe take a look at fusion? Corea "is" sessions? Tony Williams?

>>127120189
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 9:23:33 PM No.127120215
for now stick to coltrane albums from the 1960s. a love supreme is a pretty unique sounding album but there are other records from around that time with similar feels, like crescent or transition. and elvin jones is a monster on the drums on some of those songs so there's that too.

it's an extreme avant-garde recommendation but you may also like coltrane's interstellar space, which is just a sax and drums duet album. both instruments are pretty damn loud and chaotic most of the time.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 10:44:43 PM No.127120935
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>>127120110 (OP)
apart from more early-mid 60's Coltrane with the same quartet, try this
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 10:54:10 PM No.127121033
>>127120110 (OP)
Jazz is one of the easiest genres to get into because of how albums are just a collection of musicians playing together. Find a musician you like, they have over 100 albums they've played on along with 1000 other musicians to discover
Paying attention to individual names and slowly recognizing their playing is one of the great joys of jazz
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 11:07:51 PM No.127121152
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If you want fast-paced, loud, and with hard-beating drums, look for Hard-Bop. Miles Davis' great quintet is a good place to start, Coltrane got his first big break playing in these albums, although he sounded a lot more conventional than he would in A Love Supreme: https://youtu.be/nlc907zBBFY?si=lBdrfUiF7ApRcGyg.

Miles' second quintet played a more experimental style of jazz, less rooted in the blues and in pop standards, with looser rhythms and more open compositions: https://youtu.be/Q6uwKN0MQFc?si=jVZJDWpLZh1fv-xt
You can check either of them out, decide what you like best and start exploring from there.