Hey Guys!
Influenced by my father, i originally came from the "classic rock" stuff, too... especially bands like: Queen, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin.
...i was introduced to jazz in my piano lessons, where i learned to play some standards and other classics. I liked that, but i must say, there was no real passion into it in those days.
As i was 19, i started to play bass in a band, i was totally keen of the Chili Peppers at that time and i almost know every song of them. ;) Later on, especially some jam sessions in local clubs brought me to fusion jazz bands... Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Jeff Beck. By now, almost all my friends are absolute jazz fanatics :D I myself still like much of the stuff of the bands i named above. I think, i'm open to many kinds of music which is well made. I also like Drum&Bass and some other electronic music. Imo, there is much potential for further development in this genre.
Now a small list of my favorites including album recommendations: :)
The Aristocrats - Boing we'll do it live
Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle
Bill Evans - Soulgrass
Billy Cobham - Palindrome | Live at Montreux 1976
Chick Corea - The Chick Corea Elektric Band | + Live at Montreux
Ciro Manna - Feel n'Groove
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society
Gary Willis - Retro
George Duke - I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Jaco Pastorius - Live in New York Concerts 1-7 | Shadows and Light (with Jonni Mitchell)
James Farm - James Farm (with Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks et al)
Jamiroquai - Traveling without Moving
Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scott's
Joshua Redman - Momentum
Kevin Chown - Freudian Slip
Kollektiv - Kollektiv feat. Jonas Hellborg
Kornet - III Sweden Tachika
Larry Coryell + the 11th house - At Montreux
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Miles Davis - Tutu (+ everything else he did ;-) )
Nils Lofgren - Acoustic live
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Pat Metheny - Offramp
Richard Bona - Spaces Revisited (with Larry Coryell) | Scenes From My Life
Steps Ahead - Live at North Sea Jazz
Tal Wilkenfeld - Transformation (with Keith Carlock + Wayne Krantz)
Tribal Tech - Illicit
Edited by
issiro on April 01 2013 01:28