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I'm listening to pic related, one of my favorite giuffre records, but i've been listening many george lewis stuff lately, homage to charles parker is a 10/10

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Listening to pic related, just got it by the mail. I need some acid.

>>72937808
Glad to see this back

What contemporary pianist do you guys recommend?

>>72938611
depends. what other pianists/other players do you like best?

>>72939106
Monk, Gillespie, Ornette Coleman, Horace Silver...
I also discovered Steve Lehman recently and like it a lot.

monk, brubeck, miles davis, bill evans, ella...

do you guys recommend any jazz theory books? like the good stuff?

>>72939243
Check out Vijay Iyer. Pic related is good.

Also Craig Taborn, Orrin Evans, and David Virelles.

Listening to Miles Davis - Kind of Blue today
Listened to Lanquidity earlier, wild ride

I feel like I'm perpetually at this point of "just getting to know jazz". Not sure if it's entirely a bad thing

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>>72939404
This is the standard one. There's also The Jazz Piano book with theory focused just on jazz piano.

>>72937808
didnt this general use to have a copypasta with dl links?

>>72939795
That's understandable, there's so much out there. As you keep getting acquainted with jazz as a whole, your ear will become more perceptive to the plethora of spontaneous subtleties that lie within, allowing you to branch out and discover lesser known recordings with the confidence that you can understand and appreciate what is going on.

Being a musician helps speed the process along. Especially studying and playing jazz. That, in conjunction with dedicated listening, is by far the most comprehensive approach. It is musician's music, after all... Well, the good stuff anyway. Being able to understand and appreciate jazz from a musician's perspective brings a whole new level of intellectual enjoyment to listening. Plus it will probably make you more open to all styles of jazz and music in general, because musicians who know the music inside and out, and know what kind of commitment it takes, is open to any music regardless of dissonance or complexity.

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Still the best jazz album so far this year.

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next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQmLzUi-5g

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