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Topic ClosedWhat subgenre of Jazz do you prefer?
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Poll Question: What is your favourite style related to jazz?
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    Posted: May 20 2006 at 13:29
Hey, I'm interested to know what style of jazz prog fans prefer. As I'm a prog fan myself and I'm interested in Jazz lately, I would like to read the results.
 
First, you have early jazz with guys such as Louis Armstrong. Im fond of this style at all, but maybe you like it.
 
Then, you get the commercialized Danceable Big Band era. Some of the music is very mainstream, but on the other hand you have a great composer like Duke Ellington.
 
What about Bebop/Hard Bop? 100% improvisation and soloing.
 
Cool Jazz with Miles Davis and other geniuses to relax to, close your eyes and nod your head saying "yeah".
 
The fun Funk Jazz with hammond organ soloing all over the place?
 
The Jazz climax of Bebop with electric instruments and rock influences?
 
The beautifully sung and romantic magic of Brazilian Jazz with Bossa Nova elements?
 
South American Latin styles fused with Jazz Fusion?
 
The extremely diverse World Jazz that fuses music of many countries with Jazz?
 
The groovy jazz of acid Jazz, Rap Jazz, and JAzz using DJs?
 
The Jazz without limits and boundaries? Are you a fan of "A Love Supreme", Sun Ra, etc?
 
Last, but not least, the fun piano-based Boogie Woogie or the more complex piano stride where the pianist plays a bass line, rhythmic chords, and solos all at the same time.
 
Which is your favourite?
 
MY pick goes to Jazz Fusion, althrough Brazilian Jazz and Latin-Jazz Fusion (Al Dimeola) come very very close.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Havent heard too much, but Fusion, followed by avant.
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion.
 
I also like Jazz-Funk like Mezzoforte and Steely Dan.
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Don't forget "hot jazz" or "symphonic jazz", born in the '20s ( George Gerhwin - Rhapsody In Blue, Concerto Per Pianoforte E Orchestra) and the "swing" era (1935 - 1945)( Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum.

Anyway, i voted for Jazz-rock/Fusion.
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World Jazz, Acid Jazz, Jazz-rock, avant jazz, it's all excellent to me.
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Where's Vocal Jazz?

BTW: I won't vote - I love many of these styles equally.Big smile My favorites in terms of playtime are intelligent Vocal Jazz and Jazz Fusion.


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I like Fusion, Free Jazz, Acid Jazz, and BeBop.
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Oh, the swing era falls under "big Band Jazz" as it is mostly commercial and danceable except for some brilliant composers who did great music.
 
And yes, I forgot completely about vocalized jazz :(
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i think this poll would have been more interesting if you had left out fusion
i voted for be bop hard bop
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My favorite jazz subgenre (or era) is the Bigband and swing era. I don't care if most of the stuff is commercial. There's no dance music that I prefer to that kind of music. I even took some swing dancing lessons Embarrassed

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Be Bop, and Avant Garde

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Incomplete poll and should it be in the poll thread section?????????????????????????. What happened to the best selling jazz genres nowadays in Europe:
nu.fusion, e.g. Nils Petter Molvaer, Bugge Wesseltoft
nu.jazz, e.g. EST, Brad Mehldau 
(and least we forget the retro jazz of Wynton Marsalis)
 
Glad somebody mention world jazz, which stands some sub-division e.g. Indo jazz fusion: Joe Harriott/John Meyer, Shakti, Shakti Revisited, Levi Shankar, Hellborg's outings especially on Icon, Trilok Gurtu, Oregon, Collin Walcott, Zakir Hussain, work of the Fatir Ali Khans with jazz musicians such as Jan Garbarek (e.g. Ragas & Sagas) etc.; then the Arabic-jazz fusion.................
 
What does Latin jazz cover: Nana Vasconcelos to Kip Hanrahan, taking in Sergio Mendes, Airto and Flora, Chick Corea??
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Jazz fusion is an ambiguous term covering a lot of important sub-genres: jazz rock fusion, jazz funk fusion, Indio-jazz fusion (the oldest established term for a sub-genre of jazz fusion), Arabic jazz fusion, flamenco jazz fusion, world jazz fusion (for that not covered by prefaces such as Indio or Arabic or Flamenco), smooth jazz, fuzac, nu.jazz, nu.fusion, jazz drum'n'bass, acid jazz, jazz jam, jazz hiphop, folk jazz fusion (check out Danny Thompson's solos and Pentangle - even Jan Garbarek/Agnes Buens Garnas on their Rosensfole), brass rock, (one coined by drummer Steve Smith) monk jazz (e.g. for Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble's free jazz and plainsong), etc.
 
BTW Benny Goodman swang with the presence of Lionel Hampton and/or Gene Krupa in his quartets in the late 30's - check out the marvellous Carnegie Hall Concert of 1938, issued as a double CD set by Columbia Song
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I can listen to all different kinds of jazz from Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives from the 1920's to Dave Douglas today.  I suppose the free jazz/avant garde period is my favorite if I had to pick.  With the likes of Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Coltrane, Archie Shepp & Eric Dolphy who can go wrong?
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Ther's not only Pat Metheny in World jazz subgenre.
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Originally posted by man@arms man@arms wrote:

I suppose the free jazz/avant garde period is my favorite if I had to pick.  With the likes of Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Coltrane, Archie Shepp & Eric Dolphy who can go wrong?
 
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Ther's not only Pat Metheny in World jazz subgenre.

Indeed. He isn't even really a world jazz artist, not to me anyways. Oregon epitomize the world jazz fusion sound.
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Ther's not only Pat Metheny in World jazz subgenre.



Agreed he was the first Jazz artist I ever listened to and still my favourite.
    
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