I want to get into Jazz and understand it

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Alabama (John Coltrane song) - Wikipedia

"Alabama" is a composition written by John Coltrane that appears on his album Live at Birdland (1963). It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four African-American girls.

Coltrane's Quartet performed this piece on television for an episode of Jazz Casual in 1963.

 

[Kwabena]

 

[CROM]

Resolution is pure fire!

 

[Kwabena]

Resolution is pure fire!

Just an iPhone 6s

 

[CROM]

Just an iPhone 6s

Breh...I hope that was sarcasm. "Resolution" is the second track on the A Love Supreme album!

 

[Payroll]

Jazz is the art of improvisation.

Miles and Coltrane are the gods.

 

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[IllmaticDelta]

if you're a hiphop head first





now to jazz....the essence (for understanding purposes) of jazz explained for beginners













more videos below

Spoiler

...for dudes steeped in theory (understanding on a deeper level)









..into to smooth jazz 1970s origin (if you're a hiphop head, DJ Quik lives off this type of jazz)




bebop origin late 1940s (the beginnings of jazz from dance music to intellectual art music)




hardbop 1950s origin (one of the easier styles to get into if you're a hiphop head)



soul-jazz 1960s origin (the easiest style for hiphop heads to ge into. This is the funkier, less complex version of hard bop. Overlaps with jazz-funk)










big band swing late 1920s origin






jazzfunk/fusion 1970s (also easy for hiphop heads to get into. Overlaps with soul-jazz but more technical-virtuosic)

 

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[Rozay Oro]

If you want to get into jazz, it's best to know what you are actually listening to.

Quincy Jones isn't a "serious" jazz musician in terms of making jazz albums. He is a good composer and great producer.

Best to get a book like The Oxford Companion to Jazz.

The understanding of Jazz is very much reliant on understanding music theory like Classical music.

Jazz isn't like Pop, RnB or Hip Hop where understanding it is really just about lyrics and production styles and you don't need to understand anything about music theory.

There's books written on Jazz theory and etc that would be good to read.

You won't know what makes Miles Davis great if you don't know music theory. Miles Davis broke the rules.

Get a companion guide on Jazz if you are serious about learning about the genre beyond easy listening and jazz fusion.

How does one become a good composer and great producer?

 

[George's Dilemma]

Start with hard bop. If jazz had a golden era similar to Hip Hop, it would be the hard bop years.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Smoke more weed

 

[King]

Music theory is racist as fukk btw and white establishments ruined jazz by over analyzing and misunderstanding the shyt

 

[frush11]

So I've finally really gotten into Pharoah Sanders. Got bout 4 off his album on Vinyl. Need 'Astral Traveling', 'Journey to the one' and 'Love is everywhere' albums