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I'm talking about listening rather than teachers...
It's REALLY hard choice.... These aren't always the players I think are the best, funnily enough. For example I feel that Johnny Hodges is perhaps the greatest alto sax player of all time, even above Bird, but I'm not that influenced by him.
1) Miles
2) Lester Young
3) Bird
4) Coltrane (probably the first jazz musician I really got into - the whole quartet, really important, Elvin, McCoy)
5) Duke Ellington
Mostly horn players as you can see... But I do also love drummers.... This list is mostly 'historical' but Mark Giuliana would figure among my favourite modern non-guitar musicians.
Is it just me or is the guitar much more prominent in contemporary jazz, or is that just the filter I am listening to it though?
Singers... It's funny, but I do tend to learn my tunes from Ella or Nat Cole... Not Sinatra so much...
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03-02-2017 09:38 AM
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1. Barry Harris
2. Barry Harris
3. Barry Harris
4. Barry Harris
5. Barry Harris
(Ah, just saw the reference to listening, rather than teaching.)
1. Barry Harris
2. Bud Powell
3. Steve Swallow
4. Tom Harrell
5. Tony BennettLast edited by David B; 03-02-2017 at 06:51 PM.
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Wow, what an interesting question. It is somewhat discomfitting as it makes me realize I almost only listen to guitar players. I don't enjoy listening to most sax players except Paul Desmond (the sax cliches are really annoying to me, they tend to overplay, and the sound of the instrument is often unattractive). I like trumpet, particularly Art Farmer and Miles; I would rate those two as influences. And I love how Herbie Hancock comps and have tried to bring some of that into my comping.
Come to think of it, I prefer to comp than to solo which might also be why I don't attend much to horn players and singers in terms of finding things I can play on guitar. Comping is a much more interesting and challenging process, to me.
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Wow, hard to pick 5...here's probably "all time," but maybe not "this week"
1. Paul Desmond
2. Bill Evans
3. Hank Mobley
4. Chet Baker
5. Ahmad Jamal
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Not very diverse...
Keith Jarrett
Jack dejohnette
Gary peacock
Ahmad Jamal
Ella Fitzgerald
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louis armstrong -influenced everything that came after
charlie parker-fluidity and invention
don cherry- eclecticism
jimmy giuffre-perfection
stan getz-the sound
cheers
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1. wayne shorter
2. miles davis
3. monk
4. bill evans
5. keith jarrett
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Stan Getz
Paul Desmond
Erroll Garner
Joe Venuti
Buddy Defranco
Tomorrow, the list could look entirely different.
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John Lewis - made jazz extremely approachable to me.
Stan Getz - style, phrasing, tone and ideas and just about everything
Thelonious Monk - Dissonance coupled with sheer fun
Oscar Peterson - Fluidity and embellishment
Ella Fitzgerald - 'nuff said.
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in no order maybe...
Lee Morgan
Hank Mobley
Art Pepper
Dexter Gordon
Bird
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No big surprises I am sure, but I can't limit it to 5:
Miles Davis
Ornette Coleman
Chet Baker
John Coltrane
Art Pepper
Paul Desmond
Art Blakey
Charles Mingus
Gerry Mulligan
Thelonius Monk
Bill Evans
Kenny Drew
Jan Hammer
Billy Cobham
I forgot Charlie Parker.Last edited by lammie200; 08-03-2019 at 03:00 PM.
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John Coltrane
Mingus
Chick Corea
Jarrett
Freddie Hubbard
Sonny Rollins
Clifford Brown
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Bud Powell
Herbie Hancock
Monk
Red Garland
Bill Evans
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Clifford Brown
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
Chick Corea
Jaco Pastorius
The first three I've transcribed the most, though I'm afraid they haven't (yet) influenced my playing as much as I'd like. The last two are the guys that really got me into jazz.
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1. Or
2. Nette
3. Cole
4. Man
5. John Zorn
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Originally Posted by Duotone
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Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Pharaoh Saunders, Stan Getz
Last edited by citizenk74; 06-14-2019 at 09:46 AM. Reason: Spelling
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Lee Morgan
Clifford Brown
Donald Bird
Lou Donaldson
Jack MacDuff
Jimmy Forrest
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Only one really. Everything else came after the fact. Louis Armstrong. He's the reason I play music. I heard him when I was 11 and felt like I had been waiting my whole life to hear him. It's been a journey. So just limited to 5, in some approximation of time.
Duke Ellington
Miles
Parker
Mingus (a passing passion)
Hank Mobley
Desmond
Pepper
ok, so I lied And Clifford, definitely, Clifford.Last edited by deselby; 03-02-2017 at 08:16 PM.
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Art Pepper
Louis Jordan
Jaco
Illinois Jacquet
Jack McDuff
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Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
McCoy Tyner
Dexter Gordon
Cannonball Adderely
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Dexter Gordon
Chet Baker
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Coltrane was the first one I really got into, but I'm not sure about influence simply because I can't play anything like he did, on the guitar. But I did listen obsessively.
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Bill Evans
Miles Davis
Sonny Stitt
Wayne Shorter
Art Blakey
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These guys shaped the way I hear jazz, it's as much about the composing as anything. They created the jazz repertoire I like to play.
miles
monk
mingus
shorter
trane
...can't really leave out herbie
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Picking 5..hard to do. But these have been pretty much constants
Ornette Coleman
Steve Lacy
Anthony Braxton
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus
..and everyone who influenced them..like Parker, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, etc. I have always tried to learn about where my heros are coming from and then listen to them, and their own, to hear the relationship to what they themselves have done.
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