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As far as saxophones are concerned, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, and Chris Potter are some of the more ambitious modern players. As far as older school players, Hank Mobley is a great bebop tenor saxophonist, as is Johnny Griffin. There's always Coltrane, too.



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meh, I'm more in the Mark Shim and Tim Warfield camps when it comes to modern tenor players. james carter would be a badass if he wasn't so obsessed with stupid saxophone tricks. If anyone wants to check out some of the best brecker out there, go no further then Chick Corea's 3 quartets, that is one of the best albums in teh past 30 years period

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As far as saxophones are concerned, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, and Chris Potter are some of the more ambitious modern players. As far as older school players, Hank Mobley is a great bebop tenor saxophonist, as is Johnny Griffin. There's always Coltrane, too.



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meh, I'm more in the Mark Shim and Tim Warfield camps when it comes to modern tenor players. james carter would be a badass if he wasn't so obsessed with stupid saxophone tricks. If anyone wants to check out some of the best brecker out there, go no further then Chick Corea's 3 quartets, that is one of the best albums in teh past 30 years period

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I can't believe you're a saxophone player and you just "meh"-ed Chris Potter. He is easily the best saxophone player in history, and it's not even close. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] There's this bootlegged recording of him doing an unaccompanied rendition of All the Things You Are that is the greatest diplay of skill and musicianship in the history of music. Also, Extended Play with the Dave Holland Quartet is some more great Chris Potter, and his alto solo on Metamorphos is easily the greatest solo within a small group setting in history.

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I just recently got into jazz over the past couple of years. Mostly blue note stuff. Mid 50's to late 60's

Anyway hear are some of my favorites:


George Benson and the Jack Mcduff Quartet "The new boss guitar of George Benson".

- This is the 1st. jazz cd I brought. George benson was like 19 yrs. on this recording and plays like a pro. Great
cd. He's one of my favorite jazz guitarists.

Kenny Burrell "Blue Midnight"- Another great jazz guitarist.

Charlie Christain " The Genius of the electric guitar"-

I think this guy was the first to every play an electric guitar. The music is from like 1930 but this is an great jazz record with so pretty cool riff's in songs like "seven come eleven" and solo flight in b.

Lou Donaldson "Midnight Creeper"- Lou plays alto sax and this is another really good blue note recording with George Benson on guitar.

Thelonius Monk and John Coletrane live at Carnige Hall.

This was just released and is a rare live recording of both jazz giants playing at the top of their game.

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I dont know anything about jazz, but someone in a recent thread recommended Miles Davis. And on amazon.com the first album that came up was "Kind of Blue". The editorial review said "This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason."

Anyway I got the album and have been listening to it constantly. I just put it on repeat and forget about it. For a MTT on saturday, I listened to it for 9 hours straight.

It's really soothing and consistent...a good anti tilt measure.

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McCoy Tyner - Expressions, The Real McCoy
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Kinda Blue, Bitches Brew
Errol Garner - Body and Soul

Anything by
Toshiko Akioshi and Lou Tabaken
Jerry Mulligan

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Not sure if it's been mentioned, and you may not be able to find it for download, but "Charlie Parker With Strings" is pretty insanely good.

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Wow, for a guy who is trying to get into jazz, your guys are gonna scare him away with things like Bitches Brew. If you are just getting into Jazz, I would recommend some things that are a little easier to listen to the first time around.

Art Blakey - Moanin'
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
Dave Brubek - Time Out

These are all really great jazz albums with a strong sense of melody and form that will allow you to ease into listening to jazz and prevent you from hating it.

Much like you will go broke if the first poker game you play in is $100/$200, no one should have their fist jazz experience be something like A Love Supreme or Bitches Brew.

One step at a time.

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everyone is ignoring that the OP said he wanted to stay away from bebop and free jazz. I love art blakey too, but not exactly chill music!

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Herb Ellis, my favourite laid back jazz guitarist. Check out his 'Nothing but the blues' album with Stan Getz and Dizzy.

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Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and Pat Martino are all excellent jazz guitarists. Also give Horace Silver, Tony Williams, Buddy Rich, and Dizzy Gillespie a try.