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Originally posted by quadro2000
My fave jazz players are:
Oscar Peterson (especially Night Train)
Charlie Hunter (just mentioned him in another thread)
Miles
Brubeck
Bill Evans (Conversations With Myself...wow)
Charlie Parker
Coltrane
Art Tatum
Cannonball Adderly
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You pretty much named most of my favorites. A couple more:
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
I can't ever get enough of Louis Armstrong
Vocally I love:
Sarah Vaughan
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
Ella Fitzgerald
Last year I really dug deep into jazz. For those who are interested and need a primer, I would highly recommend renting Ken Burn's Jazz Documentaries that he did for PBS. You can probably get them through your library. The series is unbelievable, and will really help the novice and the occasional listener dive into the history of it.
This year I've been mostly into Blues, but I'm starting to fall back in love with Jazz again. They're both so intertwined in many ways that the transition between the two is so easy.