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Looking for a Certain Type of Jazz Song

 
 
PatrickMM
23:16 / 14.09.04
I've been watching Six Feet Under, and came across the promo for season four, with Nina Simone's song, Feeling Good, and I'm totally in love with the song right now. It's the sort of jazz song I'm always looking for, but very rarely find.

So, I'm looking for songs, or albums, like Feeling Good, or the Dukes of Dixieland version of St. James Infirmary, jazz songs that aren't smooth, singing and a couple of piano keys, and aren't just random instruments playing. I'd like some jazz songs with heavy instruments, or with a quasi-improvisatory feel, while still rocking.

It's tough to describe, but the best way to do it might be to say I'm looking for the Led Zeppelin of jazz. If you've heard those two tracks, maybe you'll get some idea of what it is.
 
 
HCE
16:06 / 15.09.04
Check out Clifford Brown, he's pretty hot stuff. You might want to look in the hard bop section of your local fabulous jazz shop.
 
 
at the scarwash
19:04 / 15.09.04
Sun Ra has what you're looking for, I think. His output ranged wildly far out into the improvisatory cosomos, but never lost touch with a firm foundation in ensemble-based awesomeitude.
 
 
Bastard Tweed
19:21 / 15.09.04
Try the album that gave birth to fusion: Bitch's Brew by Miles Davis. He may get a bit much into the experimental for some folks on a few tracks but the first one, Pharoah's Dance is just twenty minutes of sheer jazz rock-out. With an angry baritone clarinet no less and how often can you hear a baritone clarinet at all much less an angry one?
 
 
Professor Silly
19:19 / 23.09.04
The first half of "Radio" by John Zorn's "Naked City" has some of the best rockin' jazz I've ever heard.

...the second half is weird scream-o metal, which tends to annoy non-musicians....
 
  
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