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thats really hard but maybe try
Jorma Tapio & Terje Isungset...not so much the same ....but you might like this if you dig that

Wait a minute...

Jazz, Latin and 'world' music lumped together?

Does Jazz not warrant a section to itself or have people turned their backs completely on the founding genre of all interesting music today?

Appalled I am.

Don't suppose anyone cares, but I found a Radio France collection called Chants Atege in a second hand shop - it's damn good....basically through the slave trade from Gabon it's considered to be one of the roots of blues music, can't really hear it myself but rhythmically some of it did kind of remind me of some of the Appalachian fife and drum music I've heard. In the unlikely event that anyone is interested let me know and I'll upload it somewhere.


General recommendations

Ethiopiques vol 1 - Golden years of Ethiopian music

Simply the most amazing album I've heard in quite a while, some of the most delicious funk and jazz tunes played in a completely unique style, almost every tune is an absolute gem. Some samples here, don;t know how long. Track 11 is a good one to start with.
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/album/content.album/ethiopiques_vol.1__golden_years_of_modern_ethiopian_music_._47414

Salif Keita & Kante Manfila - The lost album

I expect quite a lot of you know Salif Keita, and maybe Kante Manfila. Recorded sometime in the 1980's, but never released until last year (hence the title). The last track 'Wara' is up there in my favourite songs of all time.

Papa Noel & Papi Oviedo - Bana Congo

Cuban tres player and Congolese guitar player with an album that explores the links between the two styles. I have to admit that there's a couple of tracks on the album that I just find unlistenable, maybe they'll grow on me, but there a a few that are amazing.

Again a clip here, haven't listened so I don't know how much you get.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/awards2003/profile_noel.shtml

Try:

Why The Sea Is Salt (2000)

This could be described as neo-psychedelia with brass. I'm not sure why they picked a nautical theme, but hey, whatever, it works!

I suggest listening to On The Corner before Bitches Brew. Same idea, but On The Corner is easier to get into.

Anyone can recommend me some Cool Jazz, like the Chet Baker Sings kind of stuff?

@ camilero - whenever someone mentions Chet Baker I think Dave Brubeck, but it'd be pointless shouting an album (the man's done more than I can count).

My pick of the week:

Various - Fakes (2005)


A collection of classics, skillfully remixed by DJ's dZihan & Kamien. The real gem is Disc 2 though, a sprawling jazz medly by The Brut Imperial Quintet.

Good to see they still make it just like old times.

Anthony Braxton is currently blowing my mind.

i know next to nothing about jazz, except that i like it, or some kind of style of it, i think.
i heard a polar bear song on a radio show a few years back, and after decideing it was the best thing on it i set out to get their album. a week or so later i heard it had gotten itself a mercury music prize nomination.

is there anything like this i should try and get? or is it all like this? is this A style, or just THEIR style? [the less obscure the better]
thanks!

thanks cylob, iv tried quite a bit of davis, it seemed like the thing to do, but hes not my kind of thing, i think. i like the jack johnson record tho, i dont love it or anything, to the best of my memory, i think i thot it was a bit progy.
i tried charles migus too, and he seems to be the guy for me.
that herbie handcock, headhunters nonsense wasnt for me either, AND i dont think i LOVED sun ra, that was soooo disapointing, i realy wanted to be a ra fan. but who needs sun ra when morbid angle are still so good.

AND, u should check out polar bear, not a lot to dislike there. im sure the did not win, i dont think it was the dizzee rascale year but maybe the next one. who won this year?- it was that thome yorke piss wasnt it?! i saw him doing a song on the night, and it was beautiful, but screw him, the album isnt that good [for him], its missing something, a few things probably, but i obviosly dont know what, although the letters JG come to mind.

i forgot to mention; i like the big brassy sound, mainly, like, i suppose, mingus.

thanks for the rec. i got it and gave it a listen, and to me, it sounds exactly like what i think miles davis sounds like, except with more trumpet [or whatever it is], miles seems to bearly play sometimes.
something i did like was, there was about 3 seconds of drumming that happened twice on one of the songs. boom, boom, boomy; i liked that, is there any jazz that has a lot of booming drums, i doubt u know the bit i mean, but it was the stand out few seconds of the album.

keep the recomendations coming, especialy stuff ill get easily on the internet. i suppose im looking for something jazzier, well probably rockier; i know little about jazz [except what i like.... when i hear it], but if i had to call that wayne shorter stuff something, i would invent the name smooth-jazz, or soft-jazz [pussy-jazz], is there anything u would call hard-jazz [oh my god, i just remembered night dreamer is hard-bob], heavy-jazz, rough-jazz, extreme-jazz or death-jazz, orsomething, you know what i mean? [no? ok]