Hey,
I am looking for some advice about good songs to listen to in the genre of Jazz, Blues and alike. I like listening to this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTIqd9pNxnw)
and, some classics like, “What a wonderfull world”,“la vive en rose”,“hit the road jack”.
I want to widen my taste of this type of music. But it is hard for me to find good songs to listen to. I really don’t know where to start. Maybe I could get a little help to where to begin?
Music is such a personnel thing that I feel it is hard to suggest to someone a song to listen to you do not know, out side of the music type. In the area of not in the above, I suggest you might want to listen to music done by my brothers band, the Tiny Tin Hearts. Before you dismiss them out of hand, check them out:
Now, that being said, I did find a nice site you could find music to your liking here:
Free Internet Radio - SHOUTcast Radio - Thousands of Free Online Radio Stations
This site seems to work well for me.
Thank You,
That track by Eliza Doolittle is most definitely not Jazz, but rather a mainstreamed version of Motown-Soul. “What a wonderful world” isn’t Jazz either.
Anyway, maybe you like “real” Jazz too, but it is quite a diverse genre (there’s a huge difference between for example Bebop and Free Jazz). My favourite Jazz musician is →Charles Mingus, give it a shot.
yasar11732 wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am looking for some advice about good songs to listen to in the genre
> of Jazz, Blues and alike. I like listening to this one:
>
> ‘YouTube - Pack Up- Eliza Doolittle’
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTIqd9pNxnw)
>
> and, some classics like, “What a wonderfull world”,“la vive en
> rose”,“hit the road jack”.
>
> I want to widen my taste of this type of music. But it is hard for me
> to find good songs to listen to. I really don’t know where to start.
> Maybe I could get a little help to where to begin?
>
>
the words “jazz”, “blues” and “soul” really covers a LOT of very
different sounding music…
don’t believe me, then spend a few hours reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music
personally, the link you gave to Eliza i would not classify as any of
jazz, blues or soul…but, that is NOT to say that thousands of other
might…
here, i’ll some artist who typically hit very close to the center of
where i think blues came from, and lives today (these are arranged
generally with the oldest (and dead) first, with the youngest and
performing now last):
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+johnson&aq=0s
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=w+c+handy&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muddy+waters&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blind+lemon+jefferson&aq=0
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=B.B.+King&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lousiana+Red&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Magic+slim&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=James+Harman&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sherman+Robertson&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Darrell+Nulisch+with+Johnny+Moeller&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mike+Andersen&aq=f
as for “jazz” if it is not from New Orleans it ain’t real jazz (but
you will find millions who would disagree–and again arranged from
long gone to still performing):
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pete+Fountain&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Al+Hirt&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=preservation+hall+jazz+band&aq=0
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Olympia+brass+band&aq=f
soul is related to both but i’ll leave that for another day…the
above is only an introduction to the roots of the cotton plantation,
which produced both blues and jazz in a time long gone…the music has
grown, changed, spread out and some performing ‘jazz’ or ‘blues’ today
are not very connected to the roots…not at all…
–
DenverD
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I feel annoyed that I can’t put my wide range of languages on stupid
Facebook. For example, I speak Sarcasm, fluently spoken and written,
and Various Forms of Geek…
go to Pandora.com, create a radio station using a song or an artist and start listening (it will make a radio station based on what you provide it to select the music played), make note of the artists it plays that you would like to listen to further
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:36:01 +0530, jdmcdaniel3
<jdmcdaniel3@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> ‘Free Internet Radio - SHOUTcast Radio - Thousands of Free Online Radio
> Stations’ (http://www.shoutcast.com/)
if you’re using KDE4 & amarok, you can install a shoutcast plugin that
works almost as good as it used to in KDE3 / amarok 1.4. there you can
browse music by genre, time period, etc. i like this a lot (provided my
so-called broadband works reliable, which it doesn’t always do).
–
phani.
You might check out Mike’s Radio World - Listen live online to over 5000 radio stations which lists a large number of free online radio stations. They are identified by genre such as jazz and blues. At this moment I am listening to Radio Swiss Jazz by invoking “vlc http://stream-1.ssatr.ch:80/rsj/mp3”. I chose vlc because it seems to work consistently and shows (when available) information on the music being played.
Yet another very fine approach to explore music based on genre classifications is →streamtuner. Packman offers both the old 0.99.99-version and the newer 2.x (still under development, I think, but working very well).
http://d.imagehost.org/t/0011/Screenshot-Untitled_Window.jpg](http://d.imagehost.org/view/0011/Screenshot-Untitled_Window)
rpm -qa "*xmms*"
libxmmsclient-glib1-0.7-13.pm.1011.16.i586
libxmmsclient6-0.7-13.pm.1011.16.i586
xmms2-plugin-base-0.7-13.pm.1011.16.i586
xmms2-0.7-13.pm.1011.16.i586
Oh, I forgot xmms[1] is not offered in the 11.3 repos anymore (sadly). The settings offer you to point to another likewise player. I have not tested it yet, but I suppose for example Audacious should work.
I had banshee, and now installed audacious, however, with the following settings, they both didn’t worked out good. Audacious crashes, banshee does’nt crash but doesn’t open the streams either…
http://b.imagehost.org/t/0779/Screenshot-streamtuner_Preferences.jpg](http://b.imagehost.org/view/0779/Screenshot-streamtuner_Preferences)
http://d.imagehost.org/t/0211/Screenshot-streamtuner_Preferences-1.jpg](http://d.imagehost.org/view/0211/Screenshot-streamtuner_Preferences-1)
Does Audacious work when called separately? Which version of streamtuner do you use?
Sorry for having recommended an app that obviously causes trouble on your system… it works very fine here (both versions).
Nope it doesn’t work when called seperately too. I didn’t tested it before you asked
yasar@yasar-laptop:~> audacious2
ALL OUTPUT PLUGINS FAILED TO INITIALIZE.
29a7c5bd-4285-a95e-4084ff16-0cdaf7cb is dumped
streamtuner-0.99.99-260.2.i586
No problems. I am adventurer type of person when it comes to trying out different applications on my computer. I don’t mind constantly breaking up things and fixing them 
And also it doesn’t cause trouble on the system, rather it causes trouble on itself, so no worries
Thank for all the replys in this topic. Thans to you all I am getting my own taste of Jazz and Blues. So far, my favorites are Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Al Hirt of course. I had listened to lots of Jazz-Blues in the last days. Been all over youtube, lastfm, radio streams to try as much as possible. I feel like I am ready to more specific guidance now, like specific songs to try. If you guide me on the right direction it would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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