Contemporary Jazz

[Lyze]

Now, I have found over the past few weeks that this style of music is excellent for studying and basically getting work done.
It can be particularly effective with an English assignment, if you are aiming for that mood. But I digress, yet again.

I am in desperate need of these artists. Not only is their music calming for the soul, but through it I can relax, put my mind at ease, and focus at the task at hand. Suggestions? I do hope the two examples have given you an idea of what I'm searching for.

 

[Adorno]

Oh, I thought it was contemporary jazz  - that's just contemporary.

BJ block comes close though. Kind of groovy.

 

[Lyze]

Hey, I'm just going by the genres they're labelled with. 

(Oh, how I hate genres).

 

[Adorno]

How about some instrumental bossa nova then?

Antonio Carlos Jobim (The best I could find). Anyway, modern easy listening might not be my thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d8y4HxW8Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPvHRLPaDAQ&feature=related

 

[Sound Chaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3APnHz384 Finnish Pekka Pohjola. Legendary jazz musician who passed away this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPc_YN_xH5s&feature=related Dunno how much jazz this(or the last one were) /is, but I ****ing love this song. Jukka Tolonen, a Finnish guitar hero, who got to jail (I guess) last year for stabbing his ex, while high on drugs. Still, an amazing musician. Sadly all the great minds are somehow out of their mind as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0d3GEWWMzE&feature=related Another one of Jukka Tolonen. One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq8Z5IRLT4s&feature=related A more jazz-resembling piece, I think.

 

[Corvus]

Search for E.S.T. - Esbjorn Svensson Trio - amazing swedish jazz trio, play a mix of really nice relaxed stuff and more upbeat groovy things. Amazing to see live, but their pianist died in a diving accident last year, so they are no more
Also try Portico Quartet. Played a gig with them in march, incredibly nice guys, and really good, easy to listen to music.

 

[Lyze]

Appreciation for the suggestions, my friends - will try tomorrow.

Portico Quartet? Heh, there's a band on Radio 3 called Portico, and they have good stuff.

 

[Sound Chaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuf-t6-qKQ Some bit more fusion from Pekka Pohjola.

 

[touareg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuf-t6-qKQ Some bit more fusion from Pekka Pohjola.

Hey, thank you! Never before heard of Pekka Pohjola. An interesting "fusion", like prog rock and jazz, like it!

 

[okiN]

Oh, I thought it was contemporary jazz  - that's just contemporary.

Yes, well, I'm gonna just run with the topic title. Time for a shameless plug? I think so!

http://www.tumrecords.com/ Site is hopelessly out of date, I'm afraid

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_center.php?in_label=TUM%20Records Reviews! Yaaay!

 

[Sound Chaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuf-t6-qKQ Some bit more fusion from Pekka Pohjola.

Hey, thank you! Never before heard of Pekka Pohjola. An interesting "fusion", like prog rock and jazz, like it!

In the seventies, Finnish musicians had their own special style of doing prog rock. As you said, they mixed jazz in it, and I don't know any other than the Finnish bands(Wigwam, Tasavallan Presidentti, Jukka Tolonen, Pekka Pohjola etc.) who've done such music. Pekka Pohjola composed and played in Wigwam, so you might want to check out their albums from the seventies. Pretty much the same stuff but more prog and with lyrics.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

If it doesn't change key at the end of each phrase,
and have improvised passages which go on for days,
or a solo that'd try, the patience of a saint,
you can call it jazz, but you know that it aint.

 

[Yoshiboy]

@Sound Chaser:

Also see Soft Machine, Colosseum, Hatfield, Egg, etc...

 

[touareg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEuf-t6-qKQ Some bit more fusion from Pekka Pohjola.

Hey, thank you! Never before heard of Pekka Pohjola. An interesting "fusion", like prog rock and jazz, like it!

In the seventies, Finnish musicians had their own special style of doing prog rock. As you said, they mixed jazz in it, and I don't know any other than the Finnish bands(Wigwam, Tasavallan Presidentti, Jukka Tolonen, Pekka Pohjola etc.) who've done such music. Pekka Pohjola composed and played in Wigwam, so you might want to check out their albums from the seventies. Pretty much the same stuff but more prog and with lyrics.

Thanks to you! I will look for them and report!