Bluesy jazz ?

[Gillian]

Hi all,

I would like to know what's for you the best "bluesy jazz"? I mean a melancholic jazz who seems like blues. Here are some songs I gathered. I'm looking for stuff like this.

Thanks a lot for your recommandations.

 

• Freddie Hubbard - Lonely Soul - A Soul Experiment
• Tony Scott - Blues For Charlie Parker - Born to be Blue Jazz
• Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Ah Um
• Art Pepper - The Prisoner - Winter Moon (Remastered)
• Alif Tree - I Feel Blue - French Cuisine
• Horace Parlan - Oh So Blue - The Complete Horace Parlan Blue Note Sessions (2000 - Remaster)
• Jackie McLean - Love And Hate - Destination...Out!
• Stanley Clarke - Yesterday Princess - Stanley Clarke
• Kai Winding - Laura - Suspense Themes In Jazz
• Nicholas Payton;Dr. John;Dianne Reeves - Blues In The Night - Dear Louis
• Studio Musicians - Blues for the Weepers - Jazz Cabaret Songs
• Blue Mitchell - Park Avenue Petite - Blue Soul [Keepnews Collection]
• Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor - A New Perspective (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
• The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne - Single Version - Harlem Nocturne
• Wynton Marsalis - Indelible and Nocturnal - Standard Time Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling
• Miles Davis - Blue in Green - Kind Of Blue (Legacy Edition)
• Shelly Manne;And His Men - The Wind - The Vinyl Masters More Swinging Sounds
• Zoot Sims - Evening in Paris - Zoot Sims avec Henri Renaud et son orchestre

 

 

Here is the spotify link : 

 

[BillF]

Lester Young, "Blue Lester"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxZhaxYpiQ

 

Lester Young, "D B Blues"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-as3A_Krw

[HutchFan]

Gillian - You might want to try "Good Morning Heartache" by Ray Bryant (from Here's Ray Bryant).

[Gillian]

Great! Thanks to you both.  

1 hour ago, BillF said:

Lester Young, "Blue Lester"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxZhaxYpiQ

 

Lester Young, "D B Blues"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-as3A_Krw

 

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Gillian - You might want to try "Good Morning Heartache" by Ray Bryant (from Here's Ray Bryant).

 

Edited May 22, 2017 by Gillian

[paul secor]

Tons of bluesy jazz out there, but Grant Green's "Idle Moments is a classic:

 

 

[T.D.]

Agreed that there's a huge amount of bluesy jazz.

Bird probably should be represented, so I'll suggest "Parker's Mood".

[clifford_thornton]

Ornette Coleman, "Blues Connotation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stp6Vnp3n6s

[Dan Gould]

All of Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds, Blue Hour (the original release, not the "complete" set which has also been issued).

[Gillian]

11 hours ago, paul secor said:

Tons of bluesy jazz out there, but Grant Green's "Idle Moments is a classic:

 

 

Great songs! Thank you so much!

[Milestones]

Berkshire Blues--Randy Weston

Tokyo Blues--Horace Silver

Calcutta Blues--Dave Blues

Outlaws--Bill Frisell 

 

[clifford_thornton]

From the same session as "Black Gypsy" but originally issued on the LP "Ptichin' Can."

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

From the same session as "Black Gypsy" but originally issued on the LP "Ptichin' Can."

If we're talking Archie, his Venus CDs are pretty "bluesy".

[clifford_thornton]

All of his music is pretty bluesy, really. But I haven't listened to the Venus albums.

[JSngry]

Everything played here is blues, even if the way it's combined might (or might not!) obscure that: