Jazz for aficionados

I’m also late to the party. She’s badass and her band reminds of a Cal Tjader type groove band. A very understated, high quality band too.

Alessia Caracciolo, known professionally as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter who was discovered on YouTube at age 13. She started uploading song covers at that age, and has said she had no knowledge of the industry. Cara is the first Canadian to win a Grammy for Best New Artist. She’s known for her emotional music and slow-motion visuals.

I could listen to her all day, but the jazz crowd is kinda tough, as you know. If they don’t hear the blues in her voice, you know, the bourbon soaked, smokin cigarettes and a little bit of crying vibe from years of some sort of heartache and club circuit grinding in her voice, they’re not going to give her the credit due, just yet. I think in time she will get her just due. Nice find though, @curiousjim.

This is song is called Spanish Joint · by D’Angelo. Is it Jazz? Maybe not necessarily so - but as far as I’m concerned it is very much jazz - tinged and infused with some serious jazz chops. Also check out his Roberta Flack’s cover - Feel Like Makin’ Love.

Roy Hargrove is providing the nicely arranged horns and Charlie Hunter is on the hybrid bass/guitar playing both the bass lines and guitar licks all at the same time.

As you may or may not know Roy hargrove is no longer with us and sadly we have also lost the Young Lion, Mixing Engineer, Producer, Vocalist and Multi Instrumentalist - D’Angelo.

Check Charlie Hunter out ...Charlie Hunter plays his part on the D’Angelo classic “Spanish Joint” Now tell me that ain’t Jazz...

As some of you know I'm a huge fan of Bobo Stenson and Tord Gustavsen.  I just browsed through my Playlists today and rediscovered a couple gems:

Vijay Iyer Trio "Uneasy" quick and dynamic and explosive 

Jakob Bro "Gefion" spacious atmospheric jazz that prioritizes texture and space between notes that is very ethereal. Definitely late night listening.

I was also recommend this by AI today: ​Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin "Llyria" which is different from what I listen to but incredibly interesting. I like it but I need more time with it to understand it. 

@fire_water,

I'm a big ECM fan also. It's amazing that the level of recording/engineering is still and always was/is top notch. May I ask what medium are you listening with? Vinyl, CD, stream or all the above? Just because you may not get a response sometimes when you share, doesn't mean we're not listening. Keep posting.

@tyray I only stream as I got to this hobby late in life.  In my earlier days I had a  variety of vinyl, CDS and cassette recordings of the likes of KISS, Bonjovi,  Queen,  lol but i never had a quality setup.  But now I'm hooked. A lot of these great ECM jazz recordings that I thoroughly enjoy aren't available on vinyl so I'm determined to focus on the digital end. I've tried a few streamers and DACS but I currently have an Innuos Pulsar and Accuphase DC-37 Processor DAC which I'm replacing with Accuphase's flagship DC-1000 unles someone here has a better suggestion for me.