For the love of jazz

I just LOLed because my eyes immediately fell on “Symphonic Gothic Metal” which happens to be one of the genres I hear the most of. I have come to love it because now I just think of it as “Castlevania Metal” after the game.

But then I saw “Industrial Music” → “Industrial Metal” → “Nu Metal” and thought “Oh yeah sure, blame ME.”

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Mikes Davis. The classic “So What”

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An amazing Bill Evans live performance, complete with corresponding notation and chords.

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Joe Pass. Master jazz guitarist. It seems like he has a better than passing acquaintance with the fretboard.

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Is this metal? Is this jazz?

In the end, does it matter? It’s good music (if you like stuff like this):

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The guy is a good player with a lot of influences, but I hear overwhelming rock the most (especially since he’s playing to a rock drum track).

I’ll stick with Joe Pass, Les Paul, Django, etc. for jazz.

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I will never be that fast :rofl:

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For fast and profoundly amazing, here are two of the very best guitarists in the world playing the hell out of the jazz standard “Caravan”.

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I cannot believe he is managing to throw some significant and meaningful english into that fretting even at that speed.

And here I am taking like three seconds to fret basic chords at all :rofl:

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It’s jazz’s newest sub-genre - metal jazz - duh!

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Completely obsessed with this little known gem of a soundtrack of late…

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Ah, yes, an absolute classic! Not many know that Miles made music for a movie… :wink:

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I didn’t until about 2 weeks ago and simply cannot stop listening to it.

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Old pros and young kids get down, proving there is good hope for the future.

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PMJ is one of those bands I rarely listen to but am so so happy exists.

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PMJ is a vast, endless and priceless array of such talented jazz musicians. The lineup changes from one song to the next. Truly inspired arrangements and performances of both popular and more relatively obscure tunes.

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I got to see pmj in the spring, that was a really fun show.

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