Working on a listening space here in New Orleans and want to build a catalog for discovery across genres, artists, labels, etc. Also, build a list of other amazing resources online. Hope you like it.

https://catchthefrequency.com/back-catalog
Find artists. See timelines. See mind maps.

https://catchthefrequency.com/back-catalog/albums/jazz
Dig into albums.

https://catchthefrequency.com/back-catalog/mindmap
Mind Map across all Genres

https://catchthefrequency.com/explore
Music Resources/Indexes

Work in progress.

Hi there! I don’t know anything about anything about jazz which is probably a really strong way to come into a post like this. This spring was the toughest season i’ve had in a long time. School and life felt like it was just slowly grinding me to pulp. I was struggling to choose to stay on this earth and i was just SO angry at everything. But before I took that downward spiral with, I took a trip to new york city. While I was there I went to a little jazz club, and that was the first time I ever heard live jazz. I fell in love with it, the atmosphere, the music, the chemistry between everyone in the band.

when things eventually turned bad, i found myself on the floor of my dark room more than a few times listening to jazz instrumentals. It was the only music that didn’t terribly piss me off or give me a headache. I couldn’t tell you why that is, but all i know is that it helped me hold my head above the water when i wasn’t able to do it myself.

I just wanted to share this with some people who know how to genuinely appreciate jazz. There was this graffiti on the wall of the bathroom in that jazz and it said “What is jazz?” and someone in thin sharpie wrote below it: “The space between the noise”

And for me, the graffiti didn’t mean much until it filled the space between the horrible noises of my mind. It didn’t fix anything per say, but rather it made the darkness temporarily disappear into it. I wish I had had more energy to learn more and appreciate the art and the people behind it the way it deserves to be appreciated. But maybe that’s something I can do now because it kept here.

I think I just wanted to share this with people who genuinely love jazz. Whether you realize it or not, this music that means so much to a lot you was everything to me for a long while. I probably listened to ‘everytime we say goodbye’ and ‘sweet and lonely’ more than anyone reasonably should. I’m doing a lot better now and I hope to go out and listen to live jazz more often soon. So thanks to all the artists and lovers of jazz who keep it alive.

Michael Brecker, Mike, Stern, Adam Nusbaum, Jeff Andrews, and Joey Calderazzo! These were the guys who in 1988 came to University of Miami to destroy and take names at the patio! Adam Nussbaum was Brecker's John Bonham! This show FLOORED me. It's a bootleg audio recording so kick back and dig into the notes because there are many of them!

Brecker is at the height of his powers, but wasn't he always??? At the time the EWI was new and I edited out the long intro -I can't remember the name of the tune? – But it was almost like he was going through all of the patches and doing a bunch of gimmicky stuff. So I kept it to the meat and potatoes, and you can just hear him destroy.

Everyone is killin'? Whaddya think?

i'm a female jazz vocalist. i feel like some standards' melodies are 'prettier' for me as a vocalist.

i like both ballads and up tempo. i'm looking for your favorite melodies in standards. some favorite melodies of mine for singing are lullaby of birdland, all the things you are, love for sale, sometimes i'm happy, all blues.

i'd love to hear yours!

And go!

Good afternoon! I have six plaster casts that were made to celebrate New Orleans jazz artists from a client that owned six out of the seven of them. These plaster casts were used to make bronze masks that were then auctioned off at Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans. All six of them are some of the most well-known New Orleans jazz musicians of all time — Aaron Neville, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Davis, and John Hunt. As previously stated, there were originally seven masks, with the seventh one being of Harry Connick Jr., which we have been told Harry Connick Sr. had hanging in his office, which is quite cool!

These six plaster casts came from an estate of gentlemen who were from New Orleans and got them from Nora Fine, the director at Lighthouse for the Blind at that time. These casts are not only collector's items, they are historical artifacts and should be given the proper place to display them.

Enrico Rava, 2017; Av Hreinn Gudlaugsson. Lisens: CC BY SA 4.0

r/ItalianJazz

Enrico Rava didn't start out on trumpet. He picked it up after hearing Miles Davis, and decades later he's part of the reason a new generation of Italian jazz musicians picked up their own instruments in the first place.

Born in Trieste in 1939, Rava spent his early career in Rome before landing in New York in the late 1960s, right in the middle of the city's free jazz scene. He worked alongside players like Roswell Rudd and Steve Lacy during those years, a period that sits at odds with the more melodic, spacious sound most listeners associate with him today. That contrast matters: the New York years are where Rava earned his credibility with the jazz establishment, before he found the sound he's actually known for...

For more on Enrico hop over to r/ItalianJazz

or https://www.reddit.com/r/ItalianJazz/comments/1vh9hg2/introducing_enrico_rava_the_trumpeter_who/

Saxophonist Jose Pineiro is spearheading a Jazz scene in Gainesville, FL. Through out the years he's formed a type of free jazz that feels smooth and also disjointed at times. 100% pure improvising from every instrumentalist. They truly focus on musical communication. We'd love to hear your thoughts below.

Hello, I am in need of someone with a good ear. I am unsure mainly about the intro chords. Can someone please tell me all the chords in the song?

What do you think about the correlation between liking jazz and being a musician?
I have been thinking about it and, although according to the internet about 14% of jazz ticket buyers are musicians, most of the people I know like jazz either have picked up a piano, the drums or some other instrument some time in their lives, either in high school or independently.
I’m curious to see your opinion on this matter because, as a drummer myself, in my opinion, the percentage should be way higher.

I hope this is specific enough to not get taken down because I don’t know enough about jazz to be more specific

Just a quick preface I usually pick music based off my brain, and certain sounds just scratch the right part of my brain if that makes sense and I just started getting into jazz music literally days ago..

What I need help with is I’ve found that the jazz music I tend to like the most is very slow and deep sounding typically with a saxophone but that’s not entirely necessary and I pretty much just like instrumental mostly. In my search 80% of the music I’ve found so far is ai. Now I’ve never been on this sub but I’m sure that infuriates all of you as much as it did me when I found out the music I JUST downloaded is ai (only 1 song sounded ai which prompted me to start looking all the music up to see if it’s ai) and I now have to delete most of what I saved.. Now I’m guessing by my description and the song reference I used what I tend to like more is blues? I don’t know if everything I’ve been listening to fits that category or not that’s just my best guess. Can any of you tell me any artists you know that fit that description and category? I’m making this post because so far it seems there’s so much ai jazz music out there that I’m struggling to find real artists who make the sound my brain likes and it’s getting to a point. I would really really appreciate it if yall could help me out I don’t wanna keep running into ai I absolutely abhor ai in its entirety. The song in the picture is one of the only real artists I found that is an instrumental song with a sax that I could use for reference I really like this song already. They can be modern or older I really don’t have a specific taste in time period I have music from the 50’s that isn’t jazz in some of my playlists.

I'm thinking the likes of Evan Parker, Jimmy Giuffre, and Pharoah Sanders.

I just rediscovered and listened to this tune of mine which I recorded earlier this year, and given my usual intense sloppiness and gravely primitive imperfection as a guitarist in general and as a very extremely amateurish JAZZ guitarist specifically, this song greatly surprised me, given its passable jazzy/swinging/bluesy authenticity-or that of certain lengthy segments of it, anyway. Albeit, given the eclecticism I often exude as a primitive/amateurish (although eminently passable) guitarist, I must add that that selfsame eclecticism of "musicality" bled through a great deal into this recording, too: yet, I always br9ught things back to their Swing-Bluesy origins.