Your Favorite Jazz Artists... You may vote multiple times

[Grbluen]

Chick Corea
If anyone deserves a mention it's Chick!

 

[Grbluen]

Being a trumpet player, I cannot tolerate listening to Miles, he has the worst anemic, weak, sloppy tone ever recorded, but everyone else is convinced he's the "greatest"

Wow.

 

[jtorrens]

For me Mose Allison, Les McCann and Donald Byrd plus some Latin influenced players, Carl Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo ...

 

[RebelKat]

For me Mose Allison, Les McCann and Donald Byrd plus some Latin influenced players, Carl Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo ...

Cal Tjader did some great early stuff with Dave Brubeck.

 

[RebelKat]

Being a trumpet player, I cannot tolerate listening to Miles, he has the worst anemic, weak, sloppy tone ever recorded, but everyone else is convinced he's the "greatest"

Who do you prefer? Nat Adderley comes to mind... :scratch2:

 

[RebelKat]

Wow! 6 pages in and I didn't see Horace Silver mentioned anywhere! "Song For My Father", anyone?

 

[slippers-on]

Being a trumpet player, I cannot tolerate listening to Miles, he has the worst anemic, weak, sloppy tone ever recorded, but everyone else is convinced he's the "greatest"

Jealousy will get you know where!

 

[Pandovski]

I wish Keith Jarrett was on the list.

 

[Art K.]

Being a trumpet player, I cannot tolerate listening to Miles, he has the worst anemic, weak, sloppy tone ever recorded, but everyone else is convinced he's the "greatest"

Because to many of us he is the greatest. As with a singers voice, it's the ability to communicate and not the instrument itself that equals greatness. I cannot think of anyone better at communicating via the trumpet than Miles Davis. Add to that his ability to get the best from those around him and to innovate rather than follow and you have a deserving legend.

 

[chicks]

Because to many of us he is the greatest. As with a singers voice, it's the ability to communicate and not the instrument itself that equals greatness. I cannot think of anyone better at communicating via the trumpet than Miles Davis. Add to that his ability to get the best from those around him and to innovate rather than follow and you have a deserving legend.

Well said, Art!

 

[313guy]

Add up the percentages in the right column of the poll results. The total is considerably over 200%.
Is it taking total votes and dividing by voters while allowing multiple voting?

 

[harman/kardon]

Jean Luc Ponty

Wolfgang Dauner

Albert Mangelsdorff

Jon Hiseman

 

[spideyjack]

Mose Allison, he is certainly my favorite. But he gets left off of a lot of lists

 

[Van66]

Jazz fusion? Allan Holdsworth.

 

[veroman]

gene harris, oscar peterson, bill evans, art tatum, duke, basie...

 

[Jody Thornton]

I wanted to add Diana Krall and Holly Cole

 

[loopstick]

Lionel Hampton

 

[MaxxVolume]

Dave Brubeck

 

[chefg1]

coleman hawkins, dr.lonnie smith, lou donaldson, george benson before he went pop, the prez, and early grover washington jr.

 

[asilker]

My exposure is more limited than I'd like, but until I can put the time in to become a real jazz buff, I voted accordingly