Any Ideas On Any Jazz Mandolin Players To Listen To?

[Sam Bush Fan!]

I'm Just Starting In To Jazz Mandolin I've Been Playing Bluegrass Mandolin For 3 1/2 Years I Know Of...

John Reischman,
Tony Williamson,
And Don Sternberg

[doc holiday]

Paul Glasse!

[jefflester]

Andy Statman
Don Julin
Paul Glasse

Jethro Burns!!!!

[jefflester]

A couple of recommended (by me) jazz albums by David Grisman:

http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd33.html


http://www.acousticdisc.com/acd_html/acd36.html

[Big Joe]

Let's not forget Jethro Burns. I love anything he did!

[Rick Schmidlin]

Let's not forget Jethro Burns. I love anything he did!

and Tiny Moore back tio Back the best there is

[Pete Martin]

Tiny Moore
Johnny Gimble

Depending on what era of Jazz you want to play, listen to as many horn players as you can. Thats where the bulk of melodic Jazz ideas will probably come from. A small few of these

Clifford Brown
Charlie Parker
Sonny Stitt
Lou Donaldson
Paul Desmond
Chet Baker


Guitar and piano players are some great places to get comping insight:

Bill Evans
Red Garland
Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
Barney Kessell

[Sam Bush Fan!]

I Will Try To Listen All Of... Them Any More?

[AlanN]

Grant Green is a good one because his lines were not too complicated and he played lots of standards; i.e., familiar tunes.

[lgc]

Nobody ever mentions Leo Raley from Cliff Bruner's band. Other than Jethro I think he is the best.

[farmerjones]

You bet, Jethro, & Tiny! Right off the top!

The rest of these cats don't play mandolin, but they speak the many dialects of the language.

Gypsy Jazz - Django Rhinehart & Stephan Grapelli.

Jazz - Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald

Jazz Fusion - Spyro Gyra, Weather Report, Jean Luc Ponte, Herbie Hancock

[barney 59]

If your interested in jazz mandolin you should listen to Jazz. Start with Louie Armstrong, move on to Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Joe Pass. Listen to the great singers like Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald and the countless musical innovators that are associated with all of these people. There is alot of jazz to listen too and almost none of it is on mandolin.

[Keith Erickson]

Hamilton de Hollanda- Brasilianos

[Rick Schmidlin]

If your interested in jazz mandolin you should listen to Jazz. Start with Louie Armstrong, move on to Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Joe Pass. Listen to the great singers like Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald and the countless musical innovators that are associated with all of these people. There is alot of jazz to listen too and almost none of it is on mandolin.

I started with Bix,Trum,Joe and Eddie Singing The Blues


and with you will never loose

[mando.player]

I haven't seen Will Patton's name, so I'll throw it out there.

I've been getting into Kenny Burrell (guitar) quite a bit lately.

I also picked up some beginner rhythm Jazz Guitar instructional materials, i.e. Freddy Green style. I'm really picking up some neat tricks for filling out sparse chord progressions like 12-Bat blues. One is a book (Rhythm Guitar the Ranger Doug way) and the other is a DVD (In The Pocket: Comping in the Freddie Green Style). As I'm learning the material on guitar, I'm applying it to 3 note chords on the mando. It seems to be paying dividends in both directions.

[mandroid]

Stuff Smith and Joe Venuti, Sugar cane Harris, Jazz licks on Violin Check out Harris and Ponty on Zappa's Apostrophe recording..
Larry Coryell Pat Methaney and, roots, Charlie Christian on guitar

and if you listen to Ry Cooders "Jazz" recording, thats David Lindley or Ry on Mandolin

[FrDNicholas]

Did I miss someone saying, "Dave Appollon"?

[AlanN]

Someone mentioned the great Kenny Burrell, here he is with trio on Cannonball Adderly's Jeannine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g74Q07Uu-lo

[pops1]

No one has mentioned Stephen Grappelli, hes not mandolin, but he is the BEST jazz violin player. From the 40' to the 90's his sound was superb and playing incredible. Recorded his last album in his 90's and it sounded as good as when he played with Django in the 40's.

[lenf12]

Jamie Masefield of the Jazz Mandolin Project.

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

[Ancient]

If you will go to www.robcoleman.com/jethro/ you can listen to some lessons by Jethro Bruns. If this web page does not come up,do a search for Jethro Burns mandolin lessons. This is great stuff to listen to.

[Wayne Stewart]

I'm Just Starting In To Jazz Mandolin I've Been Playing Bluegrass Mandolin For 3 1/2 Years I Know Of...

John Reischman,
Tony Williamson,
And Don Sternberg

Check out Josh Pinkham. He's young but a mover. Great grandad is Texas fiddle giant, Benny Thomason, Grandfather is tenor guitar giant Jerry Thomason.

Get Sam B. to play his arrangement of Take Five. He first worked it up at age 14 and at age 15, put it on tape with Alan M. playing his 5 string arrangement.

[Emonortem]

I ordered about one jazz cd a week on amazon.com - used, for about $4 each - for about a year... when I came back to the mandolin jazz players, they made 10x as much sense.

I started with Bebop (Charlie Parker, old Miles, Dizzy Gillespie) and worked up through Coltrane and Miles and stuff. Listening to that stuff will help jazz on the mandolin make sense, man.

[Douglas McMullin]

The Matt Flinner Quartet release, Walking On The Moon, is one that I frequently listen to. It is certainly more modern jazz, but I really enjoy it.

[Dfyngravity]

Mike Marshall would be someone to listen to as well. Chris Thile would be someone too. They don't necessarily play jazz but listen to what they play and how they play. There are many ideas expressed in their improvisation that would be well worth the effort to learn. Not to mention their chording and rhythm techniques.