Best non-rock, non-country CD

[Ravi]

Jazz, blues or classical...what is your favorite? I'm shopping for a Christmas present and I've hit a wall.

 

[Oddball]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Kind-Blue-Miles-Davis/dp/B000002ADT]Amazon.com: Kind of Blue: Miles Davis: Music[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBpLKm8vw4M[/ame]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Time-Out-Dave-Brubeck-Quartet/dp/B000002AGN]Amazon.com: Time Out: The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Music[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc34Uj8wlmE[/ame]

 

[L.K.Eder]

Jazz, blues or classical...what is your favorite? I'm shopping for a Christmas present and I've hit a wall.

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

 

[Tom Clancy]

Blues.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44[/ame]

 

[Ravi]

No rap or hip hop.

 

[Paulie]

No rap or hip hop.

Whatchu know about it anyway?

 

[L.K.Eder]

No rap or hip hop.

hey, you are missing out.

 

[Ravi]

I'm okay with it, but the person I'm buying for requested something he'd never heard...and rap/hip hop isn't something he's never heard.

Plus, IMO, rap and hop hop are classified under rock.

 

[Paulie]

Plus, IMO, rap and hop hop are classified under rock.

why??

 

[L.K.Eder]

I'm okay with it, but the person I'm buying for requested something he'd never heard...and rap/hip hop isn't something he's never heard.

Plus, IMO, rap and hop hop are classified under rock.

rap under rock? i don't know.

hop hop on the other hand sounds seriously retarded.

 

[Ravi]

I could be wrong, but that's just the way I see it. Or hear it.

 

[Paulie]

Hip hop is typically produced via synthetically processed audio. There are often times live instruments that may be sampled from, but even those samples are then run through various different effects processors, like compressors for instance. Rock instruments are usually left sounding not only live, but also 'dry' as well. The vocals are the only thing that are produced similarly.

The only significant way hip hop and rock are the same are that they're both typically 4/4 time signature.

Otherwise there really isn't much similarity.

 

[Ravi]

Okay, fine. IMO, real jazz, blues or classical doesn't include synthetic audio.

I am looking for something pure. Hip hop and rap ain't it.

 

[Paulie]

Okay, fine. IMO, real jazz, blues or classical doesn't include synthetic audio.

Well you're completely right. They don't. Those kinds of music are recorded from, and performed with, live instruments. Just like rock.

I wasn't trying to get you to buy hip hop, I was just curious how you determined rock and hip hop to be in the same classification.

 

[random3434]

Get him this Ravi, one of the best live Jazz Albums ever (imho) recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Fest in 1969-Les McCann and Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement





[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Movement-Montreux-30th-Anniversary/dp/B0000033T6]Amazon.com: Swiss Movement: Montreux 30th Anniversary Edition: Les McCann, Eddie Harris: Music[/ame]

 

[xotoxi]

George Winston - December

Awesome album with an awesome variation of the Canon

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllZlF6mB2s[/ame]

 

[Modbert]

The 20 Greatest Blues Albums Of All-Time « dk presents…

 

[del]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AEaQJuKDY[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEqQsAXbJw[/ame]

 

[del]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcG7Vk_rzcA[/ame]

 

[manifold]

If you're looking for something good he/she's likely never heard, I would recommend one of these:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Yonder-Peter-Rowan-Jerry-Douglas/dp/B000000F4Q]Amazon.com: Yonder: Peter Rowan & Jerry Douglas: Music[/ame]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Liege-Lief-Fairport-Convention/dp/B000002GFT]Amazon.com: Liege & Lief: Fairport Convention: Music[/ame]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Which-Way-Here-Anders-Osborne/dp/B000002B72]Amazon.com: Which Way to Here: Anders Osborne: Music[/ame]