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Music is an important part of my life, so it goes I've always made it an integral part of my interaction with women.

This thread is dedicated to Jazz. Great jazz is a fantastic mood setter. Since it's free-flowing with no words, it seeps inside without you realizing you're being affected until it's too late.

A Great jazz record will take you on a journey…bright and uplifting, to mellow, sultry, and sexy, to self-reflective and all the way back…..in the same record!

An attribute of the masculine, women desire a man of knowledge, and odds are pretty good the woman you're swooning has never listened to great jazz and you'll be the one who brings her into a whole new world she never knew existed.

In this scenario the music assist's in doing the work for you.

I'll start this out with a few cherry-picked albums that are well-known, with the hopes the rest of the jazz aficionado's on the forum will contribute others, maybe rarer and lesser-known gems, because I am by no means an expert, but I have witnessed many times the affect these albums have had.

There's really too many to list, but here's a few that will get the panties wet.

1) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

2) Cannonball Adderely - Somethin' Else

3) Lee Morgan - Candy

4) Bill Evans - Moonbeams

5) Sonny Rollins - Plays for Bird/Saxophone Colossus

6) Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

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I'm not a jazz aficionado at all, but Charlie Biddle's music is great if you can find any of it. He didn't release any real albums, just played live, but there's some of his stuff on youtube. Supposedly there are some recordings of his live performances but good luck finding the albums.

His daughter, Stephanie Biddle, is also good. She released an album but I haven't tracked it down yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8fC055TLGM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdLm9qRRdh4

That first link will end up on my seduction music playlist for sure.

I'm only just getting into jazz. My experiences with jazz musicians in high school (I'm a classically trained musician - cello, piano) made me think they're a bunch of morons who ruin perfectly good music by going off on random, incongruent riffs to feed their egos. Thus I never listened to it, because 99 times out of 100 when a musician tries to embellish a song with improvisation he just screws it up. I'm glad jazz in general doesn't suck the way I thought it did.

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Esperanza Spalding has made some weird music but her 'Esperanza' album is damn fine.

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I found this the other day and I've been sending it to the Brazilian girls I know. They all love it. She is famous for a completely different genre, so the girls dig the retro:

Coltrane on the sax. Good for getting the panties off:

Another Coltrane. This is the one you blow the walls of your house down with when you're getting ready to go out:

Another seminal record, up there with Kind of Blue:

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Duke Ellington and Coltrane:

Ella Fitzgerald interpretation. This is the kinda shit you listen to with your girlfriend while you set up the Christmas tree and drink spiced wine:

Nina Simone:

Frank Sinatra's version of the same song:

Afro-Cuban Jazz, great shit:

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More Afro-Cuban:

Salsa:

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Hipster girl will never music shit test you again; in fact she will bow to your majesty. Twisted, jarring, but still logical and beautiful in its own modernism.:

Also Mr. Eastwood made a documentary about Thelonius I highly recommend.

An old favorite, pretty sure every guitarist knows this gentleman:

And Chet Baker if you want to get real dark. Just make sure the girl's not a cutter if you put this guy on...

What the hell, one more Django:

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Before I delve into this, I'd just like to let all of you know that "Jelly Roll" is slang for vagina. So if you ever hear that in an old song, you know what they are really singing about.

Glad to see somebody else mentioned Chet Baker. His voice is haunting.

Of course, the most haunting of Chet's has to be My Funny Valentine.

Switching gears, Bill Chase had this nice rock/funk/jazz song that pumps me up. I especially like and appreciate the trumpets in this one. It took rock solid breath support for this one.

Woodchoppers Ball is a standard played by a number of bands. Pick one and roll with it. I'm also sure everybody has heard "Sing sing sing" due to commercials, but if you haven't:

Man, that one really can get me going.

Dizzy Gillespie is some good fun. Get his complete RCA recordings.


My nomination for the official RVF Jazz song:

A song by Fats Waller about a fat woman with no tits called "All that meat and no potatoes." You are familiar with the Louis Armstrong cover as it was used, partially, in the movie Office Space.

Quote:

All that meat and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes.
Here I'm waiting, palpitatin',
For all that meat and no potatoes.

All that meat and no potatoes
All that food to the alligators, yes.
Hold me steady. I am ready
For all that meat and no potatoes.

I don't think that peas are bad.
With meat most anything goes.
I look into the pot. I'm fit to fight
'Cause, woman, you know that mess ain't right.

All that meat and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes.
Woman, I'm steamin'. I'm really screamin'
All that meat and no potatoes.

Where is my fry and ham bone? Where is it?

I've caught myself singing that one in public at inappropriate times.

There is such a wealth of different songs in the Jazz Genre. There are many others that I don't have the time to mention now. I'll probably come back with some Glen Miller and Weather Report.

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Thread needs more Mingus:

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Two completely unrelated but awesome songs

The Yellowjackets- Savana (Will Kennedy on the drums one of the greatest of all time)

Stan Kenton Big Band- Time for a Change (notice the 9/8 time)

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I'll throw this in here too just because Steve Gadd is so awesome