[Forest]

I didn't used to like jazz music but after being introdced to Frank Sinatra, I love it now! I adore especially tracks :

Strangers in the Night
New York, New York
I Get a Kick out of You
Somethin' Stupid


Wonderful guy. May he RIP.

~Forest

[Amlee]

His capital years record is the best cd he did. If you haven't got it or listen to it. Do so! I got introduced to his music last year and I love it. The capital years cd are songs that he recorded while with capital records and runs during the late 40's thur the 50's. It's his best collections of songs.

[Aerin]

If you liked Frankie, You might try a little Dean Martin. His voice gives me the chills...

And in newer stuff, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Rocks! Seen them in concert and everyone dances. I was intro'd to them by the Movie Swingers, which I highly rec. IT ROCKS, but is horribly profane, and hilariously funny.

Norah Jones is Blues Jazz, and if you are interrested at all in the true Jazz, Miles Davis, is God like. I used to play the Trumpet, and am so amazed that all of that can come out of the trumpet in the right hands.

FORREST! Once again! entertaining thread! thank you!

[Amlee]

Dean is also great. When I got my Frank CD last year as a Christmas gift I was also given a Dean CD. I haven't got a chance to se BBVD, but the person that has introduced me to this great music saw them this summer and he said they are great live.

[Aerin]

Scottie is the man, that is all I can say, Best live show I have ever seen! They Play for an hour or so, non stop!

[NancyBrooke]

Yeah, but, calling "New York, New York" jazz is like calling pot roast gourmet. Satisfying? maybe; filling? certainly; but art it ain't.

Sorry, Forest, I gotta quibble with your classification, not your taste. I don't think I've ever heard a Cole Porter song I didn't like (particularly if it's sung by Ella Fitzgerald, btw) - but NY NY, with it's major key, bland lyrics, square 4/4 and consonant chord structure I think is really stretching the inclusive definition of 'jazz'.

[Andreth]

While I love the singers in the Rat Pack, I've always considered them to be Big Band/Swing-type music. Although most places I've seen classify them as Jazz. People like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, BB King, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ray Charles etc. have always typified jazz for me. Now that I think about it, they'd be more blues, but I think blues is a form of jazz.

Cole Porter is wonderful. I have a compilation CD called Red Hot and Blue with artists like U2, Sinead O'Connor, Iggy Pop, doing remakes of Cole Porter songs. It's one of my all time favorite albums.

[Anna]

I don´t care what you call their music -- they´re absolutely divine!