Time to see if things have changed - Greatest Jazz Musician

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I know - its impossible but PICK ONE!!!

[DenverDem]

1. Miles was the GREATEST!

He never stopped innovating.

[punpirate]

2. Things haven't changed that much....

Charlie Parker.

[MrScorpio]

3. The Master... DONALD BYRD!!!

[MasonJar]

4. Louis Armstong was the best ever.

[OneBlueSky]

5. Louis Armstrong . . . the original on whose back . . .

all others stand . . .

[BigDaddyCaine]

6. not much into jazz

about the closest thing to jazz i listen too would be old blues/soul. Lou Rawls probably dont count as jazz???

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. No - and whats up with the spelling of your name?

:shrug:

[kixot]

7. How can it be that Coltrane is not on the list?

Hands down in my mind.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. This is a TRICK QUESTION!

:evilgrin:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Indeed it is, sir

indeed it is

[sundog]

9. ack! Why Jobim of course... The best? Maybe not.... but definitely my fave

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Valid - very valid

[medeak]

13. too hard... currently bill Watrous

Bone-ified is fave listening.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. You do all realize that you're all wrong so far, right?

[frylock]

15. i've been partial to horace silver lately

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I voted "other" because it's a tie.

In my opinion, anyway. Coltrane and Monk.

[redqueen]

17. No, it's impossible

besides, you left off Coleman Hawkins

[Ron Green]

20. "Coleman Hawkins" is actually the correct answer.

He bridged the old and new styles, and was the most influential player of the most significant instrument.

[redqueen]

25. Yay!

Body and Soul, baby... RECKONIZE!

[Ron Green]

26. mmm-hmmm........I like yo' style, Sister. n/t

[jukes]

18. OC was something

but jukes, o/c, loves the gypsy...

[BigBigBear]

19. Player, stylist or founding father?

Player: Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Joe Pass

Stylist: Johnny Hodges, Miles, Dizzy Gillespie, Monk

Founding fathers: Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

And...um....leaving off Sonny Rollins in favor of Anthony Braxton? Huh ?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. NO - I wante dto see how many of you would ignore the greatest of all!

:grr:

[tigereye]

33. but it's Ellington, no?

that's what you get for askin.

I voted for Monk in your spurious jazz poll.

[miss_kitty]

21. Mingus Mingus Mingus

but all those-erm-GUYS you have there are great.

I guess you forgot about Ella Fitzgerald, Marion McPartland, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Lena Horne and so on :)

[buddhamama]

22. still Monk for me

was listening to Ornette the other day and i just have to say, Damn!

[beanball]

23. All that jazz

Yardbird the best of the best.

[Colin Ex]

27. Ornette Coleman.

Anyone who feels differently, unless they're talking about John Coltrane, is just wrong.

[ForrestGump]

28. Britney Spears

:o

[IronLionZion]

29. Independent429

:P

[theorist]

30. Wes Montgomery n/t

[no name no slogan]

31. Damn...tough call. Miles, Django, Coltraine

Miles, because anybody who pulls of "Kind of Blue" is next to God in my book.

Django, because he made the guitar a Jazz instrument-- while only having two good left fingers, to boot.

ON EDIT: Oh sh!t, how could I forget Coltraine?? His version of "My Favorite Things" at Newport in '63 is the first Jazz tune that made mine hair stand on end (and it hasn't gone down since). 'nuff said.

[Tom Kitten]

32. Jelly Roll Morton

kinda started it all, bridging the gap between ragtime and what we now call jazz...