Wes Montgomery

One of the major jazz guitar players, Wes Montgomery contributed a lot to modern music and I'd even dare to go as far as calling him my favorite jazz guitarist. My favorite Wes Montgomery album is Bumpin' and I'll post some songs from that album right here for y'all.

Charles Mingus

I don't know a lot about Charles Mingus himself, except that he is awesome and that his music is great. I figure that should be enough right?
Enjoy 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' by The Charles Mingus Band.

The Bird

Charlie Parker (aka Bird or Yardbird) is one of the greatest, most important saxophone players of the 20th century and had a crucial role in the development of bebop and the saxophone as an instrument in jazz. He didn't live to be very old (he was only 35 when he died) but he made a vast amount of recordings and I'm more than happy to share some of my favorite ones with me beloved followers. No seriously, I love you guys.
Rainy Mood in the top right of the page.







EDIT: there's a movie about Charlie Parker called 'Bird'. I really recommend it! Thanks to cool_cicler for reminding me!

My Little Brown Book

Don't have much time today, so I'm just gonna go ahead and post a smooth jazz piece real quick. Enjoy!
(I'll have a post with more text for you guys tomorrow, pinky promise!)

Nat 'King' Cole

I realised that most of the jazz I post is instrumental music, thanks to the shuffle function of my iPod (you better pay me some big bucks for this publicity, Steve). Today's artist is the great Nat 'King' Cole, one of the best known (jazz) singers of the 20th century. And rightfully so. His voice is just so charming that it can lull you to sleep in a matter of minutes. Especially when he sings a lullaby for one of his kids. Let's have a listen!