Best new orleans jazz music according to redditors

This breaks my heart. 20s jazz is SO GOOD. It took me years to truly get into it, but one night in a highly intoxicated state it just suddenly clicked. Over the past few years I probably listen to more 20s jazz than any other era.

You have to just embrace the hiss -- think of it like a picture frame. It's not the art, but it's a necessary component which you can ignore. Don't trust any recordings which have removed all the hiss --- that means they are also removing parts of the music.

And actually, recording technology improved after 1925, so most of say Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives & Hot Sevens actually sound pretty good. They couldn't have a drummer, though, because he'd knock the needle off the groove.

Also, you need to know what recordings to listen to --- it's really important who's doing the remaster.

The releases below are all top-notch.

[King Oliver] (http://www.amazon.com/Off-Record-Complete-1923-Recordings/dp/B000K2VK8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410051369&sr=8-1&keywords=off+the+record+king+oliver)

[Louis Armstrong] (http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Fives-Sevens-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B00001ZWLP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410051403&sr=8-1&keywords=louis+armstrong+hot+fives)

[Sidney Bechet] (http://www.amazon.com/Young-Sidney-Bechet-1923-1925/dp/B001CKYVNO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=sidney+bechet+young)

[Duke Ellington] (http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Clinkscales-Cotton-Club-Vol/dp/B0007GFFZM/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410051511&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=duke+ellington+clinksales)

Song highlights:
King Oliver -- Canal St Blues, Dippermouth Blues, Riverside Blues, Chimes Blues

Louis Armstrong -- West End Blues, Muggles, Tight Like This, Gutbucket Blues, St James Infirmary

Sidney Bechet -- Kansas City Man Blues, New Orleans Hop Scop Blues, Texas Moaner Blues

Johnny Dodds -- Perdido St Blues

Jimmie Noone -- Blues My Naught Sweetie Gives to Me

Every bit as great as the best known hit albums, there are many high quality compilations of raw and slightly older funk tracks... all displaying such energy and musical diversity it is amazing to listen to.

A few favorites (first links to Amazon, examples on youtube)

Cold Heat, Heavy Rarities 1968-1974 // A track on Youtube

New Orleans Funk // A track on Youtube

Florida Funk 1968-1975 // A track on Youtube

Carolina Funk: First In Funk // A track on Youtube

Texas Funk 1968-1975 // A track on Youtube

Although he was one of the earliest great Jazz soloists to record, pre-dating Louis Armstrong, Bechet's early discography is surprisingly sparse, likely due in part to extensive European touring and an 11 month incarceration circa 1928. From a discography available at The Sidney Bechet Society:

>Bechet did not make as many recordings in total through his life as his undoubted ability suggests. Below is a
count of the studio recordings he made for each year from 1923, excluding alternate takes:
1923 - 28/1924 - 17/1925 - 8/1926-1930 - 0/1931 - 6/1932 - 6/1933 - 0/1934 - 4/1935 - 0/1936- 6/1937- 6...

The number of sessions ramps up from the late '30's onward. A compilation like this one would be good for the early years.

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle Trio album with Max Roach and Charles Mingus. The interaction between the three is stunning.

Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up Sonny Rollins was notorious for half-assing his way as a sideman, so Gillespie called Sonny Stitt for the gig too and had Rollins take the first solo on the rhythm changes Eternal Triangle. Epic tenor battle ensues. By the end they're copping each other's licks while they're trading fours.

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio No one plays like Prez. I Can't Get Started is a standout.

Ella and Louis Two of jazz's greatest icons making definitive versions of standards. There's so much humor and music throughout these recordings. It's worth noting it's the Oscar Peterson Trio with Buddy Rich backing them up.

...And His Mother Called Him Bill Recorded by Ellington's big band in 1967 for the death of Billy Strayhorn, longtime writer and arranger for the band and Ellington's musical other-half. All star ensemble featuring Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Cootie Williams, Clark Terry, and Sam Woodyard, to name only a few.

Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot Fives and Sevens About as close to the beginning as you'll need to know for an introduction. This is a good reference point to have as you explore jazz.

This list is already too big. Make sure you hit some Miles Davis too, as has been suggested. Kind of Blue is the sort of album you could listen to all throughout your life and you'd learn something new from it each time you put it on. Art Blakey had some of the best bands throughout his career, as he was always bringing up the young guys. There's just too much!

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|name|Kermit Ruffins|
|about artist|Originally a founding member in the 1980's of New Orleans' popular Rebirth Brass Band, with whom he recorded seven lively albums and toured the world. Ruffins branched out on his own in the early 1990's with his own band, a more traditional New Orleans jazz combo, but has also performed with The Kermit Ruffins Big Band. His style is most reminiscent of great Nawlin's trumpeter Louis Armstrong, He regularly performs with his backing band called the Barbecue Swingers in local New Orleans clubs. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Kermit Ruffins))|
|album|1533 St. Philip Street, released May 2001|
|track|Drop Me Off In New Orleans|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|wikipedia, biography, allmusic, [discogs](http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kermit Ruffins), myspace, track on amazon, album on amazon|
|tags|jazz, neworleans, dixieland, trumpet, blues|
|similar|Rebirth Brass Band, John Boutté, Treme Brass Band, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, New Birth Brass Band|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 28,730, lastfm plays: 190,300, youtube plays: 58,082, radd.it score: 4.5|


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I don't understand why you're limiting this to the 20s. That may be when the genre originated, but it didn't stop on 31 December 1929, and the people who played it later have just as much right to call their music Dixieland as those in the 20s. Branching beyond the 20's you have:

• The Dukes of Dixieland [1948] (They at one point played with Armstrong, albeit not in the 20s)
  
  
• Al Hirt's album Blockbustin' Dixie [1957]
  
  
• Pete Fountain's Dixieland (Live in New Orleans) [1962]
  
  
• Pee Wee Hunt's Dixieland Kickoff [1959]
  
  
  If you really want the 20's though:
  
  
• "King" Oliver led a band called King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
  
  
• Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland [admittedly this is prior to the 20s, but whatever]
  
  And, though I fear it may hurt my point,
  
  
• Original Dixieland Jazz Band was actually somewhat influential, even if their leader was a racist. Bix Biederbecke was reportedly influenced by their recordings and even covered their charts, as did the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
  
  >"New Orleans Style" is more accurate, more descriptive, and does not have a racist connotation -- so why cling to this other term?
  
  Really, "New Orleans Style" and "Dixieland" are the same level of descriptive. Neither of them explicitly says anything about the music, and if you'd never heard the term before you'd never be able to gather any useful information from the name. This is true for all genre designations (that I can think of), so "New Orleans Style" isn't preferable because of it's precision. In the end, it doesn't really matter what you call new music, but they style we're talking about has many historic names; you can't really go erasing some because they stir up vague feelings of oppression or white guilt. "Hot Jazz", "Dixieland", "Traditional Jazz", "New Orleans Style"...it's really all the same. Why let a racist ruin the term "Dixieland" from beyond the grave? Almost no one who uses the term "Dixieland" is trying to be offensive, and very few people have racist thoughts when they hear the word, so what's the point in trying to destroy it and vilifying those who use it?