Watermelonman Herbie Hancock
Take Five Dave Brubeck
Song For My Father Horace Silver
Mercy,Mercy Mercy Julian Cannonball Adderley
Take The A Train Duke Ellington
On Broadway Tito Puente
Take Five Tito Puente
Sing,Sing Sing Benny Goodman
Sermonnete Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (vocals)
All Blues Miles Davis Try those on your ears and maybe you will like Jazz a little better.
Grazin' In The Grass Hugh Masakella
Blues In Hoss'Flat Count Basie
Mack The Knife Louis Armstrong
Goldfinger Dave Douglass
Ella Fitzgerald The SongBooks
Here's That Rainy Day Freddie Hubbard
Sugar Stanley Turrentine
Little Sunflower Milt Jackson
Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
All The Things You Are Art Tatum Ben Webster
Moanion' Art Blakey
Tom Cat Lee Morgan|||Thanks for choosing my answer. Hope you listen and explore the many styles of Jazz available and when someone like your boss insists you listen to music forced on you I see why you have a problem with Jazz. Shame on that boss of yours.Get another job if you can.
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|||Oh by the way I have a You Tube channel with some Jazz i play there. youtube.com/johnflugelhorn
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|||Look up more swing style songs. Those are fun and easy to recognize. Sometimes it's better to hear big band jazz because it's louder and more powerful. I think bluegrass or blues is more boring than jazz personally. haha.
This is probably my favorite artist and song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw%26amp;feature=PlayList%26amp;p=7F1DA837B4FA588C%26amp;index=1
Prolly one of the most popular:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8qGa4Yh2qs
This is a bit slower than swing style, but it's still pretty cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7XMOTbo20%26amp;feature=fvw|||HOW CAN YOU SAY BORING! IMPROV IS DIFFICULT AND EXCITING LOL 88.1 listen to that if your in cali
this one should at least catch your ear,
moanin-charles mingus
or any coleman hawkins song lol
look up charlie parker too|||Jazz is an acquired taste. The more you listen to it the better you'll like it. I can certainly understand why you would think it's boring though.|||Strausburg/ St Denis
Blue Opening
Sing Sing Sing
Fly With the Wind
The Cantina Band Song|||Try "Spain" by Chick Corea. It is my favourite song in the world.|||There's some jazz I really enjoy, so I don't think it's at all boring.|||Jazz and blue grass, but my husband would disagree with both of us, he loves Jazz, Stevie Ray Vaughn is his idol!|||sorry i'm lizzy to giva a list... anyway it's good to give yourself a try jazz is a big world with much styles.|||listen to smooth jazz, like sade. it's chill and relaxing, not boring.|||how dare you?
i love jazz!|||Your Loss young lady
go check out some modern sounding stuff like song from Wayne Shorter, Allan Holdsworth, Kurt Rozenwinkle, and Pat Metheny. It may take you a while to find some of Pat Metheny's modern stuff because a lot of his stuff is really smooth jazzy.
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