What are some good jazz bands for someone who is unfamiliar with the genre?

I listen to mostly rock, especially prog rock. Can someone give me some jazz bands to listen to that are slightly rockin?





Thanks|||*******Ok, here we go:








Count Basie


Benny Goodman


George Shearing


Glenn Miller


Wynton Marsalis


Debbie Curtis


Jack Million


Hal McIntyre


Cab Calloway


Woody Herman


Les Brown, Jr.


Bill Elliott


Don Johnson


Nick Ross


Louis Armstrong


Dave Brubeck


Gerry Mulligan


Duke Ellington


Stan Kenton


Art Pepper


Lester Young


George Thorby


Jimmy Dorsey


Tom Daugherty


Sammy Kaye


Paul Whiteman


Ted Lewis


Harry Reser


Leo Reisman


Abe Lyman


Nat Shilkret


George Olsen


Ben Bernie


Bob Haring


Ben Selvin


Earl Burnett


Gus Arnheim


Henry Halstead


Rudy Vallee


Jean Goldkette


Isham Jones


Roger Wolfe Kahn


Sam Lanin


Vincent Lopez


Ben Pollack


Shep Fields


Fred Waring.


Earl Hines


Cab Calloway


Jimmie Lunceford


Chick Webb


Artie Shaw


Tommy Dorsey


Shep Fields


Glenn Miller


Dizzy Gillespie


Gene Krupa


Buddy Rich


Gil Evans


Stan Kenton


Johnny Richards


Sun Ra


Gary MacFarland


Charles Mingus


Oliver Nelson


Carla Bley


Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band


Sam Rivers


Don Ellis


Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra


Anthony Braxton





****enjoy !!!****|||Depends on which kind of jazz you're going with. If you're going with big band jazz (what most people think of when they think of a jazz "band") look for bands headed up by the big-name bandleaders of the era: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and the like.





If you're looking for "combo" jazz (one or two horns, piano, bass, guitar, and drums in some combination) there are artists out of the 50s and 60s who are really awesome. Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, Wes Montgomery, and others are all paragons of their particular instrument.





For the fusion (jazz blended with rock) culture, look toward groups like Weather Report, The Rippingtons, Tower of Power (more funk than fusion, but they cross a little), and other individual artists like Joe Zawinul and Michael or Randy Brecker.





For the ultimate in blending jazz and rock together, though, go with Frank Zappa, especially on his later recordings like "Broadway The Hard Way" and "Make A Jazz Noise Here" -- specific tracks are his rendition of The Police's "Murder By Numbers" using Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments" (a jazz standard) as the underlying chord structure on "Broadway The Hard Way".





Hope this helps!|||get on youtube and check them out, there are many different kinds of jazz, maybe u like swing? it's pretty hopping.





Check out Benny Goodman





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal鈥?/a>





or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjzVThki鈥?/a>


(the music starts at about 1:00)





good duet with Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1uMjz3n鈥?/a>


( the duet starts about 1:00 again, the beginning part is a little silly)|||Try listening to some new fusion or acid jazz stuff. Jamie cullum is really border line rock/jazz and the bad plus is one of my favorites. really contemporary, really original.|||Jazz / Rock Fusion:


Lee Ritenour


Spyro Gyra


Yellowjackets


Return To Forever


Robben Ford


Weather Report


Rippingtons


Pat Metheny


Eric Marienthal|||Check out this group


http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/TheJazzFantastics/