What is some good slow jazz to listen to when it's nighttime and raining?

The kind of jazz that has a saxophone leading and then the drums and bass are playing slow. If anyone can name me the artist and song names that would be great. Thank you.|||Thumb's up to the L.A. jazz station person's answer! Listened to it all the time when in L.A.





I love Stanley Turrentine (Sax) - my actual favorite album of his is "Soulful Saxaphone" (All songs) and next would be the "Blue Hour"; I have his "Ballads" CD as well,





It may sound odd, but during rain I so prefer classical music, my favorites are Handel, Vivaldi, and I also like certain operas (operas would be more for daytime rain, though, heh).





Another sax player that plays nice cool jazz is Nino Tempo - very, very nice and soothing (his self-titled CD anyways).





My favorite, however, at any time, any weather is Bossa Nova. here are some tunes for you to check out to see if you like: (Also added names of other great jazz players, not all Sax, though:





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• - Manha de Carnaval - Original 1959 movie, "Black Orpheus", sung by Agostinho dos Santos


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0W12dVKD…





- Bem Bom (Gal Costa)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLefxheB…





- Madalena (Elis Regina)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQIcSPdMq…





- Tarde em Itapoa (Maria Bethania w/Vinicius Moraes)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56NvUAPR7…





- Estrada do Sol (Elis Regina and Gal Costa)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcshTxLT6…





- O Pato (sung by [a very young] Joao Gilberto "O Pato" = The Duck and "Quem"= Quack in Port.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4dci8J1…





- You and I (Stanley Turrentine) (no YouTube, on his "Soulful Saxaphone" CD, LOVE it.


- Blues in Hoss Flat (Stanley Turrentine, '63)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLsWR8piT…





- Half a Minute (Matt Bianco and where Basia got her start) LOVE his stuff!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDzagmJbw…





- Do you want to know what I want? (New York Voices, LOVE them)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUI49344B…





- What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVG80vqVf…





Also love Thelonius Monk; "Round about Midnight", "April in Paris", I like "The Essential . . ." and "The Best of Thelonius Monk" CDs





Eliane Elias is a wonderful jazz pianist from Brasil





Ack! Wish I had room for more links! You will LOVE:


Esperanza Spalding - newer on the circuit; while attending Berklee School of Music she was also on staff teaching there! Plays stand-up bass and sings like a spicy angel! (English %26amp; Brasilian Portuguese)





Sings:


- I know you know


- Grooves


- Ponta de Areia


- Precious


(These are my favorites of hers so far - on her self-titled CD)


Ah! And you MUST listen to Brasilian pianist and singer,


Tania Maria singing and playing “Sangria”!





- Miles Davis


- Stanley Turrentine


- Thelonius Monk


- Art Tatum


- Sammy Davis, Jr.


- Matt Bianco


- John Coltrane


- Billy Holliday


- Ella Fitzgerald


- Esperanza Spalding


- New York Voices


- Manhattan Transfer


- Stan Getz


- Tania Maria (Brasil)





- "Kissed by Nature" album (Eliane Elias)|||I'm not sure about 311, they're not exactly Jazz. However, I'm not sure if you live in the Los Angeles area, but even if you are not you can listen to the Jazz station online at-





http://www.kkjz.org/





If you do live in the LA area, just tune your radio to 88.1





If you don't, then just play the station on that website, and you can unplug your laptop so that It'll die turn off eventually. Perhaps, even screw with your settings so it the 'Stand By' alarm goes off at 50% or something.





I really enjoy sleeping to it at night. Enjoy!|||Try some 311