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gateway artists for each musical genre (1 Viewer)

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you have a friend who listens exclusively to rock music but they tend to lean towards jam band type rock and you think they may like jazz... who do you recommend as the gateway to jazz?

conversely, your friend loves jazz but loves free jazz and you think that might map to EDM.. who do you recommend as the gateway to EDM?

etc., etc.

what is the act/group/musician in your favored genre that you recommend to people as the entry point?
 
you have a friend who listens exclusively to rock music but they tend to lean towards jam band type rock and you think they may like jazz... who do you recommend as the gateway to jazz?
It's going back a bit but fusion bands like Return To Forever and the "Wired" era of Jeff Beck made me more interested in jazz. Stanley Clarke, Jean- Luc Ponty, and Al DeMiola are other solo artists that come to mind. And if all else fails play them the Aja album from Steely Dan.
 
you have a friend who listens exclusively to rock music but they tend to lean towards jam band type rock and you think they may like jazz... who do you recommend as the gateway to jazz?

Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album. Short songs including Beatles and Stevie covers and a less dated keyboard sound than most 70s fusion acts. It's essentially rock because Beck isn't improvising but the rhythm section swings like jazz cats.
 
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you have a friend who listens exclusively to rock music but they tend to lean towards jam band type rock and you think they may like jazz... who do you recommend as the gateway to jazz?
Maybe Spanish Key off Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. It jams, jazzes and rocks. John McLaughlin's got some great guitar work on it.


I would also reccomend Breezin by Masayoshi Takanaka

Re Run Home by Kamasi Washington

Summon the Fire by The Comet is Coming
 
EDM - Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, John Digweed and Armin van Buuren
@urbanhack - perhaps I need to be a bit more specific and say house/trance? Not just EDM? Or am I missing something? I very well could be lol
Well I have a lot of thoughts on this. I would pick like Moby, or some old school house music or Massive Attack if anyone had no clue or had never listened to electronic music.

then I would have a whole host of artists for each genre within EDM like Sasha or Digweed for Trance (or Oakenfold).
 

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