gateway artists for each musical genre (1 Viewer)

[mr. furley]

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?

 

[fatness]

Americana --- The Band. First 2 albums in particular.
Great storytelling, great music.

Music From Big Pink
The Band

If you only want to suggest 1 album, suggest the second one.

 

[rockaction]

Post-rock - Mogwai if moody or European; Explosions In The Sky if sunnier personalities or American

Post-hardcore - Thursday

Punk - Flipper from San Francisco wants nothing to do with you, Eephus

 

[Leroy Hoard]

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.

 

[Eephus]

Punk - Flipper from San Francisco wants nothing to do with you, Eephus

That's like the realtor starting the tour in the latrine

 

[Eephus]

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.

 

[Eephus]

Americana --- The Band. First 2 albums in particular.
Great storytelling, great music.

Music From Big Pink
The Band

If you only want to suggest 1 album, suggest the second one.

Two minutes for too many Canadians on the ice

 

[Eephus]

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?

I'm no EDM expert but Carl Craig uses jazzier rhythms than the typical 4 on the floor EDM beats

Desire: The Carl Craig Story - Album by Carl Craig | Spotify

Carl Craig · album · 2025 · 17 songs

open.spotify.com

 

[mr. furley]

really looking for "this is the intro band/artist" to (your) favorite music genre

 

[-OZ-]

“Progressive bluegrass”

The Gourds

https://pandora.app.link/esX0QLRryYb

 

[zamboni]

In honor of the just deceased Jimmy Cliff:

Reggae: The Harder They Come soundtrack

Bob Marley’s Exodus would be another one

 

[Jaysus]

Harley Poe is the intro band/artist to the horror folk punk music genre.

 

[nirad3]

EDM - Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, John Digweed and Armin van Buuren

 

[mr. furley]

Harley Poe is the intro band/artist to the horror folk punk music genre.

finally, the answer i've been looking for

 

[Ilov80s]

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.

Spanish Key (feat. Wayne Shorter, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland & Harvey Brooks)

Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Harvey Brooks · Bitches Brew · Song · 1970

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I would also reccomend Breezin by Masayoshi Takanaka

BREEZIN'

Masayoshi Takanaka · オン・ギター · Song · 1994

open.spotify.com

Re Run Home by Kamasi Washington

Re Run Home

Kamasi Washington · The Epic · Song · 2015

open.spotify.com

Summon the Fire by The Comet is Coming

Summon The Fire

The Comet Is Coming · Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery · Song · 2019

open.spotify.com

 

[nirad3]

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

 

[urbanhack]

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).