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Dear Music, I want to start getting into Jazz. Where do I start? : Music
All things musical
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John Coltrane - Moment's Notice
Jaco Pastorius - Soul Intro / The Chicken
Weather Report - Birdland
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Sorry lots of fusion in my list
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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
also Count Bassie for big band stuff
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Sinatra at the Sands with the Count Basie Orchestra is one of my all time favorite albums.
The band was incredible, and Sinatra showed them off well.
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Enjoyable jazz albums that aren't too weird;
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out Art Blakey - Free For All Herbie Hancock - Headhunters Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto These are the kind of things I'd crack out for a dinner party, or something - music interesting enough to be worth listening to on its own, but not difficult enough to be unpleasant to the untrained ear.
There's not a huge amount of jazz that I listen to like that, but certain groups (The Bad Plus and Led Bib in particular) are prone to weird atonal bits.
Really, though, jazz is a pretty broad term.
Search youtube for 'jazz', and just go from there - find stuff you like and stuff you don't like, and then find other things those musicians have done.
You'll find a lot of people recommend widely accepted 'geniuses' to you - Miles Davis and John Coltrane are the quintessential pair - but it can take a while to really get into them, and some people never do.
Just go with what's good.
Also, Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers.
That's a great album.
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Depends what kind of jazz you want.
Ella Fitzgerald is good bluesy jazz, Medeski, Martin, and Wood is a good free jazz group.
Soul Coughing is a bit more indie-rock jazz.
There's pretty wide variation within the genre.
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Ulu, Addison Groove Project, Living Daylights, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, MMW, The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, John Scofield, Charlie Hunter.
And thats just to get you started :) there are many MANY more, jazz is a very expansive and versatile genre that can be explored endlessly.
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Brad Mehldau and Jaga Jazzist are probably up your alley.
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Coltrane - GIANT STEPS is way better than moment's notice.
Brubeck - Take Five and Miles Davis - Kind of Blue are must haves.
Kind of Blue could be the greatest two sessions in the history of Jazz.
Read the history of how Davis recorded it, the era, and the political implications of the album - white and black, Jazz on the pop charts.
Charlie Parker is outstanding, and arguably the best be-bop Jazz musician in history.
Charlie Hunter is much more current and has covered Nirvana among others.
He plays a tweleve string guitar and rips it.
If you want vocalists you can't beat ella fitzgerald, or Billie Holiday.
Billy's "God Bless the Child" introduced me to jazz.
A great vocal/jazz/big band album is "Frank Sinatra live at the Sands Hotel (Las Vegas) with The Count Basie Orchestra" Outstanding sound quality, the band is amazing, and Sinatra is at his best live and riffing.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Don't know much about Jazz but I really enjoy this album.
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One of my favorite jazz albums of all-time.
Bebop ftw.
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Some good classic stuff below, but i wonder where you are coming from musically?
'jazz' is a wide category, and there will be artists to suit any taste, from the lightest easy listening stuff to heavy metal avant guard (a la john zorn / tzadik)
if you list what you like in other music, it might be easy to suggest stuff you would like in the jazz unbrella
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You'd be remiss not to listen to Louis Armstrong.
Sure he's ubiquitos, but there's a reason for that.
He was the most influential Jazz musician in America for 50 years.
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"Jazz," like "rock," is a very broad subject, covering many genres.
You'll get everything from familiar-sounding Dixieland and Swing to experimental and noisy Free Jazz.
However, I agree that Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is a fantastic place to start.
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I found this list from the New Yorker to be a good place to start.
Http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/05/19/080519on_onlineonly_remnick?currentPage=all
I think that this was posted on hear a few months ago.
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Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
My favourite.
Also check out White Rabbit by George Benson.
By FAR his best album.
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Smoke a lot of pot and practice for 14 hours a day
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Here are some random jazz albums that are all good but verry diferent....
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky (Great smooth jazz album)
Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto (Boza nova, contains one of the best sweetest songs ever made, including The Grild From Ipanema)
John Scofield - A Go Go (Funky..., just get it)
Joshua Redman - Elastic (One of the best 'modern' sax players)
Michael Franks - Art of Tea (So funny ^-^)
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue & Bags' Groove (classics)
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simon, ...
Great Piano (and singing) just get some work of these people...
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If you're into heavier stuff I strongly recommend Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, and all of the other live sessions from that era.
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Actually, just watch Ken Burns' documentary Jazz and listen to the soundtrack.
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Once you've listened to some of the fine recommendations already listed, try Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come.
:-)
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