New jazz fan need help selecting music (1 Viewer)

[Kristian Sorensen]

Someone gave me Miles Davis-Kind of Blue and John Coltrane Quartet-Ballads. I really love these, but can someone recommend any other cd's as I'd like to listen to some more jazz.

Kristian

 

[Paul_Medenwaldt]

I would recommend Diana Krall, she does a lot of old standard jazz songs.

Chris Botti

Art Blakley

Motion Poets

Ole' Blues Frank Sinatra

Tony Bennett

Thelonious Monk

I would also encourage you to get the either the 5 disc box set of Ken Burn's Jazz or the Very Best of Ken Burn's Jazz. Those albums should open you up to a whole new genre of artists and different styles of jazz.

Enjoy

Paul

 

[Mike Broadman]

HTF Jazz Club

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Kristian,
Some of my favorites:
McCoy Tyner New York Reunion (Chesky)
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse)
Art Pepper and The Rhythm Section (XRCD)
Art Pepper Plus Eleven (XRCD)
Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (XRCD or APO Super Audio)
Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (APO)
Plus...
any Wynton Marsalis Super Audio
any Miles Davis Super Audio or remaster works
any Chesky jazz CD
any Rudy Van Gelder edition of Blue Note remasters
any XRCD or XRCD2 in the jazz area
anything recommended so far by Mike Broadman
Quality artists:
Hank Mobley
Joe Henderson
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Coleman Hawkins
McCoy Tyner
Lee

 

[james e m]

I would also say check out Charles Mingus and Stan Getz too. james

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Ouch. I left these two out and many others...

Ella Fitzgerald

Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington (Blues in Orbit)

The Charles Mingus SACD of Ah Um is outstanding...

Lee

 

[Dave Morton]

Dave Brubek Quartet - Take 5

This is a classic recording. Others that I like

Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer

Badi Assad - Echos of Brazil

Of course the others have listed great recordings too.

NP-Zappa , Apostrophe/overnight sensation

 

[Rachael B]

Do not miss Chick Corea & Return to Forever's LIGHT AS A FEATHER, or any of their albums

Stanley Clarke SCHOOL DAYS

Crusaders STREET LIFE

Dave Brubeck TAKE FIVE

For some of the newer acts:

Kim Water's sax is great pick any of his albums

Paul Jackson Jr. THE POWER OF THE STRING

Marcus Miller M2 (M squared)

Anything by Boney James

Spyro Gyro

Harvey Mason's GREATEST HITS

Lee Ritenour's FEEL THE NIGHT

That should keep you busy for awhile! Best wishes!

 

[Rich Tysinger]

Here's a list of classic recordings (mostly bebop and hard bop) that many jazz fans consider landmarks and/or must-haves:
John Coltrane: GIANT STEPS
Miles Davis: Too many... try MILESTONES or COOKIN' next.
Stan Getz: GETZ/GILBERTO
Sonny Rollins: SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS (Get this IMMEDIATELY)
Louis Armstrong: COMPLETE HOT FIVES AND SEVENS
Count Basie: COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS
Duke Ellington: BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND
Cannonball Adderley: SOMETHIN' ELSE
Lester Young: KANSAS CITY SESSIONS
Lester Young: MEETS THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO (My favorite)
Coleman Hawkins: BODY AND SOUL (a Victor Jazz compilation)
Dave Brubeck Quartet: TIME OUT
Thelonious Monk: BRILLIANT CORNERS
Charles Mingus: MINGUS AH UM
Bill Evans Trio: SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: MOANIN'
Lee Morgan: THE SIDEWINDER
Wes Montgomery: INCREDIBLE JAZZ GUITAR
Eric Dolphy: FAR CRY
Dexter Gordon: GO
Art Pepper: MEETS THE RHYTHM SECTION
Ornette Coleman: THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME
Charlie Parker: THE CHARLIE PARKER STORY (or any other decent compilation.)
There's just too many more great artists, albums, and entire genres of jazz that I've either left off or haven't heard yet. With my jazz collection at over 150 CDs, I still consider myself a jazz newbie! Have fun building your collection, Kristian.

 

[Yohan Pamudji]

Excellent suggestions so far. How about some jazz vocals?

Ella Fitzgerald: Best Of Song Book Sessions

Sarah Vaughan: Sings George Gershwin

Diana Krall: When I Look In Your Eyes

And a couple of my instrumental favorites:

Oscar Peterson: My Favorite Instrument

Stan Getz/Kenny Barron: People Time

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

How about a couple of Herbie Hancock classics?: Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage.

In addition to Ah Um, I am also a big fan of Charles Mingus' Let My Children Hear Music.

If you are interested in fusion, the following are some easily digestible non-crap CDs to start with:

Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame

If you like these, then go ahead and pick up Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew" which took me a little longer to get into, but grew on me until I realized why it is considered a classic.

Regards,

 

[Raul_H]

Here are some of my personal faves from various artists. Some have already been mentioned but here goes...

Miles Davis

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Round about Midnight

Birth of the Cool

Miles Smiles

John Coltrane

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Giant Steps

Lush Life

Blue Train

Charles Mingus

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Mingus Ah Um

Mingus x5

Oh Yeah

Thelonius Monk

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Straight no Chaser

Brilliant Corners

Chet Baker (Male Vocalist/Trumpet. Personal Fave of mine.)

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Chet Baker sings

My Funny Valentine

Embraceable You

Jane Monheit (Young female vocalist. Very gifted singer.)

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Never never land

Come dream with me

Various female vocalists albums

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Ella Fitzgerald (With Louis Armstrong)

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Ella and Louis

Ella and louis again

Dinah Washington

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Dinah Jams

Sarah Vaughn

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Crazy and Mixed Up

Billie Holiday

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Love Songs

Note:

I know that there are various versions of some of these CD's that I listed above that vary in quality but I am not knowledgeable enough to recommend the best label/version of these CD's to purchase. Sorry.

 

[Kristian Sorensen]

Thanks everybody for all your recomandations, it's much appreciated. Now I've got lots of other stuff to look into!

Sincerely yours,

Kristian

 

[TonyButler]

Last thursday night, while channel surfing, I happened upon the BET Jazz channel and watched a wonderful Dexter Gordon concert/documentary.

Good channel.

 

[John Beavers]

Here's a few of the Bop, Soul & Blues Jazz artists that I like, and an album selection.

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - "Live at Mintons"

Jimmy Smith - "dotcom Blues"

Jack McDuff - "Jack McDuff a Friends"

Boogaloo Joe Jones - "Legends of Acid Jazz 1 & 2"

 

[Rich Malloy]

And since this is "the home theater forum", we'd be remiss not to recommend a few DVDs!

I highly recommend "Jazz on a Summer's Day" and "Diana Krall: Live in Paris". The former is one of the finest concert films ever made (Newport Jazz Festival '58), and the latter documents a wonderful performance with a reference quality DTS track and a gorgeous anamorphic transfer.

 

[John Beavers]

And since this is "the home theater forum", we'd be remiss not to recommend a few DVDs!

So true, here's my Jazz DVD video recommendations:

Pat Methany Group "Imaginary Day Live" DTS

Keiko Matsui "The Jazz Channel Presents" DTS

Earl Klugh "The Jazz Channel Presents" DTS

Tony Bennett "Unplugged" DD

Chuck Mangione "The Feelings Back" DAD (24/96)

 

[Frank_S]

You have to hear; Ben Webster-Soulville album
Gene Ammons-Boss Tenor
If you like tenor sax, those are 2 must have's!!!!!

 

[Andrew Chong]

Wow, that certainly is a lot of music!

If you like piano-centric jazz, try Dave Grusin (for instance, 'The Firm' soundtrack) and Vince Guaraldi (for instance, 'Linus and Lucy' from all those Charlie Brown specials).

 

[Scott Oliver]

There are a ton of great artists in the history of Jazz and also a lot of different styles. The two CD's you mentioned would be labeled as the cool jazz which the Kind of Blue album actually started.
Instead of throwing some more names at you, I would suggest you go to your local bookstore and take a look at the Penguin Guide to Jazz in the music section of course. This thing is huge, so you might want to do a little more research before delving through it.
Viewing the Ken Burn's Jazz Documentary would be a decent start, also do searches in www.audioasylum.com and www.audiogon.com in each of their respective music forums for jazz recommendations. This would give you a great strating point as well.