Need Jazz Suggestions

[Mass_Liberal]

feel like listening to some. Gimme the name of a good jazz song (has to be kind well knownish). I have listened to 0 jazz in my lifetime, looking to start.

broadening horizons, doncha know.

[Telly Savalas]

1. Check CD's out from the library to see what you like...

Maybe start with the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. Look into John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, and Jimmy Smith for starters. The key to jazz is improvisation, so typically the song itself takes a backseat to the stuff the artist is making up within the context of that song.

[miss_kitty]

2. Jimmy!

[progmom]

3. ooooh!

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Billie Holiday - Decca Recordings
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Art Blakey - Moanin
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Horace Silver - Song For My Father

Give those a try first - very accessible, easy to find, good intros to jazz.

edit - dammit! i forgot Monk! You can't go wrong with any Thelonious Monk.

[TahitiNut]

12. ... and Oscar Peterson - Night Train

Ella Fitzgerald (nearly anything), Louis Armstrong, Ramsey Lewis (Wade in the Water?), Chuck Mangione (I don't care - I like him), Monty Alexander, ... wow!

[bridgit]

4. horace silver: kissin cousins

:hi:

but there's allot of good stuff out there to say the very least

[bridgit]

5. and one for the road...

lambert, hendricks & ross: twisted

you're gon'na like that one :loveya:

[progmom]

6. excellent suggestion!!!

:loveya:

[bridgit]

7. thanks honey, love'ya2, kew'l?

:loveya:

[progmom]

8. cuz you know two heads are better than one!

no driver on the top? that chick is twisted, man!

twisted is my screen name on some other boards i post on. :hi:

[Ron Green]

9. Here's a couple more:

Moten Swing (Benny Carter's recording)
Any Cannonball Adderly Quintet or Sextet
Anything recorded by Art Tatum, just to be amazed

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Chick Corea & Return To Forever: "Light As A Feather"

Even though it must be about 30 years old now, I still enjoy listening to it. This album is almost perfect in that every tune is a thing of beauty. Joe Farrell's sax solo on the title song is a mind blower. This album for many jazz musicians in the mid 70's sort of marked the age, one of optimism and great exhuberance.

[bridgit]

11. that's a great album...

spain, capt marvel :thumbsup:

[MrScorpio]

13. Peep this

http://www.geocities.com/davidbassin/freefall.html

[driver8]

14. I'm a jazz guitar fan -- check out Wes Montgomery...

...simply amazing.

John Coltrane -- Favorite Things
(blows me away every time I hear it)

[skrunch]

15. Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage"

Reason I say that is I'm listening to a tune on David Sanborn's new album that sounds just like it.

[StaggerLee]

16. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

Their rendition of In a Sentimental Mood and Angelica are my favorites on this one.