MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Usual suspects are in my line of sight, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck......but what else should I be looking at?
Mayfair or Knave.
A superb set of 25 albums including very little filler.
Sadly it lacks any Oscar Peterson, but as he released about 100 albums you'd have no trouble finding some 🙂
Razzle, pile up ftw
Best Jazz album ever recorded is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis IMHO , to be honest anything he recorded in the 50s is amazing. Also try Blue Train John Coltrane,Something else Cannonball Adderley and anything by Chet Baker.
Herbie Hancock. The Prisoner
Wynton Marsalis The Plantation To The Penitentiary
Wayne Shorter Speak no Evil
Chick Corea Akoustic Band
and if you can find it The Jazz Renegades Freedom samba, this is what Steve White, Paul Wellers drummer does in his spare time.
Charles Mingus (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus 🙂 ). Wes Montgomery. Oscar Peterson.
Mr Scruff.
Kind of Blue is an excellent starting point as it's relatively accessible. I tend to prefer his early electric experiments, from Miles In The Sky through to Bitches Brew and, to a lesser extent, Live Evil.
It's such a huge area of music that can difficult to recommend. Almost any genre will get 'jazzed' at some point. One good way to explore is to use Wikipedia (or sleeve notes if you're being old-fashioned!) to check out the personnel on a particular recording, then search for more stuff by them. People often play on other people's recordings as well as writing their own - this being particular so in the 50s and 60s.
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Fantastic piece of work which has to be listened to in one go.
Sonny Rollins
Thelonius Monk
Horace Silver
"big band" stylings:
Count Basie ("The Atomic Mr Basie" in particular for the cover)
Duke Ellington
With mention of Mr Scruff, if you like a modern twist; there are 3 CDs of jazz mash-ups on the Verve label, but will have to look them up later. Also Us3's reworking of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man".
Kind of blue is amazing....how about some trad...dutch swing college
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