jazz recommendations anyone?

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all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Dizzy Gillespie
Ornette Coleman, "The Shape of Jazz to Come"
Danilo Perez, "Panamonk"
John Coltrane, "Blue Train"
Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"
Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Time Out"
Herbie Hancock, "Takin' Off!"

coltrane "blue train" & "giant steps"
charles mingus "mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus"
horace silver "six pieces of silver"
charlie parker "confirmation"
hank mobley "soul station"
jimmy smith "the sermon"
clifford brown "memorial album"
thelonious monk "the complete columbia solo recordings"
grant green "born to be blue"

i could probably go on for a day.

oh, and as i'm sure you know miles' "kind of blue" is very necessary.


[Edited on Nov 08, 2002 by jupiter6]

actually i just picked up "kind of blue" recently and i'm diggin it.

i think i'll go with some john coltrane next time around.

coltrane-love supreme, sun ship(nuts!), transitions(also nuts!), living space
dave brubeck-jazz impressions of japan(i think this one might be a little hard to find but it's well worth it)
yeah, miles-kind of blue
you know, now i can't think of anything else, i've been recording jazz for the past two months and for some reason i'm drawing a blank now. shit.

in the interest of brevity, i'll make just one recommendation.

directions in music, celebrating miles davis and john coltraine. features herbie hancock, michael brecker and roy hargrove, john patitucci and brian blade. michael brecker's treatment of 'naima' stirs my soul.
ok. i can't keep it to just one. keep on the look out for lizz wright, a vocalist who reminds me of sassy. she can be heard on joe sample's latest and her debut releae should be coming in the next month or two. here's a taste...

http://www.simblistgroup.com/jazz/mp3/Dreaming_high.mp3

any miles davis. any period is a sure thing.

try the all music guide web site ...great recommendations,

albert aldler
count bassy
billy holiday
duke ellington
louis armstrong
miles davis
john coltrain

John Zorn, Medeski Martin and Wood,Schleigho and Jazz Mandolin Project. It's a start lots of festivals out there especially in the summer. Go to Jambase.com

Coltrane's "Blue Train" & "Live at the Village Vanguard". Can't go wrong with those two.

i listened to blue train this mornin'

sonny rollins' live at the village vanguard is good too.

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[Edited on Nov 08, 2002 by bpd]

Art Blakey (with the Jazz Messengers is the best stuff...amazing drummer)
Joe Pass (with Herb Ellis is great) (guitars)
Coltrane - anything but Om is the shit
Miles Davis
Ray Brown
Ornette Colman
Oscar Peterson
Art Tatum
Charlie Parker and Dizzy together
good christ...pretty much anything you pick up is probly gonna be good

oscar peterson, joe pass and ray brown are brilliant together

Check out DJ Greyboy - Freestylin.

DAMN good cd. and every song is like a different genre of jazz.

If you don't have much in the way of jazz cds/records you should check out the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz.

It starts out with Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson (turn of the century jazz/blues), and goes up through the late 60s early 70s (Ornette Coleman, Miles, Sonny Rollins stuff).

I got it on LP and it's a 6 record set so it's probably a good 4 or 5 CD boxset. Definitely worth checking out.

If you don't get that set, just do a search for that on the web and see who's on it. Pretty much everyone on there is a jazz legend.

In addition to the greats above, I would add Chet Baker, Sidney Bechet, and Buddy Rich (one of the best jazz drummers ever).

Charlie Mingus - The Black Sain and the Sinner Lady
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Cecil Taylor- Unit Structures
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Eric Dolphy - Out There
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Sun Ra!

I'd like to expand my jazz taste also.

So far they're all good names mentioned.
Esp. Miles Davis, Art Blakely, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Chet Baker.

The only name I haven't seen so far is Herbie Hancock (circa early 70's) if you like it on the funky side.
Yeah, not real old-time pure jazz, but good for what it is.

The best way to experience jazz is to see some good players live.

Gotta check out the above suggestions now. Cool!

there is a relatively new collection of charlie
parkers best sides called the complete
savoy and dial master takes
quite extrordinary to have them all together now
this collection covers a four year period
1944 to 1948 these are some of his
earliest recordings documenting the rise
of bebop prior to the fall of charlie parker
bird is maybe the archetypal modern jazzmaster
it all begins here

[Edited on Mar 14, 2003 by zenhell]

Was there a mention of Thelonius Monk? If not you should check out some of his stuff. Pretty innovative piano. But not so innovative as to be unappealing.

quoting one's self from months ago is kinda weird but i should mention that directions in music release won TWO grammy awards recently

quoting one's self from months ago is kinda weird but i should mention that directions in music release won TWO grammy awards recently

Ella Fitzgerald
Oscar Peterson Trio
Mcoy Tyner
Ramsey Lewis
Jimmy Smith
Kay Starr
Wild Bill Davidson
Stan Getz
Charlie Bryd
Jonah Johnson
Bunk Johnson
Louis Armstrong
Louis Prima
Chico Hamilton
Pearl Baiely
Sara Vaughn
J J Johnson
Stan Kenton
Gerry Mulligan
Jack Teargarden
Sun Ra
Tal Farlow
Cal Tjader
Herbie Mann
Hubert Laws
Zoot simms
Canonball Aderly
Kenny Burrell
Count Baise
Woody Herman