Hi all,
I am hoping to get a few ideas and expand my jazz colection, currently it is painfull small.

The last 2 Jazz albums I've obtained are. Coltraine - The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues at Carnegie Hall. LP on Impulse; and Dave Bruebeck - Time Out LP.

I like live albums, and find trios and quartets to be some of the most exciting music made. What I am asking from you is what other titles/artists should I keep a look out for. Any sugestion would be great. I love new music even bad new music can be fun, but I doubt there will be any of that coming from this group. Thanks in advance. :beatnik:

Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven. Chet Baker - Jazz Masters 32. Joe Henderson - So Near So Far. Sonny Rollins - On Impulse. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan. These are some of my of my favorites. Although I have a fairly large collection and have been a Jazz fan from in my teens, I play the above often.

Joe Lovano, "I'm all for you"
Keith Jarrett, "Standards in Norway" and all of the DVDs, but especially the Standards II DVD.

Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
A must have for any jazz collection :yes: :yes: :yes:

Also since you have Brubeck's "Time Out", get "Time In" too. :yes:

I'll chip in with some fairly recently released ones I enjoy very much.
1 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009GX2AK/qid=1147651190/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/102-6970163-7836165?s=music&v=glance&n=5174)
2 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AV2GCE/qid=1147650864/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6970163-7836165?s=music&v=glance&n=5174)
3 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00025EU18/qid=1147650843/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-6970163-7836165?s=music&v=glance&n=5174)
4 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E1NX1I/sr=8-1/qid=1147650809/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6970163-7836165?%5Fencoding=UTF8)
I don't think there is anything bad on the Blue Note label until they "sold out"
as long as you like the instuments. I'm not one for electric keyboards with jazz personally, some but not all vibes.
Read the jazz thread too!


Carl
PS,
I do not necessarily endorse the merchant, they just provide decent samples so you can hear some of the music. :)

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but in case you want a wide gamut of jazz tastes, you can also check out what the jazz nuts are listening to in the Jazz playlist thread:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58686

Lots of interesting artists and albums!

You can't go wrong with most of the artists below:

Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
John Coltrane - tenor sax
Stan Getz - tenor sax
Art Pepper - alto sax
Charlie Parker - alto sax
Jackie McLean - alto sax
Hank Mobley - trumpet
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Sonny Clark - piano
Bill Evans - piano
Hampton Hawes - piano
Bobby Timmons - piano
Barney Kessel - guitar
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers

just to name a few... I've been listening to jazz for the past 30 yrs and there's always something new to discover!

I have been checking out the Jazz thread. Given my tasts I was hoping for some recordings that would go in that vein. I love Miles Davis and have a few (yes, Kind of Blue is one of them). I didn't know about Time In, I will keep a look out for that one, and I am certainly writing down a few titles and artist, Thanks to all!

Carl, I love the links, always good to hear before buying :music:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009KU7L.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Is awesome. Also I find myself listening to the essential Dave Brubeck all the time. In addition i like anything with these guys -- Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim

hi,
Did'nt read all of the previous posts but there is tons of phenomenal live jazz recordings out there. I think one of the best this year (and probably one of his best recordings ever!) is Wynton Marsalis' Live at the House of Tribes. The set is fabulous and the recording puts you right in the front row; a truely live experience. Brad Meldau- Live in Tokyo (mellow and very acid cool) and Brad Meldau- Live at the Village Vanguard (tour de force type stuff) are other suggestions. Keith Jarrett has done many live recordings for solo piano and quartet that worth checking out too. So much great music and soooo... little time :thmbsp:

PS check out the Mapleshade recordings of Larry Wyllis as well (unbelievable!)

geoff

One of my favourite jazz combo records is "Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clark Terry." I also love Brubeck's "Ala Mode."

Rich

Bill Evans trio, "Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961"

Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz, "Hamp and Getz"

There are several "at Montreaux" albums that will rock your world. Specifically, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass. Any of the Paul Desmond offerings will make you a believer in the power of great music.

Well, if we're recommending favorites, here are some of mine:

Oliver Nelson "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" on Impulse--with one of the all time great Eric Dolphy solos on Teenie's Blues.

Any Thelonious Monk.

Art Blakey - I especially like the "Moanin" album.

There's so much Jazz to experience. You might pick up one of the printed guides to help you find artists. Penguin has a wonderful guide to Jazz CDs.

Bob P.

John Coltrane: Blue Train
Monk/Straight, No Chaser (A "desert island" disc. Unbelievable.)
Charlie Parker/The Best of Bird on Savoy
Count Basie/Atomic (atom bomb on jacket, Roulette label)
Oscar Peterson live or studio, can't go wrong.

Again, thanks to all!! I am going to a few shops this evening and taking quite a list with me. I like jazz but much of my experence is with local jazz radio programs. Great for variety but it is sometimes hard to get a feel for what you really like. I am just starting so it will be an interesting road to travel. Thanks for a bit of a guide.

I've been listening to alot of trios lately,heres some favorites:
The Oscar Peterson Trio - Live At The Blue Note,& Night Train.
The Bill Evans Trio - Live At The Village Vanguard, & Portrait In Jazz.
McCoy Tyner, With Stanley Clarke, & Al Foster....David

Besides Brubeck, I'm very partial to Jimmy Smith and his organ playing.
Tom

In a prior post I recommended the following jazz recordings and later added Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins on OJC:

In the past, I served as a jazz critic and have had the wonderful opportunity to listen to many jazz recording. However, I have not heard every jazz session so obviously I'll leave out many outstanding recordings. Please realize that any recommendations I make are subjective - what suits my taste. I'm recommending recordings that are more accessible rather than cutting edge, figuring you can work up to the more complex ones as your own ear develops. There are many great jazz recording and I suggest using The Allmusic Guide to help build your jazz collection. A short list of those I recommend are as follows:

Cannonball Adderly & MIles Davis - Something Else
Art Balkey - Moanin'
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - At Basin Street
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Soutrane
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Milestones
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano
Stan Getz & J.J. Johnson - At The Opera House
Dexter Gordan - Go
Grant Green - Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
Jackie McLean - Swing, Swang, Swung
Hank Mobley - Another Workout
Lee Morgan - Candy
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
Charlie Parket - The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall
Art Pepper - Meets The Rhythm Section
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Horace Silver - And The Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Sonny Stitt - Endgame Brillance
Lester Young - With The Oscar Peterson Trio

Hello Bozak Ron I was reading your list and saw Sonny Rollings -The Bridge. A long time ago I use to listen to that album often. I know I have it buried somewhere. I am going to look for it right now. Oh! I am so disorganised.

Im more of a fan of old school jazz Like Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and such. Also a fan of the of the colubia Masterworks Label, so A couple I would look for would be the Recording of Benny Goodman Live in carnige hall in 38, and ellington indigos both are two of my favorite albums. Of course I think you can only get the goodman concert on lp (somone please corect me if im wrong:)

Well most of the above people are heading you in right right direction for 50's & 60's era jazz, but jazz started a long time before that, so I'll try to hit a few of the early highlights. It really starts with Louis Armstrong, his Hot Five and Seven recordings of the late 20's sets the stage for virtually everything since (he invents jazz soloing and singing, as we know it, on these recordings, masterpieces of the genre). Duke Ellington's recordings from the late 20's till the early 40's contain so many masterpieces, it would take me pages to list them all. The Count Basie band of the late 30's is probably the greatest swing band of all time. Billie Holliday's 30's and early 40's recordings redefined what jazz singing is all about, and her recordings with Lester Young (a tenor sax player with the classic Basie band) are some of the greatest ever. Bix Beiderbecke has a tone and attack on the cornet/trumpet that has never been surpassed. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are the two people most responsible for what is considered "modern" jazz. Art Tatum is a pianist of unsurpassed ability and invention. And these are only a few.

If you want to learn and listen to a wide range of great jazz artists, I suggest you check out the Ken Burns PBS series "Jazz" (available at many public libraries). It will give you a wide-ranging introduction to this great American art form. Watch it, learn, then start listening.

If you want to learn and listen to a wide range of great jazz artists, I suggest you check out the Ken Burns PBS series "Jazz" (available at many public libraries). It will give you a wide-ranging introduction to this great American art form. Watch it, learn, then start listening.

Just went to the library this moring and picked that up was indeed a great show!

I am certainly not very knowledgable when it comes to jazz, but I have a couple of suggestions that may not occur to you (or you may not come across in the jazz section of your local music shop).

The first is the soundtrack music to the movie "Backbeat". Be careful, I think there are two different soundtrack disks...this movie was about the Beatles when Stu Sutcliffe was a member, and one of the soundtracks has, I believe, the early Beatles-type stuff. The disk I am recommending is the incidental or mood music, composed and produced by Don Was. The first cut, "You asked, I came" is a 10-minute number that has horns sounding very much like Miles. I like to count off the beats during the middle jam for the cymbal splash every 16 counts! The rest of the music is just as good, some conveying a rather blue, forboding mood (Sutcliffe died of a brain tumor shortly after leaving the Beatles, I believe, and there were some uncomfortable politics at the time of his departure...but I didn't see the movie). Great evocation of sounds from the first couple years of the 60's. It's called "Music from the Backbeat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", on Movie Music label, 7243 8 39413 22 -- I hope there are still some copies out there, it came out in 1994.

The second is also a soundtrack, but it reaches back a lot earlier. The soundtrack to the movie "Crumb" has a lot of genuine 20's and 30's ragtime and blues done mostly on acoustic guitar. There are also a couple of haunting transcriptions from some obscure 78's. R. Crumb, the cartoonist, is one of those tortured souls whose story is so fascinating, and the music helps with that, as well as acknowledging the fact that Crumb is also a fanatic 78-RPM jazz and blues collector, and he plays that sort of music in a string-band as well. Called just "Original Soundtrack - Crumb", it's on Rykodisc, RCD 10322, came out in 1995.

Good luck finding them, I think the first one would especially be worth looking for.

--Bob

The only thing I would add to the posts above is to go down to your city library and check out their jazz CD collection (most large libraries should have CDs you can check out, and while their pop/rock collections are usually pitifully small, their classical and jazz selections are usually pretty plentiful). Years ago I started out with Ella Fitzgerald and she led me to Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and on and on and on. The advantage of a library check out is that you haven't spent any money if you grab something you ultimately can't stand listening to. And there are other advantages to checking out disks from the library, but mentioning them would certainly be frowned upon by the RIAA nazis...

George Benson at Carnegie Hall. Great early stuff, before he got main stream.

Howard McGhee - Maggie's Back in Town. For the Miles Davis fans.

completely agree with above suggestions.
Would add Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson Cal Tjader or currently Bobby Hutchinson for Vibes.
Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Latef for non-traditional more obtuse sax that imo is far more listenable than Miles Davises abstract stuff.
Art Tatum, George Shearing, Red Garland, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Kelly along with Bill Evans are the pianists that I can't get enough of.
Horace Silver is my favorite BeBop artist.
I like Mel Torme, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, and Tony Bennett for vocals.

Whoops! left out the guitarists. Got to mention Charlie Byrd, Tony Mottola, Wes Mongomery and early and I mean pre- 70's George Benson. Need to be selective with the first three as their later stuff went more towards commercial pop that bordered on absolute crap.

a favorite guitarist of mine is Bireli Lagrene. I recommend his album STANDARDS on the blue note label.