Jazz Recs?
 

Ok, so recently I picked up Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on the suggestion of a friend. I'm absolutely loving it, really cool stuff.

I was wondering if you fine folks might be able to suggest some other jazz albums I should take a look at. I know next to nothing about the style as yet so I can't really say exactly what I'm looking for...but it's something that I really want to get more into.

Any suggestions?

Well, an old standard is The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out.

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Also check out Medeski Martin & Wood for a great modern jazz group.

John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk

Yah, I'll second Monk. Brilliant.

I'm really partital to early jazz- like from the 20s-30s. Any anthology out there will suffice- lots of infectious music there. Cab calloway, Count Basie, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet.

For far out stuff- Sun Ra. Dizzy Gillespie for be-bop. Vocal Jazz- Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

Look for the DVD "Jazz on a Summer's Day" - live recording of the legendary Newport Jazz Festival in I think 1964.

It might be on the less experimental side, but I really like Duke Ellington.

Thanks guys, loving the suggestions.

Currently rocking Night Train by Oscar Peterson...cooool.

Bud Powell
Ornette Coleman
John Zorn (contemporary wierdness)
Coltrane's A LOVE SUPREME is always in heavy rotation in my ipod