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Please recommend jazz album

post #1 of 42
7/16/09 at 1:02pm
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I just listening to JAZZ for a while, please recommend your favourite album

thank you
best regards,

Jiaza
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post #2 of 42
7/16/09 at 1:05pm
Hi Jiaza,

Welcome to Head-fi. If you do a search in the music forum you will find many threads recommending jazz albums.
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post #3 of 42
7/16/09 at 1:08pm
There are definitely many great Jazz recommendation threads. There is, however, one jazz album that needs to be listened to before all others. "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis. It is indispensable.
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post #4 of 42
7/16/09 at 1:22pm
Yes. "Kind of Blues" is at the pinnacle. It would be a place to start.

"Kind of Blues" is to Jazz what Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is to rock.

That being said, you may listen to it and wonder what's so great about it if you aren't used to jazz. Over time, though, you'll get why it's so amazing.
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post #5 of 42
7/16/09 at 1:43pm
Kind of Blue, yes

Also, Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out (1959) is absolutely essential.
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post #6 of 42
7/16/09 at 2:02pm
Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew", and "Sketches of Spain"
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post #7 of 42
7/16/09 at 2:13pm
Bitches Brew is pretty awesome as well. I prefer this phase of Miles music.
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post #8 of 42
7/16/09 at 2:31pm
Tord Gustavsen Trio
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post #9 of 42
7/16/09 at 2:58pm
YellowJackets - Mint Jam
Pat Metheny - OffRamp, American Garage, Speaking of Now, Letter From Home, We live Here
Charlie Hunter - Baboon Strength
Stanton Moore - Stanton Moore III
John Ellis - One Foot in the Swamp
Miles Davis - Steamin, Working, Birth of the Cool, Mile in the Sky
Chris Botti - Night Moves, Slowing down the world, Botti in Boston
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post #10 of 42
7/16/09 at 3:28pm
It'd be nice to know what the OP has been listening to/enjoying thus far. That helps a lot when making recommendations.
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post #11 of 42
7/16/09 at 3:31pm
'The livingroom tapes' is a excellent jazz gitar-klarinet album by Lenny Breau

My Funny Valentine is my favorite Miles Davis album
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post #12 of 42
7/16/09 at 3:39pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
There are definitely many great Jazz recommendation threads. There is, however, one jazz album that needs to be listened to before all others. "Kind Of Blue" by Miles Davis. It is indispensable.
Exactly why I recommended a search: A) so that the OP learns to search first, and B) Kind of Blue is in every recommendation thread.
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post #13 of 42
7/16/09 at 6:03pm
Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
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post #14 of 42
7/16/09 at 7:15pm
Just listing some jazz albums is hard to do unless we know what you like....what kind of jazz do you like?? Big band,Be Bop, Post Bop, Avant Garde, or even smooth jazz......It is hard for me to blindly recommend Bitches Brew to someone coming from a earlier tradition of jazz when that might turn them off completely from jazz. That just isn't everybody's bag when it comes to jazz....just as Glenn Miller isn't....so if OP could give idea of what he likes then it would be a lot easier to go off that. With that said,Kind of Blue is hard to go wrong with....but it is modal jazz and not everybody likes that kind of jazz.
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post #15 of 42
7/16/09 at 7:55pm
Till Bronner - Blue Eyed Soul.
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