Recommend me some albums/songs please!

Since you like guitar, try Pat Martino's "Footsteps", a tribute to Wes Montgomery.

 

- Ed

Blues Rock = The Black Keys

Some good jazz to start with - The Best of Bill Evans on Verve

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

 

Also if you want to enjoy some well recorded albums look into Thievery Corporation, all of their albums are very well done as are all Peter Gabriel albums. I highly recommend Up by Peter Gabriel. Cheers.

 

I second the dave brubeck recommendation. His quartet albums were genius. But, also really easily appreciated by the novice ear. Which might explain why time out is in the top 2 or 3 best selling jazz records of all time.
I would start there before moving to the more purist stuff like kind of blue. Which is the other must have jazz record.

Cheers

Good for you to want to expand your horizons.  This is a HUGE question.  I mean, if you want music from all genres, you better have a good budget as this could get expensive.  Here are some suggestions from my tottaly un-trained, but obsessive ear:

 

Manheim Steamroller:  Classical Gas (this one is a classic in the beginning new age/easy listening arena)

 

JAZZ:

Dave Brubeck:  Blue Rondo a la Turk, Take 5, My Romance

James Carter:  Bossa JC

Bela Fleck & the Flecktone:  Lover's Leap

Masabumi Kikuchi:  A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square

John Scofield (w/ John Mayer):  I Don't Need No Doctor

Henry Mancini:  Baby Elephant Walk

George Winston:  Treat Street (a Vince Guaraldi classic)

Herbie Hancock:  Cantaloupe Island

 

These are some of my favorites of the "new to my library" mix that has given me an all new appreciation of things outside my normal listening realm.

 

Good luck!

Sproles

 

Want to try something unique, Try these:

 

Shakti- A Handful of Beauty

 

Shaki- Natural Elements

 

Avial- Avial

 

 

 

 

I didn't realize. This post may not be applicable here. The earlier one is though, maybe.

 

 

Metal Core/ Deathcore

 

As I Lay Dying

As Blood Runs Black

Miss May I

Twelve Tribes

Still Remains

All That remains

Burst

 

 

Technical Death

 

Gojira

Meshuggah

 

Alt Metal

 

Boris

Baroness

Mastodon

 

Edited by wrathzombie - 8/21/11 at 9:41am

 

 

 

Track listing (U.S. Version)

All songs by Barry Hay and George Kooymans, except where noted
"Radar Love" – 6:24
"Candy's Going Bad" – 6:12
"Vanilla Queen" – 9:20
"Big Tree, Blue Sea" – 8:13
"Are You Receiving Me" (John Fenton, Hay, Kooymans) – 9:32

This is also the track listing on the original UK vinyl release (see above), as well as on early U.S. LP pressings (Track/MCA 396).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is this funny little record which came out in 1973 called Moontan.  The band is Golden Earring and the hit song was Radar Love.

 

 

This is a great album to study. One, because of the real or imagined tempo changes in Radar Love. There is also some other parts of the record which seem to be getting slower but stay in key! Radar Love seems to be getting faster but the question really is, does it get faster or are they making it seem this way.

 

It is a little hard to find the whole album like the US pressing listed here and it may never come out on CD that way. It is on vinyl though. Simple Blues based hard rock. A perfect legend of a record.   

I would name lots of albums but instead say to search mixcloud.com for specific genre for hundreds af artists of all styles, also includes many pro musicians.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi Trio is a great fun place to start for jazz IMO.  If you can't enjoy this album then there's a possibly that you were born without a soul.  Give it a try, kid. 

Diana Krall stuff is worth mentioning. 

Okay. It has been 3 months, OP.
It is customary to check in and let folks know how you enjoyed their recommendations.