I just started really liking jazz. I've always liked it but now I prefer it over much of the music out there.What would be the best first choice cd for someone just beginning to appreciate it?
2006-11-22 17:18:22 · 5 answers · asked by Melanie W 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I agree, totally, with the two answers above. It seems almost impossible to me that any human could not enjoy the Miles Davis Kind of Blue album. It's a great album for a beginner, and it's great even if you've heard a whole lot of jazz. Get it. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t95j8q9bbtv4
Thelonious is another great and important master of jazz. I suggest that you start out with the Monk's Dream album. Don't operate heavy machinery while listening. Monk swings the hardest of any jazz musician, in my little opinion. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ny5m968odep1
This is the album that really turned me onto jazz. I still enjoy it and respect it. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ki7ibka96ak0
This is a great album, centered around the guitar playing, although McCoy Tyner is at his best (piano player from Coltrane's band). It's another great album that's easy to like. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5aqag4ebtv6z
Here's a great album that you really have to hear. I can't even talk about it. The whole band is amazing. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gv6gtr8lkl4x
Another great and easy to like album. Freddie Hubbard is at his best through the whole album (on trumpet, fluglehorn). It's a concept album, and it really does flow like the sea, as Herbie intended it to. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sad5vwrta9ek
Horace Silver plays piano with soul. The songs are great and so is the band. Everything works on this album. It's another easy to like album too. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pyom965odepc
Please trust these suggestions. These are classic albums. They are accesible to the beginner's ear. Jazz is a form of music that is untouched by the ambitions of being famous. It's all about the music.
PS-Here's a modern great. Personally, I think it's a great album. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sad5vwrta9ek
Happy listening.
2006-11-23 03:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Teaim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Definitely #1 on your list should be the album "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. This is hands-down the most popular jazz album of all time, featuring John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb (I think that's correct).
One album that really inspired me when I first started listening/playing jazz is "Digital Duke". It's a studio album from the 80's with an all-star big band playing new and original arrangements of classic Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn compositions. The Marsalis bros. are featured, at least I'm sure Branford is. Clark Terry and a handful of Ellington band veterans are also playing, as well as some extremely solid studio cats.
2006-11-23 01:42:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie. Some where along those lines should alright to get you started.
2006-11-23 01:31:25 · answer #3 · answered by Carolinablues 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say that he was jazz persey but it does have that Frank Sinatra feel to it, or Harry Connick jr....try Micheal Buble.
2006-11-23 01:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by nightowl_2134 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is absolutely essential that you get anything by Thelonious Monk
2006-11-23 01:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by miss_ursie_la 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋