If I want to train me ear, so to speak, to start enjoying jazz what artists/albums would you recommend? To me it's doesn't matter if it is classic or contemporary jazz.
2007-01-21 08:42:26 · 11 answers · asked by Laura Palmer 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Start with Coltrane, Miles Davis and Jazz singers like Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald... Try some T Monk , Yellowjackets and please do not forget Count Basie.. ....Jazz is infectious ......You'll love it all.....
2007-01-21 11:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Best Jazz albums:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrain - A Love Supreme
Charles Mingus - Minus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
2007-01-21 16:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jonny 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
How about a local jazz radio station? They play the most current jazz artists. That's how I started to listen to classical music, I listened to the radio station first, then I started buying the albums of the composers I liked the most.
2007-01-21 16:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by Goodbye 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do you have any friends that sing or play jazz? I would listen to them first if you have any. I don't listen to a lot of jazz--I have a Billie Holiday album somewhere--but as a classical singer, I know that it usually takes listening to someone you know before you can enjoy a genre that isn't the mainstream. I was forced to listen to opera when I started taking voice lessons, and after singing a few songs, I liked it. Now some of my family likes opera, too, because I've made them listen to it.
2007-01-21 16:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by bisous148 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It depends on the type of music you are used to listening.
I think you should start with the classics, like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis...
Maybe it's best that you first go to http://www.last.fm/listen/ and choose the jazz radio. That way you can listen to various music and choose what you like.
hope this helps
2007-01-21 16:53:10 · answer #5 · answered by dujour 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Find a Jazz station on the radio, when you hear something you like, write it down. After you find enough you like THEN download their music!
2007-01-21 16:49:22 · answer #6 · answered by kat 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
dave brubeck - time out
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - getz/gilberto
herbie hancock - headhunters
various artists - blue break beats (vol 1, 2, 3, etc)
jimmy smith - back at the chicken shack
2007-01-21 16:56:57 · answer #7 · answered by brighton71 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
MADELIENE PEYROUX'S VOICE IS BEAUTIFUL & SOOTHING. She is Classic Jazz.
IF YOU LIKE INSTRUMENTAL, go with Kenny G, whose Jazz is fun and modern.
MILES DAVIS IS BORING. He is Blues/Jazz.
NORAH JONES IS TOO NASAL. She is Modern Blues/Jazz.
2007-01-21 16:46:51 · answer #8 · answered by Lilly S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Play the station on yahoo messenger. I love it!!!!!!!!!! and the big band/ swing
2007-01-21 16:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I suggest sade and any album she made......that's how I got started.
2007-01-21 16:46:04 · answer #10 · answered by Wandering Sage 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋