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am currently building a jazz library, starting with miles and coltrane


please advise as to other jazzists that would fit in with this (so far) small group


many thanks

Hi knip - Try these....

Dinah Washington

Ella Fizgerald

Billie Holiday

Thelonious Monk

Anita Baker

Etta James

Sonny Rollins

Herbie Mann

Charles Mingus

Herbie Hancock

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

Chick Corea

Bill Evans

Keith Jarrett

Dexter Gordon

Zoot Sims

Joe Henderson

Clarence Brown

Gerry Mulligan

thanks all

kazaalite is going nuts right now



any specific song recommendations would make the process easier and would be very appreciated...again, thanks all

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Billie Holiday

GADZOOKS!!!


been listening to miles' It Never Entered My Mind and haven't been able to figure out where i've heard it before...it just smacked me in the forehead...from that lenny bruce movie starring dustin hoffman

haven't thought of that movie in a while

At Long Last Love - Etta James

You've Changed - Etta James

You've Changed - Eva Cassidy - for comparison... an angelic voice... god I love her... what a loss... she died young

Good Morning, Heartache - Billie Holiday.... YES!

You're My Everything - Ahmad Jamal

Blues on the Ceiling - Fred Neil - my folk hero, but very jazzy

Your Red Wagon - Mose Allison

Sex Machine - Tommy Castro (ok more rock blues than jazz)

The Devil's Real - Chris Smither (folk but jazz, too)

I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl - Nina Simone

Archie Shepp
Eric Dolphy
Booker Little
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Louis Armstrong

Knip:


The Gershwin and Cole Porter Songbooks are a great place to start. The great jazz singer Carmen McRae produced a whole album about 1957 of such tunes ( in fact, many albums) which is one of my most coveted jazz recordings, and I have about 300 jazz cds:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music


Recordings of American songwriters from the fifties just don't get any better than this. Though recorded in 1957, the fidelity is still very good, and Carmen is terrific!

I've never heard a more soulful and elegant version of "My Romance."

I forgot to add Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau to the list of younger jazz players.

Wynton Marsalis' series of recordings of standard tunes with his own group is also very fine.

You might want to buy the series of cds from Ken Burns' film on jazz. The film is also a must-see on DVD. Louis Armstrong is elaborately featured in Burns' film. Narrated and explained by Wynton Marsalis.

Ellis Marsalis, the patriarch of the enormously talented Marsalis jazz family, is a fine jazz pianist who has made several good recordings with his group.

Among Miles recordings, try for "The 58 Sessions", a first-rate recording from the fifties featuring one of the greatest jazz groups ever assembled: Cannonball Adderly, Miles, Coltrane and a young Bill Evans on piano. Just a great, great recording of some fifties standards.

Two of my favorite jazz guitarists are Jim Hall and Joe Pass.Their small ensemble albums are the place to start.

Diana Krall's nifty Nat King Cole tribute album:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=music


"All For You."

This record is sexy, virtuosic, soulful and done in impeccable taste: it's an extended version of Cole's 1940's work, when he worked as a jazz singer and pianist and before he was ruined by super-stardom.

I have listened to all of Miss Krall's subsequent recordings, and in none yet has she achieved this peak of delight-- a great debut album.

I'm very fond of the ill-starred saxophonist ( in and out of prison for drug possession and use) Art Pepper. His live album in Japan, "Landscape" is some of the slickest and most tasteful sax playing I've heard. The great ( though somewhat obscure) George Cables plays piano on this date.

"Yesterdays, yesterdays,

Days I knew as happy, sweet sequestered days . . ."

( Kern/Harbach)

"I just sit and wonder
If love isn't just

One big blunder?"


Now who has written lyrics like those in fifty years?



Zlatko

Hey you guys, what about Django Reinhardt? Gene Krupa?

Django and Stephane Grappelli are okay, if you like the sound,
but for jazz guitar
i still like Larry Coryell

Zlatko - good tip about the 58 sessions. Sounds like an amazing collection

Larry Coryell has 5 fingers on both hands :P

you can't hold that against him, can ya?

(just thinking about Coltrane playing Naima)

you already mentioned that you started with Miles......but to me, THE greatest 'classic' jazz album is Kind of Blue. i can put that album on ANYTIME, on repeat, and just get lost...forever. as far as albums from start to finish, that one can't be beat.

there are almost too many artists/albums/songs that you could just start with....and then you have to catch up the next 30-40 years. keeping up with jazz has always been frustrating for me...b/c there are so many sub-genres of it.