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Oh hey, so I used to listen to jazz on the radio on the east side, as 101.9 and 89.9 FM both played it at night. However, the west side of Michigan lacks radio stations that play anything outside of pop and country, so I'm thinking about investing in some recordings. Sadly, I do not have a great knowledge of jazz, so I'm at a lost as to what to get first. So, what are you favourite jazz albums/songs/artists? I'm thinking of gettting some stuff along the lines of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, etc. But I'm open to anything.

Monk and Miles
that's a good start, boho
one of my favorite all-time tunes is
Miles' version of Monk's 'Round Midnight. (also featuring Cannonball Aderly)

maybe add
Charlie Parker
Oscar Peterson
Coltranes John and Alice
Pharoah Sanders
John Klemmer
Louis Armstrong
Winton Marsalis

(and oh yeah, if you think that Kenny G has anything to do with jazz, you should just forget the whole enterprise. )

The marvellous Archie Shepp (sax, composition, vocals)
Don Cherry (pocket trumpet)
Eric Dolphy (flute and some sax)

ah, sweet jazz.
our kids were nursed on it and burped on it.

But it takes visitors to our place to get them to sit down to an entire jazz CD.

This weekend it was Cry of My People, Archie Shepp.
Listening to good music raises the entire vibe of the house to joy.

There was another thread on here some time back where people were listing their favorite jazz artists. I can't find it right now but there are some listed on this thread also.

http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... light=jazz

I'll keep looking. It was a very rich thread.

Here it is. This is the thread I was looking for.

http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... light=jazz

Building a jazz library. To read

Be-bop jazz. To listen to.

A starter's kit :

-Miles Davis : Kind of blue

-Miles Davis: Birth of the cool

-John Coltrane: A love supreme

-Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Hum !

-Bill Evans: Live at the village Vangard

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Art Pepper - Modern Art

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain

Thelonious Monk - Alone In San Francisco

Hmmm no college radio stations around where you live?
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Hey, thanks everyone, its been a real help! I was at a lost where to begin, with jazz being such an extensive genre and my bank account being anything but extensive. I went to the local record store and got Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, but then was consequently distracted by a Muddy Water's cd, followed by a Flaming Lips vinyl reissue. Basically record stores and book stores are both extremely dangerous places for the well-being of my wallet.

There is a college radio station (WIDR 89.1), but their programming is haphazard at best. I'm still exploring.

Marion McPartland's Pinao Jazz on Sunday night's she plays with jazz greats and has conversations that with the visiting musicians. She has all these great people on that I have never heard of. Sometimes they play archived programs with late great jazz musicians too. The conversations are almost as interesting as the music. Not a Q and A kind of thing just old friends chatting about songs and people they have played with.

I remember asking on another lit forum for some jazz advice. the advice lr gave me has inspired my small but great collection.

coltrane ( so far I only have love supreme. but wow! just wow! fucking... wow! it's rock n roll and soul and funk and space age heart rape and...)

mingus (ah um. one of my favourite records of all time)

parker (I have a grand box set... i don't know though... i like it but... it's not what I want... maybe this isn't the "good shit"?)

miles davis (again. i think i just don't get him. i appreciate it but I don't get it)

art blakey (exceptional drum solos... just... fuck. me.)

and last but by. no. means. least.... as my left heart has hendrix, my left heart 2 has dylan, and my right heart has the beatles? my right heart 2 has this guy.
thelonious monk. again. I haven't been able to get more than one record so far (money issues, don't you know) but I have live at the it club and... that double album done blows my mind. each. and every. time. i listen. jesus fuck! drum solos that will make your throbbing heart bleed purple throbbing cock blood, piano that will smash your teeth and put them back together again in the order some cloud god actually intended (cubist teeth..tranquil blue and electric white piano playing discordant. beauty and decay and the beauty of both all rolled in to one...)


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When i just want to listen, i listen with joy to Kind of Blue. So What is so cool (Miles does it everytime - each album a new sound - each musician he plays with a divine entity - yum)

Monk is so utterly amazing. His hands were the size of small pianos each one -his breadth of chord is phenomenal and his head! oh, his mind.

Coltrane continually takes me to worlds unknown with every blow.

So, If you're listening to those people, you've taken on a lot already.

Mingus is powerful, Parker is one of a kind - Dizzy a survivor and a mentor (or was). If you like sax, the World Saxophone Quartet has some brilliant sounds - try downloading a little to see if you want to go off in that direction.
If you like flute, try Eric Dolphy.
If you want to cry over trumpet, try Booker Little.

hmmm, feel like listening to a little something right now. see ya

judih,

you mentioned Eric Dolphe
he is my all time hero on the flute and I love his alto clarinet work too

you know he died in poverty
another misfit
or is it outcast?

and oh yes, judih
I got to meet Don Cherry one time
he was not just a musician but also a pro golfer
my uncle introduced him to me one time
he used to play golf in the day on the pro tour
and play music at night wherever the tournament was

eric dolphy was definitely outcast and therefore a misfit. Genius, soul-stirring musician.

don cherry golfs? cool.
love him
once did a dance to him and ed blackwell (two cocoons emerged into butterfly and moth - fantastic experience...perfect music for improvising life at high speed)

Sonnie Rollins, Chaz. Mingus, Parker, MilesDavis, Kenny G . . . .

psych.