classic jazz recommendations

i'm burning cds for my dad; he's trying to convert someone to jazz

avoiding the swing era what are some of your favorite jazz records

kind of blue - miles davis

bitch's brew - miles davis

Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter

john coltrane - a love supreme

charles mingus - black saint and the sinner lady

Miles Davis-Birth of the Cool/Kind of Blue

must haves, these two..

anything by Stan Getz is usually interesting, also, try some Louis Armstrong/Ella Fitzgerald...vocal jazz...good stuff.

here is what i have so far:

miles davis - birth of the cool / kind of blue / bitches brew

john coltrane - giant steps / my favorite things / a love supreme

the ramsey lewis trio - the in crowd

earl klugh - solo guitar

thelonious monk - brilliant corners / monk's dream

billie holiday - the billie holiday songbook / the quintessential billie holiday vol. 1, 1933-1935

charlie parker - verve jazz masters 15

charles mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady

nina simone - the essential nina simone

the dave brubeck quartet - time out

stan getz - getz au go go

sarah vaughan - the best of sarah vaughan

medeski martin & wood - notes from the underground / friday afternoon in the universe

etta james - the essential etta james

buddy rich - mercy, mercy

django reinhardt - peche à la mouche

ella fitzgerald - ken burns jazz

wayne shorter - speak no evil

max roach - percussion bitter sweet

the modern jazz quartet - lonely woman / the last concert

al di meola - friday night in san francisco (w/ john mclaughlin/paco de lucia) / rite of strings (w/ stanley clarke/jean-luc ponty)

i'll keep adding to this as we settle on choices but i'm starting to run out of cd-r's!

check out anything by Max Roach, even his youtube videos if you are into the fast jazz drumming stuff

i wish i knew more about Jazz, i listen to a local station in SF 91.1 and they play some awesome stuff sometimes. on sundays they do a latin jazz thing and some of it blows me away, especially the percussion and piano.

  JohnTqs said:

Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter

yeah dad said he saw wayne shorter live, we'll check that out

  IRARI said:

i'm burning cds for my dad; he's trying to convert someone to jazz

Is he trying to seduce a woman with a mixtape as well?

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  IRARI said:

i'm burning cds for my dad; he's trying to convert someone to jazz

Is he trying to seduce a woman with a mixtape as well?

no it's for his boss at work

Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage and Gershwin's World

miles davis- Milestones -this is just as good, if not better than KOB IMO.

also, the bad plus? I heard the covered an Aphex Twin song? MORE INFO PLZ? :angry:

miles davis 'round midnight' 'Miles Smiles' 'The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings'

they can be quite cheesy but still highly enjoyible

Charles Mingus 'Blues & Roots'

Sonny Rollins 'a night at the village vanguard'

  funkaholic said:

miles davis 'round midnight' 'Miles Smiles' 'The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings'

they can be quite cheesy but still highly enjoyible

 

Charles Mingus 'Blues & Roots'

 

Sonny Rollins but i cant remember the damn name of the album or find it

saxophone colossus?

albert ayler

  Hanratty said:

albert ayler

i love ayler, but hes a bit out there for most people..

also this is very helpful for finding albums

http://www.shareminer.com/

sun ra - lanquidity

You need some Bill Evans on there.

and some Duke Jordan.

Maybe some Lester Young.

theres some chet baker thats pretty good.. i read a really great bio on him. my god that man was a shameless junkie

chet baker before heroin

chet baker after

  Hanratty said:

albert ayler

lol

julius hemphill too?

  Z_B_Z said:

john coltrane - a love supreme

charles mingus - black saint and the sinner lady

  Z_B_Z said:

  Hanratty said:

albert ayler

 

i love ayler, but hes a bit out there for most people..

  Z_B_Z said:

theres some chet baker thats pretty good.. i read a really great bio on him. my god that man was a shameless junkie

 

chet baker before heroin

 

 

chet baker after

 

ok you're off prohation

Money Jungle

Everybody has mentioned Miles but not Sketches of Spain, In a Silent Way, or Jack Johnson...3 of his best.

Might want to throw in some Mahavishnu Orchestra or Weather Report for good measure, if you're going beyond "classic jazz".

oscar peterson's night train is absolutely essential

mate of mine played some oscar peterson the other day, I quite like it