The best way to start listening to Jazz?!
Question: I really wanted to start listening to jazz, but I have no idea where to begin. Could you give me some advice on singers / bands that I should listen first?
Answers: I really wanted to start listening to jazz, but I have no idea where to begin. Could you give me some advice on singers / bands that I should listen first?
These albums that I am suggesting are easy to like. Yes, Charlie Parker and Dizzy were great, but not for beginners. These albums are perfect for all listeners, and they are all jazz classics.
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.
Thelonious Monk is another great and important master of jazz. I suggest that you start out with the Monk's Dream album.Monk swings the hardest of any jazz musician, in my little opinion.
Roland Kirk's album , The Inflated Tear really turned me onto jazz. I still enjoy it and respect it.
Grant Green's Matador album 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.
Wayne Shorter's album Speak No Evil is a great album that you really have to hear. I can't even talk about it. The whole band is amazing.
Herbie Hancock's album, Maiden Voyage is 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.
Horace Silver plays piano with soul. The songs are great and so is the band. Everything works on this album called Song For My father. It's another easy to like album too.
Please trust these suggestions. These are classic albums. They are accessible to any listener. These albums are the best place to start with. I know what I'm talking about.
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Well, you could start with Diana Krall, aka Mrs Elvis Costello.
Good jazz and not too over the edge.
Stay away from Kenny G and the like. Any player will tell you that's just pop ;-)
But if you really want to hear jazz, you have to go back to the masters. Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker. These are some of the legends.
tune your radio to a jazz station in your area and when you find something you really like, pay attention to artist name and go from there. back when, a lot of people didn't knwo that nat king cole was a jazz musician and loved him. so there is a lot of jazz out there to listen to.
Nina Simone
Ella Fitzgerald
These are Latin Jazz:
Tito Puente
Jose Feliciano
Celia Cruz
Hector Lavoe
Ismael Rivera
Start listening to modern CD's that have been released this year and then work your way backwards thru the 60s, 50s and 40s. Connect with a good on-line radio (iTunes is really good for this) ......lots of free radio streaming jazz.
Try listening to instrumental jazz to start. Listen to people improvise on blues scales.
Start with these jazz singers.....
Ella Fitzgerald
Tony Bennett
Frank Sinatra ("New York, New York", and "Luck Be A Lady" is his best songs)
Natalie Cole
Lena Horne
Lena Horne is what I call "The Little Lily of Jazz Singing". She mainly sings jazz ballads.
For jazz bands and all that, start with....
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Buddy Rich Orchestra
Miles Davis Quartet
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Cannonball Adderley Ensemble
god! this is my favorite music. where to begin!
glenn miller, benny goodman, tommy dorsey, dizzy guillespie
and some more recent stuff brian setzer and his orchestra and of course....... the royal crown revue. check out limewire.com and download away!