What is an essential jazz cd for someone with little experience with jazz?!


Question: What is an essential jazz cd for someone with little experience with jazz!?
I have just joined a jazz band (playing drums) and would like to become more familiar with the music because so far, it sounds pretty good!. Any suggestions!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


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I know how to ease you in!. If you try these albums first, you will develop an ear for jazz!. I know what I'm talking about!. These albums that I am suggesting are easy to like!. Yes Charlie Parker was great, but not for beginners!. These albums are perfect for beginners, 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!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&sql!.!.!.

Thelonious is another great and important master of jazz!. I suggest that you start out with the Monk's Dream album!. Don't operate heavy machinery while listening!. Monk swings the hardest of any jazz musician, in my little opinion!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&tok!.!.!.

This is the album that really turned me onto jazz!. I still enjoy it and respect it!. Roland Kirk's Inflated Tear album!.
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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!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&tok!.!.!.

Wayne Shorter's album called Speak Like A Child is a great album that you really have to hear!. I can't even talk about it!. The whole band is amazing!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&sql!.!.!.

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!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&tok!.!.!.

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!. http://allmusic!.com/cg/amg!.dll!?p=amg&tok!.!.!.

Oliver Nelson's album called Blues and the Abstract Truth is another classic!. It features the great Eric Dolphy!. Get it!Www@Enter-QA@Com

It really depends on what subgenre of Jazz you're looking for!.!.!. If you want combo stuff, I'd (as a trumpeter) recommend anything by Clifford Brown with Max Roach!. If you're into the big band stuff, I'd go with a CD by the Count Basie Band or the Stan Kenton Band!. I can't say that there is a definitive performance of 'Jazz' because there are so many GREAT recordings of different groups!. You just have to do a bunch of listening to various set players to learn different styles of drumming!. It helps to hear different contexts (combo/big band/etc!.) so that you can get a clear idea of what you like as far as playing the drums goes!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I would recommend "My Favorite Things" By John Coltrane followed by Miles Davis"s "Someday My Prince Will Come" and of course don't forget Wes Montgomery"s "Bumpin on Sunset"!. Good listening!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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