SteveO Wrote:I would really like to know the other 4 Jazzy?
Cheating a bit on this by picking my personal choices from this most excellent listing BUT:
Kind of Blue --Miles Davis << My personal fave--all the elements that made Mr. Davis, Mr. Davis and tuneful too...Sketches of Spain as well
A Love Supreme--John Coltrane << quite complex; not for someone new to jazz
Getz/Gilberto--Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto << I personally prefer his previous bossa nova outing with Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba--all these brought the Latin element into jazz big-time in a very accessible but truly jazz way
Mingus Ah Um--Charles Mingus << he was a genius and this mixes politics and art in a way only he could--can be complex but swings his cheeks off too
Here's the source--you cannot go wrong with any of their choices: http://www.thejazzresource.com/top_25_jazz_albums.html << I am not a "know-it-all"--I absolutely depend on sources like this for knowledge and guidance. I may have a leg up due to my life-long passion but that's hardly the same thing.
NOTE: One on this list (At Carnegie Hall by John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk) was just discovered and issued 8 years ago, and the Modern Jazz Quartet had important concert material from the '50's in Germany discovered, polished and burnished, and issued just 2 months ago (MJQ--The Lost Tapes).
BTW, for somebody approaching jazz from the Classical side, here's the ones to get: http://www.allmusic.com/album/fontessa-mw0000201812 and http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-stre...0000216846 This guy was also very creative in an avant-garde mode: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-giu...0000360956
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What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR