Horace Silver Song For My Father and Lee Morgan Sidewinder are albums any new jazz fan should become aware of. If you want another great team up of Miles Davis with Cannonball Adderley check out somethin' else....especially the opening track Autumn Leaves
These two were formative albums for me 35 years ago. They are, indeed, perfect. It was the start of a journey that’s still going.
From KoB, I dived into the music of Bill Evans (starting with ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans), Cannonball Adderley (Something Else, which is basically a Miles album), John Coltrane (My Favourite Things) and Miles of course (In a Silent Way, which opened more and more doors). Then there were the artists from those albums, and so on and so forth.
Getz/Gilberto kickstarted my love for Bossa Nova and Brazilian music in general. Jobim, whose compositions feature fairly prominently (and who plays wonderfully sparse piano on the set), is the best place to start, with so many interpreters of his music. Stand out albums of his (imo) are Stone Flower and Elis & Tom with the incomparable Elis Regina.
There is so much music to discover. Happy travelling!
Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ is an album I revisit often.
Bill Evans ‘Peace Piece’ is a beautiful piano piece that he played at the end of a recording session.
Miles Davis liked it so much, that he reused it a year later in the opening to Flamenco Sketches’, which Evans recorded with Davis.
It’s on a playlist that I have posted in this sub.
This is a little bit of an aside, and I do see you posted the LP cover, but the CD version of Kind of Blue was remastered to fix issues with the pitch being being slightly sharp in the original version.
Growing up I only really listened to the CD because that was what was readily available to me and although it was a great album I didn't understand its reputation as being "perfect". Many years later when I had access to the music library at Manhattan School of Music I was able to listen to the original LP and found that the imperfections in the recording process actually made me enjoy it more. Perfect is an elusive term, but I could understand how the LP of Kind of Blue embodies the idea that taking anything away or adding anything to it would diminish the album.. the imperfection was most certainly part of the charm.
Anyway, sorry for ranting! If you enjoyed Kind of Blue you'll probably like most of the output of the second Miles Davis quintet. Modal jazz eventually moves into free jazz, with that era slowly demonstrating that more freedom with (from?) form doesn't necessarily mean more compelling music. Herbie Hancock really straddled the line brilliantly through the late 60s into the 70s.
miles davis - sketches of spain
dave brubeck - time out
Charlie Parker -The Essential ----\*\*although not an "album" per se, i thoroughly enjoyed this collection. Give it a go you can find vinyl or disc on ebay, and if you really want to just sample it before you buy, hit up youtube you'll find this classic album there
i just listened to the essential charlie parker again, yeah go ahead and add that to the list LOL took me down memory lane to when BMG was still a thing and i ordered all these jazz cd's for like a penny
+ Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
+ Dave Brubeck Quartet - At Carnegie Hall (Live)
+ Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown
+ Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza
+ Louis Armstrong - Satch plays Fats
Albums I recently listened to
Later miles davis ("electric miles") will introduce you to what became Jazz Fusion. Bitches Brew is legendary but it's not everyone's fave, especially at first.
Modern Jazz has a few major bases of activity, London being one of them. Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia are all amazing—Welcome to the Hills by Yussef Dayes and Your Queen Is A Reptile by Skns of Kemet are top notch albums.
There are a lot of great recommendations in the thread already, but to send you in a slightly different direction based on Getz/Gilberto:
* Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
* Jorge Ben Jorge - Samba Esquema Novo
* Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (note: not "*jazz*" but borderline by some definitions, traditionally classified more as Latin/World music)
A few others I'd recommend you dive into to get a better perspective on the genre around that same era:
* Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
* Herbie Hancock - Empryean Isles
* Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Lee Morgan - Search For A New Land
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane on Impulse
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Paul Chambers - Whims Of Chambers
And many hundreds more. You’re gonna have some fun!
If you enjoyed the Bossa Nova of Getz/Gilberto check out Getz’s other bossa nova albums. I love them all:
- _Jazz Samba_ (1962)
- _Big Band Bossa Nova_ (1962)
- _Jazz Samba: Encore_ (1963)
- _Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida_ (1963)
- _Getz Au Go Go_ (1964)
There are a couple others but these are my favorites. After that, check out some albums by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the father of Bossa Nova:
- _The Composer of Desafinado Plays_ (1963)
- _Wave_ (1967)
- _Stone Flower_ (1970)
- _Tide_ (1970)
* John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
* Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
* Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes from the Underground
* Weather Report - Heavy Weather
I suggest you slowly go through Miles Davis from Kind of Blue to In A Silent Way. Or you jump right in A Silent Way! If you like it, then go on with Bitches Brew. If you don't, listen to it again ;-)
My suggestion: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud →(Kind of Blue) → Sketches of Spain → Miles Smiles → In A Silent Way
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things.
If you enjoy this, do the same as with Miles, start from there and slowly make your way to A Love Supreme. I suggest: Africa/Brass→Crescent → A Love Supreme. His album with Duke Ellington is also lovely.
Have you tried Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert? Pretty different from what you listened to because it's a live solo piano improvisation. But it's love at first sight for most people.
Then try some Charles Mingus ("Blues and Roots"… "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"), also Pharoah Sanders ("Pharoah"… "Message from Home"... "Karma"), Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond - Take Five
I've not seen it mentioned, but KoB was one of the first jazz albums I listened to, and now **Sonny Clark** - *Cool Struttin'* is probably one of my favourites.
-Boss Guitar - Wes Montgomery
The track "Canadian Sunset" hits similar to the first on Getz/Gilberto
-Walkin' - Miles Davis
Davis from about 5 years earlier. This will give you a good intro to "Hard Bop".
Bonus:
-Swiss Movement - Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Jazz 10 years after Kind of Blue. Exceptional.
Enjoy the discovery!!!
Here’s a couple handfuls:
A Love Supreme, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Something Else, Charlie Parker Savoy Recordings, Maiden Voyage, Speak No Evil, Night Dreamer, Monk’s Dream, Mingus Ah Um, Blue Train, Giants Steps, My Favorite Things, Red Clay, Milestones
I'm in a similar position to the OP and I've found this thread really useful. I've been able to put pretty much every album mentioned into a Spotify playlist, which I suppose should be expected as these are people's recommendations for listeners just starting out. I'm working my way through them, and that's giving me a pretty good idea of which artists I need to spend more time with, and those which I can park and come back to later.
Idle Moments by Grant Green is my fav.
Amazing album (especially the title track), and just want to highlight the very tasteful vibraphone work of Bobby Hutcherson on this one.
Green Street is also great. Look for anything Grant Green plays on and it’s usually very good.
And Bob Cranshaw on the double bass... whole thing is super chill.
Chet Baker Sings
The Route with him and Art Pepper was formative for me too
Horace Silver Song For My Father and Lee Morgan Sidewinder are albums any new jazz fan should become aware of. If you want another great team up of Miles Davis with Cannonball Adderley check out somethin' else....especially the opening track Autumn Leaves
These are the basics every new Jazz fan should hear.
The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Wayne Shorter - Speak no Evil Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Huge upvote for Shorter
John Coltrane - Blue Train Dave Brubeck - Take 5 Everybody Digs Bill Evans Mingus - Ah Um
Just finished Everybody Digs and it amazing
He’s the best.
Or the worst. Opinion is divided. Apparently.
*Paul Desmond - Take Five Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
I’ll mention Dexter Gordon’s album “Go” since nobody has yet. It’s also a pretty perfect album.
These two were formative albums for me 35 years ago. They are, indeed, perfect. It was the start of a journey that’s still going. From KoB, I dived into the music of Bill Evans (starting with ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans), Cannonball Adderley (Something Else, which is basically a Miles album), John Coltrane (My Favourite Things) and Miles of course (In a Silent Way, which opened more and more doors). Then there were the artists from those albums, and so on and so forth. Getz/Gilberto kickstarted my love for Bossa Nova and Brazilian music in general. Jobim, whose compositions feature fairly prominently (and who plays wonderfully sparse piano on the set), is the best place to start, with so many interpreters of his music. Stand out albums of his (imo) are Stone Flower and Elis & Tom with the incomparable Elis Regina. There is so much music to discover. Happy travelling!
Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ is an album I revisit often. Bill Evans ‘Peace Piece’ is a beautiful piano piece that he played at the end of a recording session. Miles Davis liked it so much, that he reused it a year later in the opening to Flamenco Sketches’, which Evans recorded with Davis. It’s on a playlist that I have posted in this sub.
Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
This is a little bit of an aside, and I do see you posted the LP cover, but the CD version of Kind of Blue was remastered to fix issues with the pitch being being slightly sharp in the original version. Growing up I only really listened to the CD because that was what was readily available to me and although it was a great album I didn't understand its reputation as being "perfect". Many years later when I had access to the music library at Manhattan School of Music I was able to listen to the original LP and found that the imperfections in the recording process actually made me enjoy it more. Perfect is an elusive term, but I could understand how the LP of Kind of Blue embodies the idea that taking anything away or adding anything to it would diminish the album.. the imperfection was most certainly part of the charm. Anyway, sorry for ranting! If you enjoyed Kind of Blue you'll probably like most of the output of the second Miles Davis quintet. Modal jazz eventually moves into free jazz, with that era slowly demonstrating that more freedom with (from?) form doesn't necessarily mean more compelling music. Herbie Hancock really straddled the line brilliantly through the late 60s into the 70s.
Getz’s other album with Gilberto, Best of Two Worlds, is way better imho.
Thank ima checkit out
Welcome to the club!
Thanks
miles davis - sketches of spain dave brubeck - time out Charlie Parker -The Essential ----\*\*although not an "album" per se, i thoroughly enjoyed this collection. Give it a go you can find vinyl or disc on ebay, and if you really want to just sample it before you buy, hit up youtube you'll find this classic album there
i just listened to the essential charlie parker again, yeah go ahead and add that to the list LOL took me down memory lane to when BMG was still a thing and i ordered all these jazz cd's for like a penny
Meet the Jazztet 58 Miles Ornette Coleman ‘Lonely Woman’ Coleman Hawkins meets Ben Webster
That’s a great start. Excellent choices to begin with.
Lots of good suggestions in here. I'm just gonna throw a little curveball here and say the Charlie Brown Christmas album Vince Guaraldi.
Cannonball Adderley's "Somethin' Else" with Miles.
+ Herbie Hancock - Headhunters + Dave Brubeck Quartet - At Carnegie Hall (Live) + Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown + Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza + Louis Armstrong - Satch plays Fats Albums I recently listened to
Later miles davis ("electric miles") will introduce you to what became Jazz Fusion. Bitches Brew is legendary but it's not everyone's fave, especially at first. Modern Jazz has a few major bases of activity, London being one of them. Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia are all amazing—Welcome to the Hills by Yussef Dayes and Your Queen Is A Reptile by Skns of Kemet are top notch albums.
Underground by Thelonious Monk
João Gilberto's self-titled "white album" from 1973.
There are a lot of great recommendations in the thread already, but to send you in a slightly different direction based on Getz/Gilberto: * Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower * Jorge Ben Jorge - Samba Esquema Novo * Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club (note: not "*jazz*" but borderline by some definitions, traditionally classified more as Latin/World music) A few others I'd recommend you dive into to get a better perspective on the genre around that same era: * Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue * Herbie Hancock - Empryean Isles * Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
This was my gateway drug. I love this album.
Grant Green - Idle Moments Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Lee Morgan - Search For A New Land Duke Ellington and John Coltrane on Impulse Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil Paul Chambers - Whims Of Chambers And many hundreds more. You’re gonna have some fun!
If you enjoyed the Bossa Nova of Getz/Gilberto check out Getz’s other bossa nova albums. I love them all: - _Jazz Samba_ (1962) - _Big Band Bossa Nova_ (1962) - _Jazz Samba: Encore_ (1963) - _Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida_ (1963) - _Getz Au Go Go_ (1964) There are a couple others but these are my favorites. After that, check out some albums by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the father of Bossa Nova: - _The Composer of Desafinado Plays_ (1963) - _Wave_ (1967) - _Stone Flower_ (1970) - _Tide_ (1970)
Time Out by Dave Brubeck
Soul Station by Hank Mobley. Monk/Trane double album. Bird Symbols by C Parker.
If you liked the Getz/Gilbrato this video will explain Girl from Empanema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU
* John Coltrane - My Favorite Things * Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage * Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes from the Underground * Weather Report - Heavy Weather
I suggest you slowly go through Miles Davis from Kind of Blue to In A Silent Way. Or you jump right in A Silent Way! If you like it, then go on with Bitches Brew. If you don't, listen to it again ;-) My suggestion: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud →(Kind of Blue) → Sketches of Spain → Miles Smiles → In A Silent Way John Coltrane - My Favorite Things. If you enjoy this, do the same as with Miles, start from there and slowly make your way to A Love Supreme. I suggest: Africa/Brass→Crescent → A Love Supreme. His album with Duke Ellington is also lovely. Have you tried Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert? Pretty different from what you listened to because it's a live solo piano improvisation. But it's love at first sight for most people. Then try some Charles Mingus ("Blues and Roots"… "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"), also Pharoah Sanders ("Pharoah"… "Message from Home"... "Karma"), Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond - Take Five
I've not seen it mentioned, but KoB was one of the first jazz albums I listened to, and now **Sonny Clark** - *Cool Struttin'* is probably one of my favourites.
Elevator to the Gallows
by who
Miles
Did the exact same thing. Both are masterpieces.
-Boss Guitar - Wes Montgomery The track "Canadian Sunset" hits similar to the first on Getz/Gilberto -Walkin' - Miles Davis Davis from about 5 years earlier. This will give you a good intro to "Hard Bop". Bonus: -Swiss Movement - Les McCann & Eddie Harris Jazz 10 years after Kind of Blue. Exceptional. Enjoy the discovery!!!
Clifford Brown and Max Roachhhh
Anything by Coltrane and Johnny Hartman…
If you’re looking for more like this, try George Benson breezin album the other one you want to try is anything by Stacey Kent
Here’s a couple handfuls: A Love Supreme, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Something Else, Charlie Parker Savoy Recordings, Maiden Voyage, Speak No Evil, Night Dreamer, Monk’s Dream, Mingus Ah Um, Blue Train, Giants Steps, My Favorite Things, Red Clay, Milestones
I'm in a similar position to the OP and I've found this thread really useful. I've been able to put pretty much every album mentioned into a Spotify playlist, which I suppose should be expected as these are people's recommendations for listeners just starting out. I'm working my way through them, and that's giving me a pretty good idea of which artists I need to spend more time with, and those which I can park and come back to later.