Can you recommend Jazz for some one that doesn't like Jazz?

@fthompson251

artist : Miles Davis

album : Kind of Blue

This is the best selling jazz album of all time, recorded live in the room, if you don't like this, then you're going to have to flavor your jazz, because this is the real deal. 

@fthompson251 I have a few recommendations for you.

Traditional Jazz Albums:

1. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis

2. Earfood by Roy Hargrove

3. Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock

4. Trilogy by Chick Corea Trio

5. LaFaro by Brian Bromberg 

Contemporary Jazz Albums:

1. Ashes to Ashes by Joe Sample

2. Elixir by Fourplay

3. Givin’ It Up by George Benson & Al Jarreau 

4. Tenderness (Live) by Al Jarreau 

5. We Live Here by Pat Metheny Group

I own the CD from Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

I saw The Crusaders but no one mentioned Joe Sample’s solo efforts??? Terrifically accessible!

Others that may be accessible by non-jazz folks: Ramsey Lewis, Warren Bernhardt, Candy Dulfer (funk, R&B fusion).

I’m sure there are others but it’s too early this morning to think of any more!

@stuartk

Must be hard to "sing along" with Liz Reed since it's an instrumental! Scatting?

As I'm sure you're aware, Phil Lesh introduced the other members of the Dead to Coltrane, among others. And Bob Weir has often said that his chording style has been greatly influenced by McCoy Tyner.