Jazz Recommendations


I am just starting to get into Jazz. I recently bought Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live at Monterey" and was blown away. Could you recommend other mainstream Jazz recordings that I should have in a basic collection to help me get started.
kadlec

Showing 7 responses by henryhk

if u like ray brown, highly recommended: The Ray Brown Trio: Live At the Lola w/ Gene Harris and Jeff Hamilton is incredible and a lot of fun: SACD version is better yet.
Jazz is really diverse. What kind of music or artists did u like b4 getting into jazz, or even now?

My experience was I loved rock when I was a teenager (and still do!), then blues, then ended up in Jazz while listening to all 3 now!
The Rudy Van Gelder remasteres series CD by Presitge is really good and is better than all other digital versions of the same recordings. Including some of the 20 bit matering
kool double4w...your exp pretty much describes mine too though b4 jazz and did a detour into blues.

check out manute kache's neighborhood w/ tom stanko and jan garbeck....acoustic modern jazz