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 3 responses by mijknarf

There have been some wonderful recommendations here, let me add one that I just picked up last night: Joe Lovano "I'm all for you" on Blue Note. Terrific tenor sax jazz with a great supporting cast on bass, drums, piano. Superbly recorded, it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it shure got me looking at his other works. I bet he's great live. Just wanted to pass this one on.
For what its worth, if you're into this type of music, I picked up some leads on several jazz CDs from this thread and others and three of the standouts are:
1. Oscar Peterson Trio - "We Get Requests" (Verve)
2. Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron - "Night and The City" (Verve)
3. Joe Lovano & Hank Jones - "Live at Dizzy's Club" (Blue Note)

I concur with the guys who recommended these before me. Excellent sound quality. Terrific performances. Simple clean "you are there" feeling to all of them. Very involving.
Arkprof, I just found Donny McCaslin last w/e while listening to Pandora.com. I liked the track they played of his, so I researched him and added "In Pursuit" to my Amazon Wish List (which is now up to 5 pages). I'm glad to hear it comes so highly recommended. So much good music out there, I can't keep up.