Jazz Recommendations

Sugarbrie, I'm always on the lookout for (1) good music and (2) the same good music in HDCD. What label is the HDCD release on? Thanks. By the way, I second "Kind of Blue" as another must have.

My opinion: George Duke After Hour/Is Love Enough/Illusions Shadowfax,Steps Ahead,Weather Report,Mahavishnu Orchestra,Patricia Barber,Zawinal Syndicate,for starters.

Try these to start with ---> Bill Evans Trio : Walz for Debbie; Keith Jarrett : Tokyo '96; Cassandra Wilson : New Moon Daughter; Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky; Charles Lloyd : The Water is Wide.

To more people than you could ever imagine, Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" is not only the best jazz album of all time, but THE best album of all time. Start with that. Even after many years, it is still always near the top of my CD pile. Last year(on the 40th anniversary of its release), a local guy here in Philly put out a call for people to submit essays on how "Kind of Blue" either affected you or changed your life(yes, it inspires that kind of fanaticism in some). He is going to issue this collection as a book. Hope they print a coffee table suitable edition... The others I would add as being "must haves" are Sonny Rollins "Soundtrack from the movie, Alfie"(the ultimate sleeper for any die hard jazz fanatic), John Coltrane "Blue Train", and another from Miles "Bitches Brew".

Better than a coffee table edition, I would really like to see this coffee table book come to life as an actual coffee table (as in a very popular TV show that is no longer on the air). This would be the right book for this.