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Originally Posted by chiron
I've listened to a couple of Miles Davis albums and never got into them. Can anyone recommend something more straightforward than this from which I can move into better things. I've always liked it when metal/rock bands ocassionally foray into jazz and I'm sure I'll eventually get to like this genre a lot more.
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Without knowning which
Miles you listened to, but taking into account your taste in music....if there is any
Miles you will like, it's probably
A Tribute to Jack Johnson - The story behind the recording of the first of the two tracks is pretty funny.
Bitches Brew
Maybe even a few from his
Second Quintet.
For
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.....
http://www.radiomute.com/343105-post1131.html
For
Coltrane anyone of these....
Interstellar Space
Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
Coltrane's Sound
Giant Steps (you might want to start out with this one.)
A few others:
Thelonious Monk -
Brilliant Corners
Sonny "Newk" Rollins -
a Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny "Newk" Rollins -
Saxophone Colossus
Oliver Nelson -
The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Eric Dolphy -
Out to Lunch
Ornette Coleman -
The Shape of Jazz to Come
P.S. Did you ever get around to listening to
Grasshoppa Seba's recommendations?
http://www.radiomute.com/216810-post18.html
