how do I get into jazz?
I've always wanted to but don't know the essential's
don't worry about the albums accessibility I'm willing to listen to anything
How do I get into jazz?
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If you're white, fuck off
my race shall remain as ambiguous as it is irrelevant in enjoying music
Start with ella fitzgerald sings the euke ellington songbook, or Kind of Blue
The meme trilogy:
>Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
>Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
>John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
(all legitimately great albums despite being touristcore)
You go to jazz when you are bored of all the other music.
don't force yourself to like something.
I started off listening to tracks some of my favorite rap songs sample. the rest is just a rabbit hole full of hits and misses not all jazz is worth listening to
the black saint and the sinner lady
coltrane's my favorite things
speak no evil
ascension
in a silent way
space is the place, jazz in silhouette
Cantaloupe Island is one of my favorite songs of all time m.youtube.com
Personal favorite entry points:
>Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
>Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
>Max Roach and His Chorus and Orchestra - It's Time
>Booker Ervin - Texbook Tenor
None of these are harsh nor free jazz because free jazz, in my experience, was difficult to appreciate without becoming acclimated to less challenging forms first.
Jazz is not for white people. Now fuck off
The Shape of Jazz to Come was the first Jazz album I listened to that really clicked, and now I'm about to listen to all the ones posted on this thread as well. I recommend you try that one OP.
Takes a different mindset than listening to music, jazz (modal, free) is anti-music, so take your time really, I would suggest some jazz fusion albums to get you familiar with the sound of it
>I’m a degenerate and want to listen to free jazz
Fuck off
we have superior Classical, so...
I recommend:
Stan meets Chet
Time out
Anything from Wes Montgomery
Anything from j j Johnson
Anything from bill Evans
i made this a while ago
u're a nigga because this is grammatically wrong
Here's a pretty good chart that goes through just about the entire history of jazz with some essential albums
Personally I really enjoyed the following on first listen:
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Blue Train, My Favorite Things
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way, A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
Bill Evans is my favorite, also very accessible. Check out Explorations.
When I was getting into jazz, I had a good time listening to a record, picking a specific performer and finding other records they played on. Every jazz musician ends up playing on hundreds of albums. This is a good way to familiarize yourself with prolific musicians and listen to a lot of music in the process.
>jazz (modal, free) is anti-music
What the fuck does this mean? Free jazz, I could understand. But modal is completely different and as musical as it gets.
>I had a good time listening to a record, picking a specific performer and finding other records they played on
Seconding this. It's like "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" except with jazz musicians, and you're probably two connections away from every notable jazz musician from the albums already posted.
Old white men are the only people that listen to jazz in the 21st century
trying a genre out=/=forcing himself to like it
why do you want to do that
>Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot
>Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
>Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
All pretty accessible records, with a good energy
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun