Need Advise.

goodgod3rd

i have never bought a Jazz Or Blues album. i hear it on the radio, and on telly, and want to buy a good cd, value for money. any suggestions on what to buy?
im looking for a genereal complimation cd with meaby some of the greatest.. or tteh like. but i don't kow where to start!

jwb1

Jazz is a huge genre...you can like one type and dislike another quite easily. Try these to get started (they represent the spectrum of jazz in the mid-20th century):

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (accessible, mesmerising)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (difficult but - eventually - rewarding)

Or this to see how jazz has evolved:

Esbjorn Svennson Trio - A Strange Place for Snow (hypnotic, hugely popular)

Tune into RTE Lyric FM for Jazz Alley and The Third Wave (www.lyricfm.ie) - both great programmes for jazz.

Happy listening!

goodgod3rd

cheers , will do.

dub45

goodgod3rd wrote:

cheers , will do.

BBC radio 3 has a programme on Saturday evenings at 5pm call Jazz Record Requests which plays a very wide variety of Jazz records there is quite a lot of jazz to be heard on the Radio 3 website if you have bb -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/index.shtml

goodgod3rd

agian, thank you !