Jazz for aficionados

Nice post Learsfool.

I like to think of music as both an educational and healing force. Personally, I don't think enjoyment of an artists music is equivalent to liking them as a person. But liking them as a person is no doubt a plus.

My reaction in this case is to want to listen to more Wagner in probably a futile effort to try to understand the person better through his music, for better or for worse.

Sophmoric nonsense.
You simply do not believe that any thing can be so evil that
to embrace any of it is to condone all of it. That there are any absolutes. I do
I originally said Wagner was the sole artist I would go to such lengths with.

Music is your God, it is not mine.

Forgetting about Wagner and getting back to the original title of this thread "Jazz for Aficionados" ..... How about 1959 ? In one year, four of arguably the most important albums in all of jazz history were released. Dave Brubeck's "Time Out," Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Ornate Coleman's "The Shape of Jazz to Come," and Charles Mingus' "Mingus Ah Um." Oh man, what a year !! So come on boys and girls, pull out these records and treat yourselves to some amazing music. Truly, jazz for aficionados.

No one has to read posts of no interest to them.

Schubert .... I have no idea what you mean by your reply to my post.

Anyway ..... getting back to the OP's original query about "must have" jazz albums...... I was four years old by the end of 1959, so I certainly don't remember these albums when they were first released. However, when I got my first "real stereo" in 1981 (Yamaha receiver, B & O Beogram 3404 table, and Mission 717 speakers), my Dad told me it was time to learn about jazz. Sure, he understood my taste in music during my high school and college days of the 1970's, and often paid for my purchases of records by Dylan, the Dead, the Allman Brothers, CSN&Y, Loggins & Messina, the Beatles, the Stones, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, etc., etc. ..... but he said that now that I had a "really good stereo system," I should start listening to jazz.

He immediately bought me my first jazz record, an Illinois Jacquet album, and then told me about the "four great records" of 1959. So, it was with records like "Kind of Blue" and "Time Out" that started me on my long love affair with small ensemble acoustic jazz. I just turned 59, and although my system is better than it was in 1981, and my music collection has expanded to almost 2000 records and CD's, I'll never forget the first time the needle hit the groove on the classic jazz albums of 1959. I'm still loving those great tunes by Miles, Brubeck, Mingus and all the boys. Thanks a lot Dad !