I am just starting to get into Jazz. I recently bought Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live at Monterey" and was blown away. Could you recommend other mainstream Jazz recordings that I should have in a basic collection to help me get started.
You won't regret buying "Jazz at the Pawnshop", Benny Green's "Testifying" and Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington's "The Great Summit/Master Tapes." All three are recorded well and very analog sounding.
Charley Hayden's latest on Verve. "Nocturne" is a collection of Brazilian and other classics rearranged and played by heavyweights in a quartet setting. A couple of originals by Hayden in the same genre add to the compelling sound of this made-with-love CD. Excellent recording that bears repeated, and I do mean "repeated" listening. Try it.
After a year of listening to (and buying) many of those recommended above (much thanks to all), I would like to add a couple that I did not see: Blues and the Abstract Truth and Tatum Group Masterpieces.
I have a question...does anyone know of any cd's similar to the seledtions on Patricia Barbara's "Cafe Blue". I bought quite a few cd's recommended on best female vocalist list and I didn't particularily enjoy her vocals and almost threw it away until I decided to listen to it again. The jazz instrumentals blew me away (my new speakers broke in at about that time too)and I would like some more of the same if anyone can help.
Maybe I missed it in all the postings, but Bud Powell is an essential and seminal piano player, one of the fathers of hard bop and a tremendous influence on Monk, Miles and every piano player that followed him. His later work on Verve can be uneven (Powell had a difficult and troubled life and died young)but his earlier recordings on Mercury (?) are not to be missed - a true genius!
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