Jazz Recommendations

Jazz has a home in Canada at CKUA in Alberta and on the Web at CKUA.com. Mountain Standard Time MST Saturday afternoons, most days 3-6, and various shows like Voices in Jazz.

CKUA plays all music styles all day, not focusing on types of music but what the personality has decided. This is a member organized station and is supported financially by the listener. If you enjoy non corporate, no commercial radio that doesn't push you to buy the latest stuff while it supports artists this is a great listen for you.

Bill Khool is a noted CKUA radio personality who supports jazz and is recognized in the past year by his peers in the industry Canada wide.

Listen and learn!

Peter Cincotti.

A previous poster mentioned Mark C.Gridley's jazz text;it has his top jazz recordings list and is a good overview of the subject.
Here are a few to get you started:
Early jazz--Louis Armstrong, hot 5/hot 7 recordings
Swing--Ellington,Live at Newport
Bop--Charles Parker,Ornithology
Hard Bop--John Coltrane,Giant Steps
Cool--Miles Davis,Kind of Blue
Modern--Bill Evans,Sunday Live at the Villiage Vanguard

The best place I've found to hear a wide variety of old and new jazz is Mainstream Jazz with Bob Parlocha. You can access it on jazz88fm.com. This is a public radio station in Minneapolis that plays mostly jazz.

Pieces of a Dream/Love's Silhouette

Incredible music and well recorded.