Help Me Expand My Music Taste


Hello Everyone,
I know essentially nothing about jazz and blues, but I would like to learn to appreciate these styles of music. To this end, if you would list for me your five favorite jazz or blues albums it would be very helpful in giving me some starting points. My impression is that jazz for example is somewhat of an acquired taste, and that as with wine, some albums are more likely to appeal to a novice than would other albums even by the same musician. I do not have an analogue setup, so my listening is limited to CD's. Let me thank you in advance for your suggestions.
All the best,
Dennis
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I would suggest visiting pandora.com. It is a great free internet radio station that does a pretty good of learning your preferences. You can set up multiple channels with different types of music. As you listen, you can rate what you like. The stations will learn your preferences and add more music that fit with what you have rated as liking. Because of pandora.com I have been exposed to so much new music recently. My music purchases have increased dramatically as well. I hope this helps.
If you have XM radio, or willing to get it, the Real Jazz station is a great source. They have a lot of diversity, and on Saturday mornings they have a musician on profiling a jazz great. It often goes into detail about techniques, etc.
They also have regularly daily interviews with both established and up-and-coming musicians.
John
You could also try something like Charlie Parker's "Au Privave" which is basically Parker doing Gershwin, etc., with a few of his own stuck in. There are plenty of good albums like that by classic artists, and it's a great place to start if you have trouble "getting it".
Go to Telarc Records and sample things, they have both blues and jazz and it is well recorded.

Once you find a few things you like you can go to Amazon and plug a few titles in and they will make recommendations based on what you chose

http://www.telarc.com/

http://www.amazon.com
Give "Kind of Blue" a listen. Miles Davis and the gang are just sweet, sweet, sweet!