Midnight in a Perfect World: Jazz?

Last night Charles was telling me, as he sometimes does, that I should like jazz. I have nothing to say one way or the other, right now, other than that I have not really started to like jazz much yet.

Here is my (mostly unheard) pre-2000 jazz collection at the moment:

Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity
Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz Goes to College
Dizzy Gillespie At Newport
Herbie Hancock Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock Headhunters
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come
Stan Getz/João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto
Thelonius Monk Brilliant Corners

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PY: Ross McElwee/Sherman's March

Labels: Lists, Music

2 Comment(s):

Max Greene said...: If I were you and I wanted to like some jazz, I'd be inclined get some more Monk (perhaps Straight, No Chaser) and Coltrane (Giant Steps?). Then I'd think of adding some Charlie Parker, and, if you like piano, Art Tatum. Or if you want the kinda weird stuff Cecil Taylor, though I'd imagine Jack has played some of that for you at some point. Or you could write Theo an email and see what he recommends...in the meantime maybe I'll try to put some things on a cd to send along with the ones I already owe you.

Personally I've been wanting to sample jazz singers who haven't been dead for many a year in search of someone with a kind of deep, husky alto, so I can imagine I'm at an old time club in Harlem. Ah well.

P.S. If the Wrens come to Seattle, you should see them. The show was $5/person here, but I think it was somewhat subsidized by Brown...; 3:44 PM
Charles Petersen said...: Funny, once I tried convincing you that jazz was good, I started hearing all the parts of it that I don't like. For example, saxophones.

The one thing you don't have any of is Duke Ellington. I think you might like one of the cds I have.

If you go to the Wrens, I'm not coming.; 6:01 PM