Your first Jazz Record?
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Gumbo_Ghost
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Not in record form, but the first Jazz music I bought was probably Medeski Martin & Wood "It's A Jungle In Here"
Just pulled it out now, still great.
Just pulled it out now, still great.
Marshwiggle
Member
I usually enjoy instrumental/virtuoso music when I find it, so jazz was an obvious genre for me to explore... but I knew absolutely nothing about it till about a year and a half ago. (Unless you count Flecktones as jazz?) At that point I (luckily) ventured into jazz with a copy of Kind of Blue that I randomly picked up at a flea market. It was a great one to start on, easy to listen to, but full of obvious virtuosity. From there I started reading (and then buying) to figure out where this album fit into the grand scheme of jazz history.
I still enjoy Kind of Blue when I'm in the mood, but I've found some other musicians that I listen to a lot more often- Brubeck, Desmond, Rollins & Monk are my favorites at the moment, and I'm looking for some more exposure to Brown/Roach albums.
I still enjoy Kind of Blue when I'm in the mood, but I've found some other musicians that I listen to a lot more often- Brubeck, Desmond, Rollins & Monk are my favorites at the moment, and I'm looking for some more exposure to Brown/Roach albums.
olson_jr
Lunatic Member
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Fast_Eddie
Upper-middle fi
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. Hell of a start.
Cannonball Adderly Sharpshooters. Nice production and a great album. Scored a ton of vinyl Verve label stuff at a flea about 10 years ago. Great find, and probably never happen again. Introduced me to many fantastic artists.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra ~ Inner Mounting Flame purchased when it came out in 1971. There was a promotional piece for the LP on Triad Radio in Chicago (an underground FM channel). I already had Zappa's Hot Rats from a year earlier but considered this more of a Jazz LP because of the musicians backgrounds.
JonL
Lunatic Member
Here's the first jazz album I ever bought. I think I got it at an antique/second-hand shop not to far from a friend's house when I was about 15 years old (36 years ago). I don't know why I decided to buy it. The jacket has just a portion of the original cover cut out and pasted onto another jacket that was covered with some kind of thick finger-painting paint. This is just how it was when I bought it. I remember listening to it from time to time years ago. I was going to play it again before posting, but the LP looks so trashed I'm really reluctant. I also bought a bare 78 of Billie Holiday singing Summertime at the same time, and that's been stored in the same jacket with the Sonny Stitt. I have to get a 78 stylus so I can listen to that one too.
