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The Essential Jazz Collection: (Piano) Free FREE THE ESSENTIAL JAZZ COLLECTION: (PIANO) PDF Richard Harris | 64 pages | 24 Apr 2007 | Faber Music Ltd | 9780571527809 | English | London, United Kingdom The Essential Jazz Collection - Piano | DS Music You've built the bookshelf, covered it with great booksbut it needs a little something more. Some classic records perhaps? Buckle up. These are the jazz records you simply cannot miss. Start here and see what strikes your fancy. The most influential jazz album there is. Widely considered one of the best jazz albums of all time. Coltrane's first album as band leader and the album that first demonstrated Coltrane Changes. Mingus Ah Um — Charles Mingus. You've dabbled about now, you have a good sense of the groundwork, The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) you're ready for something a bit meatier. Nearly a gospel album, Coltrane is the only horn in the quartet and gets all the freedom he needs. As essential a jazz record as they come. Ellington at Newport — Duke Ellington. At a time when big-bands were dwindling, this concert revitalized Ellington's career and literally changed the course of music in 20th century. Genius of Modern Music, Vol. Monk is second only to Duke Ellington as most recorded jazz composer, which says something since Ellington composed more than 1, songs, while Monk had only about Now that you've developed your taste, here are the good ol' deep cuts for those who are ready — plus some lesser known, but highly regarded, game-changing albums. Trademark thumb-picking and octaves-employed, this record established Montgomery as "the most formidable modern guitarist of the era. Head Hunters — Herbie Hancock. The defining moment for Jazz Funk and the one of the best-selling jazz fusion albums of all time. Bitches Brew — Miles Davis. An older Davis rejects typical jazz rhythms and experiments with electric instruments and freer, rock-inspired style. Speak No Evil — Wayne Shorter. Describing the album, Shorter The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano), "I was thinking of misty landscapes with wild flowers and strange, dimly-seen shapes — the kind of place where folklore and legends are born. Disclaimer: All of these are truly great albums and should be given a properly focused listen Lilting, intimate, and relaxing, it spawned a bossa nova craze and won the Grammy for Best Album. Brown's fatal automobile accident in ". Comment character limit Name E-mail Notify me of follow ups via e-mail. Fine list. And it is wide enough: from Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan via bebop to beyond, branching towards funk in one way and towards avant-garde in another. And coming back to the exchange by Chris and Fred: this list is wide enough to The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) a headstart as well as the core of a more personal jazz 'collection'. A good list! There so many other great albums, but you listed some really good ones. Each of them had dramatic influence on jazz and music that followed. Get over yourself. I came here to view a person's opinion The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) some classic jazz albums as someone who doesn't really listen to jazz and some insightful comments on other albums in the comments. Instead I'm reading The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) paragraphs of some idiot complaining who the list isn't designed for. Fred - I think your original comment about The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) just going out and The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) these specific twenty-five records is right on. That's not really the purpose of The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) post, and not what we're recommending. What we're hoping is a reader might look at this list and say, "you know, I'd like to know more about jazz. This sounds like a good place to start" and plug in some of these albums to Apple Music or Spotify or borrow them from their local library. Then, once they've experienced a couple favorites, perhaps they'll buy three or The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) for their own collection. Chris But that's the point. It is very unlikely that someone has the time to listen to everything and even more unlikely that the personal preferences exactly match the top XY list of a genre. Don't get me wrong. The music on the list is great. But everybody should The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) a personal top And it is not static, it will change with time. It is far better to find you way through music with your ears and your taste and not with some list from the internet. When you're invited to someone's house and take a look at the record collection, what do you want to see? The top 25 or some unexpected stuff? What is more interesting to talk about? Everybody knows how great Miles Davis is. The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) what about an artist you never heard of? You put the record on and talk about the impressions, your feelings and thoughts. Or where, why and when the host bought the record. An individual collection tells you something about the owner and it is something to discover. Nobody needs to listen to or read all the classics. Live in the present and not in the past. Fred - I'm not sure I totally agree. The truth is, it's easy to discover "new" music these days. There are dozens of digital apps designed to do it. But it's harder, for most people at least, to make time to return to the archives, and determine, for them, what belongs in their library of classics. It's impossible to experience the entire history of even The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) subgenre of jazz hard bop, swing, ragtime, etclet alone the last century of the form. With only so much available listening time, I am certainly excited to learn about the best jazz records frombut I am more interested in helping others discover what albums have stood the test of time, and are worth seeking out 50 or 60 years after their release, because they still sound fresh and interesting. The other thing is, that most of the music is 'classic' or just call it old. Not that it is not great music. But is there no great music today? Nothing new to discover? I love music from the 60s. But don't tell me that there came nothing good after that. I mean, the Beatles are great. But they were not better The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) the great bands today. They were just the first to do so many things at such an The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) level. The same with jazz music. I love Reinhardt, Davis etc. But musicians today are worth listening to. So, why a promoting the classics that everybody knows anyway? Why not promote what's new? Well, maybe because the classics are the save side. Promoting something that is not yet considered great is a risk. You need taste and a real opinion to do that. Hope nobody buys the full list. What does it say about you when your record shelf only contains a best of and is not a collection of your life. Even if there is great music on this list. It is not a personal favourites. It is just an artificial collection and not a result of a personal and individual development of what means something to someone, what is of personal value, or what is seen as quality by an individual. Such an artificial list tells nothing about the owner of the collection or it tells something disappointing and it will hardly satisfy the owner. I still love that album though. Funny how perhaps the The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) innovative and important jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is rarely featured in these types of round-ups. Sure, people call it "gypsy jazz" but it is Jazz nonetheless. Django and his approach to jazz and improvisation was way ahead of his time, and paved the way for bebop. That album is just so good. Man Made DIY. Get your Bebop fix here. Ellington at Newport — Duke Ellington At a time when big-bands were dwindling, this concert revitalized Ellington's career and literally changed the course of music in 20th century. Don't miss it. Head Hunters — Herbie Hancock The defining moment for Jazz Funk and the one of the best-selling jazz fusion albums of all time. Bitches Brew — Miles Davis An older Davis rejects typical jazz rhythms and experiments with electric instruments and freer, rock-inspired style. The Essential (3) Label | Releases | Discogs In these trying times, we plan to continue entertaining, enriching, and expanding the global community for jazz through online education and our social platforms. Please consider supporting Jazz at Lincoln Center, at whatever level you can. New to jazz and not sure where to start? With many The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) and extensive catalogues of music, a new jazz listener can feel intimidated. We're here to help! Check out our list of 10 albums to get you started on your jazz journey and introduce you to some of jazz's great artists. Purchase: Amazon iTunes. Taking a page from the boogaloo playbook, the piece Sidewinder The Essential Jazz Collection: (piano) stand as one of the funkiest hard bop tunes set to record. Just try to stop yourself from dancing to this masterpiece. Relaxed, effortless, beautiful, swinging, and fun, this album will charm even the most resistant of listeners. Gorgeously meditative, though often quite sprightly in its swing, Everybody Digs Bill Evans captures the essence of this remarkable artist and showcases the beautiful pearly sound he could draw out of the keyboard.
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