[pwiles1968]

My Jazz collection is quite limited and I wanted to expand but need some direction . I currently have a couple of dubious Mix Albums but want single artists with some album consistency, What I do Have is Norah Jones and Miles Davis King of Blue Both of which I love so am after albums in this kind of veign, relaxing stuff well recorded. I’m not too interested in big band or orchestras. I Have been looking at something along the lines of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday but do not know which albums to go for are there any good best of around? So recommendations Please, does not matter if they are out of print I use a very good second-hand CD site in the States but collectors stuff will probably be too expensive.

Thank you for your attention and any help.

[alexs2]

Depends on what you like....if you like guitar....Pat Metheny
Piano....Keith Jarrett
Sax....Wayne Shorter
Also...look at Miles Davis...even if you don't like his sound,the list of artists who went on from his band to become jazz giants in their own right is amazing....the list of great jazz artists is huge...what I've mentioned is just a few I'm especially fond of.

[pwiles1968]

As I said I already have Miles Davis Kind of Blue which I love, and The Best of Capitol/Blue note years which I am not so fond of. I am after Particular Album Recommendations Particularly some female vocal.

[seany]

Ahh, nina simone http://archives.warpradio.com/accura...gr-ns-ilyp.wma

[seany]

Here is nina's full album listings, you can listen to many tracks from here albums. I only have "In Concert-I Put A Spell On You" but i always play it on sundays. Good for the soul

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/...rtist_id=27650

[Garrett]

I do not know if it is in your vain of Jazz but I like Grover Washington Jt he plays the saxophone.
Some samples of his music here

The Winelight album is one of his best.

Common is well up on jazz and will give you some good recommendations.

Hi,

I'd recommend the following:

Chilled

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie
Diana Krall - All For You

Not so Chilled

Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Very loud indeed

John Zorn - Naked City

Regards,

Jules.

[bowenjones]

If it's "relaxing stuff well recorded" you're after then
anything by Diana Krall will do.
She certainly knows how to put a song over (even the cover
versions sound as if they were written for her to sing).
Get her Look of Love cd (or SACD if you can play them)
to see what I mean.
If you want to see her in action then get her Live in Paris dvd.
This, by the way, has an excellent dts soundtrack.
Enjoy.

[clived]

"Jazz at the Pawn Shop":

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music

http://www.cherished-record-company....ale%20cds2.htm

http://www.vivante.co.uk/downloads/OTR_27.pdf

Be aware there are a couple of different versions - a 1 cd version and a remastered 2 disc version. If you're just after some great, live, we recorded jazz, either will do you!

Cheers, Clive

[pwiles1968]

Just ordered the following from www.secondspin.com

Washington Jr, Grover. Winelight
Mclachlan, Sarah. Surfacing
Krall, Diana. Look Of Love
Holiday, Billie. Lady In Satin [Remaster]
Protosynthesis. Jazz Classics Classic Jazz

Not bad for less than 36 dollars inc postage (about £23), the Protosynthesis was only 1 dollar and I do like to get the most out of my customs allowance.

Have to wait a couple of weeks now for delivery.

[wilber]

beat place for buying Jazz on the net I've found is http://www.jazzcd.co.uk/ IF you know what you're after in advance.

some of My Faves:
Cannonball Adderly - Bossa Nova
Chet Baker - Picture of health (with Art Pepper)
George Benson - 20-20
Brecker Bros - out of the loop
Dave Brubeck - Time Out (got this on SACD)
Miles Davis - Milestones, Sketches of Spain
John Coltrane - Standards
Stan Getz - Big Band Bossa Nova
Herbie Hankcock - Cantaloupe Island
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time 1
Charles Mingus - Changes One
Thelonious Monk - Straight no chaser
Maceo Parker - Made by Maceo
Courtney Pine - Closer to home
Django Reinhardt - Souvenirs
Sonny Rollins - Best of
David Sanborn - as we speak

AND the dvd of Ken Burns' Jazz

[Jsinger]

If you wanted to try something a little different, how about Guru's Jazzmatazz albums? Maybe not quite your usual thing so have a read here and see if you think it might be worth a listen

There are several respected jazz musicians on the albums and the production is superb.

[pwiles1968]

Originally posted by wilber
beat place for buying Jazz on the net I've found is http://www.jazzcd.co.uk/ IF you know what you're after in advance.

I would have a look at second spin I just priced up my albums If I bought them from ZazzCD and got to £32 for 3 could not find the other 2, I paid about £23 for 5 albums inc postage, yes they are second hand and don’t have the jewl Cases, they do have the inserts and they are guaranteed.

I will keep an eye out for some of your recommendations and the others that have been posted thanks very much, Oh any chance of a brief categorization with recommendations chill out etc?

[the_pauley]

The larger HMV stores with a jazz department have practically permanent sales with some choice titles.

Ace have just reissued the majority of their back catalogue in digipak format with 24 bit remastered sound (superb!). These have turned up at £5.99 in larger HMV stores.

First three I replaced with these new editions were:

Art Pepper "Winter Moon" (worth the price admission for the beautiful "Our Song". Guaranteed undie removing jazz!)

"The Tony Bennet/Bill Evans Album" (sparse and melancholy - lovely!)

Bill Evans "Waltz for Debbie" (Classic).

Verve have quite a few superbly remastered titles (they're the ones in cardboard digipaks) in HMV's current Jazz Sale. Biggest surprise for me was "What The World Needs Now - Stan Getz Plays Bacharach and David" - a gem that I've been after for ages on CD.

Another Verve I heard playing in the store and bought on impulse and haven't stopped playing was "Very Tall" By Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson.

If you like the ultra chilled sound of Brazilian Jazz, there's always a wodge of titles by Antonio Carlos Jobim including a terrific sounding remaster of "Stoneflower" and "The Composer of Desafinado Plays..." And always knocking around dirt cheap in HMV is the Sinatra late night listening classic "Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim", one of the most chilled out albums ever made.

You mentioned Ella Fitzgerald; the must haves are the "Songbooks" where she takes the best of one classic American songwriter per album. Again go for the superb remasters in the cardboard digipaks with (bonus cuts) and avoid the earlier ones in standard jewel cases. Some of these are doubles and triples and can be quite expensive, although I've noticed a lot of the doubles are on Amazon UK at about £15.99 (roughly half previous price). Don't know if these are now at this price or just an Amazon offer.

Hope this is of some help.

Fourplay (Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason, Nathan East) have made some excellent jazz in the past few years.

Check out the track called 'Chant'.

[meep]

pwiles

Just getting into the smokey Jazz female vocalists myself so this thread is a little goldmine.

As others have noted, you can't go far wrong with Diana Krall (I've purchased Look of Love CD and Live in Paris DVDs and am not disappointed.)

Also, took a chance on an amazon tailored recomendation and discovered Particia Barber (Nightclub). Fine vocals and amazing musicians, very well recorded.

Peter

[pwiles1968]

Still waiting for my stuff from the States (tic toc tic toc) but managed to pick up Miles Davis Porgy & Bess for £5 on Saturday, the first few seconds take you back a bit but smooth sailing from then on.