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More Obscure Favorites
by AAJ Staff
Ask for the best 10 or 100 albums of all time and you'll get the usual suspects: Kind of Blue, Saxophone Colossus, Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens, Jazz at Massey Hall, etc. Without a doubt, these albums have earned their acclaim and no collection would be satisfying without them. But what about the great, less well-known, ...
Great, but obscure albums to purchase
by AAJ Staff
Ask for the best 10 or 100 albums of all time and you'll get the usual suspects: Kind of Blue, Saxophone Colossus , Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens , Jazz at Massey Hall, etc. Without a doubt, these albums have earned their acclaim and no collection would be satisfying without them. But what about the great, ...
What is the best way to introduce a young person to jazz?
by AAJ Staff
Date: 22-Dec-1998 15:40:01 From: Stephen ( [email protected] ) The best way to introduce young people to jazz is by exposing them to it. Just be careful to start with what they will find cool. Not every one likes Live in Seatle so you should probobly start with some new swing or salsa. ...
What's the best way to introduce someone to Jazz?
by AAJ Staff
Date: 17-Apr-1998 12:57:44 From: Chris S ( [email protected] ) There probably isn't one, or even one dozen, particular place(s) to start. The beautiful thing about jazz is often one of the most frustrating things about it too--it is just so flexible and stylistically varied. I have a friend who really digs King ...
John Coltrane: A Newbies Guide
by Tim Price
When John Coltrane died in 1967, he left behind a huge legacy of recorded music. Making sense of it all is an enormous task. Check out our suggestions for six views of Trane's last ten years. With Blue Train , John Coltrane not only firmly established his own voice on the tenor saxophone, but also proved ...
Double Time Top 100 Historically Significant Recordings
by AAJ Staff
We get many calls from jazz listeners just like yourself asking us for recommendations on what recordings are good. Our catalog represents our top 100 historically important jazz recordings. Our new program lets you pick the recordings that you want and during the next year or so we will send them to you without having to ...
Jazz Lovers Top 100+ List
by AAJ Staff
Many people seem to want to know about recordings they should have. This is one attempt to answer this sort of question. I don't think it is at all satisfactory, since there are thousands of recordings that are necessary. This list was generated by some of the subscribers to the Jazz-L mailing list, compiled by Eric ...
What is Jazz? Round 2
by Alan Lawrence
What is jazz? Those three words form one of the toughest questions in music. Ask a hundred people and you are likely to get as many different answers. Few things have given me more pleasure in life than listening to the music we call jazz. Even after hearing several thousand recordings in over ...
A Bottle, a Rag, and a Pint of Gasoline
by AAJ Staff
Jazz? Ask for a definition of this music, and you're bound to start a volatile discussion. My grandfather will tell you with a quickly drawn breath that jazz is noise, non-structured and irreverent of the conventional wisdom musicians have learned from centuries of practice. His thoughts on jazz conjure images of a plague ...
The New Shape of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Frank Zappa described jazz in the seventies as “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." Although I don't really agree with is statement in today's jazz scene, the underlying message still stands true. Most of us in the jazz world have been struggling to grasp what exactly jazz is and where it is going. One ...
