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[lwoodbloo]

I'm listening to Django and Stephane as I write this.

I think I'll put it on again.

I like this kind of Jazz. I don't have much experience with Coltrane or Bird or Miles. I don't have lots of money, and all I have is a jazz sampler, a shitty download of kind of blue, and some miscellaneous tracks. and I keep spending my cash on other stuff.


Any ideas from my jazz cognoscenti about what else I should get?

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, why don't any of MY friends ask me this?

1. Kind of Blue and Time Out Just because they're in every College student's CD rack doesn't mean they suck :)

2. My Favorite Things John Coltrane. Who would have guess that something so cheesy could become so transcendent ?

3. An Louis Armstrong set. The Ken Burns' Jazz set is fine, or you can go to the source and get the Hot fives & Hot Sevens greatest hits. People say "Louis Armstrong" and think of grinning, handkerchief-waving "Hello Dolly"-singing guy. Lame. Listen to "West End Blues a few dozen times. Orgasmic.

4. Something Cab Calloway. So, so much more than "Minnie The Moocher". Yep, our grandparents were listening to songs about drinking, sex, picking up hookers, selling coke and (above all) smoking lots of weed. I got a Greatest Hits set in the cutout bin at Tower Records down at 4th & B'way. (Which is, incidentally, a great source for this type of thing.)

5. And: "Salt Peanuts" Dizzy Gillespie, "Flying Home" Lionel Hampton, "All of Me" Billie Holiday, "Lady is a Tramp" Ella Fitzgerald, "Tipitina" Professor Longhair, "One O'Clock Jump" Count Basie, "Black and Tan Fantasy" Duke Ellington, "Haitian Fight Song" Charles Mingus, "Harlem Airshaft" Duke Ellington (Oh, the memories of finding this on a Bronx pirate station at about 3 am. Creepy and wonderful.), "Begin the Beguine" Artie Shaw, "Blue Xmas" Miles Davis. Best Christmas song ever.

Anyway, remember jazz isn't just for pretentious college students and pseudointellectuals. (Or smartasses who randomly answer strangers' questions.)

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[lwoodbloo.livejournal.com]

*grins* thanks for teh reccos. Do I get to know who this is?

[(Anonymous)]

Totally a random, LJ-less stranger. But, If you ever need a lecture on the evolution of Jamaican music or "Why the Monkees are better than The Beatles", I'm your girl. :)

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[lwoodbloo.livejournal.com]

You might just be my girl in general! Drop a dime if you get a chance...

I'm cassikofweejas on aol

and Lwoodbloo@hotmail so you can either get me on msn or email me.

Non-jazz cognoscenti with uneducated opinions.

[niamh1.livejournal.com]

There will never be a time when my music knowledge remotely approaches yours but I do have some favs in this department.

I can't live without the occasional Miles Davis "Sketches of Spain" fix.

I have been a sucker for almost anything Billie Holiday since junior high but lately she has also been somewhat supplanted by Nina Simone.
I tried to start naming some favorite tracks and the list immediately became to long to consider putting here.