What was the first jazz album you ever listened to?

[ThaRealness]

I never fukked wit it as a youngin... always grouped jazz in with classical. But I do remember vibin to Kind of Blue the summer of 2003

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

My dad was always playing "FourPlay"
Fourplay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[.༼-◕_◕-༽.]

Love Supreme by John Coltrane

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis

 

[Ordinary Joel]

Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef

 

[Insensitive]

I'm pretty sure it was "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis.
It's a classic and a very, very good place to start.

Before that I spent a good chunk of my youth falling asleep to
smooth Jazz stations. Don't know why or how it started but apparently
I've been into Jazz and how it sounds since I was a small child.

Only seriously started looking up artists and their discographies after I got older.

 

[Ordinary Joel]

Any recommendations for jazz albums? Like classics and whatnot?

 

[ThaRealness]

Any recommendations for jazz albums? Like classics and whatnot?

I can help you out with jazz fusion

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Any recommendations for jazz albums? Like classics and whatnot?

Checkout Blue Break Beats and listen to originals before hip hop got a hold of them.
I started off on Miles, Thelonius, Shorter, & Coltrane. Like the DEEP parts of their catalogs. Depends on what sound you want to hear. You got Ayers (who I'm just getting back into), Herbie, Ella, Stan Getz, Diana Krall, Axelrod, Stanley Clarke, Hutcherson, Hank Crawford. If I did it all over again, I'd start with those then jump into Monks & Coltrane.

 

[Ordinary Joel]

I can help you out with jazz fusion

Yeah that would be appreciated!

Checkout Blue Break Beats and listen to originals before hip hop got a hold of them.
I started off on Miles, Thelonius, Shorter, & Coltrane. Like the DEEP parts of their catalogs. Depends on what sound you want to hear. You got Ayers (who I'm just getting back into), Herbie, Ella, Stan Getz, Diana Krall, Axelrod, Stanley Clarke, Hutcherson, Hank Crawford. If I did it all over again, I'd start with those then jump into Monks & Coltrane.

I'll check out the Blue Break Beats. And I'll check out Miles Davis first I think. All those names you suggested got me overwhelmed but thank you for the recommendations!

 

[moodymaroon]

Pharoah by Pharoah Sanders

 

[mr x]

Sax on the beach by Bleeding gums Murphy

 

[definition]

Birth of The Cool.

Jazz 101

 

[ThaRealness]

Yeah that would be appreciated!

I'll check out the Blue Break Beats. And I'll check out Miles Davis first I think. All those names you suggested got me overwhelmed but thank you for the recommendations!

Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs
Eddie Henderson - Revelations
Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Shades of Blue - Madlib
Nucleus - Roots
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Idris Muhammad - Power of Soul
Ronnie Foster - The Headed Freap
Santana - Caravanserai
John Mclaughlin - Devotion
Miles Davis - bytches Brew
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
David Axelrod (not this guy David Axelrod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) - Songs of Innocence
David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
Kamesi Washington - The Epic
Nat Adderley - Soul Zodiac
Roy Ayers - Coffy
Orchestra Mirasol - Salsa Catalina
John Mclaughlin & Santana - Love Devotion Surrender
Riff Raff - Original Man
Nucleus - Elastic Rock
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues

Start with Caravenserai

 

[Taadow]

First one I ever listened to in it's entirety was a dubbed tape of George Howard - Knockin' On Heavens' Door on one side
and a Najee album I can't remember the title on the other.