jazz suggestions Options

[brooklyneast05]

is anyone into jazz music?


i wanna be. i listen to some and i want to get more into it but i don't really know what to start with. some stuff i already have is

brain simpson
chet baker
dave koz
john coltrane
najee
thelonious monk


there are a few others but i don't wanna open itunes to figure out which ones. so, i duno, i wondered around the jazz section at barns and noble today. i wanna buy stuff but i don't know what.

suggestions?

[brooklyneast05]

i wanna say yes...but not really. i had it all set the other night i was going to go on a big listening fest and all this stuff, but then i kept getting busy and distracted. so i'll be giving a better update soon.

i listened to something by most of the people you guys named and i liked the majority. i will say the sometimes some of it gets too cheesy for me...if that makes sense. which it probably doesn't, but sometimes i associate some of it with elevator or department store shopping music and that turns me off of it.


anyway people should keep giving suggestions, i am gonna listen to them.

[hi-C]

i listened to something by most of the people you guys named and i liked the majority. i will say the sometimes some of it gets too cheesy for me...if that makes sense. which it probably doesn't, but sometimes i associate some of it with elevator or department store shopping music and that turns me off of it.

I had that feeling about bossa nova, at first (I mean, who doesn't), but most of it really is brilliant. Give it a chance

Historically, bossa nova's link to "elevator music" is ironic since it's basically studied... nonchalance. It was supposed to run counter to the boisterous sambas of the favelas. Which was awesome, you know, until it bored people half to death.