Any Jazz music fans here?

[Flippy_D]

Jools Holland is good. Get Small World Big Band.

Also, Miles Davis - So What.

Frank Sinatra too. Come fly with me, and Fly me to the moon are good 'uns.

[PaulSC]

I really love certain kinds of jazz, but I'm such an ignorent pleb when it comes to the genre that I just end up stumbling about from random artist to random artist, not knowing where I should be looking.

I hate to say it, given the guy's one of the great sacred cows of music, but I really don't enjoy Miles Davis much at all. I've heard two of his best loved albums (Bitches Brew and... Kind Of Blue, I think it was) but for the most part I find them pretty dull and frankly quite ugly a lot of the time. Even worse: I actually find Davis's playing one of the least appealing aspects of his music - the backing bands (and especially guitarist John Mclaughlin) are often doing some cool stuff, but he insists on messing everything up with his infernal tootling.

Chick Corea seems much closer to what I'm looking for - mellow, groovy and melodic. The one of his I heard sounded a little like Can's Future Days album, and if there's one thing on this earth I love it's Can's Future Days album.

Damnit, I hate being a jazz pleb.

[BerserkerTails]

Also, Miles Davis - So What.

On the Kind of Blue album, which I already reccomended, hehe.

If you can find it (It's extremeley rare), get a copy of Frank Sinatra - Live at the Sands. That album is extremely good. I mean, Frank Sinatra singing his best songs, with the Count Basie Orchestra backing him. We played about half that album not for note in our Jazz Band last year at school.