Jazz

[Luis Lopez]

How do i get into jazz? what are the absolute essentials?

[Juan Ortiz]

This one, a love supreme, and the black saint and the sinner lady are the best introductions

[Isaac Peterson]

moron

[Jordan Brown]

These are the most famous but not the most entry level and DEFINITELY not the most representative of jazz as a whole.

[Jose Kelly]

Solid. Throw in Bill Evans' Live at the Village Vanguard and Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Moanin'

[Parker Bennett]

That’s why it’s an introduction but I like your chart more

[Sebastian Lewis]

Kind of Blue really is the perfect intro to jazz. My favorite Davis record is Sketches of Spain, though.

Charles Mingus is key. The obvious pick is Mingus Ah Um. My favorites are Let My Children Hear Music and Blues & Roots. Tasteless people go for The Black Saint.

For bebop, it's important to get into Art Blakey's collective. It's hard to go wrong with Blakey, but Moanin' is a good starting place. Also try Wayne Shorter's Juju and See No Evil, and Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder.

Pete La Roca's Basra is one of the GOAT avant garde jazz records.

Django Reinhardt is GOAT, so I recommend finding a good compilation of his stuff. I'm convinced he must've been a massive influence on bebop.

Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane are other obvious key bebop figures, and A Love Supreme is another good starting place for jazz.

For modern stuff, my favorite is Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, but nobody seems to agree with me.

[Ethan Howard]

>I recommend smoking some marijuana
any other chart not made by a degenerate?

[Blake Diaz]

Oh hi grandma

[Aaron Nguyen]

If you're trying to get into jazz listen to some stuff until you find one player you like. Then listen to other stuff they did and then see if you're into any of the other players in that group. Then you can repeat this process to keep discovering new stuff.