How to get into Jazz - 10 Records for people who don't listen to JAZZ

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4. Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
5. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
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[@audiotomb]

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie Jaco Pastorius - debut. (More modern segue)

[@theelectricant98]

great selection

[@JJTomatoes]

Just bought a turntable, receiver and speakers - and after watching this video I purchased three of these records!

[@markwilding3828]

how many now?

[@djjoeykmusic]

Awesome! Enjoy that Turntable and wax! Best thing in my life. I love it - the sound of vinyl and jazz a masterpiece. Have a wonderful one

[@JJTomatoes]

@@markwilding3828 Hundreds !

[@antoinep9733]

Best video of yours I’ve ever watched. The tunes were racing through my head as you described each album and I realised I have a few holes in my collection, stuff I have on CD but haven’t bought the vinyl yet.

[@OGAUGETRAINFAN]

OUTSTANDING Video and recommendations!! Can’t live without any of those classics!!

[@rhaybans]

It would be awesome if you did a part 2 on this! Thank you for this amazing video.

[@orresearch007]

This is a really good post from you. Should do more episodes like this with your knowledge. Thank you so much.

[@sainteal]

LOVE the videos that focus on Jazz!!! I am subscribing today just for the Jazz content! Happy to have found this channel!

[@nickbitten6037]

Greetings from England. Always nice to see you doing videos like this- i have tried to interest my friends in jazz with mixed results. Will recommend this vid to them.

[@jamesmiller9051]

I would add "Somethin' Else" by Cannonball Adderley to the list. It's an album that should be in any collection, jazz or otherwise.

[@D.E.E.P.Y.]

Yeah, also one of the rare currently remaining in print by Analogue Productions (45RPM 2LP).

[@DefenestrateYourself]

Absolutely essential album. It’s Blue Note’s Kind of Blue based on sound, style, and lineup.

[@veteq101]

By far my favourite Jazz album, even better than Kinda Blue...

[@DefenestrateYourself]

veteq101 *Kind Of

[@tristanireland669]

James Miller 👍🏻 Thats An Understatement!Absolutely Agree 110% ♥️ IT !

[@norrieclark5217]

I got into Jazz about 4 yrs ago and yes, I started with Kind Of Blue like many have.From there it was pretty easy to chose as the essential lists online are pretty consistent.The recent Blue Note 80 series are a good way to get great sounding affordable versions of some great Jazz albums.

[@GlenKellawayfromthebasement]

Great video..when I wanted to explore jazz as a newbie, I googled greatest jazz albums and purchased the top ten on the list..Nice that we have videos like yours to learn from..thanks glen

[@benhartzberg2087]

Great video! Thank you for the education. I’ve never been into jazz but I’m going to check these recommendations out. Thank you!

[@_steffinwolf_]

That was a great dive into jazz records. I have the last two you mentioned, originals that were part of my parent's collection that I now have, I had bought Take Five for myself, after hearing on the home stereo or radio way back when, it hit a chord and I dug it the very first time hearing. Kinda Blue is the other killer album, still getting nods even to this day, can't say enough about these stellar pieces of art.

[@markh.9822]

Watching these videos is like therapy to me. Even though I already knew all these albums I still watch it because you are entertaining

[@djjoeykmusic]

Well said! I totally agree Have a wonderful one

[@warriboy9850]

Indeed extremely enlightening. Love it 😍

[@stephencastro1437]

Great video. Thank you for taking the time to do it.

[@alvarezskinner]

Thanks for the recommendations! Really nice selection!

[@MaliYojez]

Dude, Moanin’! Thank you so much!! Listening to it on Spotify for the first time right now. Amazing.

[@johnszczepanek9076]

20 years ago I asked a co-worker Jazz fan from the Netherlands to recommenced something he liked. His tip was Roy Hargrove - Criscol Habana. Love it to this day.

[@210caulfield]

Just discovered your channel through this video. I was very taken with your comparison to jazz giants playing as sidemen on each other's LPs with imagining if parts of the Beatles, Stones or doors etc played on each others records. Very on point and I'd never heard it put that way. I would add 'Something Else' and 'The Sermon' as LPs which are both outstanding examples of jazz and a fairly easy entry to jazz. Thanks. I have kids in Phoenix so will certainly be looking for your store.

[@EastmanD]

'In Groove' if I can make a suggestion....when selling to customers, don't "over-emphasize" one recording's sound over another that you've got for sale. If someone really likes Coltrane's Blue Train in your store over your system, the copy you have for sale isn't going to be THAT inferior. If they like what they hear and you've got it, they're going to LIKE that album. If a jazz lover comes in and says "yeah it's great but it's better on..." then fine, discuss away the merits of one recording over another. But the average music lover isn't going to know the difference between the two. That's NOT disingenuous ! The music is the music. A torn, tattered copy of classic lit still contains the important text no matter the condition of the book. That copy you're selling of Coltrane's Blue Train sounds JUST FINE. Love ya Bro. Great video, keep up the good work !

[@cadmantheaviator]

“just fine.” Your right. But he is trying to cater for dudes with super high end stereos where degrees of quality matters

[@shreddric]

Great selection picks...I like the way you do your show, Mike..

[@tahoesnow]

I love your videos. Not only are they informative, they are unpretentious

[@dajmasta94]

Ahhh! Dying for more of these review videos! Nothing is more satisfying than seeing the copy of a record I own is the one you consider to be the best.

[@martinchupac7164]

Hi Mike from Slovakia,Europe. Great video,will be great that you make another jazz album video ,it was very interesting and informative,great to watch!

[@SamuelRivera_DAMN]

This is great! Can you make video about the 10 best classical records to start a collection?

[@kenlee1416]

Not sure why all the earlier giants such as Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong and even Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are always left out of recommended jazz albums lists. I'm into a broad range of music (from Baroque to Motown to metal) and my entry point was Bird and Diz and Ellington's late 1930s small group recordings. If Kind of blue was my starter, would have not bothered to explore jazz - I find it really boring for some reason (although Milestones is really good).

[@pede8000]

Amazing video! Thank you! Helped me a lot!

[@AdamSandaver]

Thanks for the info and rundown. Cheers.

[@668_neighbor_of_the_beast6]

Loved this video. I’ve been primarily a metal guy for 30+ years but always loved jazz fusion music and everything Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin did from a solo perspective and in Return to Forever / Mahavishnu Orchestra. Also really like Weather Report. Based on your recommendations I listened to the Myles Davis, Art Blakey and Dave Brubeck albums and I completely connected with them. Thank you so much.

[@nickpvb]

I love Al Di Meola too!

[@alexstewart8097]

What you might call it, MINIMIZING...?Lol.

[@CBT5777]

Save your money for Iron Maiden records.

[@shaned7793]

I just got into jazz several years ago and I started with about 6 of these albums. GREAT list for starters!

[@mrzots]

K.Burrell and G.Green : my favs! My first jazz record was a cd of Out to lunch by E.Dolphy....not the easiest entry door but caught me straight and never left me!

[@Gabesmusicdiscography]

I like how honest he is. “I have the bn 75 for sale in my store for $21.99, it sounds ok”. Great list too. You should probably do 2 or 3 vids a week. I tell people Jack Johnson too because it’s a rock album with trumpet, not a jazz album with guitar.

[@stucat9560]

Great info! Thanks 😊

[@billcbren]

I would recommend Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus as a good entry point to jazz, very eclectic collection. Also, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a strong introduction to the cool sound.

[@Francisalbino39]

Thumbs up on Sonny Rollins

[@moxievision]

Rollins goes without saying, but Art Pepper's work really deserves wider attention. An amazingly fluid and bright player with a distinctive sound.

[@djjoeykmusic]

Great section! I wish I could own all of these albums. Thank you mike! Awesome video

[@austinhunt4260]

I’m primarily a metal/IDM fan, but I think KOB is just an unbelievable album. I’ve since come to really appreciate Somethin’ Else, Moanin, The Cooker, and Time Out (45 RPM which I bought from you).

[@DIRECTSOUNDVINYL]

Nice Selection ! Thank you !

[@ralex3697]

Kind of Blue is still my favorite, every time I hear it I discover more interesting parts that I missed It’s just a masterpiece without even trying to be

[@georgedoughly8682]

Agreed! Kind of Blue is my favorite album of all time 🎺

[@stephenzevetchin]

Try this: start the album Saturday night...midnight, listen all the way through

[@djjoeykmusic]

My favorite too. Kind of Blue straight fire

[@senseichess8688]

Yes it is

[@vitalie787]

Hey Mike! Just wanted to Thank You for all you wonderful recommendations!!!

[@alexandrekill2731]

'Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Album of the Year". This was the first jazz album I liked.

[@quar9012]

Super helpful and rich information. I have just purchased nine of them only because of this amazing reference. Thank you

[@jwbrook]

Nice selections... well done.

[@analoguecity3454]

I'm a "metal guy" , but I like to experience complete "opposite" genres! I'm a broader music lover now in my old age!

[@668_neighbor_of_the_beast6]

I’m the same way, been branching out after 30+ years focusing on Metal.

[@bobby666666]

I love metal and have had a broad taste for over 40 years.

[@thomashoffend4299]

Listen to many of the jazz and fusion guitarists from the last 50 years! I know, for example, that Michael Romeo from Symphony X lists Allan Holdsworth as one of his major influences.

[@SuperAtlantis1]

Me too

[@tomwebb7091]

Started out as dance rave and indie... dropped all for hip hop rap til it souled out... enter Pink Floyd.... changed forever.... dads old jazz LPs have widened the pallette... such journeys we go on!

[@kevinlittlefield4994]

Such an informed, intelligent, practical, quality video! Thanks for posting. Every rock fan should watch this and get busy listening to the recommendations.

[@Luizboii]

THNX FOR THE ALBUMS YOUR giving a direction where to see in jazz instead of being lost listening to every random song

[@jhwheeler7]

Such a good video, thank you so much!

[@djjoeykmusic]

Great video! Thank you Mike

[@TailsSpain]

thanks, I will definitely listen to these albums!

[@Fifty8day]

This is exactly what I was looking for … thanks so much!!!

[@LA-db9xj]

Hugh Masekela..."Grassin' In the Grass". I heard that song on the radio as a kid and I was hooked! I wanted more Masekela and more jazz! Been hooked on jazz ever since. I spend hours in front of my "music listening-station" absorbing jazz vibes. I made it to Ronnie Scott's in London back in the mid 80s. I got goosebumps sitting in that place for a show just thinking about all the Greats that had played on that stage. But I still play the grooves of "Grassin' In the Grass".

[@ron101346]

Erroll Garner’s “Concert By The Sea” is another essential for someone just getting into jazz. Just a piano, but WHAT a pianist!

[@TheLightAhead]

Great video on a wide variety of different classical jazz albums. I would recommend your video to people who ask how to get into jazz and have a listen to all of these ten albums.

[@MPR58]

Nice recommendations. Need two in that list.

[@MoodAmbient]

Great video and recommendations!

[@FhernandoMusic]

Great, new albums to discover, thanks for this video

[@cubbykovu8955]

I am pretty sure they all sound perfectly fine in the print you have right there 😉

[@SmokinGun55]

Good list, especially the last two. They would head my list with KIND OF BLUE, the classic of classics at the top. However, you gotta have Coltrane’s GIANT STEPS on any list. A seminal jazz classic. Also, Miles Davis’ SKETCHES OF SPAIN and MILES SMILES along with Thelonious Monk’s MISTERIOSO just to name a few.

[@iLLWiLL173]

Had my like as soon as you mentioned Art Blakey....his drumming is just masterful 👏

[@rolson6775]

Herbie Mann at the Village Gate should be in everyone's jazz collection.

[@DeAudiofilosyLocos]

Great recomendations thank you

[@nicolelynnkucera]

You have created the perfect record store! A jazz guy that is also an audiophile. I wish you had a store in the Bay Area!

[@bluetrane65]

What's kind of your go to bay area jazz store? I personally like tunnel records in sf

[@johnearl9814]

I got into jazz back in middle school, introduced by the soft machine's third album. Still my favorite

[@interstellaroverdriven6450]

Awesome choice! Soft Machine is WAY underrated. "Third" is so many excellent things all at once - ambient, jazz, noise, prog, psych, etc. The band was very influenced by Zappa's "Uncle Meat" in making the recording, especially the sound collages utilized.

[@bisket2003]

I'm familiar with all all of them.. I have some of theses, and need some of these! Great suggestions indeed!

[@garyrobinson8665]

Great selection. I would include Blossom Dearie's "Sweet" it's as good as anything on this list.

[@tudormiller8898]

Great video. I'm a new fan of jazz, I'm beginning my Jazz album collection. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker etc. Watching from London UK 🇬🇧

[@johnestes705]

I like your choices , I have every one of those albums. You have a great collection, I started listening to jazz in the 60's ,it started with Wes Montgomery.

[@CLS2808]

Thanks. Love this advise

[@educostanzo]

10 classic jazz albums for those who loved these 10 and want to go crazier: Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidananda (1970) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975) Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959) Keith Jarrett - The Survivor's Suite (1976) Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973)

[@interstellaroverdriven6450]

Amazing list! I would also add some Rahsaan Roland Kirk - either "Rig Rig & Panic" or "The Inflated Tear". Maybe also some Weather Report like "Mysterious Traveller" but having "Sextant" on there is so killer that you may not even need it LOL! Albert Ayler "Live in Greenwich Village - Complete Impulse Recordings" may possibly be the most crazy and out there jazz recording of all time and is highly recommended for those that are saturated and really want to jump off the deep end LOL!

[@levdrekinn1816]

I own the 45 rpm version of Art Blakey Moanin', and it sounds great!

[@jjquinn2004]

Excellent video as you concentrated on the albums for beginners to have to crossover, rather than your Jazz favorites, which aren’t always the same. E.g. Richard Wagner is one of my favorite composers of opera, but I wouldn’t dare suggest newcomers to classical/opera start off with him!

[@tonyalcock9068]

Hi Folks. Greetings from the UK! I managed to get the Mingus and Jazz Dispensary issues even though I arrived quite late at Rough Trade Bristol. Hoping to get to Arizona at some point soon. Hope everyone's having a great day! 👍

[@jamiehess4211]

Good list. A few others that could be included: Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall (1938), Somethin' Else (1958) by Cannonball Adderly, or anything by Stan Getz, especially Focus (1961) or the Jazz Samba records (1961-66).

[@robrousseau4524]

When I first got into Jazz, started with some CTI records. Freddie Hubbard, Grover Washington etc and expanded from there. The best time was the Jazz Workshop and Paul's Mall in Boston to see many live acts, back then you could stay for all 3 sets.

[@rillloudmother]

If you're a hip hop RnB fan: blue breakbeats and the best of blue note and you're hooked.

[@Jamko1970]

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

[@DefenestrateYourself]

Agreed. I would have recommended “Head Hunters” or “Maiden Voyage” for Herbie albums.

[@EastmanD]

yeah but, tell me if I'm wrong, Headhunters is proto-fusion (if not outright) and I think In Groove's idea is to initiate folks to trad jazz.

[@Jamko1970]

@@EastmanD Sure... Then why would he recommend Miles - Jack Johnson (rock/fusion jazz)? Is that trad jazz?

[@EastmanD]

@@Jamko1970 now that I've listened to it, no not even close...is it even jazz ?? Love me some McLaughlin !

[@justincase4254]

Incredible can’t believe what I’m seeing . i’ve been a jazz fan since early 60s when I first heard take five. I just wanted to say that I purchased Kind of Blue & Time Out for my grandson in vinyl within the last month and a half I agree on all of your selections Since I do own most of them. Female vocals of the era Morganna King must be Taste of Honey

[@waltergodsoe5526]

I was a kid and got the Take Five album by accident from the Columbia Record Club, I hadn't ordered. It introduced me to places I didn't even suspect. Then Bitches Brew never got better for me.

[@nickcharles1241]

A nice list. Some other names for jazz newbies to look up are Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker and Bill Evans.

[@cadmantheaviator]

Everyone who has dipped their toe in the water will have their own version of this. One album I have bought multiple times is “miles in the sky” by miles Davis. The drumming just grabbed me when I knew very little of jazz. In the beginning I new Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Blue Train of course. Despite listening to a wide range of music I’d say jazz seems to be where my compass returns me. Albums that seemed inaccessible later become soothing. Sixty years old records that become utterly modern. It’s a deep well to draw on. A genuine 20th century innovation that keeps on giving. Something the 21st century hasn’t yet matched. Beyond the coolness there is freedom and it’s chaos. I’d be interested to see what Mike would have to say on jazz that bewildered him. Take us down the well, so to speak.

[@derosa1989]

i never realized the SRV version was a cover of Kenny Burrell, and I have both albums!

[@shawnfunstuff]

That Jack Johnson pick was new to me, good choice. Just to go a touch deeper, to this top 10 list I would add the album Search for the New Land by Lee Morgan, with Grant Green on guitar!

[@EastmanD]

I'll be adding all these to my "must hear" collection. Was glad to hear Grant Green's name mentioned. Thanks 'In' Groove !!

[@1999zrx1100]

Well done 👍

[@PeKe999]

Hi, I recently watched the tv series Bosch. In the episodes was some good jazz music. That's how I got into jazz.

[@njwtube]

This list is amazing great choices. Midnight blue 💙

[@LittleHandsConcrete]

Nice list....for getting into jazz I would have Ellington's "... and his mother called him Bill", and Sun Ra's "Jazz in Silhouette "

[@craigdunn3231]

Cool collection I want to get in to jazz music

[@giuliomandolesi2458]

Love your videos! Which press of the kind of blue and brubeck quartet you recommend?

[@davevanfunk8917]

My first jazz album 30 years ago was Kind of Blue. I wasn't a total blank slate because I'd been listening to KJAZ (or whatever it was called back in the nineties). I still find myself stuck in the 50s and 60s: Gerry Mulligan, Coltrane, Monk (lots of Monk), Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown. I was pleased that you mentioned Son Ra,

[@179cpv]

Lee Morgan’s Search for the New Land is a good entry point into jazz. All the tracks have memorable themes with strong, concise solos from Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Grant Green, and Herbie Hancock.

[@jtoddbrown]

I love that album, too, but "concise" isn't exactly the word that comes to mind when I think of the nearly 16-minute long title track!

[@joshmartimez2235]

I use to be very big into metal and thrash when i was in my teens. As i grew up into adulthood i wanted to listen to more mellow music and found jazz. Kind of Blue was the first jazz CD and LP i bought in 2014. The Mofi version of Kind of Blue is just wow great smooth sound no frills. I have most of the records on your list. I would like to get the Music Matters pressing of some Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell and a few others but prices are too high. I got some Tone Poets instead and every single one of them has blown me away no pun intended. Great list. Could you do a top ten classical music record list?

[@lauramcflymusica]

Thanks a lot man!!!

[@nicolashamouche6132]

Great début wishlist....but so much master pieces to listen and enjoy....

[@kaptajnsejersen6303]

The first Jazz album I bought was Miles Davis - Bitches Brew. Awesome album!

[@ryankaldesic430]

Great video with some interesting selections. I've recently started getting into Jazz. I know how much love there is for the Brubeck but I don't dig it at all (yet). Blue Train & Kind Of Blue, simply killer albums. Awesome! I've been listening to Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard lately and yesterday I bought Fred Jackson's Hootin & Tootin'

[@DefenestrateYourself]

For the Brubeck Quartet, I consider “Jazz Impressions of Japan” to be my favorite of their albums. “Time Out” is obviously essential as well.

[@bs.music.kyi9]

id say for someone who doesnt like jazz but wants to bridge the gap from pop to jazz, black radio (robert glasper) works really well.

[@richkurl]

Great list, thanks! You like the Rudy van Gelder recordings?

[@sararibeiro4034]

Great vídeo 👍

[@JonathanBlackhall]

Midnight Blue is still available from AP and sounds simply fantastic. Blue Trane is being reissued by the new AP reissue series, coming out later this summer.

[@DefenestrateYourself]

Wish they’d do more 33rpm reissues. Not everyone likes to flip a record every 5 minutes, high sonic quality notwithstanding.

[@gtaylor3350]

Are you sure about Blue Train? They’re doing Ballads and A Love Supreme but I haven’t seen anything about Blue Train until reading this comment

[@JonathanBlackhall]

Maybe I was mistaken

[@JonathanBlackhall]

@@gtaylor3350 I was mistaken. It was A Love Supreme that I was thinking of.

[@ellen823ful]

I’m definitely gonna put these on my music playlist.