In Reply to: Please help me expand my musical tastes... posted by joyous on February 21, 2007 at 10:53:40:
Stan Getz
Chet Baker
Art Pepper
Bill Evans
Miles Davis
Dave Brubeck
Cannonball Adderly
Nat Adderly
Ray Brown
Oscar PetersonThis will get you started.
Some specific recordings:
Stan Getz and Charlie Bird "Jazz Samba"
Bill Evans "The Tokyo Concert" "Explorations" "Interplay"
Cannonball Adderly and Milt Jackson "Things are Getting Better" "Nippon Soul", "Know What I Mean" or "Somethin' Else"
Art Pepper "Smack Up"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
Dave Brubeck "Time Out" "Time In" or "Buried Treasures Live in Mexico City 1968"
Stan Getz and Chick Corea on Verve 1967 double album also with Bill Evans
Chet Baker "Chet" or "Chet Baker in Paris"
Nat Adderly "Work Song"
Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" or "Way Out West"
Ray Brown "Soular Energy"
Oscar Peterson "Night Train"
Maybe you should think about Classical a bit as well.
Some easy starters:
Beethoven's 3rd Symphony "Eroica"
Schubert's "Great" symphony
Schubert "Trout" Quintet
Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata
Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony
Mozart Violin Concertos number 3 and 5
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto number 1
Just about any Mozart quartet
Schubert "Death and the Maiden" quartet (one of my favorite)
Tchaikovsky 4th symphonyTry labels like EMI and Decca. Deutsche Grammophone is ok with great performances but only so so recordings.
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- Re: Please help me expand my musical tastes... - morricab 14:08:26 02/21/07 (0)