Essential Jazz Starters
About this pack
Six records to start with, and none of them homework. Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the usual first step and deserves to be - unhurried, spacious, easy to sit inside. From there the pack fans out: Coltrane reaching for something devotional on A Love Supreme, Getz and Gilberto turning bossa nova into a worldwide habit, Ella Fitzgerald singing with the clarity that made her the standard, Herbie Hancock plugging in for Head Hunters, and Chet Baker half-singing, half-playing his way through a ballad. Six artists, six ways in.
6 titles
6 CDs
New ListeningApproachable, classic, a way in
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Kind of Blue