What Album Was Most Responsible For Turning You On to Jazz?

SlushPuppy · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 May 2012, 03:54 am »

Blood, Sweat & Tears

Elizabeth · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 May 2012, 04:18 am »

I first became interested in jazz about 10 years ago or so after seeing the Ken Burns Jazz.
Back when i was first into stereo and stuff i was mostly interested in Classical and some Rock.
The ONLY Jazz album i owned was Take Five by Brubeck.
Mostly Jazz was some strange incomprehesible mess to me.
Jump forward 30 plus years and i watch Ken Burns Jazz and it all suddenly made sense.
I started listening to Jazz.. Mostly 50's Jazz and gradually grew into it from there.
Now 90% of my listening is to jazz.
I would compare Miles Davis to Beethoven.. And my #1 desert island Jazz album i would say is Bitches Brew.

playntheblues · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 May 2012, 11:46 am »

It was 1986ish Richard Elliot (formerly with Tower of Power) Album Troll Town. It was down hill from there

Ronm1 · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 May 2012, 11:50 am »

A Few off the cuff

IASW, Midnight Blue, SoS

ptmconsulting · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 May 2012, 01:04 pm »

I have to say that the progression from rock to jazz was not attributable to just one album. It was just that ... a progression.

First came - Yes (I was a big fan in high school in the 70's)
Second - which led me to Genesis
Third - which led me to Bruford
Fourth - which led me to King Crimson
Fifth - which led me to Return to Forever
Fifth - which led me to Chic Corea's other stuff
Sixth - which led me to tons of other stuff in the jazz world that bridged the genre's, like Pat Metheny, Brand X, Weather Report, Jean Luc Ponty, etc.

DTB300 · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 May 2012, 02:00 pm »

Flim & the BB's

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 May 2012, 02:15 pm »

Sometime back in the mid eighties (as a very handsome, slightly impressionable young man) I was given this album.
That's the first Jazz memory I had.

richidoo · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 May 2012, 02:44 pm »

Rock it! wookawooka

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 May 2012, 02:47 pm »

Quote from: richidoo on 24 May 2012, 02:44 pm

Rock it! wookawooka

Yes!! I tortured a few drivers with that track.

saisunil · « **Reply #29 on:** 24 May 2012, 02:49 pm »

BobRex · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 May 2012, 03:04 pm »

Actually, in my case it was live music that led the way. Back before I was 21 we used to hang out in a bar that had live jazz every Tuesday. One of the drummers was a student of Joe Morello, a guitar player toured with Eddie Rabbit (okay, that's not jazz, but it paid the bills), and a keyboard player - who played a mean B3 - was a brother-in-law (IIRC) of Scott Hamilton. As a group we used to go to local concerts (Keith Jarrett, Buddy Rich, Maynard, Benson, Miles, Chick, Metheney,...). THEN I started buying the records.

Greymatter · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 May 2012, 03:23 pm »

Miles Davis- Kind Of Blue.

Quiet Earth · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 May 2012, 03:41 pm »

I was just a kid who listened to top 40 and classic rock, but I was aslo getting into more experimental art rock like Pink Floyd, Yes, etc.. Dave, the owner of our local record store put this album on one day and it opened my eyes. I bought it and took it home :

Soon I started listening to the local jazz station in the wee hours of the night. I heard this one being played, and rushed to get a pencil and paper out when the DJ announced it :

I started saving up to buy a pair of Klipsch Heresy just because of hearing this one album played at the local hifi shop:

I never did save up enough to get those Heresys, but I still have the record.

fredgarvin · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 May 2012, 04:25 pm »

What Album Was Most Responsible ?

AVnerdguy · « **Reply #34 on:** 24 May 2012, 04:46 pm »

Case of 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color - Rahsaan Roland Kirk

There were a lot of albums but I remember this one as introducing traditional classic jazz to my rock n' roll mind and sending me off on my search for new materials.

Bye Bye Blackbird just sucked me in with it's piano and sax interplay

koyaan · « **Reply #35 on:** 24 May 2012, 05:09 pm »

I got into jazz in the early '60s. First loves included Brubeck's "Time Out" and "Getz & Gilberto".

eclein · « **Reply #36 on:** 24 May 2012, 05:30 pm »

I saw the first show, first night "The Pat Metheny Group" in Phila. at the Bijou Cafe and made all performances of that stop (4 shows) and the next several years in Phila. and New York..I still to this day listen to he or his band every Sunday morning. I have almost all the albums by all the members past and present and still listen to fusion jazz 90% of the time when I listen to music. Terje Rypdal was next and the ECM label was instantly my favorite label. Chick and Return were next, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, the wilder the better and cover art was my guide for awhile...if I liked the cover I bought the record.....LOL!!! Still today sometimes....love fusion!!!!

won ton on · « **Reply #37 on:** 24 May 2012, 05:30 pm »

Pat Metheny.........80/81

orientalexpress · « **Reply #38 on:** 24 May 2012, 05:34 pm »

Kenny G and Grover Washington is the most responsible for me

lapsan

mjosef · « **Reply #39 on:** 24 May 2012, 06:14 pm »

Herbie Hancock did it for me...I was deep into funk in the early 70's when Herbie came out with Headhunters...with my favorite track being 'vein melter'...

I started buying every album with Herbie on it, which led me to 'Water Babies' by Miles a few years later, that totally blew my mind...if this was jazz, I'll have more please. Up to this point I always thought jazz was Louis Armstrong or some old man's music

Followed Miles all the way back to the 40's to his stint with Charlie Parker, and of course the 50's when everybody played with everybody else, Mingus, Roach, Rollins, Monk...
As the 70's came to a close and disco was taking over, I was gone, lost in Jazzworld, left that bellbottom and clogs in the rear view mirror. Adieu!

"Funk is the preacher, Jazz is the teacher"