Comments on: Start the New Year with a jazz starter kit

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By: Michael Steinman

Michael Steinman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:26:45 +0000

An intelligent list for sure — but is it tailored to this one 20-year old listener? Perhaps even a brief list might acknowledge that there was jazz before 1955 and that people sang jazz as well. Or is the list tacitly stating that only the aging jazz types can hear Billie Holiday and Lester Young? I wonder.

By: eric snider

eric snider — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:58:39 +0000

Sorry for the delayed response, guys. While your arguments are certainly valid, I firmly believe that Oliver Nelson, Kind of Blue, Evans et al, would resonate better for an uninitiated listener than, say, big band music. I think big band would sound anachronistic to most ears. Now if you’re jazz newbie were 79 years old, then Count Basie would be perfect. My ten could certainly be replaced by a dozen other tens, and Getz definitely deserves to be on one (or more) of them. And I will admit that Ornette Coleman is a bit of a stretch in a starter kit, but in my mind it was “let the newcomer explore and hear some of the more challenging offerings.” In summation, I’ve weighed your arguments and still believe my list would make a good starter kit, as well as an overview. But then, you didn’t expect anything else, did you :) Jim, thanks for offering up your list.

By: Jim Lecinski

Jim Lecinski — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:49:32 +0000

Eric: your response/reaction/thoughts to the chorus of comments here that your list, while quality jazz, is actually not suitable for newcomers as a “starter kit.” What do you say?

By: Aaron Field

Aaron Field — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:45:44 +0000

All essential recordings to a complete jazz collection – no doubt about it – but a “starter kit”?? Ridiculous. The way to lure a newbie into jazz is with swing – not bop, not hard bop, not post-bop, not free jazz (Ornette Coleman? Oh for heaven’s sake!) – just small ensembles and maybe a touch of big-band swinging recognizable standards. Count Basie, Lester Young, Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson – you get the idea. I love Coltrane as much as anybody – but start a newbie off with him and you can forget about recruiting a new jazz fan.

By: Jim Lecinski

Jim Lecinski — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:54:43 +0000

Some interesting choices but this list is better suited to more advanced listeners. Newcomers will find “A Love Supreme” and Ornette very hard to digest. Instead check out my Jazz for Newcomers list of the first 20 CD’s newcomers should buy. Not the 20 greatest–the FIRST 20: http://www.squidoo.com/jazzfornewcomers