I'm looking to get into jazz a bit. I've heard some jazz I've liked and I've heard jazz-influenced work I liked, so I guess I'm ready to try and dive in. I'm looking for a few artist/album recommendations to get me pointed in the right direction.
So far my jazz experience has been a handful of Miles Davis albums and a few Sun Ra albums. Bitches Brew was pretty fantastic, although it took me a while to really like it, I think it's really cool. Most of his other works I've heard fall into the category of sounding nice but haven't done anything huge for me. The Sun Ra albums I've heard so far (Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways/Space is the Place) are all interesting upon the few times I've heard them, but I also don't know if they will hold my attention in the long run. That's all I've got.
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