Jazz

[paul childs]

Gotta disagree here, to steal a quote 'Reading about music is like dancing about
architecture'. Start with Miles in the Gil Evans period, then Kind of Blue,
Coltrane with 'A Love Supreme', anything with Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman,
Cecil Taylor or Charlie Haden and just listen.  Read when you're done listening
for what you want to hear, not what others tell you you should hear.

PC


>Martin Williams' Smithsonian Classic Jazz collection is a good >place to 
>start learning about this music, though it slights more recent->-60s and 
>after--jazz. For a good left history through the start of the >60s, see Eric


>Hobsbawm's book on jazz. --jks

N Paul Childs
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