Whats the best jazz music to get into jazz with???

I know how to ease you in. If you try these albums first, you will develop an ear for jazz. I know what I'm talking about. These albums that I am suggesting are easy to like. Yes Charlie Parker was great, but not for beginners. these albums are perfect for beginners, and they are all jazz classics. Miles Davis Kind of Blue album. It's a great album for a beginner, and it's great even if you've heard a whole lot of jazz. Get it. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifrxqegld0e Thelonious is another great and important master of jazz. I suggest that you start out with the Monk's Dream album. Don't operate heavy machinery while listening. Monk swings the hardest of any jazz musician, in my little opinion. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:fxfyxqegldhe This is the album that really turned me onto jazz. I still enjoy it and respect it. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kvfoxq85ldke This is a great album, centered around the guitar playing, although McCoy Tyner is at his best (piano player from Coltrane's band). It's another great album that's easy to like. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:jzfpxq8gldfe Here's a great album that you really have to hear. I can't even talk about it. The whole band is amazing. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dxfexqygldae Another great and easy to like album. Freddie Hubbard is at his best through the whole album (on trumpet, fluglehorn). It's a concept album, and it really does flow like the sea, as Herbie intended it to. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:3xfuxq9gldhe Horace Silver plays piano with soul. The songs are great and so is the band. Everything works on this album. It's another easy to like album too. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:axfoxqygldae Please trust these suggestions. These are classic albums. They are accesible to the beginner's ear. Jazz is a form of music that is untouched by the ambitions of being famous. It's all about the music. PS-Jazz is the best art form. If you need any more help, I am happy to help get you started. Someone helped me a while back, no I am happy to be able to help others. Another PS-Here's a modern great. Personally, I think it's a great album. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wiftxqqaldse Happy listening.

believe it not ... Vince Guaraldi, yeah the guy who wrote the music for the Peanuts tv specials. He did a lot to improve sound tracks, downsizing his group to three instruments; piano, bass and drums His Peanuts soundtracks are worth listening to !!!

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue John Coltane - Giant Steps Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool Weather Report - Heavy Weather Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um John Coltrane - Blue Train Dave Brubeck - Time Out John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else Count Basie - Basie Straight Ahead

Dave Brubeck with his Trio HANDS DOWN!!

Hey, that one guy up there got it right. Vince Guaraldi is perfect to start with. You'll recognize the songs, so they'll be familiar, plus they're just really nice jazz. His music is a good example of simple piano jazz, which is the most basic for jazz standards and such. It's really easy music to like. Look him up on Amazon and get the Christmas Time Is Here soundtrack. You'll love it.

Something very good but easy would be to listen to Dianna Krall who plays lovely jazz piano and sings pretty too.

Here's something very specific: Check out the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's version of "Summertime". Excellent!

its not sax, but check out maynard ferguson.

Try: cherry poppoin' ladies,Glenn miller, herbie huncok hope that helps