Ok so jazz fans, i need your help. i've never really interested myself to jazz but these days i'd like to ...

Wow -- just 20 songs! Well, here goes . . . Count Basie -- April In Paris Duke Ellington -- Mood Indigo Louis Armstrong -- (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue Ella Fitzgerald -- Mack the Knife Django Reinhardt -- The Sheik of Araby Horace Silver -- Song For My Father Benny Goodman -- Sing, Sing, Sing Jimmy Smith -- The Champ Miles Davis -- Seven Steps to Heaven Chet Baker -- My Funny Valentine Thelonious Monk -- Well, You Needn't Pharaoh Sanders -- The Creator Has a Master Plan Sonny Rollins -- Airegin Woody Herman -- Caldonia John Coltrane -- My Favorite Things Dave Brubeck -- Blue Rondo a la Turk Lionel Hampton -- Flying Home Billie Holiday -- Crazy He Calls Me Dizzy Gillespie big band -- I Remember Clifford Weather Report -- Birdland

Call It anything - Miles Davis {live at Isle of Wight 1970} Dave Brubeck - Unsquare Dance Dave Brubeck - Take Five I Put A Spell on You - Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone Feeling Good - Nina Simone Salt - Lizz Wright Comes Love - Stacey Kent September Song - Dee Dee Bridgewater Call Me Irresponsible - Nancy Wilson The Lady Is A Tramp - Peggy Lee Fever - Peggy Lee Black Coffee - Peggy Lee Be Still My Heart - Silje Nergaard Angel - Cassandra Wilson Taking A Chance on Love - Cleo Laine Summertime - Billie Holiday Slip Away - Cleo Laine Rhapsody In Blue - George Gershwin

la vie en rose- louis armstrong jeepers creepers- louis armstrong my baby just cares for me- nina simone just in time- nina simone lets call the whole thing off- sarah vaughn time after time- nancy wilson dream a little dream- louis armstong eternity- lizz wright c'est si bon- eartha kitt ain't misbehavin'- dinah washington what a difference a day makes- dinah washington Albums... ella and louis again- ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong great ladies of jazz- various artists salt- lizz wright the best of the song books- ella fitzgerald

i would recommend that you listen to your local jazz radio station, or internet jazz radio stations. you'll get a wide variety of jazz and you can learn what the songs are and who does them, and explore from there.

Here's a suggestion: Go out and buy Ken Burns' Jazz - The Story of America's Music. This is a 5-CD box set that contains everyone from Satchmo to Duke to Lady Day, Ella, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy, Brubeck, Miles, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report and Wynton Marsalis. This is the best introduction to jazz that I know of and it beats trying to buy all these artists and songs separately.

Of course, I would always say that "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis is the all-time classic and perfect jazz album. That being said, without repeating what the others have already given you, in addition to the famous jazz artists and the "classics", there are a lot of newer jazz artists who will go down in history as "classics" and I highly recommend you check them out. Here is a list of my favorite older classics and also some new tunes from artists who I think are right up there with the famous older artists. "Basically Blues" from the CD:"Buddy Rich Swingin' New Big Band" "Killer Joe" from the CD "Walking in Space" by Quincy Jones big band "Stolen Moments" from the CD: "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" by Oliver Nelson "Organ Grinder's Swing" from the CD "Jimmy Smith's Finest Hour" by Jimmy Smith "Summertime" from the CD "Gershwin's World" by Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell "Phase Dance" from the CD: "The Pat Metheny Group" "Giant Steps" and "Freedom Jazz Dance" from the CD: "Lucky To Be Me" by Taylor Eigsti "Jammin'" from the CD: "Around the City" by Eliane Elias "Empress Afternoon" from the CD: "Life On Earth" by Renee Rosnes "Swunk" from the CD:"Is What It Is" by Mike Stern "Blue In Green" from the CD: "Heaven and Earth" by Al Jarreau "New York State of Mind" from the CD: "The Best of Diane Shuur" "Stolen Moments" and "All Blues" from the CD: "NYV" by the group New York Voices "Boomerang" from the CD: "Iguana" by Ray Obiedo "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs" from the CD by the same name by Chick Corea The entire album "Light As A Feather" by Chick Corea "Samba Song", "Friends", " and "Sicily" from the CD: "Friends" by Chick Corea I came back to add some stuff: If you really like Chick Corea (I think I have everything he ever recorded), try the following: "Tones For Joan's Bones/Mountain in the CLouds" by Chick Corea and Miroslav Vitous (two albums put together). Entire CD. "Lifescape", "Jammin E. Cricket", "Free Step" on the CD: "Beneath the Mask, by Chick Corea Electric Band The entire CDs: "My Spanish Heart" and "Romantic Warrior" by Chick Corea - Return To Forever

from my part. I recommend You... Miles Davis. Melonious Monk Dexter Gordon. Louuis Armstrong Louis Prima(Vocals:the jungle book.bare necesities,brother louis) Ella Fitzgerald (vocal) Al Jeareu(vocal) Rob Mullins Brazilian Jazz.. Tom Jobim Joao Gilberto Carlos Antonio Jobim Ana Caram Sergio Mendes. Latins Jazz. Johnny Pacheco (Fania All Stars) Pappo Lucca( Sonora Poncena) is very important when You get the jazzist ,in Youtube .check for the song's name(the one you like), and type it in a new search,You will hear it in a totally new musician way. how about Santana(live) Australia. song name: "Europa" and how about this amateur..............

Few months ago I compiled a top 20 gypsy jazz videos from youtube. Check it out - I hope you like it... http://djangopedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Top_20_Djangopedia_Gypsy_Jazz_Tunes_with_Youtube_videos

Albums: Filles De Kilimanjaro byMiles Davis Brilliant Corners by Thelonius Monk Destination Out by Jackie McLean Fuchsia Swing Song by Sam Rivers Giant Steps by John Coltrane