Which Decade

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Originally posted by DeltaSigStan


What kind of jazz do you prefer? I'm more into Count Basie and Charlie Parker, plus some Buddy Rich stuff (Ever heard Channel One Suite? DAMN)

My favorite single CD is Miles Davis, Birth Of The Cool

I'm a Bop, Cool, West Coast, Hard Bop and Soul Jazz person. I'd say I like things from 1945 to 1970. That was the jazz my Dad mainly listened to.

Favorites include Miles Davis, especially with Gil Evans, Charlie Parker, Shorty Rogers, Herbie Mann (I like odd-instrument jazz like flutes, French horns and the like), Modern Jazz Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie in an orchestral context, Wes Montgomery, Bud Shank, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson. I don't have Buddy Rich in my CD collection, but I like his 50s and 60s work -- and I just heard his West Side Story on www.wbgo.org out of New York. Great stuff.


I'm fortunate to have 200+plus jazz CDs, and to live in two areas where they have good jazz stations: KSDS (which stopped Web casting this year) and KKJZ, formerly KLON and Web casts at www.kkjz.org.