I'm blessed being in Southern California. Got two great jazz stations:
www.kkjz.org/music
www.ksds-fm.org
And a grip of CDs. I bought tons of them when I was living in Las Vegas and the "jazz station" played too much contemporary/smooth stuff for my taste.
Favorite musicians:
Miles Davis, particularly with Gil Evans and the orchestra.
John Coltrane.
Buddy Collette (love jazz flute).
Stan Kenton.
Oliver Nelson.
Wes Montgomery.
In terms of style...love bop, hard bop, West Coast jazz and soul jazz.
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