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Originally Posted by Issmmm
Not a big fan of the live stuff. They use too many set musician, of course if they had players onstage instead, I'd go just for the history of it.
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Not sure what half of that means, but definitely ignore the advice not to go see live jazz. It is the best way to experience, well, any music really... especially something so highly improvised.
I was also just going to say Miles Davis -
On The Corner.
To parrot roachboy, there is no single way into the music... it's 100 years old now and things took paradigm shifts every 10 years it seems (and it's still happening!)
My best advice is to get a recommended album, and find out who the sidemen were on the record. If you like Herbie Hancock from listening to him play keys on
On The Corner, go and find his records... from there, you can play "1 degrees of separation" with any subsequent album you buy and make your own way through the scene. Jazz is about collective improvisation and a lot of the greats all played with each other, leaving us a great hidden map through the jazz universe.
I'd love to draw a map of how I found out all the artists I like. It'd probably start with Miles, then lead to Coltrane, then McCoy Tyner.... and so on...