12 Best Jazz CD’s
- Kind of Blue
by Miles Davis
If you only buy one jazz CD in your lifetime, this is the one to have. - Time Out
by Dave Brubeck
It’s hard to imagine what music would be like if this album had never been recorded. - Getz/Gilberto
by Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto
The birth of cool jazz: includes the standards “The Girl from Ipanema,” “Desafinado (Off Key),” and “Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)” - Head Hunters
by Herbie Hancock
Quintessential fusion funk. - The King of Swing
All of Goodman’s trademark songs, including the benchmark of upbeat swing, “Sing, Sing, Sing,” an exercise in reckless abandon, courtesy of Gene Krupa’s tom-tom frenzy. - Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits
by Louis Armstrong
The best of the Louie Armstrong “Greatest Hits” CDs. You know all these songs, beginning with “What a Wonderful World,” and “Hello Dolly.” - Heavy Weather
by Weather Report
Fusion supergroup Weather Report’s masterpiece, featuring the cross-over hit “Birdland.” Pastorius introduced the fretless bass to the world at large. - Glenn Miller - Greatest Hits
by Glenn Miller
Essential swing from Miller. There’s not a song on here you haven’t heard a thousand times. - The Very Best of Fats Waller
by Fats Waller
Stride piano at its best, masterful songwriting, and a cast of jazz legends. - The Original Misty
by Erroll Garner
Play “Misty” for me. Erroll Garner. What else is there to say? - The Essential Duke Ellington
by Duke Ellington
Covers the most of the length and breadth of Ellington’s monumental career. It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing. - Birds of Fire
by John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra
Nothing else like it in recorded history. Except it’s near twin album, “Inner Mounting Flame.” If it’s not the best jazz-fusion ever recorded, it is certainly the fiercest.
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