Re: Jazz albums I should own
Can I come clean here?
I grew up in Memphis. I was raised in rock and roll and Stax soul. I have a blues-based brain. Horns sound like the Memphis Horns or something from and Otis Redding record. Saxophone sounds like Bobby Keys. I spent at least a weekend a month in New Orleans as a teen, and second line jazz is my toe in the water here. I've seen many of the legends down there, often before I knew they were anybody, and loved it. But still, New Orleans jazz is still steeped in the basic idea that jazz is dance music.
Most jazz, "west coast jazz", Miles Davis et al, confounds me. Bitches Brew gives me a headache. Now, I know this is crazy, as I love rules being broken in rock and roll, and I love guitar noise as much as I do guitar notes and chords.
School me.
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