The various 1941 after hours recordings featuring Charlie Christian and Thelonious Monk were where I got my beginnings in more extensive jazz listening beyond a few stray tunes now and then. With some exceptions, I have been taking a more historically focused path back from that point in time.
P.S. During my own personal music journey, I began listening to these albums around I had started exploring the path from The Beach Boys to The Four Freshmen to the history of early 1900s songs recognizably in the barbershop genre. I didn't consciously associate The Four Freshmen with jazz until this year.
Interesting. I too kind of discovered jazz backwards. Starting with modern jazz and finding my way back in time to early fletcher Henderson and Erskine Hawkins, for example
I think because I got into the history of barbershop quartets before I became more conscious of jazz, it was more straightforward for me to shift back to late 1890s ragtime piano right after listening to these 1941 proto-Bebop records featuring Thelonious Monk and Charlie Christian.
The various 1941 after hours recordings featuring Charlie Christian and Thelonious Monk were where I got my beginnings in more extensive jazz listening beyond a few stray tunes now and then. With some exceptions, I have been taking a more historically focused path back from that point in time.
P.S. During my own personal music journey, I began listening to these albums around I had started exploring the path from The Beach Boys to The Four Freshmen to the history of early 1900s songs recognizably in the barbershop genre. I didn't consciously associate The Four Freshmen with jazz until this year.
Interesting. I too kind of discovered jazz backwards. Starting with modern jazz and finding my way back in time to early fletcher Henderson and Erskine Hawkins, for example
I think because I got into the history of barbershop quartets before I became more conscious of jazz, it was more straightforward for me to shift back to late 1890s ragtime piano right after listening to these 1941 proto-Bebop records featuring Thelonious Monk and Charlie Christian.