Three Jazz Albums in Three Months after Jazz Appreciation Class
Three months back I was not a friend of jazz. I found this music chaotic and hard to listen. I knew that this unappealing condition regarding this form of art was the result of my lack of knowledge. Therefore, I decided to take the bull by the horns and register in a Jazz Appreciation Class. I was very surprised to find how easy it was to start enjoying Jazz from the first week. I think the combination of an excellent teacher, very easy to use learning platform (edx.org) and self-motivated student, created a perfect environment to learn to love Jazz. In the last three months I have listened many jazz albums, and I have watched many documentaries about jazz artists. One of the most interesting films, called ‘ 1959 The Year that Changed Jazz ’, talks about four albums created in 1959 that changed jazz forever. These four albums are: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue Dave Brubeck's Time Out Charles Mingus's Ah Um Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come