How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated
NPRHow To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated Enlarge this image toggle caption Bob Daugherty/AP Bob Daugherty/AP This new year, how about some new music? Sponsor Message YouTube On the idea that jazz is your grandparents' music Well, there's been a lot recorded since then. But keep in mind, too, that jazz was America's popular music at one point in the big band era of the '30s and '40s. And he picked five records for me: Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; the Thelonious Monk Quartet; Charles Mingus; The Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances a Sophie; and wonderful trumpet player, who's not as well-remembered as he should be, named Booker Little; and an equally outstanding tenor saxophonist, who's also not as well known as he should be, named Booker Ervin.
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