Some jazz music recommendations

Clifford at Asymptotia has some jazz music recommendations:

If you have not heard of Lee Morgan, please stop what you are doing right now and go out to the store and buy some of his work. This is an emergency! If you want to be totally blown away by the most audacious, powerful and raw trumpet playing you’ll probably ever hear, get (for example) John Coltrane’s 1957 album Blue Trane. Don’t focus on Coltrane for a change (who is of course transcendent)… Listen to Morgan, and remind yourself as you encounter the intense heat and urgency of his trumpet playing on one of the greatest jazz trumpet solos ever recorded (the title track) that this is a 19 year old you’re listening to, who’d only been playing the trumpet for five years, and that he was already rapidly getting well established as a player.

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Clifford’s playing was sweeter in tone, but no less brilliant, and if you have not ever heard or heard of Clifford Brown please don’t tell me as (at least in the blissfully reflective mood I’m in now) I’d be likely to burst into tears at the thought of what you’ve missed. So just go out and get some. The two “Study in Brown” albums are wonderful. If you’re not a fan of the hard stuff (but do please listen to “Joyspring”), you can also hear Clifford Brown playing wonderful solos on songs sung by the wonderful Sarah Vaughn. They complemented each other fantastically. Get the wonderful “Sarah Vaughn with Clifford Brown” album from 1954.

Have fun!