Recommend me some good Jazz bass albums/CDs for a beginner

[gholizad]

Hi,

I've been into Metal for as far as I remember but I'm starting to get into Jazz. What are the best Jazz albums with nice basslines out there? I have no Jazz experience so anything would help.

Thanks.

[Dave Muscato]

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time for a good reason. Some pretty simple stuff on there, but powerfully simple. (upright bass)

[mattygbass]

anything by medeski ,martin ,and wood.-chris wood
weather report,-jaco
return to forever-stanley clark
herbie hancock-paul chambers

[Petethebassman]

I'd recommend any Oscar Peterson album with Ray Brown on bass, Night Train and We Get Requests (both from early '60s) are my personal faves.

[fearceol]

Some of the early "Crusaders" albums, while not strictly jazz have some great bass work in them. For example :

Southern Comfort

Street Life

Those Southern Knights

Crusaders 1

[capnsandwich]

Ric Fierabracci- Hemispheres

Adam Nitti- Balance or Evidence

Anything by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Dave Weckl- Synchronicity

Vital Informattion- Ray of Hope

Chick Corea's Elektric Band- Behind the Mask

Alan Holdworth- Hard Hat Area

Chad Wackerman- Forty Reasons

Kyle Eastwood- Now



Etc., Etc., Etc........


I have so many I can't go through all of them in one day.

[mambo4]

+1 Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Probably the best introduction to jazz you can get, a good mix of signature bass phrases and straight up walking lines.

Another +1 for Ray Brown. Generally considered one of ,if not the best.

But if flashy technique is what interested you in Metal, and you prefer electric, then definitely Weather Report w/Jaco, maybe Marcus Miller too.

[bench]

Pat Metheney - Bright size life

and recently:

Mark Egan - as we speak

[jayarroz]

hmmmmmmmm. anything from....
Ahmad Jamal
Oscar Peterson
Bill Evans
Miles Davis
Milt Hinton
Leroy Vinegar
The Bad Plus
Dave Brubeck
Chick Correa
Dave Holland
Pat Matheny
my band www.johnnyhornertrio.com
just joking!
Duke Ellington
Dizzy
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Albert Ayler
Sun Ra
Lennie Tristano
Cecil Taylor
Ornette Coleman
Eric Dolphy
Lennie Tristano
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Haden
Modern Jazz Quartet
Wayne Shorter
Weather Report
Dexter Gordon
Toshiko Akiyoshi
John McLaughlin
Max Roach
McCoy Tyner
Sonny Rollins
Horace Silver
Keith Jarrett
Thelonious Monk
Herbie Hancock
Joe Scofield
Max Roach
Billy Cobham
Stan Getz
Jack DeJohnette
Al DiMeola
Medeski Martin and Wood
Yusef Lateef

well that should get you started! These got me through music school, if you can't steel them from someone than youtube is great! Good luck

[soong]

Try stanley Clarke's School Days, perhaps