China Moses

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« Lots of folks know almost nothing about jazz, but condensing the hundred some odd years of the genre into ten albums is not easy, something akin to asking someone to describe the history of baseball in ten games. It also depends on where you’re from. A guy in San Francisco is going to have a different opinion from someone in Cincinnati, but either way they’ll both agree that the guy in the Yankees hat is full of shit. So here are ten jazz albums that will help to give you an idea of why people dig this stuff. This isn’t even close to a definitive history of jazz, but rather the list we would use to convince someone the music is worthwhile.  » by  Sean J. O’Connell