Jazz

August, 1992

For the past 30 years or so, this basic set of guidelines has proved invaluable for fledgling jazz fans: 1. Buy one Miles Davis album from the mid-Fifties and one from the mid-Sixties. 2. Buy one album by each sideman found therein. 3. Buy one album by each of their sidemen. Follow these rules and you'll have a starter-set of modern jazz. Davis' acumen at putting together great bands led him to hire such storied improvisers as John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock,...