After our JazzCode session at 606 Club in London last week I recieved a nice letter from a Swiss account executive working for a leading multi-national IT company attending London Business School:
Dear Carl,
thank you very much for your performance yesterday - I think it was great and inspiring. I am an absolute jazz beginner and you showed a slide in 606 with some of your favorite records - can I ask you to give me me a few
recommendations if I wanted to start with jazz listening?
Thank you, Thomas
Here is what I think would be a good start:
- Kind of Blue with Miles Davis
- Coltrane Plays the Blues
- John Coltrane and Duke Ellington
- Any record with Errol Garner
- Jazz Samba with Stan Getz
- Milestones with Miles Davis
- Porgy and Bess with Miles Davis
- Big Beat with Art Blakey

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