If you don’t know jazz the most accessible entry is probably swing era jazz, which was basically the pop music of the 30s but infinitely more interesting than modern pop music. Billy Hollidays early music (the stuff she did on Columbia Records) is very good.
If you don’t know jazz the most accessible entry is probably swing era jazz, which was basically the pop music of the 30s but infinitely more interesting than modern pop music. Billy Hollidays early music (the stuff she did on Columbia Records) is very good.