Music

[jminnis]

My music collection needs to be grown. I'm looking for suggestions, especially Classical and Jazz, which I'm less familiar with. My music selection is eclectic, and I'd like to add more breadth to it (I pretty much know what I want to add in terms of depth

Comments

[wwilliam47]

Jazz: I lean towards older swing & big band; Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman are notables there. Lots of their style got co-opted by southern rock (after taking it through several mutations and reducing it to a standard rock arrangement); given your rock taste, you may find this appealing

[percussivebunny]

my two favorite classical composers are tchaikovsky and mozart. try swan lake or sleeping beauty by tchaikovsky. the first part of sleeping beauty is so lovely it makes me cry.

i find that i enjoy the classical samplers you can pick up in CD form for very cheap - they give you a good range and you can start to figure out if you're more a fan of piano concertos, or violin concertos, or ballets, or operas, or what-have-you.

[ahappyincubus]

Utilize pandora.com and last.fm for music exploration. And explore the various mtv sites for other countries. The world is quite big and filled with a variety of music. There are only so many ways 8 notes can be arranged.

[ukelele]

I'm bad at answering questions like this, but you should see if Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution has -- I'm pretty sure he has for the classical case. Itai would also be a good person to ask in re classical.