Jazz recommendations for a beginner?

barber and krall are jazz like john tesh is progessive!

What kind of music do you currently prefer?

Well I didn't mean to insult anybody-if you like Ms Krall then fine,I like lots of things other folks don't.
I tend to think Kind Of Blue( ground breaking as it was in it's day) is on the mainstream of what I would call traditional Jazz.
The other obvious one being Dave Brubecks Take Five-my feeling being that if you don't like these,then well you are into the area of pop/light/smooth or whatever you want to call it Jazz.
Kenny G and the like.
When I started off listening to Jazz,I was recommended Kind Of Blue and well I loved it....that to me is Jazz,the traditional link from what Jazz was into what Jazz became.
A lot of Jazz takes some listening and is challenging and I just think if you don't like KOB well...you are going to struggle with a lot of the greats.
Newbee you are probably right Davis,Coltrane et al they were never mainstream per se but well Kind Of Blue is the biggest selling Jazz album ever...and to me these names along with Ellington and Armstrong are in the line of traditional Jazz.
It's a bit like if you are into movies...Kubrik,Scorsese et al didn't mean ditto at the Box Office.

I recommend you to tune to FM91.1(Toronto). The only 24 hours all Jazz radio station in North America or even in the world !!!
You can listen to it through internet.

Go to www.jazz.fm and get connect....

Cheers.............

try the Bad Plus, jazz with rythem, very good