Recommend me some blues and/or jazz

[BitVyper]

Excepting some Yoko Kanno stuff, my library of music is woefully lacking in these categories. I especially wouldn't mind having some more saxophoney stuff.

[Magus]

King Crimson has some nice jazz-based albums, namely In The Wake of Poseidon and Islands, those are jazzy as hell, fabulous saxophone and woodwind work besides guitar and bass work (and bells and all kinds of other things, as well, at times). Also their harder albums have some jazz-based stuff in them, "One More Red Nightmare" off of Red is jazz-based, for instance, with some nice saxophone work, and most of Larks' Tongues in Aspic is jazz-based (such as "Book of Saturday" and "Exiles" and some of the other tracks...I would even argue "Easy Money" is jazz-based, really, or at least bluesy). Most of those tracks you can listen to on Youtube to see if you consider them jazzy enough. David Cross did a lot of saxophone and flute work on the Larks' Tongues in Aspic Trilogy (Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red are the albums in that trilogy), plus it they all contain my favorite King Crimson Line-up (Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Whetton, and David Cross). Also their first album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is fairly jazzy, at least in "I Talk To the Wind", though there's also a lot of rock based music involved...

Also a lot of the stuff Robert Fripp did "independently" or in conjunction with one or two other musicians is pretty great. Especially the composition "Rewind" off of the album Green Park Suite, if you can find it (personally I had to use...other means...to listen to it, as it's pretty much impossible to find the original digitally or on CD). It's just such a nice little composition, very upbeat in comparison to most of Fripp's music and very, VERY catchy. I wish I could find it on Youtube.

Pretty much everything post Red is first electronica-rock based and then metal-based, so not a lot of blues/jazz after 1974 for Robert Fripp/King Crimson...still surprising to see such a jazzy-track as "Rewind" in 1996.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Led Zeppelin. All of it.

[Magus]

Led Zeppelin. All of it.

I was going to say something about Led Zeppelin not being jazz and only a few songs possibly counting as "blues", but then decided that getting people to listen to Led Zeppelin is more important than technical definitions.

Thus

Led Zeppelin. All of it.

[Magni]

Buddy Guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovAsZycM_dE)

Muddy Waters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUFCZHWK89k)

Anything else will just be filler (in the Blues category, that is.)

You can add John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf to that, too.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

I was going to say something about Led Zeppelin not being jazz and only a few songs possibly counting as "blues", but then decided that getting people to listen to Led Zeppelin is more important than technical definitions.

Thus

Led Zeppelin. All of it.

They're definitely blues. They just played it louder than everybody else.

[BitVyper]

Some of their songs are definitely bluesy, but not enough that I'd really label them with it.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions so far.

[Gregness]

Oh man, Oh MAN did you ever ask the right guy.

Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ford. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw)

Al Di Meola is awesome if you're looking for guitar stuff. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClbE6YEO6e0) (he also plays with Steve Gadd a bunch so there's lots of amazing drumming going on too.

Gordon Goodwin's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1KKwk5JWQg) Big Phat Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIhfmgqLss) is very close (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbqq7rksN7Y&feature=related) to being the definitive modern big band.

Candyman by Christina Aguilera (yes, seriously). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5iV__T-qY)

Spain by Chick Corea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_OEJ0wqt2g) is some pretty good early electronic stuff.

Channel One Suite by Buddy Rich. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK_xMCsYtBI)

The Charles Mingus Big Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYBTlkhZuU) is good for some more offbeat stuff.

I'll post some more later, but that's what comes immediately to mind.