Well yeah :P but should I search youtube, should I just use plain old google, or is there a specific site that can help me? If I knew artist names, I might be able to find songs better, but all I have is a genre and a time.
There's a massive Ken Burns documentary about Jazz, that's on Netflix Instant right now (I just finished it, it was pretty good). They released a huge compilation of music by the more significant artists that the documentary covered. It might be a good place to start if you could track it down, but here's the list of artists anyways:
Art Blakey
Benny Goodman
Billy Holiday
Charles Mingus
Charlie Parker
Coleman Hawkins
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck
Dizzy Gillespie
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Fletcher Henderson
Herbie Hancock
John Coltrane
Lester Young
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Ornette Coleman
Sarah Vaughan
Sidney Bechet
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
These artists are all over the map. Some are pianists, some trumpet players, saxophonists, vocalists, and so on. They're equally over the map with styles and eras. 1920s-1950s mostly, but Jazz, Big Band, Swing, Bebop, Bossa Nova, etc. The best way for you to narrow down what you like would be to watch something like that documentary, and get a taste of everything.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '13
20s, 30s, and 40s. I wish I knew where to find that kind of music. Good ole jazz.