27 Historic Gateways to Jazz (1960-1979)

In part 2 of my series, I look at recordings that converted music listeners to jazz

In the first part of this series, I posted about records that were gateways to jazz between 1928 and 1959. In each case, the 78s, 10-inch LPs and 12-inch LPs I selected helped turn listeners into jazz fans.

Recorded jazz has been around since 1917 and each generation was seduced differently—some by electrifying soloists, some by dance music, some by gif…