There are almost as many points of entry for getting into jazz as there are jazz albums--who knows what's going to resonate with you, make you go deeper into the music? From time to time I'll be posting columns that make a couple informal recommendations for jazz albums that might connect with people who have already have a certain bent when it comes to music. This week, if you're a fan of John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, and all things heavy and percussion-laden, I've got some things you might want to check out.

Seeing Dave King last week with Buffalo Collision reminded me of how I really got into jazz in the first place. The first two jazz albums I bought were a Charlie Parker Verve best-of collection and a bootleg of a John Coltrane concert from the mid-sixties when he was somewhere between the more traditional material on his Atlantic albums and the out-there, energy music explorations of his Impulse years. It was the summer before I headed off to college, and jazz seemed like a good thing to start getting into when one went off to college. And I liked what I heard well enough, but I didn't really get into it, didn't feel it (as Radiohead said) in my bones, until I heard two things: Art Blakey's drumming on A Night in Tunisia (which I've already covered extensively here) and the drumming of one of my classmates, Guillermo Brown.