True but a rocker looking into jazz might want to start with Tribute To Jack Johnson though.
Don't know if you like outlaw country?
i'm actually a Thelonious Monk fan, so thought i'd post the most popular. i'd post Monk, but everyone thinks it's be-bop, when it's actually stride meets swing. (i do like live stuff by the 2nd Quintet)
my X roomie makes me listen to some country, so on my own i tend to avoid it. and by country, i mean anything from Austin to Memphis.
my idea of cool country is Humble Pie's Town and Country. i usually only listen to music when i'm trying to crash, so it's either Todd/Utopia, Concrete Blonde, Humble Pie, SAHB, Thelonious Monk, (some form of) YES, (some form of) Return To Forever or one of my mix cds. (although i like Sade live, too. and Enya, love Enya and Moira)
every time my X says, "you gotta hear this", i go into "internal convulsions". i have a terra byte of tunes, i think i know what i want to hear! (besides, if i listen to one, then she wants me to listen to another. then i wait for a blood vessel to burst.)
oh, and Denrock in the house!