Creating the Next Miles Davis

So we've been hearing from people that playing music to the baby in utero, can have long lasting and beneficial advantages for the tiny tot. Being a big fan of music myself, I understand the power of music and wanted to experiment with it on my firstborn. Two of our very good friends, Sergei and Amanda, bought us a contraption that wraps around the Mommy's Tummy and has a headset that places where the baby's head is (or supposed to be) and the other side hooks up into an Ipod where the greatest mix of Earth's music has been assembled for the task.

Conventional wisdom states that the baby should listen to about 10 minutes of music each day in order to help them better understand and adapt to the outside world once they join in the fun. Typically Mozart or Vivaldi is recommended. But we aren't looking for a future young Republican, we want a fun kid who controls his own universe and can crush the ideals of the weak who vote based upon fear.

So nightly we've been engaged in a quest for the best music to mold our lil bun in the oven into the next huge jazz musician. If we screw this up, he might end up listening to Yanni and John Tesh duets while discussing the best Starbucks that he's ever seen.

The first song that we played for him is John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme". If you don't know about this amazingly powerful piece, ask somebody cooler than you. Since then we've repeated it several times and noticed the baby kicking along every time. Ella Fitzgerald also has him tapping. He crosses his arms and has a think about Miles Davis. Still warming up to Stevie Wonder. Doesn't like Garth Brooks, anything on American Idol or Justin Timberlake (although we haven't tried). Next up: Public Enemy, Jimi Hendrix and Jay-Z. Any suggestions?