Jazz albums you recommend

[DancingBear]

Coltrane - Giant Steps
Gene Ammons/SonnyStitt - Boss Tenors
Eric Alexander - Up, Over and Out
MJQ - The Last Concert


others??

[MrSoundAndVision]

1. Two

The Best of Django Reinhart by DR

and

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters by HH and the HH

[wtmusic]

2. Kind of Blue

Before all others.

[DancingBear]

4. Of course!

and Sketches of Spain, and Someday My Prince Wll Come, and etc.

[Khephra]

3. Anything by Morphine

The Sandman rules!

[Brucey]

5. Time Out

by Dave Brubeck and Bitches Brew by Miles Davis are the ones I listen to the most. Very nice background music for parties too.

[DemoTex]

15. Damn good sides, both!

I like Quincy Jones' Walking in Space and Mancinni's big-band classic Mancinni '67.

[Zomby Woof]

39. isn't that Brubeck, "Take Five"?

Or is there one I never heard of?

[Emboldened Chimp]

6. Here are a few...

A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane
Live at the Village Vangard vol. 2, by Brad Mehldau
The Sidewinder, by Lee Morgan
Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis
Full House, by Wes Montgomery

[DancingBear]

7. I could have listed everything by Coltrane

but space constraints prevented it.

NOTE: Everything with the original quartet(s), that is.

That is a great Lee Morgan LP, BTW.

[CanuckAmok]

8. Charles Mingus - Better Git it In Your Soul n/t

[DemoTex]

17. Too good for words.

As a jazz bassist, Mingus and Brown are my gods!

[thebigidea]

35. Mingus "The Clown" is great too - with Jean Shepherd

[slackdude]

9. Anything by Monk, Mingus

Also...
Dave Brubeck - Time Out

if you like bossa nova: any Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto collaboration
If you like funk/fusion: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters and Manchild

[tishaLA]

10. My try

I confess, first of all, that I love vocal jazz, so my selections will, in part, reflect that.

Basie--April in Paris
Basie--Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
Davis--Kind of Blue
Parker--The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall
Trane--Love Supreme and Favorite Things
Trane with Johnny Hartman (best version of "Lush Life" ever)
Ellington--Newport 56
Dizzy--At Carnagie Hall
Monk--Monk's Music
Stan Getz--Getz/Gilberto
Ella--Complete Ella in Berlin
Ella and Basie On the Sunny Side of the Street
Sarah Vaughan--with Clifford Brown

There are so many, really. It's an exercise in futility for me to try to get them down.

[DancingBear]

18. How could I forget Sassy!

I had the great fortune of seeing her in concert twice - closed both shows with (of course) "Send In The Clowns". I literally sat crying in my seat.

Have you ever listened to a jazz vocalist named Mary Stallings? Just curious.

[oxymoron]

29. Two of the greatest concerts I've had the great fortune to see...

are Sassy and Ella with Count Basie.

[absyntheNsugar]

11. well

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Wes Montgomery - The Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
John Coltrane - Love Supreme
Chucho Valdez - Bele Bele en la Habana

[CanuckAmok]

12. Joh Zorn - Spy vs. Spy (Ornette Coleman tribute CD)

[Character Assassin]

41. A most excellent suggestion. Also 'Song X' with Pat Metheny and Ornette

Ornette is his hero, and this one smokes.

[Zomby Woof]

49. I love "Song X"

I cannot get many of the jazz fans I know to agree. I think it Metheny's best, or near-best work, and Coleman has never stopped amazing me.

[sujan]

13. miles davis - agharta

[Ernesto]

14. Absolutly theee sheeeit

"Swiss Movement" Les McCan & Eddy Harris. This is a swingin' classic from the Nixon/Vietnam era... High grade artists emphasize the puplic fustration with the politics of the late 60/early 70's..... Still meaningful today. This IS a can't miss tip from an ol' fart that knows.

[DancingBear]

19. Try to make it real

Compared to what! :)

[Karenina]

16. Coltrane BALLADS

.

[beanball]

20. Jazz for lovers of jazz

Sonny Rollins-"The Bridge" enjoy.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

21. Herbie Mann at the Village Gate

1964
best jazz ever!
bought it then, still love it now.

[chaska]

22. Anything on ECM

Preferably from the Seventies. Description: Mostly original pieces (as opposed to covers), European, atmospheric, non-traditional.

[frustrated_lefty]

23. Coltrane

My Favorite Things

[GOPisEvil]

24. MILES, COLTRANE, MINGUS

:thumbsup:

Just about anything by these artists will do ya fine!

[SOteric]

25. Coltrane

A Love Supreme

[ronzo]

26. Horace Silver.

Just about any Horace Silver.
My Brubeck box set gets quite a workout too.
Emily Remler made some very cool guitar jazz records.
Larry Carlton.
MJQ.
Wynton Marsalis' standards collections are excellent.

[ironflange]

27. I don't do much jazz, but I love Silje Nergaard

Norwegian girl, beautiful voice. "Be Still My Heart" from the album "At First Light" is my favorite song of hers, it's gorgeous.

http://siljenergaard.com

Just noticed she has a brand new album out. Gotta go look for it.

[Drifter]

28. Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

yum

Cheers
Drifter

[thebigidea]

36. floozies in the lobby love the way I sell hot meat hot cats hot rats...

hot bats!

[4323Lopez]

30. two words

Lush Life

[Old and In the Way]

31. Echos of an Era

Pretty cool Jazz Album.

Chaka Kahn's vocals are awesome...I think better than Ella Fitzgeralds.

She recorded this album with CHick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Stanley Clarke, and Lennie White. Most of the cuts are 1st takes...really outstanding.

Them There Eyes
All of Me
I Mean You
I Love You Porgy
Take the "A" Train ( 2 versions )
High Wire
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

I found it in a cut-out bin for $3.99....go figure.

[OneBlueSky]

32. here's a couple of compilation CDs that I enjoy . . .

they're both doubles, so at ten bucks, you're getting a lot of great music for your money . . .

Lazy Afternoon Jazz

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YJ0Q/qid=1068875693/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-0709278-7090526?v=glance&s=music

Stormy Weather Jazz

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YBY0/qid=1068875805/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0709278-7090526?v=glance&s=music

[Feanorcurufinwe]

33. A few

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall
Duke Ellington - At Newport

[BackDoorMan]

34. "The Ultimate Blue Train" (on Bluenote) John Coltrane, "Mingus, Mingus,

Mingus" (on Impluse) Charles Mingus, Honorable Mention: McCoy Tyner (on Bluenote) "Eastern Sounds" (on Atlantic) Yusef Lateef "The Blue Yusef Lateef" (on Atlantic) Yusef Lateef, Blues and the Abstract Truth, (on Verve) Oliver Nelson and "Dexter Blows Hot and Cool" (on Polygram) Dexter Gordon...these are all great albums.

[DancingBear]

38. Karma??

I was listening to "Dexter Blows Hot and Cool" yesterday, along with "Our Man In Paris."

[alwynsw]

37. DIz and Bird or Two of A Mind (Mulligan/Desmond)

If you can find it. These two giants cook! (Take that for both sides.)

Also, I've lost the album and the name of it eludes me, so if anyone knows of which I speak, let me know. It was a collaboration that included Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Mingus (I think) that was cut in the late 50's.

[Zomby Woof]

40. here ya go

Some of these have been mentioned...

Miles Davis - "Sketches Of Spain" or "Kind Of Blue"
John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme"
Eric Dolphy - "Out To Lunch"
Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - "Bags Meets Wes"
Thelonious Monk - "Straight, No Chaser"
Charles Mingus - "New Tijuana Moods"
McCoy Tyner - "The Real McCoy"
Branford Marsalis Trio - "Crazy People Music"
John Zorn - "Naked City"
Frank Zappa - "The Grand Wazoo"

[Richardo]

42. "Traveling Miles" by Cassandra Wilson

"Giant Steps" - Coltrane
"Tears of Joy" - Don Ellis
"Time Being" - Buddy Rich (or any album with his version of "Straight No Chaser")
"The Blue Note Years" - Thelonious Monk (great collection)

[coyote]

43. St. Germain

He's more jazz house....but highly recommend his "so flute" song or his Tourist album. The album is cleverly done mixing electronica with jazz.

[mvd]

44. Regina Carter

I have her Motor City Moments CD. She has a very passionate style.

[bywho4who]

45. Jazz Drummer I Am

I just bought Mindi Abair (It Just Happens that way), If you like sax:bounce:




:smoke: :hippie:

[IronLionZion]

46. Mingus band - Gunslinging birds

is a fantastic album

[IronLionZion]

47. Herbie Hancock is great

[Insider]

48. Donald Byrd (Band & Voices): A New Perspective

as always.

-snip-
The idea of a jazz group and vocal chorus is an unlikely one. But what Donald Byrd and Duke Pearson accomplished in this 1963 session was more than an innovative experiment. It is music of exquisite beauty typified by the classic "Cristo Redentor." Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell and Herbie Hancock are among the sidemen.
-snip-
http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=9439

'cristo redentor' was inspired by his trip to rio de janeiro:
"Coming into Rio, you see Corcovado peak with its huge white statue of Christ. That sight led me to write this composition right away. I'd never felt that close to religion before." - liner notes to Donald Byrd: A New Perspective

[FrankBooth]

50. A few more greats

"Blue Train" by John Coltrane, and two by Miles Davis - "Sketches of Spain,' and "In a Silent Way."

I also like Baker/Mulligan live at Carnegie Hall.

[guitar man]

51. Anything by Diana Krall

I have a serious thing for her.:)

Eva Cassidy-"Live at Blues Alley"

Weather Report-"Heavy Weather"

Pete Fountain-Anything he does is fine by me!

The Crusaders "Rhapsody and Blues"

George Benson "In Concert,Carnegie Hall 1975"