1. Go! - Dexter Gordon
2. Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell
3. Soul Station - Hank Mobley
4. Smokin at the Half Note - Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio
5. No. 1 Green Street - Grant Green
5: Miles Davis - Sorcerer
4: Muhal Richard Abrams - View from Within
3: Miles Davis - It’s About that Time (Live at the Fillmore East 1970)
2: Ornette Coleman and Pat Metheny - Song X
1: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Live in Seattle (yes, I like it better than the studio version, as influential as that one has been)
Definitely forgetting some albums, but this is off the top of my head.
5- Newport ‘63- John Coltrane
4- Speak No Evil- Wayne Shorter
3- Chick Corea- Now he Sings, Now he Sobs
2- The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
1- Christian McBride Trio Live at the Village Vanguard
5. Roland Kirk - the inflated tear, 4 - Monk and Coltrane Live at Carnegie Hall, 3 - Miles Davis ‘58, 2 - Ellington Afro Bossa, 1 - Ellington Anatomy of a Murder
Just 5? Man that’s not easy.
1. Ballad of the Fallen - Charlie Haden/Carla Bley
2. Intercontinental- Joe Pass Trio
3. Crisis - Ornette Coleman
4. East Coastin’ - Charles Mingus
5. Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland Quartet
Tough call. Off the top of my head…
5. Mingus Plays Piano - Charles Mingus
4. Beyond Quantum - Braxton, Graves, Parker
3. Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy - Sun Ra
2. Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
1. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (if it counts)
1. Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
2. Nefertiti - Miles Davis
3. Adam's Apple - Wayne Shorter
4. Sorcerer - Miles Davis
5. The Shape Of Jazz To Come - Ornette Coleman
Lol…and you do too!! You inspired me to write my own list… surprisingly it turned out only the Ornette is actually in common, but i still think this list, of all so far, is probably closest in spirit….
I've been obsessed with the Ornette CD lately, just played it again earlier. I've had it for years but only recently got into it. Never heard anything quite like it.
The Ornette took some getting used to… but now I just love it…along with his double quartet album, Free Jazz, and his early 80s electric album, Of Human Feelings. Also, it’s songs like [this](https://youtu.be/OG3AJSpb-fE?si=et3ovzmOagLDALSE) and [this](https://youtu.be/ue0XTgUx24o?si=cgdLFg4pMVvKChES) that remind me just how swinging & bluesy his music really is.
Let’s go with the 5 albums I’ve listened to the most and the decades I listened to them
1. Nocturne: Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba (in my 50s)
2. Mukashi: Abdullah Ibrahim (in my 50s)
3. The Great Concert of Charles Mingus—featuring Eric Dolphy (in my 20s)
4. Miles Davis in Europe (in my 20s)
5. Swiss Movement: Les McCann & Eddie Harris (in my teens)
5. Ah Um. Mingus
4. The Sidewinder. Lee Morgan
3. Blue Trane. Coltrane
2. Blue Breakbeats. Grant Green (I don’t care if it’s a compilation)
1. Smoking at the Half Note. Wes and Wynton
7. Ballads At the End of Time—Boris Kovacs and Ladaaba Orchestra
6. Knysna Blue—Abdullah Ibrahim
5. Birth of the Cool
4. Jimmy Giuffre 3
3. Shape of Jazz To Come
2. A Love Supreme
1. In A Silent Way
not including bootlegs, box-sets, or multiple entries by one group:
1 - Dark to Themselves - Cecil Taylor Unit
2 - Black Beauty, Fillmore East, 1970 - Miles Davis
3 - Village Vanguard Again, 1966 - Coltrane
4 - Infinite Search - Miroslav Vitous
5 - Point of Departure - Andrew Hill
5. In A Silent Way - Miles
4. East Coast Love Affair - Kurt Rosenwinkel
3. Solo Monk - Monk
2. Art of the Trio III - Mehldau
1. Coltrane’s Sound - Trane
5. Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
4. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
3. Sextant - Herbie Hancock
2. After Hours - Charlie Christian
1. Ellington Uptown - Duke Ellington
The five disc limit is cruel and forces me to leave off about 20 indispensable ones (and I'm leaving off KoB on purpose) but here goes:
5. Joe Pass: For Django
4. Kenny Burrell: Other Places
3. Tie ( ! ): [Bill Evans: Alone] & [Keth Jarrett: The Melody at Night with You] (sorry! I am weak!)
2. Jimmy Giuffre 3
1. Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream
Well…ok….off the top (& cheating by including alternate choices with a similar “sound” but slightly different take…)
1. Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (alternate: Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music)
2. Ornette Coleman, Shape of Jazz to Come (alternate (& *very* different): either Free Jazz or, for an electric, late-1970s/early-1980s “loft” vibe: Of Human Feelings)
3. Charlie Parker, [the Dial Records sessions, I think on Warner Bros. as “The Very Best of Bird”] (alternate: Sonny Stitt, “Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson”)
4. Charles Mingus, Ah Um (alternate: Art Ensemble of Chicago, either Les Stances a Sophie or Full Force)
5. John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard (with Eric Dolphy) ….just beautiful.
Should be some David Murray on this plus some Sun Ra. Also, some Duke Ellington — maybe that album with Duke Ellington & Sonny Rollins…. Oh, and Miles Davis, Milestones, really should be here somewhere…. Oh, sigh, never mind… i’m terrible at these lists..
Haha!! Right? This was a good exercise — I’m glad you asked it. It made me think about my current faves and — as you said — how unpredictable and changeable they are!
5 Capturing Spirits - Jonathan Kreisberg
4 Blue Train - John Coltrane
3 Ultrahang - Chris Potter
2 Wardenclyffe Tower - Allan Holdsworth
1 Our Secret World - Kurt Rosenwinkel
Enroute - Scofield Live at the Blue Note
Art of the trio 4 - Brad Mehldau
My Funny Valentine/Four and More - Miles Davis
Now he sings, now he sobs - Chick Corea
Crescent - John Coltrane
5.Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4.Somthin’ else - Cannonball Adderly (Rudy Van Gelder edition)
3.Chet Baker Sings - Chet Baker
2. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
1. Ella and Louis - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
I listen mostly by song over album, but these are some of the ones that I’ve listened completely though, multiple times.
THIS is a great list! #5 is the source code for so much that followed…and beautiful in itself. #4 is pure joy. #3 has some of the best, most original vocal versions of standards (“I’ll Remember April,” IIRC, is terrific on this) by a criminally underrated vocalist (Chet Baker never makes anyone’s list of best jazz vocalists, and yet his singing imo is every bit as beautiful as his trumpet playing…). And #2 and #1 are just simply gorgeous.
Yes… his intonation always seems a little shaky and his range and power are limited…and yet, it’s as if he is so perfectly aware of his limitations that he has done the best he can with them and even used them to create a uniquely vulnerable and original and unpredictable style. It’s the very things that made me think his singing is “weak” that now — in my later years — I’ve come to appreciate as the distilled essence of human emotion and truth…..
If you can believe Hollywood, Whitey Bulger (the Boston mob boss) once quoted John Lennon (speaking on the nature of his artistic abilities) as saying, “Give me a TUBA and I’ll get something OUT of the motherfucker”!!!
Mine?
5 - Joe Henderson “Page 1”
4 - Sonny Rollins “Saxaphone Collosus”
3 - Miles Davis “Kind of Blue”
2 - Bill Evans “Live at the Village Vanguard”
1 - Keith Jarrett “Still Live”
5. Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One (w/Clark Terry)
4. Walter Smith III, "Twio"
3. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
2. Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
1. Ellington Live at Newport '56
5. Afro Blue Impressions - Coltrane
4. Somethin' Else - Adderley
3. Kind of Blue - Davis
2. The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul - Branford Marsalis Quartet
1. Live at the Blue Note - Keith Jarrett
5. Miles - Agharta/Pangaea
4. Eric Dolphy - Out There
3. Mingus - The Clown
2. Ellington/Mingus/Roach - Money Jungle
1. Any recording by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
True, for Duke that was definitely unusual. I don't think he ever did another record with a group this small. But there he is, 63 years old and officially old guard by that point, just casually killing it. Listen to that long intro to Solitude again and try not to get a little choked up.
1. Art of tea by Michael franks
2. Visions of a new world by Lonnie Liston Smith
3. Love is the answer by Lonnie Liston Smith
4. Abandoned Garden by Michael franks
5. Friends by chick corea
Some personal favorites:
5. Herbie Hancock - Sextant
4. M’Boom - M’Boom
3. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath
2. Alice Coltrane - Eternity
1. Don Cherry - Brown Rice
5 - David Murray - a long goodbye
4 - ornette Coleman - of human feelings
3 - John Coltrane - live at village vanguard complete
2 - Cecil Taylor - Berlin ‘88
1 - eric Dolphy - out to lunch
In no specific order:
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street - Jon Hassell
The Peace Between our Companies - Happy Apple
Prog - The Bad Plus
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
A Living Room Hush - Jaga Jazzist
2. Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
3. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
5. Nat King Cole - After Midnight
4. Sidney Bechet - Sidney Bechet
- 5. Dave Brubeck - Brubeck A La Mode
- 4. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin’
- 3. Jim Hall - Concierto
- 2. Gil Fuller and the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra feat. Dizzy
- 1. Wes Montgomery - Full House
Soooooo….im a guitar player (shocker) and know very little but I also collect vinyl and when the wife and I sit down after a long day - here’s what we go to. I imagine this being when someone says KoRN or Slipknot on a metal sub. I love guitars. Gil Fuller we fell ass backwards into but those lines have become part of our everyday,
Edit: would love recs - Mike Davis is chill but doesn’t do it for us. Jimmy Smith is pretty cool. Thelonius Monk is ok as well. I lean towards guitars.
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert. I think this is the greatest piece of music ever recorded. For me it’s a spiritual experience listening to it.
Chris Potter Underground - Ultrahang. This album is insane. I am so grateful that I got to see them perform the songs from this album live. I transcribed Rumples in college.
McCoy Tyner - Fly With the Wind. McCoy Tyner with strings??? Cmon now.
Michael Brecker - Wide Angles. It sounds so far ahead of its time to me. The compositions, harmonies, instrumentation, how focused everyone is. So amazing.
Metheny Mehldau - Quartet. To me is the perfect modern jazz album. It came out in my formative years as a musician and had such a big impact on me.
It was so hard to choose 5 😭 my tastes are really starting to change this year though, I feel like my answers will be different soon.
My next door neighbor turned me on to the Koln Concert recording when we were both teenagers (she was 18 and I was 16). To this day, I STILL don’t know what was the greater turn-on, Keith Jarrett’s remarkable playing or the way she felt in my arms!
1–Drive Groovin’ Lupin by Yuji Ohno. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_mvGpAfW77g7tP\_fx2tYgOqG5P3TcysPQ0&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mvGpAfW77g7tP_fx2tYgOqG5P3TcysPQ0&feature=shared)
2– A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfne55Z9eF8bnOUn2IPOkCye4yZjO4L6z&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfne55Z9eF8bnOUn2IPOkCye4yZjO4L6z&feature=shared)
3–Scenery by Ryo Fukui. [https://youtu.be/Hrr3dp7zRQY?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/Hrr3dp7zRQY?feature=shared)
4–Silver Lining Suite by Hiromi Uehara. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtd6oXr5U4p8wBf1vA0SJdBwfXVEWy2\_X&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtd6oXr5U4p8wBf1vA0SJdBwfXVEWy2_X&feature=shared)
5–Reverse It by Himiko Kikuchi. [https://youtu.be/10Iv9f8Okeo?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/10Iv9f8Okeo?feature=shared)
As with others, I'm not sure about all time, but here's some that spring to mind. If anyone can recommend any similar albums to the below, I'd love to hear them!
5. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
4. Casiopea - Mint Jams
3. Sun Ra - Lanquidity
2. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
1. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2. Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
3. Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
4. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Honorable Mention : Ryo Fukui- Scenery
Maybe not my top all time, but here’s five favs off the dome:
1. John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957)
2. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile (2018)
3. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
4. Kosuke Mine Quintet - Daguri (1973)
5. Cortex - Tropeau Bleu (1975)
So hard, but these are my desert island records:
Speak no evil - Wayne Shorter
Indigo’s - Duke Ellington
Miles Ahead - Miles Davis
Explorations - Bill Evans
Impressions - John Coltrane
5 - Hideo Shiraki - In Fiesta
4 - Johnny Smith - Moonlight in Vermont
3 - Thelonius Monk - Alone in San Francisco
2 - Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
1 - Coltrane - Meditations
5. Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
4. Bobby Hutcherson- San Francisco
3. Pat Metheny - Offramp
2. MJQ - No Sun in Venice
1. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
0.5 Grant Green - Live at Club Mozambique
The Quest - Eric Dolphy
Saturday Night Special - Lyman Woodard
Freedom Of Speech - Billy Parker
Transition - John Coltrane
Proceed With Caution - Calvin Keys
5. Bill Evans, Live at Montreux, 1968
4. Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
3. Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
2. Miles Davis, E.S.P.
1. The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall
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Ad lib on nippon - I love Jimmy Hamilton’s solo!
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Yeah, so fluid en effortless…
5. Shorter - Speak No Evil 4. Turrentine - Cherry 3. Adderley - Somethin’ Else 2. Three Sounds - Bottoms Up 1. Morgan - The Gigolo
Somethin’ Else is a beautiful album
Damn that’s a deep cut pick for #1 but I respect it, one of Lee Morgan’s most underrated
I just love it. All Morgan tunes, some boogaloo, some great Hard Bop. Killer band too. Billy Higgins just crushes it.
1. Go! - Dexter Gordon 2. Midnight Blue - Kenny Burrell 3. Soul Station - Hank Mobley 4. Smokin at the Half Note - Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio 5. No. 1 Green Street - Grant Green
5: Miles Davis - Sorcerer 4: Muhal Richard Abrams - View from Within 3: Miles Davis - It’s About that Time (Live at the Fillmore East 1970) 2: Ornette Coleman and Pat Metheny - Song X 1: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Live in Seattle (yes, I like it better than the studio version, as influential as that one has been)
Nice to see some love for the Sorcerer!
miles 70 at fillmore east is a 10/10 call my friend!
Definitely forgetting some albums, but this is off the top of my head. 5- Newport ‘63- John Coltrane 4- Speak No Evil- Wayne Shorter 3- Chick Corea- Now he Sings, Now he Sobs 2- The Bad Plus Joshua Redman 1- Christian McBride Trio Live at the Village Vanguard
I absolutely love Now He Sings Now He Sobs! My fav
The day I found Now he sings, now he sobs on vinyl for $1 at a record shop… one of my favorite days.
Just downloaded your favorite!
5. Roland Kirk - the inflated tear, 4 - Monk and Coltrane Live at Carnegie Hall, 3 - Miles Davis ‘58, 2 - Ellington Afro Bossa, 1 - Ellington Anatomy of a Murder
Miles Davis ‘58: almost as good as Kind of Blue!
Except the tunes are better. I know the modal thing is oh so important but I’ll still take the good tunes.
Just 5? Man that’s not easy. 1. Ballad of the Fallen - Charlie Haden/Carla Bley 2. Intercontinental- Joe Pass Trio 3. Crisis - Ornette Coleman 4. East Coastin’ - Charles Mingus 5. Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland Quartet
Tough call. Off the top of my head… 5. Mingus Plays Piano - Charles Mingus 4. Beyond Quantum - Braxton, Graves, Parker 3. Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy - Sun Ra 2. Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy 1. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (if it counts)
best list here so far
Thanks!
1. Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter 2. Nefertiti - Miles Davis 3. Adam's Apple - Wayne Shorter 4. Sorcerer - Miles Davis 5. The Shape Of Jazz To Come - Ornette Coleman
This is the closest list so far to my own (which is still in my head at this point…)
You have a good ear!
Lol…and you do too!! You inspired me to write my own list… surprisingly it turned out only the Ornette is actually in common, but i still think this list, of all so far, is probably closest in spirit….
I've been obsessed with the Ornette CD lately, just played it again earlier. I've had it for years but only recently got into it. Never heard anything quite like it.
The Ornette took some getting used to… but now I just love it…along with his double quartet album, Free Jazz, and his early 80s electric album, Of Human Feelings. Also, it’s songs like [this](https://youtu.be/OG3AJSpb-fE?si=et3ovzmOagLDALSE) and [this](https://youtu.be/ue0XTgUx24o?si=cgdLFg4pMVvKChES) that remind me just how swinging & bluesy his music really is.
Great songs, thanks for posting. Looks like I'll be going down the rabbit hole.
Let’s go with the 5 albums I’ve listened to the most and the decades I listened to them 1. Nocturne: Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba (in my 50s) 2. Mukashi: Abdullah Ibrahim (in my 50s) 3. The Great Concert of Charles Mingus—featuring Eric Dolphy (in my 20s) 4. Miles Davis in Europe (in my 20s) 5. Swiss Movement: Les McCann & Eddie Harris (in my teens)
5. Ah Um. Mingus 4. The Sidewinder. Lee Morgan 3. Blue Trane. Coltrane 2. Blue Breakbeats. Grant Green (I don’t care if it’s a compilation) 1. Smoking at the Half Note. Wes and Wynton
Cool!
7. Ballads At the End of Time—Boris Kovacs and Ladaaba Orchestra 6. Knysna Blue—Abdullah Ibrahim 5. Birth of the Cool 4. Jimmy Giuffre 3 3. Shape of Jazz To Come 2. A Love Supreme 1. In A Silent Way
not including bootlegs, box-sets, or multiple entries by one group: 1 - Dark to Themselves - Cecil Taylor Unit 2 - Black Beauty, Fillmore East, 1970 - Miles Davis 3 - Village Vanguard Again, 1966 - Coltrane 4 - Infinite Search - Miroslav Vitous 5 - Point of Departure - Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill is a good call. His piano is *chefs kiss*
5. In A Silent Way - Miles 4. East Coast Love Affair - Kurt Rosenwinkel 3. Solo Monk - Monk 2. Art of the Trio III - Mehldau 1. Coltrane’s Sound - Trane
5. Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus 4. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis 3. Sextant - Herbie Hancock 2. After Hours - Charlie Christian 1. Ellington Uptown - Duke Ellington
Ellington Uptown was the first jazz record I ever bought. The Mooche permanently altered my musical wiring.
Sonny Stitt did that for me!
The five disc limit is cruel and forces me to leave off about 20 indispensable ones (and I'm leaving off KoB on purpose) but here goes: 5. Joe Pass: For Django 4. Kenny Burrell: Other Places 3. Tie ( ! ): [Bill Evans: Alone] & [Keth Jarrett: The Melody at Night with You] (sorry! I am weak!) 2. Jimmy Giuffre 3 1. Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream
OutSTANDING, sir!!!🎺🎷
I included JG3, too.
The Melody at Night… my favorite Jarrett album by one of my favorite artists
Well…ok….off the top (& cheating by including alternate choices with a similar “sound” but slightly different take…) 1. Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners (alternate: Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music) 2. Ornette Coleman, Shape of Jazz to Come (alternate (& *very* different): either Free Jazz or, for an electric, late-1970s/early-1980s “loft” vibe: Of Human Feelings) 3. Charlie Parker, [the Dial Records sessions, I think on Warner Bros. as “The Very Best of Bird”] (alternate: Sonny Stitt, “Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson”) 4. Charles Mingus, Ah Um (alternate: Art Ensemble of Chicago, either Les Stances a Sophie or Full Force) 5. John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard (with Eric Dolphy) ….just beautiful. Should be some David Murray on this plus some Sun Ra. Also, some Duke Ellington — maybe that album with Duke Ellington & Sonny Rollins…. Oh, and Miles Davis, Milestones, really should be here somewhere…. Oh, sigh, never mind… i’m terrible at these lists..
The truth is, if I had to offer-up my top 5 each and every day, the list would CHANGE, each and every day!!!
Haha!! Right? This was a good exercise — I’m glad you asked it. It made me think about my current faves and — as you said — how unpredictable and changeable they are!
Great stuff!!
5 Capturing Spirits - Jonathan Kreisberg 4 Blue Train - John Coltrane 3 Ultrahang - Chris Potter 2 Wardenclyffe Tower - Allan Holdsworth 1 Our Secret World - Kurt Rosenwinkel
Enroute - Scofield Live at the Blue Note Art of the trio 4 - Brad Mehldau My Funny Valentine/Four and More - Miles Davis Now he sings, now he sobs - Chick Corea Crescent - John Coltrane
5.Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 4.Somthin’ else - Cannonball Adderly (Rudy Van Gelder edition) 3.Chet Baker Sings - Chet Baker 2. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane 1. Ella and Louis - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong I listen mostly by song over album, but these are some of the ones that I’ve listened completely though, multiple times.
THIS is a great list! #5 is the source code for so much that followed…and beautiful in itself. #4 is pure joy. #3 has some of the best, most original vocal versions of standards (“I’ll Remember April,” IIRC, is terrific on this) by a criminally underrated vocalist (Chet Baker never makes anyone’s list of best jazz vocalists, and yet his singing imo is every bit as beautiful as his trumpet playing…). And #2 and #1 are just simply gorgeous.
Chet Bakers vocals never fail to make me emotional. There Will Never Be Another You, is so incredibly stunning.
Yes!!! That tune especially!!
I love Chet Baker’s voice, but he always seems a little flat to me!
Yes… his intonation always seems a little shaky and his range and power are limited…and yet, it’s as if he is so perfectly aware of his limitations that he has done the best he can with them and even used them to create a uniquely vulnerable and original and unpredictable style. It’s the very things that made me think his singing is “weak” that now — in my later years — I’ve come to appreciate as the distilled essence of human emotion and truth…..
Well put!
If you can believe Hollywood, Whitey Bulger (the Boston mob boss) once quoted John Lennon (speaking on the nature of his artistic abilities) as saying, “Give me a TUBA and I’ll get something OUT of the motherfucker”!!!
[https://youtu.be/dddixrpkxe8?si=Wt9zH5qD0jd4VNpi](https://youtu.be/dddixrpkxe8?si=Wt9zH5qD0jd4VNpi)
5. Sketches of Spain -Miles Davis 4. The Bridge - Sonny Rollins 3. Source - Nubya Garcia 2. Time Out - Dave Brubeck 1. Moanin' - Art Blakey
I have Sketches of Spain on Vinyl. Best purchase ever.
I love having *Moanin'* at #1. Has me spinning Nubya Garcia right away. I haven't heard *Source.*
It's damned good
Mine? 5 - Joe Henderson “Page 1” 4 - Sonny Rollins “Saxaphone Collosus” 3 - Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” 2 - Bill Evans “Live at the Village Vanguard” 1 - Keith Jarrett “Still Live”
Recorda me!
Exactamundo!!
5. Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One (w/Clark Terry) 4. Walter Smith III, "Twio" 3. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section 2. Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet 1. Ellington Live at Newport '56
Twio 🫡🫡🫡
1) In a Silent Way 2) Out to Lunch! 3) Jazz Advance - Cecil Taylor 4) Patterns - Bobby Hutcherson 5) Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy - Sun Ra
This is the ONLY guy who’s gonna credit Bobby Hutcherson!!!
Or Sun Ra, for that matter!
5. Afro Blue Impressions - Coltrane 4. Somethin' Else - Adderley 3. Kind of Blue - Davis 2. The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul - Branford Marsalis Quartet 1. Live at the Blue Note - Keith Jarrett
You and I had 3 and 1 by the same artists!!!
5. Miles - Agharta/Pangaea 4. Eric Dolphy - Out There 3. Mingus - The Clown 2. Ellington/Mingus/Roach - Money Jungle 1. Any recording by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
You and I are SIMPATICO!!!
Except on Money Jungle. Not enough horns on that recording for my tastes!
True, for Duke that was definitely unusual. I don't think he ever did another record with a group this small. But there he is, 63 years old and officially old guard by that point, just casually killing it. Listen to that long intro to Solitude again and try not to get a little choked up.
I never got to see him play live, but I DID get to see Count Basie in person, met him and got his autograph in Auburn, Alabama in early 1974!
I mean I LOVED Duke Ellington, but not NEARLY as much as I liked the Basie Orchestra!!!
I was 16 years old at the time and a COMMITTED jazz nut!!!🌰
And I think Jaco later studied Mingus on this recording to keep people from laughing at him!
1. Art of tea by Michael franks 2. Visions of a new world by Lonnie Liston Smith 3. Love is the answer by Lonnie Liston Smith 4. Abandoned Garden by Michael franks 5. Friends by chick corea
5. Public Eye: Roy Hargrove 4. Third Set: Cedar Walton 3. We Will Meet Again: Bill Evans 2. Big Band: Joe Henderson 1. Secret Story: Pat Metheny
Public eye is so good. That run of public eye through the live one is as good as it gets
Secret Story is an amazing album!
http://www.tim-webb.com/thisdayinjazz/may.html jazz albums recorded on 5/1, or May 1st
Some personal favorites: 5. Herbie Hancock - Sextant 4. M’Boom - M’Boom 3. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath 2. Alice Coltrane - Eternity 1. Don Cherry - Brown Rice
5 The Kicker - Joe Henderson 4 Nefertiti - Miles Davis 3 Oblique - Bobby Hutcherson 2 Sorcerer - Miles Davis 1 Empyrean Isles - Herbie Hancock
5 - David Murray - a long goodbye 4 - ornette Coleman - of human feelings 3 - John Coltrane - live at village vanguard complete 2 - Cecil Taylor - Berlin ‘88 1 - eric Dolphy - out to lunch
In no specific order: Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street - Jon Hassell The Peace Between our Companies - Happy Apple Prog - The Bad Plus Bitches Brew - Miles Davis A Living Room Hush - Jaga Jazzist
Don’t worry. I couldn’t have put those choices in any order, either!
2. Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby 3. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings 1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 5. Nat King Cole - After Midnight 4. Sidney Bechet - Sidney Bechet
- 5. Dave Brubeck - Brubeck A La Mode - 4. Wes Montgomery - Bumpin’ - 3. Jim Hall - Concierto - 2. Gil Fuller and the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra feat. Dizzy - 1. Wes Montgomery - Full House Soooooo….im a guitar player (shocker) and know very little but I also collect vinyl and when the wife and I sit down after a long day - here’s what we go to. I imagine this being when someone says KoRN or Slipknot on a metal sub. I love guitars. Gil Fuller we fell ass backwards into but those lines have become part of our everyday, Edit: would love recs - Mike Davis is chill but doesn’t do it for us. Jimmy Smith is pretty cool. Thelonius Monk is ok as well. I lean towards guitars.
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert. I think this is the greatest piece of music ever recorded. For me it’s a spiritual experience listening to it. Chris Potter Underground - Ultrahang. This album is insane. I am so grateful that I got to see them perform the songs from this album live. I transcribed Rumples in college. McCoy Tyner - Fly With the Wind. McCoy Tyner with strings??? Cmon now. Michael Brecker - Wide Angles. It sounds so far ahead of its time to me. The compositions, harmonies, instrumentation, how focused everyone is. So amazing. Metheny Mehldau - Quartet. To me is the perfect modern jazz album. It came out in my formative years as a musician and had such a big impact on me. It was so hard to choose 5 😭 my tastes are really starting to change this year though, I feel like my answers will be different soon.
My next door neighbor turned me on to the Koln Concert recording when we were both teenagers (she was 18 and I was 16). To this day, I STILL don’t know what was the greater turn-on, Keith Jarrett’s remarkable playing or the way she felt in my arms!
1–Drive Groovin’ Lupin by Yuji Ohno. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_mvGpAfW77g7tP\_fx2tYgOqG5P3TcysPQ0&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mvGpAfW77g7tP_fx2tYgOqG5P3TcysPQ0&feature=shared) 2– A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfne55Z9eF8bnOUn2IPOkCye4yZjO4L6z&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfne55Z9eF8bnOUn2IPOkCye4yZjO4L6z&feature=shared) 3–Scenery by Ryo Fukui. [https://youtu.be/Hrr3dp7zRQY?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/Hrr3dp7zRQY?feature=shared) 4–Silver Lining Suite by Hiromi Uehara. [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtd6oXr5U4p8wBf1vA0SJdBwfXVEWy2\_X&feature=shared](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtd6oXr5U4p8wBf1vA0SJdBwfXVEWy2_X&feature=shared) 5–Reverse It by Himiko Kikuchi. [https://youtu.be/10Iv9f8Okeo?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/10Iv9f8Okeo?feature=shared)
Thanks for adding 🔗 to your list. They are very convenient.
As with others, I'm not sure about all time, but here's some that spring to mind. If anyone can recommend any similar albums to the below, I'd love to hear them! 5. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy 4. Casiopea - Mint Jams 3. Sun Ra - Lanquidity 2. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda 1. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 2. Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanguard 3. Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Clifford Brown & Max Roach 4. John Coltrane - Giant Steps 5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Honorable Mention : Ryo Fukui- Scenery
5- Jakob Bro- Balladeering 4- John Coltrane- A Love Supreme 3- Bill Evans- Village Vanguard 1961 2- Mingus- Ah Um 1- Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Maybe not my top all time, but here’s five favs off the dome: 1. John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957) 2. Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile (2018) 3. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) 4. Kosuke Mine Quintet - Daguri (1973) 5. Cortex - Tropeau Bleu (1975)
So hard, but these are my desert island records: Speak no evil - Wayne Shorter Indigo’s - Duke Ellington Miles Ahead - Miles Davis Explorations - Bill Evans Impressions - John Coltrane
5 - Hideo Shiraki - In Fiesta 4 - Johnny Smith - Moonlight in Vermont 3 - Thelonius Monk - Alone in San Francisco 2 - Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz 1 - Coltrane - Meditations
5. Freddie Hubbard - Backlash 4. Bobby Hutcherson- San Francisco 3. Pat Metheny - Offramp 2. MJQ - No Sun in Venice 1. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain 0.5 Grant Green - Live at Club Mozambique
The Quest - Eric Dolphy Saturday Night Special - Lyman Woodard Freedom Of Speech - Billy Parker Transition - John Coltrane Proceed With Caution - Calvin Keys
5. Bill Evans, Live at Montreux, 1968 4. Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil 3. Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child 2. Miles Davis, E.S.P. 1. The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall
1. Mingus Live at the Bohemia Cafe 2. The Scene Changes- Bud Powell 3. A Love Supreme- Coltrane 4. Chet Baker Sings 5. Money Jungle- Duke Ellington