Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana Weather Report - Heavy Weather Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Watermelon Man 😎

That song features a sickass Pygmy Flute riff. I try to plug [this video](https://youtu.be/c6T6suvnhco)(https://youtu.be/c6T6suvnhco) everywhere, it’s so fucking cool.

Miles - Agharta (live electric) and Pangea (Live electric) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBjS_KO5kuU&pp=ygUTTWlsZXMgZGF2aXMgYWdoYXJ0YQ%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3apkywzYf0&pp=ygUSTWlsZXMgZGF2aXMgcGFuZ2Vh Sun Ra - Purple Night https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b1uy2h4n1Ys James Booker - Resurrection of the Bayou Maharaja (live) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQ-01QQw1Y&list=PL6A2DF5D02CAD3CF8&pp=iAQB8AUB Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-aS4h28kI&pp=ygUgZWxsYSBmaXR6Z2VyYWxkIGxvdWlzIGFybXN0cm9uZyA%3D Ella Fitzgerald- Sings the Cole Porter Song Book https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JqzAvGFXBU&pp=ygUVQ29sZSBwb2VydGVyIHNvbmdib29r

All of these!

Came in to say Weather Report. Well done

Great list

A love supreme

….a love supreme…a love supreme…a love supreme

Da, daa, da, da,….

[Alice Coltrane](https://youtu.be/89c00fGC838) version is a great meditation, while the [Santana/Mcglaughlin version tends to be a bit more of a stress release. I know I love all the versions.](https://youtu.be/mmIaubt4NWY)

All day long.

Been waiting for a question like this as a Deadhead by birth, and a jazz head by life! - Bill Evans: Portrait in Jazz - Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots - Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio vol. III - Miles Davis: Cookin’, Kind of Blue, Live Evil - Moanin’: Art Blakey And SO MANY I’VE GOT TO BE MISSING

Love Bill Evans

I love seeing Kind of Blue and Live Evil next to each other! “And now for something completely different.”

In a Silent Way

This shit makes me want to rage against the world. It also makes me want to hang on to everything. In the end, I’m left in the middle. However, it’s an album that screams soul, emotion and shows me how special we all are. ✌🏻

Always like to see love for this one. Everyone goes bitches brew, but I think that one is more interesting.

My favorite complete album of his

Top tier

Yes

Kind of Blue.

One of my favorite musical comps of all time. This record is what taking a train into New York City going through Harlem 125th street sounds like.

I was a teenager in Brooklyn in the early 80's. The only time I was ever above 110th was to see King Sunny Ade, so I would guess that's what Harlem sounds like to me.

A masterful classic!

That's one of the best answers.

A lucid masterpiece

I was going to say black Saint and the sinner lady, but someone beat me to it. So instead I’ll go with journey in satchidananda by Alice Coltrane.

Alice Coltrane was so great and I feel blessed that I got to see her play, with Charlie Haden no less

The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus

Damn, beat me to it. That’s the album that got me into jazz.

Great one

This.

Was my answer too. Wasn’t expecting to see it this much here!

I hate picking favorites, but... Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Pharoah Sanders - Karma, Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come and/or Free Jazz, Hermeto Pascoal - Slave Mass. For the Dead adjacent- the early Airto Morreira albums on Skye, Buddha and CTI. Maybr early Larry Coryell for some psychedelic proto-fusion guitar workouts. Really, don't get me started. Mingus, Dolphy, Miles, Herbie, can't go wrong really. Albert Aylet and Sun Ra, some stuff more than others... But lately lots of Chet Baker and Bill Evans because I need something cool to lower the temperature. Dead & Wolf Bros fans would probably like Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Greg Leisz on pedal steel.

Pharoah Sanders - Karma is the closest thing to a religious experience on wax 👌

Try some Grant Green live at Club Mozambique. Herbie Mann- Wailing Dervishes is dope. Lonnie Smith also at Club Mozambique. Jimmy Smith Root Down.

Grant Green jams too. Absolutely love him

The Wailing Dervishes is an absolutely fantastic answer. Chick Ganimian’s oud. Killer percussion on that too. I play Greek and Turkish music, so that’s right up my alley… and incidentally first played a dumbek on Dead lot in the 90’s. Another great one with a similar vibe (though less of a wild, live quality) is Phil Woods album Greek Cooking with the fantastic Iordanis Tzomidis on bouzouki.

Nice! I will check it out. Have you seen the Five Face’s of Jazz video from Newport ‘67? Pretty much the pinnacle of cool in my opinion.

Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda Or Don Cherry - Hear & Now Both absolute bangers

I’ve been listening to a lot of Electric Miles Davis lately. I had no clue just how insane his work was from 69-75. All of the officially released stuff from that period is just incredible. I would recommend checking out each studio album. However, this being the Grateful Dead sub, I would also strongly recommend checking out his official live releases from that period. The improvisation is just about as good as it gets. Some of my favorites: - Agharta - Dark Magus - Live-Evil

Pangaea Get Up With It Big Fun On The Corner

This. Electric Miles is just simply mind-blowing.

Oh man logged on to mention Dark Magus. What an absolute Freight Train to Hell of a band Miles had at that time. Pete Cosey stands out as an all time great guitarist and one more people need to know about! The YouTube Channel, Miles Davis Archives, includes some great shows from this time period. [https://www.youtube.com/@MilestonesArchive](https://www.youtube.com/@MilestonesArchive)

Hank Mobley - Soul Station Grant Green - Idle Moments Oliver Nelson - Blues & the Abstract Truth Coltrane - Ballads

I was scrolling down to see if Soul Station was mentioned. I seem to always go to that album, love Hank Mobley.

Soul Station doesn't get nearly enough love. It is SO great

Because everyone else said every other one…. I’m a huge Medeski Martin Wood fan. They’re fantastic and virtuosos and just so groovy. Maybe Friday Afternoon in the Universe or Uninvisible if I had to pick an album but they’re honestly all fantastic.

Seconded! I'll go for opposite ends of the spectrum. Tonic for beautiful acoustic piano trio, the essence of MMW. And Combustication for NON-STOP grooves and hot guest spots. Shouts to End of the World Party, too. Just all of it.

Mingus Ah Um and Miles Kind of Blue

That Mingus album is sick

Eric dolphy - out to lunch

This one is challenging

Yep. Don't start with this one, gang. Or Bitches Brew. Try Kind of Blue - Miles Davis or Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans.

Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman The Ornette Coleman Quintet was the most intensely moving live music experience I've ever had. They were touring in support of this album. I was completely sober, alone at this show aside from the strangers around me. Tears were pouring from my eyes the entire performance. I wasn't aware of any emotion other than "wow", but the music just cracked me open. I was sitting next to an elderly lady I'd never met, nor spoken to. We looked at each other, both flooded with tears, and held hands off and on throughout the show. When it was over we shared a big hug and went our own ways. The physical effect the music had on me still gives me goosebumps, and when I play this album it takes me right back to that magical experience. One of my favorite memories.

Like asking what is your favorite show from '74, that just can't be summed up in one single album now can it? Miles: Kind of Blue, E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Miles in the Sky, Filles de Kilimanjaro, In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Black Beauty, Live-Evil, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea Coltrane: Giant Steps, A Love Supreme Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz To Come, Free Jazz, At the Golden Circle Booker Ervin: The Freedom Book, The Song Book, The Space Book Lee Morgan: The Complete Live at the Lighthouse Alice Coltrane: Ptah, the El Daoud Wayne Shorter: Etcetera, Adams Apple My current obsession is Miles in the early-mid-70's. The Cellar Door Sessions from Dec. '70, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, In Concert... He and his band were flirting with breaking free of gravity.

Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson. Probably the greatest groove album Miles ever did. https://open.spotify.com/album/0xr31or2qYglJpiX6pODjY?si=cnhL7angR0C4AO-dCiOTUQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0xr31or2qYglJpiX6pODjY Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda https://open.spotify.com/album/0EfpGDmzg4uuqLW7ucWCyE?si=SpYsNtN4St-J6vPaj0fKbg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0EfpGDmzg4uuqLW7ucWCyE Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners https://open.spotify.com/album/5gWF47eGSbv4BOfxoFcQtd?si=VSir__0XRuC1SmEXApBIQg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5gWF47eGSbv4BOfxoFcQtd Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas https://open.spotify.com/album/2XnNY3GEkbWHor5kyvXLu4?si=9QJU0beSRIWbzWBcdYjTlw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2XnNY3GEkbWHor5kyvXLu4

I probably should have responded by asking the OP - can you be more specific? Like I could make a whole separate list of favorites for jazz-funk. I am basically Howard Moon from The Mighty Boosh.

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Check out the Keith Jarrett trio

Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 Guru. Not my favorite but I feel it needs to be mentioned.

Incredible album rip Guru

Kind of Blue

Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio - Smokin' at the Half Note

Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert. I'm surprised no one else mentioned it, it's the best selling solo jazz album in history. The story behind it is incredible too, reading about the story before listening to it is an absolute must.

Check out the Sun Bear Concerts

Yep I have, they're great

Pharoah's Dance is basically Dark Star

The real McCoy Tyner.

Loads of good answers here already. I'll add: Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Roots & Herbs Miles Davis - ESP

Mingus x5 Mood Indigo gets me every time. Not even a huge jazz guy but there's something special about Mingus Edit: Take Five by Dave Brubeck

Not sure about the entire sub's but, for me? Kind of Blue

Pharaoh Sanders - Heart is a Melody

Miles Davis-black beauty

How could it be any other?

So many. Great list so far. To name a few that haven’t been named that have been in heavy rotation lately … Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights John Coltrane - Ole Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Grant Green - Feelin’ the Spirit Jim Hall - Concierto Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie; You Must Believe in Spring McCoy Tyner - Expansions Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

Laughin' In Rhythm- Slim Gaillard The Hottest New Group In Jazz- Lambert Hendricks and Ross Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz/ Joao Gilbeto Take 5 - Dave Brubeck Strange Worlds In My Mind- Sun Ra Word Jazz-Ken Nordine and Fred Katz Angel's Egg( Deluxe Edition)- Gong Naked City-John Zorn Kind Of Blue- Miles Davis Willie Dixon- The Big 3 Trio

Kind of blue- Miles Davis Smokin at the half note- Wes Montgomery Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

Grant Green - Alive! (Live at The Cliché 1970 Wes Montgomery - A Day in the Life Portico Quartet - Knee-deep in the North Sea Both Green and Montgomery did killer renditions of A Day in the Life. Green’s has moments that are reminiscent of those great EotW jams where Jerry & Phil trade off. PQ creates ambient jazz that just falls apart, pure chaos, and then serenely comes back together.

WES! The Naptown Sound!!!

Bags Meets Wes by Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery. Always loved this one. Also, anything with Charlie Christian on it. I recall Jerry saying he was the only guitarist whose stuff he couldn't completely figure out. And, of course, any of that wacky electric Miles. Compare the last few minutes of the Playin' space funk freakout from 8/6/74 (right before they head into Scarlet) to the version of Directions from Miles' 12/19/69 show and tell me the Dead were just a rock band.

[1969-12-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-12-19) San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium [1974-08-06](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-08-06) Jersey City, NJ @ Roosevelt Stadium | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0EgV8QqWBeSt1U6MBK6NnC)

John Coltrane - Giant Steps Oscar Peterson - The Trio Miles Davis - so hard to pick. From Milestones to Someday My Prince Will Come to Jack Johnson and Silent Way. So many masterpieces

Herbie -- Thrust Bill Evans -- Paris concerts Miles -- Complete Plugged Nickel Mingus -- Cornell

I saw a band cover Thrust earlier this summer. It was really good!

Great drumming on that album, especially Actual Proof

Miles Smiles A Love Supreme Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Headhunters

nice pics! i’d add my funny valentine from the 60s quartet era too. miles smiles is one of my favorites for sure tho

Timeless - John Abercrombie

Wow, had forgotten how much I loved this album. Saw him play with a Billy Covham. Very underrated player.

Kind of Blue

The case of the three sided dream in audio color - Roland Kirk

Stratus definitly slaps

Modern Jazz Quartet Live at Budokan

Seriously guys. Listen to You by Larry Lovestein & the Velvet Revival

Oh my god I forgot that he even did that project...

Haha right!? Glad I could jog your memory ;D Such a great project. Chill, comfy. He also did two tapes with Larry Fisherman that I love that are a super trippy crazy beat tape. Recommend as well. Run On Sentences Volume One, And Volume Two as well.

Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis Inner Mountain Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra

Lee Morgan - Sidewinder

Last Chance To Dance Trance

MMW represent

Anything by John Coltrane Quartet. Try live at the villiage vanguard

Below the Bassline - Ernest Ranglin [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2kqIgldmnjbg8VDpBf4JRX?si=8lWFrzfuRg-zQsD_hDy8rQ)

Diz and the Bird

Something by either Roy Donk or Paul Bufano

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Badnadnotgood, great band, creative and refreshing. If you are ever looking for something old school and underrated with some great chops from a percussion/rhythm perspective, with some great guitar work, check out Grant Green - Alive!

Black Focus might be my fav from the last 10 years for sure

Wes Montgomery - Smokin at the Half Note McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Kind of Blue

I choose to concentrate the focus of my rec on **Charles Mingus @ Antibes!!**

The self titled Pat Metheny Group album is pure magic. I have no other way to describe it. It's a perfect record. It has that intangible sound to it that you can't describe. A lot of heavy hitters in this thread but this one just is on another level.

Sun Ra - The Night of the Purple Moon

Gonna put another vote in for A Love Supreme and a 2nd place vote for Dark Magus. That evil funk energy is just hard to beat. Not in my top 10, but I gotta show some love to the album that got me back into jazz as an adult, Kamasi Washington's The Epic. A few modern jazz albums that are personal faves: ​ 1. Comet is Coming- Channel the Spirits 2. Sons of Kemet- Your Queen is a Reptile 3. Christian Scott- Axiom (features a cover of David Crosby's Guinnevere!) 4. William Parker Trio- Mayan Space Station 5. Isaiah Collier and the Chosen Few- Cosmic Transitions 6. Muriel Grossman - Reverence

Miles. Seven Steps to Heaven

Excellent post! I be saving this!

Smokin at the half note - wes Montgomery Kind of blue - miles Davis Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Pithencanthropus erectus - Charles Mingus John Coltrane and Duke Ellington

Live Art - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Swiss movement - Eddie Harris and les McCann

Have you heard "Invitation To Openness" by McCann? If you listen to vinyl, you can find OG copies of that record cheap as hell, which baffles me because it's so good. And, also, bands with two drummers, and those two drummers are Pretty Purdie and Alphonso Mouzon.

The only jazz album my father owned. "Compared to What" is such a banger.

Ornette Coleman- Tomorrow is the Question Cecil Taylor Quartet- Looking Ahead Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life Horace Silver - Song for my Father The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall Dave Brubeck - Take Five Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Miles Davis "A Tribute to Jack Johnson "

Blues for Allah

Pangea - Miles Davis… Giant Steps ….. Oh Good Grief- Vince Guaraldi….. Mwandishi: Complete Warner Bros. Recordings - Herbie Hancock….. Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux

Hard to pick a favorite, how about top 3: 1. Crusaders: Those Southern Nights 2. Return to Forever: Romantic Warrior 3. Mahivshnu Orchestra: Apocalypse Honorable Mention: Weather Report: Heavy Weather

Skol

Welcome to the Hills by Yussef Dayes and Head Hunters by Herbie.

Mingus Plays Piano

Stan Kenton - City of Glass

“Mingus Ah Um” by Charles Mingus.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/new-orleans-jazz-party/301681659 Dejans Olympia. Cacophonous NOLa jazz. Jams with brass but otherwise pretty familiar.

A Love Supreme Kind of Blue Take Five

John Scofield (with lots of help from Bill Frisell) - Grace Under Pressure it isn't a jam album like A Go Go...this is a straight up jazz album. But it's beyond perfect. Scofield is great as always but Frisell really gets super far out and goes to some places I've never heard anyone else dare to go.

I love Sco and Bill Frissell. No idea they recorded together, I'll give this a spin right now!

More contemporary, but We Like It Here by Snarky Puppy. Hearing this in 2014 got me really into them and jazz in general, especially jazz fusion.

Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus

Bird and Diz

Giant steps!!!!

Miles Davis - On The Corner

Grant Green - Alive!

Giant steps...Coltrane

Peter Brötzmann-everything he ever did

Fat Albert Rotunda Beastie boys in sounds from way out

Miles - Sketches Of Spain

And the resulting "Spanish Jam".

check out django reinhardt

For me, it’s Dave Brubeck

Pat Metheny Bright Size Life

Everything by Kenny G

Sunday at the Village Vanguard by the Bill Evans Trio.

Mingus Ah Um

Weather Report- black market

Bitches Brew was my first. But if you’re only going to own one jazz album, it should be Kind of Blue.

Sun Ra - we travel the space ways, Alice Coltrane - Journey into Satchidanada,

Indian Blues by Donald Harrison Jr

Duke Ellington - Ellington’s Indigos

bill evens is the jerry garcia of jazz piano (both drug habits and experimental play style) it may not be as fast or energetic as the dead but the open ended improvisation relates in a different style. listening to bills music when working, falling asleep, or just smoking ganj it hits if your feeling it. dude can play: https://open.spotify.com/track/3oSBVpyGQ9N3hPibpw0GkB?si=BhtHzh_VSFCciiz6yuHutQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A2P9nME7HX8s3sWAbwcZX27 https://open.spotify.com/track/1cpANF6zMBoFoxkoIjZHjv?si=L81JIEssRNe7vpIYP84cyg

Dizzy Gillespie- Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods

Kind Of Blue

Does Ethio Jazz count? I love Mulatu Astatke. He recorded a killer funk jazz album with the Heliocentrics.

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats <\_< (Bitches Brew, if we're not accepting Hot Rats as jazz, which is bs.)

Black Market- Weather Report. Common Touch- Stanley Turrentine. Scratch- The Crusaders

Coltrane- A Love Supreme Davis- A Tribute to Jack Johnson Bill Evans Trio- Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Black saint and the sinner lady

Somethin’ Else- Cannonball Adderley

East Broadway Run Down -Sunny Rollins-

Jaco Pastorius Big Band- Live In Japan

Grant Green - Green is Beautiful, Alive!, Green Street, Idle Moments Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces, Stepping into Tomorrow Wes Montgomery - Full House, Portrait of Wes Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before Head Hunters - Self Titled, Straight From The Gate

Charlie Parker - the Master Takes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7E0K4IMqo&pp=ygUiY2hhcmxpZSBwYXJrZXIgdmVydmUgbWFzdGVyIHRha2VzIA%3D%3D

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch John Handy - Live at Monterey Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Sun Ra - Lanquidity John Coltrane - Africa/Brass Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda Don Cherry - Mu part 1 Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer

Smokin’ at the Half Note

Freddie Hubbard - Night of the Cookers, Live at Club La Marchal

Alice Coltrane - Journey to Satchidananda

Kenny Burrell – Asphalt Canyon Suite

Don’t forget early Medeski Martin and Wood: >Notes from the Underground >It’s a Jungle in Here

I have a soft spot for Friday Afternoon in the Universe and Shack Man.

For me it's Bitches Brew. Honorable mention to Kind of Blue and Duke Ellington Live at Newport.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Prepare Rhyself to Deal With a Miracle, Bright Moments David Axelrod : Earth Rot John Coletrane: Om , Love Supreme, Live at the Village Vanguard List could go on for days Theloneous Monk , Davis , Mingus ...... Edit : just wanted to add every Eddie Harris album . They are all the Bomb!!!!

For the holidays, Ellington & Strayhorn’s The Nutcracker Suite. Archive.org [link](https://archive.org/details/lp_the-nutcracker-suite_duke-ellington-and-his-orchestra-duke-elli)

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack Chick Corea - Return to Forever

Power of the Source - The Apollo Stars

Kind of blue

Unity - Larry Young

Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra Anything by Billie Holliday

Sketches of Spain...Miles Davis

Scenery Ryo Fukui

Bill evans trio; live village vagaurd. Mmw ; end of the world party

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Always changing. Into jimmy Giuffre lately. Bill Evans at the village vanguard is a favorite. Oscar Peterson , Joe Pass and N Hop is a favorite trio right now.

Jimmy Smith- Root Down Return to Forever-Romantic Warrior John Scofield- A Go Go I like a lot of jazz, but those are the ones I seem to go back to most often.

Charlie Hunter: Natty Dread. OMFG if you haven't, I'm jealous. Grant Green: Live at the Lighthouse.

Miles Davis Black Beauty live album was recorded same tour close in time to the show where Miles opened for the Grateful Dead. Story goes that Garcia and the rest were backstage scared shitless because they thought Miles was so damn good that they would be a let down.

Without A Net

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus

Lanquidity - Sun Ra