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- Louis Armstrong ~ every note he ever played or sang
- Ella Fitzgerald ~ The Complete Song Book [Box Set]
- Nat Cole ~ take your pick
- Oscar Peterson ~ Exclusively for My Friends [Box Set]
- Jelly Roll Morton ~ Memoire du Jazz
- Thelonious Monk ~ Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
- John Coletrane ~ A Love Supreme
- Walt Dickerson ~ Relativity
- Charlie Parker & Miles Davis ~ Bluebird
- King Pleasure ~ Moody's Mood for Love
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02-13-2010 05:07 AM
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I don't think I posted here before. Anyway, I love and hate these types of lists at the same time: on the one hand, I find out how much I have never listened to (or even heard of sometimes), on the other hand, I am not a Bill Gates or I'd go get them ALL.
Anyway, here are some of my top non-guitar listenings, in no order. My own favorites can change as soon as I get a new CD or hear something tremendous that I haven't heard before: which happens constantly.
a) Miles -- Kind of Blue, Complete Birth of the Cool, Milestones, Miles Smiles, On Green Dolphin Street, Four and More.
b) Coltrane-- Giant Steps, Love Supreme, Crescent, Impressions, Blue Train, Ascension, Ballads
c) Lee Morgan-- Sidewinder, the one with Ceora on it (?)
d) Dexter Gordon: Go!, Ballads
e) Charlie Parker: Yardbird Suite collection, the Washington recordings, Bird with Strings
Chick Corea: Now he Sings, Now he Sighs; Return to Forever, second Return to Forever albun
Joe Henderson: Inner Urge
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
Keith Jarrett----Koln Concert, Standard Live, Still Live, Standards Vol.1
Wayne Shorter: Juju, Speak No Evil.
Clifford Brown :Alone Together
Ella and Oscar
etc...
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These lists are great. You can truly see the giants of jazz' golden age. I'd add that almost anything by Chet Baker, esp from his Pacific Jazz years, would fit in nicely.
One question - How did Mahavishnu make it onto the original list though? Wasn't the whole band built around John McLaughlin?
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Many great albums on the list, though I do miss Lester Young a lot (not the frantic JATP efforts, but his recordings with Basie and his own recordings from the 1940s were great). I do miss Ella and Louis too. And only one Ellington album is not enough - he deserves at least 10 on the list .
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A friend and I were recently discussing jazz greats that we saw and or met over the years who are no longer with us....might be an interesting detour for this topic.
My Top Ten "I've Seen Dead People" List...
- Count Basie
- Sarah Vaughan
- Joe WIlliams
- Philly Joe Jones
- Johnny Hartmann
- Jay McShann
- Benny Goodman
- Teddy Wilson
- Lionel Hampton
- Oscar Peterson
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as jaco said i am formally self taught.on composition anyone have tunes they have never finished then decided to just use the groove as a substraight and continually transmutate the song as a creative practice approach ? some tunes are finished and some will never be.just curious to see what kind of neurosis is out there.
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My top ten non-jazz guitar albums would be (in no particular order):
KIND OF BLUE - MILES DAVIS
BEST OF WEATHER REPORT - WEATHER REPORT
JS:B-3 - JIMMY SMITH
STAN GETZ - SAX MOODS
THE COLLECTION - STEPHANE GRAPPELLI
THE SHEARING PIANO - GEORGE SHEARING
PIANO MOODS - OSCAR PETERSON
ERROLL GARNER - CONCERT BY THE SEA
WALTZ FOR DEBBIE - BILL EVANS
STANLEY CLARKE & FRIENDS - LIVE AT THE CREEK
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Any album by the following:Stan Kenton Big Band 2.Oscar Petersen Trio 3.Count Basie Orchestra 4.Gerry Mulligan Sextet. 5.Modern Jazz Quartet. 6.Bob Bruckmeyer Quintet. 7.Art Tatum. 8.Maynard Ferguson Big Band.9.Art Blakey Jazz Messengers.10.The Swingle Singers(because of their fantastic voice harmonies).
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Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
John Coltrane - Blue Trane
Freddie hubbard - Red Clay
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Stan Getz - Anniversday and Serenity
Dexter Gordon - GO
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin Else
Lee Morgan - Corn Bread
Charles Mingus - Ah Hum
Wayne Shorter - Speak no evil
Chet Baker - In New York
So many more......
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Charlie Christian - the genius of electric guitar
john coltrane - blue train
lee morgan - the sidewinder
Wes montgomery - fullhouse
herbie hancock - maiden voyage
dave brubeck - time out
pat metheny - bright size life
john scofield - a go go
gillespie, sonny stitt and sonny rollins - sunny side up
hank mobley - soul station
joe pass - joe pass guitar virtuoso 1,2,3 & 4
Kenny Burrell - midnight blue
Kenny burrell and john coltrane - Kenny burrell and john coltrane
freddie hubbard - hub tones
miles davis - kind of blue
louis amstrong - complete hot fuve and hot seven cd1,2,3,4
maybe not the greatest albums but defiantly the one's that most inspired me.
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Some favs... a few of these might go under the radar of the usual top 100 list...
Andrew Hill: Point of Departure
Andrew Hill: Lift Every Voice
Booker Ervin: The Freedom Book
Chet Baker: And Crew!
Larry Young: Unity
Monk: Underground
McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
George Russell: Jazz Workshop
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings!
Shelly Mann: West Coast Sound Vol 1
Wayne Shorter: Et Cetera
Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
Miles Davis: Bags Groove
Miles Davis: Modern Jazz Giants
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Some of my favorites:
Ella Fitzgerald - Complete Songbooks
Keith Jarrett trio - Standards Series
Dmitri Matheny - Starlight Cafe
Ahmad Jamal - Okeh Sessions
Wynton/Ellis Marsalis - Joe Cool's Blues
Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas
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Charlie Parker - Live at Massey Hall
Diana Krall - All For You
Diana Krall - Christmas Songs
Fats Waller - Favorites
Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething
Michel Petrucciani - Power Of Three
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Originally Posted by french outsider
I wonder how a newbie interested in learning about jazz would react to Naked City, Sun Ra, Eric Dolphy, Old and New Dreams, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton. I enjoy most of these artists, but wouldn't dream of recommending them to someone with a tenuous interest in jazz in general.
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View the final list on the blog here: Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Hm. Off the top of my head, those top albums most influential to me and what I feel personally are most important. In no rode, except the order for the order I thought of them:
Miles Davis Quintet ’65-68
Miles Davis Live 1958
Miles Davis – Round Midnight
Charles Mingus – Ah Um
Charles Mingus – Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus – Blues and Roots
Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz To Come
Eric Dolphy – Far Cry
Eric Dolphy – Iron Man
Dexter Gordon – The Apartment
Dexter Gordon – A Day In Copenhagen
Dexter Gorden - Generation
Yusef Lateef – Psychicemotus
Phineas Newborn Jr – A World of Piano
Oscar Peterson – Sound Of The Trio
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Miles Davis – The Complete Savoy Recordings
John Coltrane – Crescent
John Coltrane - Soul Trane
John Coltrane – Quartet Plays (Chim Chim Chere)
Chick Corea – Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Chick Corea – Three Quartets
Chick Corea – Time Warp
Keith Jarrett – Koln Concert
Keith Jarrett – Belonging
Keith Jarrett – Still Live/Tribute
Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
Pat Metheny - Still Life Talking
Michael Brecker – Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker - Don't Try This At Home
Michael Brecker – Wide Angles
Sonny Rollins – Way Out West
Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
Brad Mehldau – The Art Of The Trio Vol 4
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock – Speak Like A Child
Bill Evans – Live at Montreaux II
Cannonball Adderley – In Person
Cannonball Adderley – The Dirty Blues
Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane
Cedar Walton – Eastern Rebeliion
Charlie Parker – Bird the complete on Verve
Clifford Brown –Clifford and Max Roach Complete
Weather Report
Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric
Elvin Jones – Live at the Lighthouse
Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay
Jaco Pastorious
Kenny Garrett – Songbook
McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
Nguyen Le – Tales From Vietnam
Thelonious Monk – Live at The Five Spot
Thelonious Monk – Live At Carnegie Hall
Dave Holland – Conference of the Birds
Anthony Braxton – Five Pieces 1975
Miles Davis – Agarta/Pangea
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew Sessions CompleteLast edited by henryrobinett; 02-08-2013 at 05:00 PM.
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Strange isn't it.
There seems to be nothing after, roughly, 1980.
I suppose Jazz as a progressive art form is finally dead.
Sorry.
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Originally Posted by nu_mike
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I can appreciate the logic of a guitar list and a non guitar list but I would also have been interested in an all-inclusive list. Interested to know which jazz guitar albums people think are good enough to make a list alongside Miles, Trane, Monk etc
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I don't like guitar alums nearly as much as I do, GENERALLY, as much as I do jazz albums overall. I actually do see them as two different categories. The first category is HUGH and full of wide ranging historical significance regardless of a specific instrument and the other is a tiny category involving an instrument that has been a relative minor figure in the size, significance and scope of the music as a whole.
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My humble pics
Miles- Kind of blue
Coltrane- Live AT the vanguard 61
And then the next ten albums or so are by Miles and Trane then...
Bill Evans-Sunday at the village vanguard
Then a few other Evans then
Dave Holland- extended play
Miles-Live in Europe 1969
Hancock- Maiden voyage
Iyer- Accelerando
The Unwritten Theory of Guitar Harmolodics
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