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it's really hard to pick just one, but i think i'll go with Dave Brubeck Quartet - Live at Carnegie Hall
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04-24-2024 06:33 AM
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Waaayyyy too many to choose from. I pretty much like all forms of jazz but favor the traditional small group combos and solo chord melody players.
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Bright Size Life
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It might be this.
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09-01-2024, 04:25 PM #130Onesimus Guest
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Jeez, same here. And we disagree on everything else. Interesting.
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
It might be this.
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Probably Jim Hall “Jazz Guitar” and Quincy Jones “The Quintessence.” Hard to pick a favorite but if I could do a favorite album run, then the Miles second quintet albums … Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Sorcerer.
Out of control, this album:
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I could reach far to be unique, but Kind of Blue woeld be my default.
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Do we though? I don't think I ever noticed that. Originally Posted by Kirk Garrett
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I might still have somewhere the cassette in 80ies-ish pastel yellow an 8th grade classmate recorded me this album on from his parents' vinyl record collection, must have. So this is definitely the first jazz album I ever listened to (and a lot) on my cheap Sony walkman copy in 1987 on my way to school in the city center. And definitely time to revisit. Originally Posted by Onesimus
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I overstated, no doubt. Actually, I agree with all of your learning advice for jazz guitar, or I should say I try to learn from it myself. You do emphasize the importance of learning tunes above all else, but when I see you play solo guitar on YouTube, I can’t imagine approaching that level without a lot of fundamentals first. But I am definitely in love with the album in question! Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Did not know that. Great album. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
It might be this.
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Cannot make up my mind, but wow, what a flashback!
This one I haven't heard in ages (has never crossed my mind either)! Originally Posted by Mick-7
Whereas THIS one has been playing constantly ever since, somewhere in the back of mind.
(Both were on the Essential album... I liked both, but memory doesn't seem to stick to any obvious rules...)
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mine is portrait in jazz Originally Posted by coolvinny
first jazz record I ever heard - and still unbeatable
(unless you count anything recorded by Bird or Bud Powell)
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The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, hands-down.
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Here's one of my all time favorites since I was a kid: Lester Young
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Rented this from a library when I was a teenager. Changed me forever. The intensity and that everyone brings to the table here is simply unforgettable. I suddenly had a new standard to reach for.
All original compositions with sing-able, memorable melodies. Swing, straight eighths, ballads and up tempo tunes all in one album. Incredible moments of full band playing with the fiery and spontaneous sounding rhythm section supporting some of the best "trading" sections between the soloists that I have ever heard. Michael was battling cancer during the entire thing and put his all into it. So did the other musicians present. He did not live to see it's release- he passed away just 4 months or so after recording the album. It went on to win 2 Grammy's- Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (for his solo on "Anagram") and Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.
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"What if there were no hypothetical situations?" Originally Posted by coolvinny
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My answer to the OP depends both on one's definition of "Jazz" and also on whether or not an answer in this here Jazz Guitar forum needs to be an album that includes guitar.
But I'm going to assume it should include guitar ...and so my "Number 1 Favorite Jazz Album" that includes guitar is probably a three-way tie:
- Wes Montgomery - Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides
I realize that's kind of like cheating, because this two-disc set includes Wes' Smokin' At The Half Note in its entirety, along with another entire disc culled from various other sessions. But holy crap, if yer only ever gonna have one Wes album -- or one Jazz album -- it's hard to argue with this collection.
- John McLaughlin - Johnny McLaughlin, Electric Guitarist
I absolutely adore this 1977 recording, in part because he uses a completely different band for every track, and so you get to hear his playing in a wide variety of contexts, inspired/provoked/supported by some of the greatest musicians of the era...and also because he plays the entire album on a guitar with a fully scalloped fingerboard, and so the pitch inflections and nuances are very unique, a plaintive vocal keening, that lends itself to all those aforementioned contexts. Much of the album could be called "fusion" although the standout track for me is his solo chord-melody rendition of "My Foolish Heart" which is exquisitely beautiful in a way that I don't think I had ever associated with McLaughlin.
- Power Tools - Strange Meeting
The 1986 debut album by the trio of Bill Frisell on guitar, Melvin Gibbs on electric bass, and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. Probably as far from "traditional" as an improvising ensemble can get while still being considered "jazz" (or "jazz-ish"), but by far the most visceral, impassioned, incendiary, direct-from-the-gut music I've heard that doesn't sacrifice piquant sensetive delicacy in the name of power. Lightning in a bottle, for sure.
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Ya wanna hear my choices that don't include guitar?
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The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
and Love Hurts, by Julian Lage
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Not an album but Milt's work with Monk is my all time favorite. I organized it into a playlist from 4 different albums and removed the duplicate takes and the annoying singer ones.
Milt - Monk - YouTube
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Impossible choice
The one that comes closest is perhaps that I don't ever tire of listening. The one that fits here would be a 1961 studio album by John Coltrane's Quartet titled Africa/brass. Mc Coy Tyner's genius shines through, Elvin Jones hits an all time high on it, and Reggie Workman sets the mood and keeps everyone listening and stay tuned to it.
In my humble opinion, a timeless Masterpiece, which keeps their souls amongst us the 'living' till humanity will perish.
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Not one, but three:
Sonny Rollins - Live at the Village Vanguard
Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea
Wes Montgomery w/ Melvin Rhyne - all their recordings
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Joe Pass - Intercontinental. It's very listenable, like some drinks are very quaffable.
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Easy, the last one I heard, in this case Montgomery Brothers Grooveyard.
Last edited by Aiq; 12-16-2025 at 12:51 PM.
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I can't choose just one out of the several thousand in my library (collected over a span of 65 years), but there are some that I've never stopped listening to since 1960 or so. In more or less the order in which I encountered them:
The Duke Plays Ellington (aka Piano Reflections)
Thelonious Monk Plays Ellington (in the background right now)
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (see a pattern emerging?)
Paris Encounter (Grappelli/Burton)
Braff!! (Ruby, that is)
Send in the Clowns (aka Nirvana--Zoot/Bucky)
FWIW, I have near-complete collections of Monk, Grappelli, and Django, and I will pick up just about anything with any of the above on the personnel listings--also George Barnes, Mose Allison, Keely Smith, Tony Bennett (yeah, not jazz, but what pipes), Ella. . . .
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