Your Pick For Best Album

[jamiehenderson1993]

Best Duo Album?
Best Trio Album?
Best 'Larger Than Trio' Album (Quartet, Quintet, Big Band etc.)?

I'd say for me:

Duo - Jim Hall & Bill Evans - Undercurrent Or Jim Hall & Ron Carter - Alone Together
Trio - Bill Evans Trio - Live at the VV Or Ahmad Jamal Trio – At the Pershing
Larger - Count Basie - Straight Ahead Or Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Can't wait to get some more Jazz suggestions!

Thanks everyone.

[AllanAllen]

Limiting myself to the LP's next to me.

Duo: Barney Kessel & Red Mitchell - Two Way Conversation
Trio: Kenny Burrell - When Lights Are Low
Larger: Benny Goodman 'Slipped Disc' Sextet

[Aiq]

Unpossible.

[mr. beaumont]

Can't pick best...but i can pick a favorite duo-- Ed Bickert and Don Thompson at the Garden Party. That record blows me away.

[GuyBoden]

Encores by Julian Bream: (In stereo)

[jamiehenderson1993]

Can't pick best...but i can pick a favorite duo-- Ed Bickert and Don Thompson at the Garden Party. That record blows me away.

I recently discovered this album - It's honestly a masterpiece! I could listen to it all day. I honestly think everything you need to know about playing Jazz Guitar live is found somewhere on that album.

[jamiehenderson1993]

Encores by Julian Bream: (In stereo)

Cool choice - not checked this out - what category does this fall into? I'll listen a bit later on today.

[James W]

Duo - Interstellar Space (John Coltrane & Rashied Ali)
Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro & Paul Motian)
Large - Bitches Brew (Miles Davis et al.)

[joe2758]

Jazz at Massey Hall for (the) quintet

[pamosmusic]

Duo -- hard to argue with Undercurrents, but at the Garden Party is also sooooo good.
Trio -- Jim Hall Live!
Larger -- The Quintessence, Quincy Jones

Also Soul Station ... also Smokin at the Half Note ... also ...

[brent.h]

You all know me as the prebop nerd but my fav albums always include Jim Hall. I heard the records many years back even before I considered trying to play jazz. I couldn't understand Jim's playing because it was (still is) quite complex and 'incisive' like how a playmaker footballer like Zidane or Ozil would just find a way to pass a ball that cuts through enemy lines to find a striker. Just great art.

I like Jim's duo work with Bill Evans on Undercurrent and quintet work again with Bill Evans on Interplay. These two were so important in my formative listening years. I also like Jim and Sonny on The Bridge as well as it was so inspiring to hear Jim comp so effortlessly and musically. I must have listened to these records thousands of times just to get an inkling of what jazz was.

Funny how I started off with this postbop sound in my ear and now I've ended up loving and playing prewar stuff all the time. Shrugs.

[joe2758]

Jazz at Massey Hall for (the) quintet

I'll throw in Grant's First Stand for trio

[StormyMonday]

Duo - Jim Hall + Anyone, but for me it's Jim Hall/Red Mitchell as seeing them in a tiny Massachusetts club playing "Blue Dove" is my most closely held music experience.