What's Your Favorite Jazz Albums (maybe top 5)
nunh -- Sat, 02/11/2006 - 16:32
Here goes:
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
3. Cannonball Adderly - African Waltz
4. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
5. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Art Blakey plays)
Personally, these are a few of my favorite introduction to Jazz albums. A Love Supreme and So What are THE best introduction to jazz songs IMHO.
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I would add Sonny Rollins' Way Out West
Thomas wrote:I would add Sonny Rollins' Way Out West
Love that album - kinda neat when a reviewer uses a familiar tune as a reference.
Wes Montgomery is a must if you wanna get into jazz guitar. I have Full House.
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Carmen Lundy -Come Home
Jaco Pastorious-self titled
Karen Blixt-Mad Hope
Miles Davis-Bitches Brew
John Coltrane-Blue Train
Hmm.. if it's introductions to jazz, then KOB, Time Out, Waltz for Debbie, Ella's Cole Porter Songbook and Coltrane's Ballads would probably top my list for the un-initiated. The intensity of a Love Supreme would likely scare people at first!
I only have a couple of jazz records: A Charlie Brown Christmas and Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheous, both by Vince Guaraldi. I'm tempted to try a couple of those recommended here (Kind of Blue by John Coltrane mightbe a good next choice).
Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is an essential in any collection, even if you hate jazz :)
Coltrane's A Love Supreme is an incredibly spiritual album, possibly the most spiritual jazz album of all time. However, it might also be a bit harder to digest if you're not into jazz. Then again, it might make you fall in love with whole genre.
You can't go wrong with either. Make sure you give them a few listens with undivided attention - they deserve it.
This aint fair! I wld have to divide into classic/traditional jazz vs moden.
Classic/Traditional
Miles Davies: Kind of Blue
Oliver Nelson: The Blues and The Abstract Truth
Ray Brown Trip: Live at The Loa - Summer Wind
Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness
Stan Getz: Jazz Samba
Modern
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Return To Forever: Light As A Feather
Manu Katche: Neighborhood
Steve Coleman: Def Trance Beat
Chris Potter: Underground
Hey wait...I left out....this is too difficult, I give up!
Just a word to the wise . . Andrew Hill's (not well known and recently discovered in the Blue Note vault ) Passing Ships is pretty hip Andrew Hill. Shades of Point of Departure with a different and exotic cast. Listen loud to bring out the supporting musicians.
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I enjoy the full gamut of jazz, but asking for favorite albums really starts highlighting each person's personal preferences. If I had to be on a desert isle with a handful of albums, one I would take is Brubeck/Desmond, 1975: The Duets. I've gotten enjoyment from that decade after decade.
Jazz is a type of music which can be loved by everyone and is favourite among everyone because this is type of music which creates the freshness to be felt. It is considerably noticed by everyone and feel being excited to be performed in any type of jazz music. Through my opinion i think my all time top 5 jazz album should be: (1) Dave Brubeck - Time Out, (2) Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (3) Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, (4) Art Pepper - Living Legend, (5) Paul Desmond - Pure Desmond.. Thanks for sharing this wonderful information with all of us. I would like to appreciate the effort done by you for us.
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"Coltrane" by Coltrane (includes "Out of this World"; "Soul Eyes"; "Tunji";) 1962
"Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard" Dexter Gordon
"Straight Life" Art Pepper
"Mingus Ah Um" - Charles Mingus
"Focal Point" McCoy Tyner
Too hard. 10 Favorites would have been better.
Add Jamie Cullum- twentysomething- also my reference disk.
Jazz mujsic is one of my favourites because jazz is based on the principle that an endless number of melodies can fit the chord progressions of a song. It is becoming more and more popular these days. Jazz has such a great mixture of rhythm and beats that Jazz will never cease to exist. I have a various collection of jazz music and I love it a lot. It makes my tap beating whenver I hear this jazz music.
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Here is my list in no particular order
1. Miles Davis/Gil Evans The Complete Columbia Recordings
2. Ella Fitzgerald The Complete Songbook Recordings
3. Bill Evans The Complete Live At The Village Vanguard
4. Previn/Lowe/Brown Uptown Lexus Collection
5. Marcin Wasilewski Trio January
Honiorable Mention:
1. any Oscar Peterson
2. any George Shearing
3. any Duke Ellington
4. any Earl Hines
5. most Chick Corea
Here's my humble list:
1. Trident - McCoy Tyner (McCoy Tyner on piano, Ron Carter on bass, Elvin Jones on Drums - nuff said)
2. And His Mother Called Him Bill - Duke Ellington Orchestra (America's greatest composer)
3. La Scala - Keith Jarrett (cut 2 is so unbelievable)
4. Return to Forever - Return to Forever (yep, and the name of the 1st song is Return to Forever - very confusing but awesome)
5. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (the album that taught us all about Modal playing)
Honorable Mention:
* White Rabbit - George Benson (a sentimental selection because it was my epiphany - my entrance point into Jazz)
* Humble People - Flora Purim/Airto Moriera (hard to find but worth the effort)
* Pearls - David Sanborn (if you take off the two vocals it's the perfect make-out CD - one hot sax for hot ....well, you get the idea)
* West Side Blues - Louis Armstrong (one song on one side of a 78 record - the most important musician of the 20th century - the man who showed us how.