Sunday, March 25, 2007

Top Ten Jazz Albums

HBBB readers what are your favorite jazz albums and why?
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pasd137 said...

Here are few that come to mind:
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Duke Ellington - At Newport (1956)

My favorite may be Love Supreme. It's one of those albums that's just mesmerizing, and the main melody line is simple enough that first time jazz listeners can appreciate it. For the most part I like a lot of the late '50s/'60s Hard Bop/Soul Jazz stuff like Silver and Rollins and Morgan. I'm no jazzbo, so I certainly don't know a lot of the good stuff, so fill me in someone.

7:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Miles Davis -- Sketches of Spain
Fats Waller -- (pretty much anything)
Chet Baker -- best of C.B Sings
Django Reinhardt (anything)
Sinatra and Basie @ The Sands
Jimmy Smith -- The Sermon
John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman -- ST
John Zorn -- Naked City
Monk -- Complete Blue Note
Getz/Gilberto

10:33 AM
Anonymous said...

Have always been partial to the great american songbook composers, particularly the gershwins, jerome kern, irving berlin, rodgers and hart. also duke adn cole porter. all great artists who shaped american music. can't really beat the ella sings series verve put out in the 50's. my favorite may well be ella sings the cole porter songbook, but I hear chet baker, his interpretations of "i fall in love to easily" and "autumn leaves" are the versions I most associate with the songs. kind of blue, duke live at newport and getz/gilberto were the first jazz records I heard, so they automatically go on the list.

1. Ella Fitzgerald -- Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
2.Duke Ellington -- Ellington at Newport
3. Chet Baker -- Sings
4. Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet -- Study in Brown
5. Miles Davis -- Kind of Blue
6. Stan Getz -- Getz/Gilberto
7. Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
8. Cannonball Adderley Sextet -- Nippon Soul
9. Grant Green -- Grant's First Stand
10. Pat Martino -- El Hombre

missing are charlie christian, rollins, jimmy smith, coltrane, stitt, silver, monk etc

where's moondog hendo?

12:23 PM
No Name said...

Miles Davis-Someday My Prince Will Come
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Miles Davis - On The Corner
Red Garland Quintet - All Mornin' Long
Les McCann - Invitation to Openess
Lee Morgan The Sidewinder
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Grant Green - all that I have heard I have liked

My top artists are def. going to be miles davis and j. coltrane, but there are a bunch of horn records that fucking kill that I spaced on.

4:23 PM

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