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[James]

what are some of your absolute fave jazz recordings...

thelonious monk: big band & quartet in concert
duke ellington: ellington suites
charlie parker: washington concerts
miles davis: nefertiti
wynton marsalis: live at blues alley
ornette coleman: the shape of jazz to come
john coltrane: first meditations for quartet

[Sergeant Rock]

Three of my favorites feature Chet Baker.

Inglewood Jam preserves the first time Chet played with Bird. Following Bird, Chet's first solo, the entrance especially, sounds tentative, unsure, but as he proceeds you soon discover why Bird hired him (Chet was 22 at the time). Bird phoned Miles and Dizzy, saying, "There's a little white cat out here who's going to give you guys a lot of trouble." I love the cover photo: Chet looks like he's in utter awe of Bird.





Playboys is all uptempo jams.




Somewhere over the Rainbow alternates uptempo songs with mellow ballads.




Sarge

[Robert]

what are some of your absolute fave jazz recordings...

thelonious monk: big band & quartet in concert
duke ellington: ellington suites
charlie parker: washington concerts
miles davis: nefertiti
wynton marsalis: live at blues alley
ornette coleman: the shape of jazz to come
john coltrane: first meditations for quartet

Just a couple off the top of my head part 1...(I am sure I missed alot but for openers)
Charles Parker The very best of bird (The Dial Sessions), Bird The savoy recordings
Dizzy Gillespie In the beginning, The original Dizzy Gillespie Big Band in concert.  The greatest concert ever (this could also be under Parker)
Monk, The complete Genius, Brilliance, Pure Monk
Bud Powell The amazing Bud Powell volume 1
Clifford Brown The Quintet vol 1 (with Max Roach)
Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus and more, More from the Vanguard
Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert
Miles Davis, Round about Midnight, Porgy and Bess (with Gil Evans), Milestones, Kind of Blue, Four and More, Miles Smiles, BITCHES Brew. In a silent way,
Erroll Garner, Concerts by the Sea
Bill Evans, Intuition, The Village Vanguard Sessions, Conversations with myself
Cannonball Adderley Coast to Coast, Something else
Joe Pass Virtuoso
Charles Mingus The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop Stormy Weather, Passions of a Man
Oliver Nelson Blues in the Abstract Truth
Eric Dolphy, Copenhagen Concert
John Coltrane Giant Steps, My favorite things, Live at the Village Vanguard, A love Supreme
Cecil Taylor, Unit Structures, Silent Tongues
Sun Ra Live at Montreux
Keith Jarrett Koln Concert
Freddie Hubbard Breaking Point
George Russell Outer Thoughts
Next time I will list some Duke, Count, Louis, etc.. ..

[toledobass]

Should be no surprise:



and



love this one too:



most everything by the Jazz Messengers too.

SO much to list,

Allan

[Robert]

Should be no surprise:



and



love this one too:



most everything by the Jazz Messengers too.

SO much to list,

Allan

also Peterson WE GET REQUESTS.  not too shabby.. tooo many to list not enough time or room

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

To name but a few...

Sun Ra: Space is the Place
Sun Ra: The Nubians of Plutonia
Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidananda

John Coltrane: First Meditations
John Coltrane: The Gentle Side of John Coltrane
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

Errol Garner: Gems (Columbia LP)
Errol Garner: Solitaire (Mercury LP)

Joe Pass / Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen: Northsea Nights
Joe Pass / Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen: SKOL
Pharoah Sanders: Karma

Coleman Hawkins: (almost anything, but especially my 10" Capitol LP from the early 50s!)

Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis: L'Ascenseur pour le Chafaud

Ella Fitzgerald: The Cole Porter Songbook

Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

Shirley Horn: But Beautiful

Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker with Strings

Dexter Gordon: The Art of the Ballad

Suzanne Abbuehl: Compass

[Maciek]

Recently, I've been greatly enjoying recordings by the Michele Rabbia trio.

[bhodges]

Great thread, that's mostly serving to remind me how many recordings I don't have...

Here are some favorites I've picked up in New Orleans the last 2-3 years, mostly after hearing them live:

New Orleans Jazz Vipers: (debut) and Live on Frenchman Street


Maurice Brown: Hip to Bop


Bonerama: Bringing it Home


Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Strange Fruit


New Birth Brass Band: New Birth Family


Irma Thomas: After the Rain


Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance


--Bruce

[toledobass]

Nicholas Payton: Sonic Trance


--Bruce

Nicholas Payton is a bad ass.

Allan

[Szykneij]

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[Bogey]

I'll stop at 20, with my top 5 6 in bold:

Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens
Louis Armstrong The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
Louis Armstrong The Chicago Concert 1956

Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz at the Oberlin
Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz at the College of the Pacific Vol II

John Coltrane The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
John Coltrane At Birdland 1962
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
John Coltrane One Down, One Up-Thank you Allan

Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis At Newport 1958
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Davis The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel-Thank you again Allan

Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson At the Opera House
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba
Stan Getz and João Gilberto

Benny Goodman Stompin' at the Savoy
Benny Goodman The Complete Capitol Trios

[Dancing Divertimentian]

A couple of classic Monk covers:

[Bogey]

Great covers Don! 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

 

[Bonehelm]

Dave Brubeck - Take five
Dave Brubeck - When you wish upon a star (yes the disney theme song)

[Bogey]

Dave Brubeck - Take five
Dave Brubeck - When you wish upon a star (yes the disney theme song)

Great album.
Fun album.

Love Brubeck!

[karlhenning]

Has anyone sprung for the Big Miles Box?  (I first typed Big Limes Box . . . my fingers have fruit in the muscules . . . .)

[MN Dave]

Louis Armstrong - HOT FIVES AND SEVENS
John Coltrane - GIANT STEPS
JOHN COLTRANE AND JOHNNY HARTMAN
Sidney Bechet - KEN BURNS JAZZ
THE SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION OF CLASSIC JAZZ
Duke Ellington - ...AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL
Duke Ellington - EARLY ELLINGTON...

[jowcol]

There isn't much by the Coltrane Quartet from 60-65 I can't recommend strongly enough.  My favorite jazz band of all time.  I won't even start to list them here.

Kudos to whoever mentioned Alice Coltrane.  Ptah the El Daoud is one of the all time great jazz albums, IMO.   

For miles, moving beyond the obligatory Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain, I would also suggest digging into some of the electric stuff.   
In a Silent Way (most melodic)
Jack Johnson (Right Off is the hardest rocking cut Miles ever recorded)
Agartha and Pangaea (epic jazz-funk )
Live Evil (and the Cellar Door Sessions box set)

Mingus Ah-Um, Picanthropus Erectus, and the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.

Herbie Hancock-- for acoustic, I'm a big fan of Inventions and Dimensions.

Elvin Jones- Heavy Sounds. 

Gil Evans- Into the Cool.   

Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (with wordless chorus)

Duke Ellington  Far East Suite and Afroeurasian Eclipse (two late works that showed how he had not stopped evolving)

Grant Green-Matador  (The Coltrane band with an electric guitarist)

McCoy Tyner-- The Real McCoy, Extensions, Trident, McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars, Asante

If you tend towards electric/fusion, I'm a big fan of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which sort of mixed Hendrix, Indian ragas, and stravinksyian time signatures.  Birds of Fire, The Inner Mounting Flame, and Visions of the Emerald Beyond are all worthy albums.

We're All Together  Again for the First Time is a great live Brubeck album, with two sax players, and great songlist (including a 15 minute Take Five that does not wear out its welcome) and superb drumming by Alan Dawson (who taught Tony Williams).

Also want to echo Pharaoh Sanders Karma.  "The Creator has a Master Plan" mixes a "world beat" kind of vibe with avante-garde yodeling,  blissful grooves and freaked out soloing, and somehow manages to (for me) capture the "out there" kind of joy that Messiaen did in his works.