The 10 best jazz CDs ever!

[mn dave]

Here's what to do: List your top 10 jazz albums. If it's a set of CDs that has more than one disc, then each disc counts toward the total (for example, if you choose a 3-disc set, you only have 7 picks remaining). I will remain neutral and tally things up on the evening of May 8th.

One list only, please. If you want to change it before the deadline, please modify the original list posted.

[Brian]

Well, uh... can I choose my ten favorites instead?

[mn dave]

Well, uh... can I choose my ten favorites instead?

The title is tongue in cheek.

"List your top 10 jazz albums."

[kishnevi]

Okay,  on the principle that variety is importat in musical pleasure

Any five recordings by Monk
Any five recordings by Davis up to and including Bitches Brew

[mn dave]

Okay,  on the principle that variety is importat in musical pleasure

Any five recordings by Monk
Any five recordings by Davis up to and including Bitches Brew

Please list them.

[Karl Henning]

Here's what to do: List your top 10 jazz albums. If it's a set of CDs that has more than one disc, then each disc counts toward the total (for example, if you choose a 3-disc set, you only have 7 picks remaining). I will remain neutral and tally things up on the evening of May 8th.

But if it's a single album which covers two discs, it counts as one, right?  That's what I'll presume....

Just voting with my ears, and in alphabetical order:

Chick Corea, My Spanish Heart
Miles Davis, Bitches' Brew
Miles Davis, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Thelonious Monk Quartet, Misterioso
Thelonious Monk Quartet, Underground
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall

[mn dave]

But if it's a single album which covers two discs, it counts as one, right?  That's what I'll presume....

2 discs counts as 2 votes.

[Karl Henning]

Sorry, already cast my votes

[mn dave]

Sorry, already cast my votes

Modify, please. 

[Brian]

Alphabetical (and after only 18 months of serious jazz listening, so this list is very early/provisional)

• At Carnegie Hall, Dave Brubeck Quartet
• Concert by the Sea, Erroll Garner Trio
• Kind of Blue, Miles Davis & Co.
• Money Jungle, Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach
• Monk's Music, Thelonious Monk with Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Gigi Gryce, Art Blakey, etc.
• Nina Simone Sings the Blues
• Tijuana Moods, Charles Mingus & Co.
• Time Further Out, Dave Brubeck Quartet
• The Witch Doctor, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

My favorite album is Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall, which is a 2CD set (thus my list only has 9 albums).

Honorable mentions:
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Bill Evans Trio at the Village Vanguard (3 CDs)
- It's Uptown (George Benson Quartet)
- Mingus Ah Um

[Karl Henning]

Modify, please. 

Gosh . . . audited!

[Karl Henning]

All right.  I didn't like making the cuts, but . . . he made me do it . . . .

[mn dave]

All right.  I didn't like making the cuts, but . . . he made me do it . . . .

Sorry, bro. Just want it to be fair.

[Karl Henning]

No, no, you're quite right.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Bill Evans, The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings (counts as 3, I guess)
Thelonious Monk, Brilliant Corners
Dave Holland, Conference of the Birds
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else
Bill Evans, Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme

[Brian]

Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else

I've only listened to this once (my copy just arrived), but it will probably soon be fighting for a place in my top ten. On the other hand, I decidedly prefer Time Further Out to Time Out, and even listen to Time in Outer Space more than the original album.

[Jay F]

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[San Antone]

I can live with this list

Andrew Hill ~ Point of Departure
Joe Henderson ~ Mode for Joe
Miles Davis ~ Nefertiti
Bill Evans ~ Sunday Night at the Village Vanguard (the original, single LP)
Lee Morgan ~ The Sidewinder
John Coltrane ~ Crescent
Sonny Rollins ~ Freedom Suite
Gary McFarland ~ America the Beautiful
Wayne Shorter ~ Speak No Evil
Ornette Coleman ~ Shape of Jazz to Come

[bwv 1080]

(disk 2 to not eat up 4 slots)

[Sergeant Rock]

Chet Baker and Charlie Parker INGLEWOOD JAM/BIRD & CHET
Chet Baker and Art Pepper PLAYBOYS
John Coltrane  BLUE TRAIN
Dave Brubeck Quartet  TIME OUT
Miles Davis   ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT
Miles Davis   KIND OF BLUE
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto  GETZ/GILBERTO
Julie London with the Bud Shank Quintet  ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Billie Holiday LADY IN SATIN
Shirley Horn YOU WON'T FORGET ME


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