Your Favourite Jazz Records

[Thatfabulousalien]

Doesn't matter if it's hard bop or big band vocal stuff, share your absolute favorites! 

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Just off the top of my head right now-- a mix of LPs and CDs:

John Coltrane - First Meditations (Impulse)
John Coltrane - The Gentle Side of John Coltrane (Impulse)
Errol Garner - Gems (Columbia)
Errol Garner - Solitaire (Mercury)
Joe Pass and Niels Hening Orsted Pedersen - Northsea Nights (Pablo)
Sun Ra - Space is The Place
Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud (Fontana)
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (Columbia)
Miles Davis/Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else (Blue Note)
Susanne Abuehl - The Gift (ECM)
Iro Haarla - Vespers (ECM)
Albert Ayler - The Impulse Story (Impulse)
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse)
Dexter Gordon - The Art of the Ballad
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (Blue Note)
Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Tokyo Adagio (Impulse)
Kamau Daaood - Lemiert Park
Coleman Hawkins Classics in Jazz (Capitol 10" LP)
Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass - Take Love Easy (Pablo)
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Billie Holiday - The Billie Holiday Songbook (Verve)
Branford Marsalis - In My Solitude
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker with Strings (Verve)
Enrico Rava - Tribe (ECM)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma (Impulse)
Shirley Horn - The Best of Shriley Horn
Tyshawn Sorey - Alloy
Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown (EmArcy)

[NikF]

This is roughly based on my 'most listened to' list over the first half of 2016.

Virtuoso: Joe Pass.
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Masterpieces by Ellington: Duke Ellington.
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Louis Armstrong: Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven.
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Artie Shaw and his Gramercy 5: Six Star Treats.
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Dave Brubeck: Time In.
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Django Reinhardt: Anthology.
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Oscar Aleman: Swing Guitar Masterpieces
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Red Garland: All Mornin' Long
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Nat King Cole Trio: Live at the Circle Room.
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Billy Bauer: Plectrist.
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Barney Kessel: Poll Winners
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Ella Fitzgerald: Cole Porter Songbook.
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Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin'
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Danny Gatton: Redneck Jazz.
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Gene Krupa: Drum Battle at JATP.
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Ahmad Jamal: Live at the Pershing.
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Lester Young & Oscar Peterson: With the Oscar Peterson Trio.
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Lester Young: Laughin' to Keep From Cryin'
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet: 3am Salon du Jazz , Paris, 1954, à Pleyel.
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Hank Garland: Jazz Winds from a New Direction.
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[king ubu]

a list I put together over the course of several days in 2011, so it's not quite up to date ... not trying to cherry-pick but rather to be inclusive:


:: 20s ::

New Orleans Rhythm Kings: 1922-1925 (Retrieval „The Complete Set“)
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923/24)
Fletcher Henderson – A Study in Frustration (1923-38)
Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives & Hot Sevens (1925-30)
Jelly Roll Morton: Victor Recordings (1926-30)
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti – The New York Sessions 1926-1935 (JSP)
Frankie Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke (1927-29)
Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces: Brunswick Sessions (1929)
Henry „Red“ Allen and His New York Orchestra: Victor Sessions (1929/30)
Duke Ellington – 1926-1962


:: 30s ::

James P. Johnson: 1928-44 (small groups & solos)
Luis Russell – The Luis Russell Story (Retrieval, 1929-34)
Chick Webb: 1929-39
Billie Holiday: Columbia (1933-44)
Art Tatum: Decca Solos (1934/37)
Jimmie Lunceford: Decca Sessions (1934-38)
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli: Quintette du Hot Club de France (1934-39)
Benny Goodman: RCA Victor Trio/Quartet Sessions (1935-39)
Mildred Bailey (& Red Norvo): Columbia Sessions (1935-42)
Andy Kirk: Decca Sessions (starting 1936)
Lester Young: Small Group Sessions (1936-50, Columbia, Savoy, Aladdin, Commodore, Keynote etc., as a sideman w/Kansas City Six, Count Basie, Sammy Price, Johnny Guarnieri etc., though the 1950 cut-off is somewhat arbitrary ... all Pres. Full stop.)
Coleman Hawkins: w/Django Reinhardt, Benny Carter (1937)
Dicky Wells: w/Django Reinhardt (1937)
Bunny Berigan: Victor Sessions 1937/38
Eddie Condon: Commodore & Decca Sessions (30s and 40s, and into the 50s on other labels, too)
Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys: Vocalion & Decca Session 1936/37
Benny Goodman: Sextet w/Charlie Christian (Columbia 1939-41)
Count Basie: Decca Sessions (1937-39)
Frankie Newton: 1937-39 (Complete Recordings)
Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall 1938 (Complete) (Columbia)
Chu Berry: Commodore Sessions (1938/41)
Port of Harlem Jazzmen / Port of Harlem Seven (Blue Note 1939)
Lee Wiley: 1939/40 Sessions (w/Max Kaminsky, Joe Bushkin, Bunny Berigan, Paul Weston, Eddie Condon)
Count Basie: Columbia/Vocalion Sessions, especially those w/Pres („America’s Band #1“ could be considered, it includes the Jones/Smith Inc session as well as a terrific Famous Door, NYC, 1939-07-15 broadcast ... and Mosaic has of course been of help though I've not yet bought the second, still available Pres/Basie set yet)
Teddy Wilson: Brunswick & Columbia Sessions
John Kirby – Columbia & RCA Victor (1939-41)


:: 40s ::

Billie Holiday – The Complete Commodore Recordings (1939/44)
Meade Lux Lewis – Solo Recordings (1939-44)
Coleman Hawkins & The Chocolate Dandies (Commodore 1940)
Jay McShann: Decca Sessions (1941/42)
Edmond Hall: Blue Note Sessions (1941-44)
Coleman Hawkins: Signature Sessions (1943)
George Lewis & His New Orleans Stompers (American Music 1943)
Tiny Grimes: Savoy Session w/Charlie Parker (1944)
Coleman Hawkins – The Complete Keynote Recordings (1944)
Coleman Hawkins – Apollo Sessions (Delmark CD „Rainbow Mist“ 1944)
George Lewis with Kid Shots / George Lewis – Trios & Bands (American Music 1944/45)
Bunk Johnson – 1944 + 1944/45 (American Music)
Artie Shaw – 1944-45 (The Metronome Series) (Hep 3CD)
Mary Lou Williams: 1944/45 Sessions (Asch)
Billie Holiday – The Complete Original American Decca Recordings (1944-50)
Dizzy Gillespie: Guild/Musicraft Sessions (w/Charlie Parker) (1945)
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker – Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown)
Red Norvo: Comet/Dial Session w/Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker (1945)
Sir Charles Thompson: Apollo Session w/Charlie Parker & Dexter Gordon (1945)
Dexter Gordon: Savoy & Dial Recordings (1945-47)
Coleman Hawkins – Hollywood Stampede (Capitol 1945-47)
Illinois Jacquet: Apollo, ARA, Savoy, Aladdin & Victor Sessions (1945-47)
Charlie Parker: Savoy Studio Sessions (1945-48)
Dodo Marmarosa: Solos, Trios & Small Group Sessions aus Kalifornien (1946/47)
Charlie Parker: Dial Sessions (1946/47)
Lennie Tristano: Keynote Sessions (1946/47)
Peggy Lee: Capitol Transcriptions w/Dave Barbour (1946-49)
Stan Getz – Roost, Prestige, Sittin‘ In, Clef/Norgran Sessions (1946-1952)
Dizzy Gillespie – Showtime at the Spotlite, 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 (Uptown)
Woody Herman – At Carnegie Hall, 1946 (Verve)
Dizzy Gillespie – Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1946-49)
Charlie Parker – Royal Roost Broadcasts (Savoy 1947/48)
Thelonious Monk: Blue Note Sessions (1947-52)
Bud Powell: Blue Note Sessions (1947-53, Roost Session 1947)
Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool (Capitol 1949)
Lennie Tristano: Capitol Session (1949)
Lee Konitz – Subconsious-lee (Prestige 1949/50)
Bud Powell: Clef/Norgran Sessions (1949-51)
Sonny Stitt – Stitt’s Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952 (Prestige 3CD)
Wardell Gray – everything, actually! (meaning: whatever you'll find - the two Fantasy "Memorial" disc on top!)


:: 50s ::

Tony Fruscella – Complete Studio & Live Recordings (1948-55)
Charlie Parker – Birdland 1950 (w/Fats Navarro)
Lee Wiley & Bobby Hackett with Joe Bushkin – A Night in Manhattan (Columbia 1950)
Stan Kenton – The Innovations Orchestra (Capitol 1950-51)
George Wallington – Savoy & Prestige Trios (1951-53)
Ahmad Jamal- The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings (1951-55)
Tony Fruscella – Brooklyn Jam 1952 (Marshmallow)
Charlie Parker – In Chicago 1952 (w/George Freeman)
Gerry Mulligan – The Original Quartet with Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz 1952-53, 2CD)
Benny Carter: Verve Sessions (1952-54)
Art Blakey – A Night at Birdland (Blue Note 1953)
Kenny Dorham Quintet (Debut 1953)
The Eminent J.J. Johnson Volume One (Blue Note 1953)
Lee Konitz & Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Konitz Meets Mulligan (Pacific Jazz 1953)
Count Basie: Dance Sessions (Clef 1953/54)
Art Tatum – The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces (Verve/Clef/Pablo 1953-55)
Chet Baker: Pacific Jazz Studio & Live Sessions mit Russ Freeman (1953-56)
Martial Solal: Vogue Recordings (Complete) (1953-58)
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia 1954)
Miles Davis – Walkin‘ (Prestige 1954)
Miles Davis – Bags‘ Groove (Prestige 1954)
Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige 1954)
Al Haig – Jazz Will-O-The-Wisp (Esoteric 1954)
Helen Merrill with Quincy Jones and His Orchestra (EmArcy 1954)
Thelonious Monk – Portrait of an Ermite (Vogue 1954)
Bernard Peiffer – Plays Standards (Barclay/EmArcy 1954)
Jimmy Raney – Visits Paris (Vogue 1954)
Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note 1954)
Richard Twardzik: Pacific Jazz Session (1954)
Julius Watkins – New Faces, New Sounds (Blue Note 1954)
John La Porta – Complete Debut Recordings (Debut/Lonehill, 1954/55)
Lennie Tristano – Tristano (Atlantic 1954/55)
Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet (EmArcy 1954-56)
Art Tatum – The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces (Verve/Clef/Pablo 1954-56)
Sacha Distel – Jazz Guitarist (Jazz in Paris Hors Série 01) (EmArcy 1954-1968)
Count Basie Swings and Joe Williams Sings (Clef 1955)
Eddie Bert – Encore (Savoy 1955)
Art Blakey – At the Cafe Bohemia (Blue Note 1955)
Bobby Jaspar – Modern Jazz Au Club St-Germain (Barclay 1955)
Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh (Atlantic 1955)
Hal McKusick – East Coast Jazz/8 (Bethlehem 1955)
Hank Mobley Quartet (Blue Note 1955)
René Urtreger joue Bud Powell (Barclay/EmArcy 1955)
Julius Watkins – Julius Watkins Sextet Vol. 2 (Blue Note 1955)
Miles Davis – Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition) (1955/56)
Miles Davis – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (1955/56)
Hampton Hawes – The Trio: Complete Sessions (Contemporary/Gambit 1955/56)
Herbie Nichols: Blue Note Recordings (1955/56)
John Carisi – The RCA Victor Jazz Workshop (1956 – on CD „The RCA Victor Jazz Workshop – The Arrangers“, 1989 - I think now on Fresh Sound, too)
Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Sings Carmichael (Pacific Jazz 1956)
Serge Chaloff – Blue Serge (Capitol 1956)
Teddy Charles – Word from Bird (Atlantic 1956)
Nat „King“ Cole – The Complete After Midnight Session (Capitol 1956)
Chris Connor (Atlantic 1956)
Kenny Dorham – ‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (2CD) (1956)
Harry Edison – Sweets (Verve 1956)
The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow (Verve 1956)
The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet (Atlantic 1956)
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Atlantic 1956)
Johnny Griffin – The Congregation (Blue Note 1956)
The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz 1956)
Lionel Hampton and his All-Stars: Complete Jazztone Recordings (Jazztone/Fresh Sound 1956)
Quincy Jones – This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC 1956)
John Lewis & Sacha Distel – Afternoon in Paris (Atlantic 1956)
Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners (Riverside 1956)
Art Pepper – The Art of Pepper (aka Modern Art – The Complete Aladdin Recordings Vol. 3) (Onyx/Omega/Blue Note 1956)
The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (ABC-Paramount 1956)
Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness (Prestige 1956)
George Russell – The Jazz Workshop (RCA 1956)
Lucky Thompson: Trios mit Skeeter Best & Oscar Pettiford (ABC 1956)
Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-Tette – Lulu’s Back in Town (Bethlehem 1956)
Milt Jackson & Lucky Thompson: Savoy & Atlantic Sessions (1956/57)
Lucky Thompson & Martial Solal: 1956-1960 (also the dates led by Gérard Pochonet and Kenny Clarke)
Mose Allison – Back Country Suite (Prestige 1957)
Bob Brookmeyer – Traditionalism Revisited (Pacific Jazz 1957)
The Great Ray Charles (Atlantic 1957)
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note 1957)
Red Garland – Red Garland’s Piano (Prestige 1957)
Johnny Griffin – Way Out (Riverside 1957)
Jim Hall – Jazz Guitar (Pacific Jazz 1957)
Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Flies High (Riverside 1957)
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Verve 1957)
John Jenkins / Clifford Jordan / Bobby Timmons – Jenkins / Jordan / Timmons (Prestige 1957)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing a Song of Basie (ABC 1957)
Yusef Lateef – Jazz for Thinkers (Savoy 1957)
Herbie Mann – Sultry Serenade (Riverside 1957)
Charles Mingus – East Coasting (Bethlehem 1957)
Charles Mingus – Tijuana Moods (RCA 1957 – Bluebird First Editions 2CD)
Hank Mobley & His All Stars (Blue Note 1957)
Herbie Nichols – Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Bethlehem 1957)
Red Rodney – 1957 (aka „Fiery“, „The Red Arrow“) (Signal/Savoy 1957)
Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (Contemporary 1957)
Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard (Complete) (Blue Note 1957)
Jimmy Smith – Groovin‘ at Smalls‘ Paradise (Blue Note 1957)
Sarah Vaughan at Mister Kelly’s (Mercury 1957)
Thelonious Monk: 1957/58 Sessions w/Coltrane (Monk with Coltrane, Monk’s Music) (Riverside, Blue Note)
Jimmy Smith – House Party & The Sermon (Complete) (Blue Note 1957/58)
Cannonball Adderley – Somethin‘ Else (Blue Note 1958)
Art Blakey – Moanin‘ (Blue Note 1958)
Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin‘ (Blue Note 1958)
John Coltrane – Soultrane (Prestige 1958)
Miles Davis – Milestones (Columbia 1958)
Hampton Hawes – For Real! (Contemporary 1958)
Coleman Hawkins – Soul (Prestige 1958)
Ahmad Jamal – But Not for Me (Argo 1958)
Michel Legrand – Legrand Jazz (Philips 1958)
Thelonious Monk – Misterioso & Thelonious in Action (Riverside 1958)
James Moody – Last Train from Overbrook (Argo 1958)
„Fathead“ – Ray Charles Presents David Newman (Atlantic 1958)
Sonny Rollins – Freedom Suite (Riverside 1958)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco (Riverside 1959)
Art Blakey – At the Jazz Corner of the World (Blue Note 1959)
Dave Brubeck – Time Out (Columbia 1959)
Eddie Costa – House of Blue Lights (Dot 1959)
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Columbia 1959)
Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz (Riverside 1959)
Elmo Hope Trio (Contemporary 1959)
Thad Jones – Motor City Scene (United Artists 1959)
Wynton Kelly – Kelly Great (Vee Jay 1959)
Harold Land – The Fox (Hifijazz 1959)
Shelly Manne – At the Blackhawk (Contemporary 1959)
Charles Mingus – Blues and Roots (Atlantic 1959)
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia 1959)
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (Riverside 1959)
Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (Riverside 1959)
J.R. Monterose – The Message (Jaro 1959)
Anita O’Day – Cool Heat (Verve 1959)
Art Pepper & Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary 1959)
Jerome Richardson – Roamin‘ with Richardson (Prestige 1959)
Max Roach – The Many Sides of Max (Mercury 1959)
The Fantastic Frank Strozier (Vee Jay 1959)
Sun Ra – Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn 1959)
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (Verve 1959)
Barney Wilen – Barney – At the Club Saint-Germain (Paris 1959) (RCA 2CD)
Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain (Columbia 1959/60)
Jackie McLean – Jackie’s Bag (Blue Note/RVG CD 1959/60)
Ornette Coleman – Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Atlantic 1959-61)
Terry Gibbs Dream Band (Fantasy + Verve 1959-61)


:: 60s ::

Nat Adderley – Work Song (Riverside 1960)
Lou Bennett – Amen! (RCA 1960)
Tina Brooks – True Blue (Blue Note 1960)
Oscar Brown Jr. – Sin and Soul (Columbia 1960)
John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound (Atlantic 1960)
Hank Crawford – More Soul (Atlantic 1960)
Miles Davis – Live in Stockholm (Dragon 1960 – mit Coltrane)
Miles Davis – Live in Paris (Trema/Europe1 1960 – mit Coltrane)
Eric Dolphy – Out There (Prestige 1960)
Eric Dolphy – Far Cry (Prestige 1960)
Gil Evans – Out of the Cool (Impulse 1960)
Joe Harriott – Free Form (Jazzland/Redial 1960)
Freddie Hubbard – Open Sesame (Blue Note 1960)
Etta Jones – Don’t Go to Strangers (Prestige 1960)
Charles Mingus Presents Mingus Charles Mingus (Candid 1960)
Hank Mobley – Soul Station (Blue Note 1960)
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (Riverside 1960)
Gerry Mulligan – Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (Verve 1960)
Anita O’Day – Incomparable (Verve 1960)
Art Pepper – Intensity (Contemporary 1960)
Freddie Redd – Shades of Redd (Blue Note 1960)
We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (Candid 1960)
George Russell – Jazz in the Space Age (Decca 1960)
Jo Stafford – Jo + Jazz (Columbia 1960)
The World of Cecil Taylor (Candid 1960)
René Thomas – Guitar Groove (Jazzland 1960)
Randy Weston – Uhuru Afrika (Roulette 1960)
Joe Harriott – Abstract (Columbia/Redial 1960/61)
Barry Harris – Preminado (Riverside 1960/61)
Lennie Tristano – The New Tristano (Atlantic 1960/61)
Daniel Humair / René Urtreger / Pierre Michelot – HUM (1960-99)
Gene Ammons – Jug (Prestige 1961)
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit (Complete Sessions) (1961)
Dave Brubeck – Time Further Out (Columbia 1961)
Donald Byrd – Free Form (Blue Note 1961)
Sonny Clark – Leapin‘ and Lopin‘ (Blue Note 1961)
John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane (Atlantic 1961)
John Coltrane – The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (Impulse 1961)
John Coltrane – The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse)
Eric Dolphy – Live at the Five Spot (Prestige 1961)
Kenny Dorham – Whistle Stop (Blue Note 1961)
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee – Together Again! (Contemporary 1961)
Booker Ervin – That’s It (Candid 1961)
Art Farmer & Benny Golson – The Jazztet & John Lewis (Argo 1961)
Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse 1961)
Oliver Nelson – Straight Ahead (Prestige 1961)
Mal Waldron – The Quest (Prestige 1961)
Bill Evans – The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 (Riverside)
Stan Getz – Focus (Verve 1961)
Jimmy Giuffre – 1961 (Verve/ECM – Fusion + Thesis)
Dexter Gordon – Doin‘ Alright (Blue Note 1961)
Clifford Jordan – Starting Time (Jazzland 1961)
Lee Konitz – Motion (Verve 1961)
Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds (Prestige/Moodsville 1961)
Abbey Lincoln – Straight Ahead (Candidd 1961)
Jack McDuff – The Honeydripper (Prestige 1961)
Bud Powell – Portrait of Thelonious (Columbia 1961)
Ike Quebec – Blue and Sentimental (Blue Note 1961)
Max Roach – Percussion, Bitter Sweet (Impulse 1961)
George Russell – Ezz-thetics (Riverside 1961)
Bud Shank – New Groove (Pacific Jazz 1961)
Cecil Taylor & Buell Neidlinger – New York City R & B (Candid 1961)
Lucky Thompson – Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know (Candid 1961)
Stanley Turrentine – Up at Minton’s (Blue Note 1961)
Baby Face Willette – Face to Face (Blue Note 1961)
Grant Green – The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (Blue Note 1961/62)
Paul Desmond – The Complete RCA Victor Recordings featuring Jim Hall (1961-65)
Cannonball Adderley – Cannonball in Europe (Capitol 1962)
Gil Cuppini – What’s New? (Meazzi/Right Tempo Classics 1962)
Walt Dickerson – To My Queen (Prestige/New Jazz 1962)
Jimmy Giuffre – Free Fall (Columbia 1962)
Roy Haynes – Out of the Afternoon (Impulse 1962)
Freddie Hubbard – Ready for Freddie (Blue Note 1962)
Sheila Jordan – Portrait of Sheila (Blue Note 1962)
Jimmy Scott – Falling In Love Is Wonderful (Tangerine/Rhino 1962)
Shelly Manne – 2-3-4 (Impulse 1962)
Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note 1962)
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream (Columbia 1962)
Dizzy Reece – Asia Minor (Prestige/New Jazz 1962)
Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (Revenant 1962 – 2CD)
Jack Teagarden – Think Well of Me (Verve 1962)
Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70)
Curtis Amy – Katanga! (Pacific Jazz 1963)
Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue (Blue Note 1963)
Chris Connor – At the Village Gate (FM/Capitol 1963)
Booker Ervin – The Freedom Book (Prestige 1963)
Art Farmer – „Live“ at the Half Note (1963)
Joki Freund – Yogi Jazz (CBS/L+R 1963)
Grant Green – Idle Moments (Blue Note 1963)
Herbie Hancock – Inventions & Dimensions (Blue Note 1963)
Andrew Hill – Black Fire (Blue Note 1963)
Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd – School Days (Hat, ca. 1963)
Albert Mangelsdorff – One Tension (Columbia/L+R 1963)
Ken McIntyre – Way, Way Out (United Artists 1963)
Jackie McLean – Destination Out (Blue Note 1963)
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse 1963)
Charles Mingus – Mingus Plays Piano (Impulse 1963)
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder (Blue Note 1963)
Michael Naura – European Jazz Sounds (Brunswick 1963)
John Patton – Along Came John (Blue Note 1963)
Horace Silver – Song for My Father (Blue Note 1963/64)
Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity (ESP 1964)
Albert Ayler – The Hilversum Session (Coppens 1964)
Art Blakey – Free for All (Blue Note 1964)
Dave Brubeck – Jazz Impressions of Japan (Columbia 1964)
John Coltrane – Crescent (Impulse 1964)
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch (Blue Note 1964)
Booker Ervin – The Space Book (Prestige 1964)
Talkin‘ About Grant Green (Blue Note 1964)
Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles (Blue Note 1964)
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 1964)
Joe Henderson – Page One (Blue Note 1964)
Andrew Hill – Judgment (Blue Note 1964)
Andrew Hill – Point of Departure (Blue Note 1964)
Yusef Lateef – Live at Pep’s / Live at Pep’s Vol. 2 (Impulse 1964)
Albert Mangelsdorff – Now Jazz Ramwong (Columbia/L+R 1964)
Jackie McLean – Right Now! (Blue Note 1964)
Charles Mingus – Europa-Tournee mit Eric Dolphy, April 1964 (various recordings, incl. a few from the US from just before the departure ... consider the Mosaic box!)
Grachan Moncur III – Some Other Stuff (Blue Note 1964)
J.R. Monterose – In Action (Studio 4 Records/Bainbridge 1964)
Lee Morgan – Search for the New Land (Blue Note 1964)
Don Patterson – Hip Cake Walk (Prestige 1964)
Shirley Scott – Queen of the Organ (Impulse/GRP CD 1964)
Archie Shepp – Four for Trane (Impulse 1964)
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil (Blue Note 1964)
Tony Williams – Life Time (Blue Note 1964)
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition) (Impulse 1964/65)
Albert Ayler – Spirits Rejoice (ESP 1965)
Andy Bey & The Bey Sisters – ‚Round Midnight (Prestige 1965)
Marion Brown Quartet (ESP 1965)
Don Cherry – Complete Communion (Blue Note 1965)
Ornette Coleman – Trio at the Golden Circle, Stockholm (Blue Note 1965)
John Coltrane – One Down, One Up (Impulse 1965)
John Coltrane – Sun Ship (Impulse 1965)
John Coltrane – Ascension (Impulse 1965)
Miles Davis – The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Sony/Columbia)
Eddie Harris – The In Sound (Atlantic 1965)
Roland Kirk – Rip, Rig and Panic (Mercury 1965)
Attila Zoller, Hans Koller & Martial Solal (aka Zo-Ko-So) (MPS 1965)
Krzysztof Komeda – Astigmatic (Polskie Nagrania 1965)
Jackie McLean – Action (Blue Note 1965)
Helen Merrill & Dick Katz – The Feeling is Mutual (Milestone 1965)
Larry Young – Unity (Blue Note 1965)
Miles Davis – Quintet 1965-’68 (Sony/Columbia)
Benny Carter – Further Definitions (Impulse 1966)
John Coltrane – Meditations (Impulse 1966)
John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard Again (Impulse 1966)
Don Ellis Orchestra ‚Live‘ at Monterey! (Pacific Jazz 1966)
Michael Garrick – Black Marigolds (Argo/Dutton Vocalion 1966)
Tubby Hayes – Addictive Tendencies (Rare Music 1966)
Bobby Hutcherson – Stick Up (Blue Note 1966)
Don Rendell & Ian Carr – Dusk Fire (EMI Columbia 1966)
Archie Shepp – Live in San Francisco (+ Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime) (Impulse 1966)
Archie Shepp – Mama Too Tight (Impulse 1966)
Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures (Blue Note 1966)
Anthony Ortega – New Dance (+ Permutations) (Revelation/Hat 1966/67)
Jaki Byard – Sunshine of My Soul (Prestige 1967)
John Coltrane – Interstellar Space (Impulse 1967)
Portrait of Sonny Criss (Prestige 1967)
The Electrifying Eddie Harris (Atlantic 1967)
Bobby Hutcherson – Oblique (Blue Note 1967)
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra – Live at the Village Vanguard (Solid State 1967)
Roland Kirk – The Inflated Tear (Atlantic 1967)
Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons – Firebirds (Contemporary 1967)
Pat Martino – El Hombre (Prestige 1967)
Lee Morgan – The Procrastinator (Blue Note 1967)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Art Ensemble 1967/68 (Nessa)
Sonny Criss – Sonny’s Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Prestige 1968)
Amancio d’Silva – Integration (Columbia 1968)
Andrew Hill – Dance with Death (Blue Note 1968)
Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (JCOA 1968)
Lee Konitz & Martial Solal – European Episode / Impressive Rome (Campi/CAM Jazz 1968)
Chris McGregor – Very Urgent (Polydor/Fledg’ling 1968)
Helen Merrill & Dick Katz – A Shade of a Difference (Milestone 1968)
Winston „Mankunku“ Ngozi – Yakhal‘ Inkomo (Gallo 1968)
John Patton – Understanding (Blue Note 1968)
Ronnie Ross – Cleopatra’s Needle (Fontana 1968)
Alan Shorter – Orgasm (Verve 1968)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Karyobin (Island/Chronoscope 1968)
Charles Tolliver All Stars (aka Paper Man) (Polydor/Black Lion 1968)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford – Seeking (Revelation/Hat 1969)
Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland – Big Band – Volcano / Rue Chaptal: The Complete Live Recordings at Ronnie Scott’s, February 28th 1969 (MPS/Rearward 1969)
Miles Davis – The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (1969)
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) (1969)
Charles Earland – Black Talk (Prestige 1969)
Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse 1969)
Joe Harriott & Amancio d’Silva – Hum Dono (Vocalion 1969)
Noah Howard – The Black Ark (Freedom/Bo Weavil 1969)
Ianci Körossy (Yancy Körössy, Iancsy Körössy) – Identification (MPS 1969)
Warne Marsh – Ne Plus Ultra (Revelation/Hat 1969)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris – Swiss Movement (Atlantic 1969)


:: 70s ::

Gary Burton / Keith Jarrett (Atlantic 1970)
Miles Davis – The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Columbia 1970)
Miles Davis – The Cellar Door Sessions (Columbia 1970)
Martial Solal – Sans Tambour Ni Trompette (RCA 1970)
Chitinous Ensemble – Chitinous (Deram/Dutton Vocalion 1971?)
Ted Curson – Pop Wine (Futura 1971)
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia 1971)
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath (Ogun/Fledg’ling 1971)
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath – Eclipse at Dawn (Cuneiform 1971)
Joe McPhee – Trinity (CJR/Atavistic UMS 1971)
Sonny Stitt – Tune Up (Cobblestone 1971)
Barney Wilen – Moshi (Saravah 1971)
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids (1971-75)
Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (Master Jazz/New World 1971-75)
Wadada Leo Smith – Kabell Years (Kabell/Tzadik 1971-79)
Paul Bley – Open, to Love (ECM 1972)
Anthony Braxton – Saxophone Improvisations Series F (America 1972)
Chick Corea – Return to Forever (ECM 1972)
Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. (Arista/Mbari 1972)
Dave Holland – Conference of the Birds (ECM 1972)
Hugh Masekela – Home Is Where the Music Is (Blue Thumb 1972)
Friedhelm Schönfeld / Hubert Katzenbeier – Jazz (Amiga 1972)
Roland Kirk & Al Hibbler – A Meeting of Times (Atlantic 1972)
Mongo Santamaria – Up from the Roots (Atlantic 1972)
Jimmy Smith – Root Down – Live! (Verve 1972 – Verve by Request CD)
Weather Report – I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia 1972)
Jimmy Lyons – The Box Set (Ayler Records 1972-1985)
Herbie Hancock – Sextant (Columbia 1973)
Keith Jarrett – Concerts (Bremen / Lausanne) (ECM 1973)
Cecil Taylor – Akisakila (Vols. 1 & 2) (Konnex 1973)
Randy Weston – Tanjah (Verve 1973)
Gato Barbieri – Latino America (Chapters 1 & 2 + more) (1973/74)
Herbie Hancock – Thrust (Columbia 1974)
Bobby Jones – Hill Country Suite (Enja 1974)
Walter Norris – Drifting (Enja 1974)
Mike Osborne – Border Crossing (Ogun 1974)
Roswell Rudd – Flexible Flyer (Arista 1974)
Hal Singer & Jef Gilson – Soul of Africa (Chant du Monde/Kindred Spirits 1974)
Randy Weston – Blues to Africa (Freedom 1974)
Anthony Braxton – Five Pieces (Arista 1975)
Von Freeman – Serenade and Blues (Nessa 1975)
Von Freeman – Have No Fear (Nessa 1975)
Evan Parker – Saxophone Solos (Incus/Chronoscope 1975)
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (Pablo 1975)
Eberhard Weber – Yellow Fields (ECM 1975)
Derek Bailey – Domestic & Public Pieces (Emanem 1975-77)
Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Dortmund) 1976 (Hat)
Warne Marsh – All Music (Nessa 1976)
Roscoe Mitchell – Nonaah (Nessa 1976)
Jaco Pastorius – Jaco (Epic 1976)
Charles Tyler – Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa 1976)
Air – Air Time (Nessa 1977)
Carla Bley – European Tour 1977 (Watt)
Joe McPhee – Tenor & Fallen Angels (Hat 1977)
Harry Miller – Family Affair (Ogun 1977)
Art Pepper – The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (Contemporary 1977)
Rhoda Scott & Kenny Clarke (Barclay 1977)
Revolutionary Ensemble (Enja 1977)
Sam Rivers – Paragon (Fluid 1977)
Johnny Dyani – Song for Biko (Steeplechase 1978)
Woody Shaw – Stepping Stones (Columbia 1978 – LP + CD or the recent albums set to have all of it!)
Cecil Taylor – One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (Hat 1978)
The Audience with Betty Carter (BetCar/Verve 1979)
Andrew Cyrille / Jimmy Lyons / Jeanne Lee – Nuba (Black Saint 1979)
Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) – African Marketplace (Elektra 1979)
Steve Lacy – N.Y. Capers & Quirks (Hat 1979)
George Lewis – Homage to Charles Parker (Black Saint 1979)
Manfred Schoof – Horizons (Japo 1979)


:: 80s ::

Julius Hemphill – Flat Out Jump Suite (Black Saint 1980)
Joe Malinga – Tears for the Children of Soweto (Canova 1980)
Dewey Redman & Ed Blackell – Red & Black (Black Saint 1980)
Bengt Berger – Bitter Funeral Beer (ECM 1981)
Giorgio Gaslini – Plays Monk (Soul Note 1981)
Martial Solal Big Band (Gaumont Musique/Verve 1981)
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy – Live at Dreher Paris 1981 (Hat)
Keith Tippett – Mujician I & II (FMP/SAJ, 1981/86)
Billy Bang & Denis Charles – Bangception: Willisau 1982 (Hat Records)
Bennie Wallace – Big Jim’s Tango (Enja 1982)
Henry Threadgill – Just The Facts and Pass The Bucket (About Time 1983)
Vienna Art Orchestra – The Minimalism of Erik Satie (Hat 1983/84)
Chet Baker – Blues for a Reason (Steeplechase 1984)
Mike Westbrook – On Duke’s Birthday (Hat 1984)
Hannes Zerbe – Blechband (Amiga 1984)
Chet Baker & Paul Bley – Diane (Steeplechase 1985)
James Newton – African Flower (Blue Note 1985)
Steve Lacy – Morning Joy (Hat 1986)
Mal Waldron – The Seagulls of Kristiansund – Live at the Village Vanguard (Soul Note 1986)
Stan Getz – Anniversary (Verve 1987)
Stan Getz – Serenity (Verve 1987)
Carmen McRae – Carmen Sings Monk (RCA 1988)
Alexander von Schlippenbach & Sunny Murray – Smoke (FMP 1989)
John Scofield – Time On My Hands (Blue Note 1989)
Horace Tapscott – The Dark Tree (Hat 1989)


:: 90s ::

Bauer-Gumpert-Petrowsky-Sommer – Zentralquartett (Intakt 1990)
Irene Schweizer – Piano Solo Vol. 1 (Intakt 1990)
Cecil Taylor – Two T’s for a Lovely T (Codanza 1990)
Thomas Chapin – Alive (Knitting Factory 1990-96 – 8CD)
Charles Gayle – Touchin‘ on Trane (FMP 1991)
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron – People Time: The Complete Recordings (Verve 1991)
Sergey Kuryokhin – Some Combinations of Fingers and Passion (Leo 1991)
Jim Pepper – Polar Bear Stomp (Universal Austria 1991)
Paul Bley – Homage to Carla (Owl 1992)
Shirley Horn – Here’s to Life (Verve 1992)
The Hal Russell Story (ECM 1992)
Randy Weston – Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening (Verve 1992)
Hannes Wienert & Peter Niklas Wilson – Alphea (1993)
Giorgio Occhipinti – The Kaos Legend (Leo 1993/94)
Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake – The Dried Rat-Dog (Eremite 1994)
Teddy Edwards – Tango in Harlem (Verve 1994)
Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron – Commuinque (Soul Note 1994)
Koch-Schütz-Studer & El Nil Troop – Heavy Cairo traffic (Intuition 1995)
Daunik Lazro & Carlos Zingaro – Hauts Plateaux (Potlatch 1995)
Frank Lowe – Bodies & Soul (CIMP 1995)
Pino Minafra – Sudori (Victo 1995)
Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia – Radici (Egea 1995)
Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) – Yarona (Enja/Tiptoe 1996)
Urs Leimgruber, Joëlle Léandre & Fritz Hauser – No Try No Fail (Hat 1996)
Carlos Zingaro & Peggy Lee – Western Front, Vancouver 1996 (Hat)
Clusone 3 – Rara Avis (Hat 1997)
Shirley Horn – I Remember Miles (Verve 1997)
Italian Instabile Festival – Pisa, Teatro Verdi 1997 (Leo)
Stephan Oliva – Jazz ’n (e)motion (aka „Films“) Vol. 4 (BMG France 1997)
Joseph Holbrooke Trio – The Moat Recordings (Tzadik 1998)
The Lounge Lizards – Queen of All Ears (Strange & Beautiful Music, rel. 1998)
Greg Osby – Banned in New York (Blue Note 1998)
Enrico Rava & Ran Blake – Duo en noir (between the lines 1999)
Christophe Schweizer – Physique (Omnitone 1999)
Tiziano Tononi – We Did It, We Did It (Splasc(h) 1999)


:: 00s ::

Sonny Rollins – This Is What I Do (Milestone 2000)
Irene Schweizer – Chicago Piano Solo (Intakt 2000)
Cecil Taylor – The Willisau Concert (Intakt 2000)
Eric Watson – Full Metal Quartet (Owl 2000)
Gianni Gebbia – Arcana Major/Sonic Tarots Session (Rastascan 2001)
Carlo Actis Dato – Istanbul Rap (yvp 2002)
Derek Bailey – Ballads (Tzadik 2002)
Erik Friedlander – Maldoror (Brassland 2002)
Irene Schweizer & Pierre Favre – Ulrichsberg (Intakt 2003)
Atomic – The Bikini Tapes (Jazzland 2004)
Jacques Coursil – Minimal Brass (Tzadik 2004)
Richard Galliano – Ruby, My Dear (Dreyfus 2004)
Septeto Rodriguez (Roberto Juan Rodriguez) – Baila! Gitano Baila! (Tzadik ca. 2004)
Belmondo & Yusef Lateef – Influence (B Flat 2005)
Don Friedman – From A to Z (Act 2005)
David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart – Redemption: Quest Live in Europe (Hat 2005)
Paul Shapiro – It’s In the Twilight (Tzadik 2005)
Colin Vallon – Ailleurs (Hat 2006)


This is a huge list, and in many cases other albums could have made it ... and I guess it would need to be reworked, but that agagin would be a major task 

[KevinP]

[king ubu]

Of course, as I'm a huge John Zorn fanboy, his Masada band is also one of my favourites (though that's heavily derived of the influence of klezma and eastern music)

... and of course by the classic Ornette Coleman Quartet!

[Andante]

Although not what I would class as my favourite I still have my first Jazz LP a 10 inch MGM have not played it for years may give it a spin to night. it would date to about the mid 50s

   

 

[James]

Some favorite "albums" ..

Charlie Parker with Strings (1950)
Thelonious Monk plays Ellington (1955)
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1965)
Miles Davis, Live at the Plugged Nickel (1982)
Duke Ellington, The New Orleans Suite (1971)
Weather Report, Mysterious Traveller (1974)

[Brian]

Right this moment today, in the order I think of them, no revisions or second thoughts:

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Money Jungle - Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Blues and Roots - Charles Mingus & Co.
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Dizzy Gillespie at Newport '57 - with Al Grey, Wynton Kelly, etc.
The Giants of Jazz '71 - Gillespie, Stitt, Winding, Monk, McKibbon, Blakey
Free for All - Jazz Messengers (most notably Wayne Shorter)
Exclusively for My Friends - Oscar Peterson Trio(s)
The Quest - Mal Waldron, Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy, Ron Carter, etc.
Sings the Blues - Nina Simone

[king ubu]

Nice list, Brian - except I could never really warm to the Giants of Jazz ... I prefer other recordings by Dizzy, Stitt, Monk and Blakey, all of which I really enjoy. Monk was more or less through by this time I guess (at least that's what the recordings tell us, the Black Lions are his last good ones but he lived for nearly another decade), Dizzy's made so many great recordings from the mid forties to the mid/late sixties (only his 1953 band was a bit of a letdown - not too band when Don Byas was around, but he wasn't always), Stitt is a terrific saxophone player, in the early seventies he made two of his best albums for Cobblestone (later on Muse, 32jazz, and I guess bootlegged, too), but he recorded *a lot* and there's much to pick from (but also some rather tired/routine stuff). Winding I was never much of a fan, I'm afraid. Guess he's alright, just not a favourite of mine at all.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Just off the top of my head right now-- a mix of LPs and CDs:

John Coltrane - First Meditations (Impulse)
John Coltrane - The Gentle Side of John Coltrane (Impulse)
Errol Garner - Gems (Columbia)
Errol Garner - Solitaire (Mercury)
Joe Pass and Niels Hening Orsted Pedersen - Northsea Nights (Pablo)
Sun Ra - Space is The Place
Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud (Fontana)
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (Columbia)
Miles Davis/Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else (Blue Note)
Susanne Abuehl - The Gift (ECM)
Iro Haarla - Vespers (ECM)
Albert Ayler - The Impulse Story (Impulse)
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse)
Dexter Gordon - The Art of the Ballad
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (Blue Note)
Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Tokyo Adagio (Impulse)
Kamau Daaood - Lemiert Park
Coleman Hawkins Classics in Jazz (Capitol 10" LP)
Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass - Take Love Easy (Pablo)
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Billie Holiday - The Billie Holiday Songbook (Verve)
Branford Marsalis - In My Solitude
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker with Strings (Verve)
Enrico Rava - Tribe (ECM)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma (Impulse)
Shirley Horn - The Best of Shriley Horn
Tyshawn Sorey - Alloy
Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown (EmArcy)

As for Miles and Bird, these are relatively weaker recordings. Perhaps, Round About Midnight, Miles Smiles, etc. and the Dial recodings by Bird would be stronger.

[SimonNZ]

As for Miles and Bird, these are relatively weaker recordings. Perhaps, Round About Midnight, Miles Smiles, etc. and the Dial recodings by Bird would be stronger.

The thread is asking for "favorites", and these lists are more interesting when they don't resemble each other - or merely repeat the established canon.

And fwiw I wouldn't put Round About Midnight in my top 20 Miles albums. But that's just me. Also love Charlie Parker with Strings.

[king ubu]

I wouldn't exactly call "Sketches of Spain" a weaker album ... rather I'd call it a masterpiece!

[Jo498]

king ubu, if you were forced to name 20 records instead of 200, would your head explode or would you be able to boil the encyclopedia down to such a list?

[king ubu]

king ubu, if you were forced to name 20 records instead of 200, would your head explode or would you be able to boil the encyclopedia down to such a list?

Quite! 

I prefer by far being inclusive and expansive in these things (and thereby fully aware I'm not diving into all of it with the same amount of depth and verve). Yet putting together lists is fun as it makes you (re-)consider things ...

This here's not totally up to date, but a lot of time was invested into it ... not restricted to but mostly jazz ... posted here, with some follow-up discussion (in German):


1 – John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Impulse! 1965, rec. 1964)
2 – Charles Mingus – Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (Impulse! 1963)
3 – John Coltrane – Crescent (Impulse! 1964)
4 – Max Roach – We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (Candid 1960)
5 – Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid 1960)
6 – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Columbia 1959)
7 – Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (Debut 1963, rec. 1962, CD: Revenant)
8 – Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus (Prestige 1956)
9 – Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch (Blue Note 1964)
10 – Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker – Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Uptown 2005)

11 – Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Study in Brown (EmArcy 1955)
12 – Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note 1951, rec. 1949/51)
13 – Barney Wilen – Barney (RCA 1959)
14 – Andrew Hill – Judgement! (Blue Note 1964)
15 – Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances à Sophie (Pathé Marconi 1970, US: Nessa Records)
16 – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Verve 1959, rec. 1957)
17 – Thelonious Monk – Piano Solo (Swing 1954, aka Portrait of an Ermite)
18 – Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic 1959)
19 – Duke Ellington – At Fargo 1940 (Book-of-the-Month Records 1978, CD: Storyville)
20 – Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk' 1964)

21 – Cecil Taylor – Student Studies (BYG 1973, rec. 1966)
22 – Herbie Nichols – The Prophetic Herbie Nichols (Blue Note 1955)
23 – Joe Harriott – Free Form (Jazzland 1961, rec. 1960)
24 – Ornette Coleman Trio at the ,,Golden Circle" Stockholm (Blue Note 1965)
25 – Hank Mobley – Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960)
26 – Cannonball Adderley – Somethin' Else (Blue Note 1958)
27 – Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (RCA Neon 1971)
28 – Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! 1969)
29 – Archie Shepp – Mama Too Tight (Impulse! 1966)
30 – Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy (Columbia 1954)

31 – Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse! 1961)
32 – Derek Bailey – Ballads (Tzadik 2002)
33 – Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers (Blue Note 1955)
34 – Various – The Jazz Scene (Clef 1949)
35 – George Russell – Jazz in the Space Age (Decca 1960)
36 – Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note/Mosaic 2005, rec. 1957)
37 – Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D. (Mbari 1972, CD: International Phonograph)
38 – Baby Face Willette – Face to Face (Blue Note 1961)
39 – John Coltrane – Ascension (Impulse! 1966, rec. 1965)
40 – Hugh Masekela – Home Is Where The Music Is (Blue Thumb 1972)

41 – Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (Columbia 1969)
42 – Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note 1960)
43 – Gil Evans – Out of the Cool (Impulse! 1961, rec. 1960)
44 – Marion Brown Quartet (ESP-Disk' 1966, rec. 1965)
45 – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Free for All (Blue Note 1964)
46 – John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard (Impulse! 1962, rec. 1961)
47 – Kenny Dorham – ,Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (Blue Note 1958, rec. 1956)
48 – Helen Merrill & Dick Katz – The Feeling Is Mutual (Milestone 1967, rec. 1965)
49 – Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz (Riverside 1960, rec. 1959)
50 – Sly & the Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On (Epic 1971)

51 – Duke Ellington – Money Jungle (United Artists 1962)
52 – James Brown – Live at the Apollo Volume II (King 1967)
53 – Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Sing a Song of Basie (ABC-Paramount 1958, rec. 1957)
54 – Bobby Hutcherson – Stick-Up! (Blue Note 1966)
55 – Johnny Griffin – The Congregation (Blue Note 1958, rec. 1957)
56 – The Band – The Band (Capitol 1969)
57 – Barney Wilen – Moshi (Saravah 1971)
58 – Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys (Capitol 1970)
59 – Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd – School Days (Emanem 1975, rec. 1963)
60 – Clifford Jordan – In the World (Strata East 1972, rec. 1969)

61 – Lee Konitz – Motion (Verve 1961)
62 – Booker Little – Out Front (Candid 1961)
63 – Ianci Körössy – Identification (MPS 1970, rec. 1969)
64 – Jimmy Giuffre – Free Fall (Columbia 1963, rec. 1962)
65 – Larry Young – Unity (Blue Note 1966, rec. 1965)
66 – Lennie Tristano – Lennie Tristano (Atlantic 1956, rec. 1954/55)
67 – John Coltrane – Live at the Half Note: One Down, One Up (Impulse! 2005, rec. 1965)
68 – Lucky Thompson – Lucky Thompson (ABC-Paramount 1956)
69 – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Song Book (Verve 1959)
70 – Art Pepper – Intensity (Contemporary 1963, rec. 1960)

71 – Miles Davis – On the Corner (Columbia 1972)
72 – Tony Fruscella & Brew Moore – Fru 'n' Brew (Spotlite 1981, rec. 1953)
73 – Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue (Bethlehem 1958, rec. 1957)
74 – Bill Dixon – Intents and Purposes (RCA Victor 1967, CD: International Phonograph)
75 – Henry Threadgill – Just The Facts and Pass The Bucket (About Time 1983)
76 – Horace Tapscott – The Dark Tree (Hat Hut 1990, rec. 1989)
77 – Von Freeman – Serenade and Blues (Nessa 1975)
78 – John Coltrane – Live at Birdland (Impulse! 1964, rec. 1963)
79 – Roland Kirk – Rip, Rip and Panic (Limelight 1965)
80 – Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note 1957)

81 – Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde (Columbia 1966)
82 – Jimmy Lyons – The Box Set (Ayler 2003, rec. 1972-85)
83 – Yusef Lateef – Live at Pep's (Impulse! 1964)
84 – Roscoe Mitchell – Nonaah (Nessa Records 1977)
85 – Harold Land – The Fox (Hifijazz 1960, rec. 1959)
86 – Joe Malinga – Tears for the Children of Soweto (Canova 1980)
87 – Dr. John – The Sun Moon & Herbs (Atlantic 1971)
88 – Chitinous Ensemble – Chitinous (DERAM 1971, CD: Dutton Vocalion)
89 – Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton – Katanga! (Pacific Jazz 1963)
90 – Percy Mayfield Sings Percy Mayfield (RCA 1970)

91 – Warne Marsh – Ne Plus Ultra (Revelation 1970)
92 – Dexter Gordon – Our Man in Paris (Blue Note 1963)
93 – Anita O'Day Sings the Most (Verve 1957)
94 – Bob Dylan – Desire (Columbia 1976, rec. 1975)
95 – Hoagy Carmichael – Hoagy Sings Carmichael (Pacific Jazz 1957)
96 – Hal Russell – The Hal Russell Story (ECM 1993, rec. 1992)
97 – John Coltrane – Africa/Brass (Impulse! 1961)
98 – Randy Weston – Tanjah (Polydor 1973)
99 – Sidney Bechet – Martial Solal Quartet feat. Kenny Clarke (Vogue 1957)
100 – Billie Holiday – Body and Soul (Verve 1957)

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

101 – Hannes Zerbe – Blechband (Amiga 1984)
102 – Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan (EmArcy 1954)
103 – Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note 1957)
104 – Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia 1959)
105 – Miles Davis – Miles Smiles (Columbia 1967, rec. 1966)
106 – Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners (Riverside 1957, rec. 1956)
107 – Sun Ra – Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn 1959)
108 – Jimmy Smith – Groovin' at Small's Paradise (Blue Note 1957)
109 – Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil (Blue Note 1965, rec. 1964)
110 – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – At Café Bohemia (Blue Note 1954)
111 – Albert Mangelsdorff – Now Jazz Ramwong (Columbia 1964)
112 – Roswell Rudd – Flexible Flyer (Arista 1975, rec. 1974)
113 – Eric Dolphy – At the Five Spot (Prestige 1961)
114 – Andrew Hill – Point of Departure (Blue Note 1964)
115 – John Coltrane – Sun Ship (Impulse! 1971, rec. 1965)
116 – Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 1965)
117 – Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia 1965)
118 – Charles Tyler – Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa Records 1978, rec. 1976)
119 – Dizzy Gillespie – Showtime at the Spotlite, 52nd Street, New York City, June 1946 (Uptown 2008, rec. 1946)
120 – Emmylou Harris – Elite Hotel (Reprise 1975)
121 – Ellerine Harding – Ellerine (Mainstream 1972)
122 – Otis Redding – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Volt/Atco 1965)
123 – Herbie Hancock – Thrust (Columbia 1974)
124 – Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note 1962)
125 – Bob Marley – Catch a Fire (Island 1973)
126 – Miles Davis – Round About Midnight (Columbia 1956)
127 – Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake – The Newest Sound Around (RCA Victor 1962)
128 – George Russell – Ezz-thetics (Riverside 1961)
129 – Miles Davis – Milestones (Columbia 1958)
130 – Charles Mingus – Mingus in Europe (Enja 1979, rec. 1964)

131 – Art Tatum & Ben Webster – The Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet (Verve 1956)
132 – Les McCann & Eddie Harris – Swiss Movement (Atlantic 1969)
133 – Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet – The Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo 1961)
134 – Albert Ayler – Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (2004, rec. 1960-71)
135 – Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (Motown 1971)
136 – Abdullah Ibrahim – African Marketplace (Elektra 1980, rec. 1979)
137 – Aretha Franklin – Spirit in the Dark (Atlantic 1970)
138 – Tiziano Tononi – We Did It, We Did It (Splasc(H) 2000)
139 – Curtis Mayfield – Curtis (Curtom 1970)
140 – Mike Osborne – Border Crossing (Ogun 1974)

141 – Booker Ervin – The Freedom Book (Prestige 1964, rec. 1963)
142 – Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette (Bethlehem 1955, aka Lulu's Back in Town)
143 – Bob Dylan – Live 1966: The ,,Royal Albert Hall" Concert (The Bootleg Series Vol. 4) (Columbia 1998, rec. 1966)
144 – Michael Garrick – Black Marigolds (Argo 1966)
145 – Grant Green – Idle Moments (Blue Note 1963)
146 – Mal Waldron – The Seagulls of Kristiansund (Soul Note 1989, rec. 1986)
147 – Randy Newman – Good Old Boys (Warner Bros. 1974)
148 – The Band – Music from Big Pink (Capitol 1968)
149 – Oscar Brown Jr. – Sin & Soul... and Then Some (Columbia 1960)
150 – Johnny Dyani – Song for Biko (Steeplechase 1979, rec. 1978)

151 – Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (Philips 1971)
152 – Joe McPhee – Underground Railroad (CjR 1969)
153 – Stephan Oliva – jazz 'n (e)motion (Films) (BMG France 1998, rec. 1997)
154 – The Unthanks – Here's the Tender Coming (EMI/Rabble Rouser 2009)
155 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys (Fantasy 1969)
156 – Jimmy Scott – Falling In Love Is Wonderful (Tangerine 1963)
157 – Sam Cooke – Night Beat (RCA Victor 1963)
158 – Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (Columbia 1975, rec. 1974)
159 – Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at Berliner Jazztage (Muse 1977, rec. 1976)

160 – Keith Tippett – Mujician (FMP/SAJ 1982, rec. 1981)
161 – Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington (Master Jazz Recordings 1971)
162 – Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones (Island 1983)
163 – Winston ,,Mankunku" Ngozi – Yakhal' Inkomo (World Record Co. 1968)
164 – Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (Columbia 1971, rec. 1970)
165 – Big John Patton – Got a Good Thing Goin' (Blue Note 1966)
166 – Neil Ardley – A Symphony of Amaranths (EMI/Regal Zonophone 1972)
167 – Neil Young – On the Beach (Reprise 1974)
168 – Wadada Leo Smith – Creative Music – 1 (Six Solo Improvisations) (Kabell 1972, rec. 1971)
169 – Frank Sinatra – Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (Capitol 1956)

170 – Wes Montgomery – Smokin' at the Half Note (Verve 1965)
171 – Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind (Columbia 1997)
172 – Zentralquartett – Zentralquartett (Zong Zong 1990 – später: Intakt)
173 – Sam Rivers – Portrait (FMP 1997, rec. 1995)
174 – Serge Chaloff – Blue Serge (Capitol 1956)
175 – Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Karyobin (Island 1968)
176 – Robert Wyatt – The End of an Ear (CBS 1970)
177 – Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble (Zulu 1967, aka On the Beach)
178 – Ray Charles – The Great Ray Charles (Atlantic 1957, rec. 1956)
179 – Sheila Jordan – Portrait of Sheila (Blue Note 1962)
180 – René Thomas – Guitar Groove (Jazzland 1960)

181 – Jack Teagarden – Think Well of Me (Verve 1962)
182 – John Lewis – Private Concert (EmArcy 1991, rec. 1990)
183 – Terry Callier – What Color Is Love (Cadet 1972)
184 – Lucky Thompson – Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know (Candid 1997, rec. 1961)
185 – Stanley Turrentine – Up at Minton's (Blue Note 1961)
186 – Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire 1978)
187 – Luther Thomas – Funky Donkey (Creative Consciousness 1977, rec. 1973, CD: Atavistic)
188 – Shirley Scott – Queen of the Organ (Impulse! 1965, rec. 1964)
189 – Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy – Sempre Amore (Soul Note 1987, rec. 1986)
190 – Sonny Stitt – Tune Up (Cobblestone 1972)

191 – Grant Green – Nigeria (Blue Note 1980, rec. 1962)
192 – Lester Young – Pres and Teddy (Verve 1956)
193 – Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. 1968)
194 – Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat (Verve 1968, rec. 1967)
195 – Evan Parker – Saxophone Solos (Incus 1976, rec. 1975)
196 – Vienna Art Orchestra – The Minimalism of Erik Satie (Hat Hut 1984)
197 – Quincy Jones – This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount 1957, rec. 1956)
198 – Randy Weston – Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening (Gitanes/Verve 1994, rec. 1992)
199 – Sergey Kuryokhin – Some Combinations of Fingers and Passion (Leo Records 1991)
200 – Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake – The Dried Rat-Dog (Okka Disk 1995, rec. 1994)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The thread is asking for "favorites", and these lists are more interesting when they don't resemble each other - or merely repeat the established canon.

Strings, Spain Something Else, and many others on the list represent the established canon.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mine. Skip James is not jazz. Thanks.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mine. Pt.2

[Bogey]

A post of mine from 2014:


   

Well, Ellington, Monk, Hancock and Holiday did not make the cut.  Could not leave out the Armstrong box set as it may be "the one" to have imo, though I could argue with the Miles.  Picking one Coltrane cd was very difficult.  I considered Blue Train, but that does not capture much of his later sound like this two cd set.  I get his earlier sound on Kind of Blue and this cd also scratches the Bill Evans itch.  The Vol. 2 of the Brubeck set really cranks.  It always makes my top three.  The Goodman captures the swing era about as well as any single cd I have.  Had to have Getz and this is as good as it getz.