1. Dizzy Gillespie
2. Sonny Rollins
3. Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Joe Pass
Errol Garner
Ask me tomorrow, and you'll probably get a different three 8)
Cecil Taylor
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
(Honorable mention to Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, and William Parker).
Andrew Hill
Wayne Shorter
Sun Ra
Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 25, 2015, 12:33:08 PM
Ask me tomorrow, and you'll probably get a different three 8)
This!
and maybe these:
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus
The Jazz Messengers
1.) Bill Evans
2.) Miles Davis
3.) Wes Montgomery
In on particular order:
Bill Evans
Miles Davis
Clifford Brown
Quote from: Brian on May 25, 2015, 12:39:57 PM
The Jazz Messengers
I don't think this counts does it? The Jazz Messengers were a band and not an individual artist. I'll accept Blakey here instead. :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 25, 2015, 01:12:42 PM
I don't think this counts does it? The Jazz Messengers were a band and not an individual artist. I'll accept Blakey here instead. :)
I'd say they count as an "artist" just as much as, say, the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Emerson Quartet ;)
Chet Baker
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Dave Brubeck
and
Julie London
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/feb2015/JLondonNumberPlease.jpg)
Sarge
Ahmad Jamal
Charles Mingus
Stockton Helbing
Quote from: escher on May 25, 2015, 12:36:43 PM
Andrew Hill
Wayne Shorter
Sun Ra
Good choices although not my top three - would be top ten.
TD
Miles
Monk
Coltrane
Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman. As a concept, Keith Jarrett.
Quote from: Ken B on May 26, 2015, 02:12:43 PM
As a concept, Keith Jarrett.
what does it mean?
I admire Jarrett's branching out into classical. I like some of his stuff a lot. The Köln concert in particular. I'd like on that basis to claim him as a favourite. I'm not convinced I can. He often disappoints. But as a concept Keith Jarrett is A number one stuff.
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Quote from: Ken B on May 26, 2015, 02:41:11 PM
I admire Jarrett's branching out into classical. I like some of his stuff a lot. The Köln concert in particular. I'd like on that basis to claim him as a favourite. I'm not convinced I can. He often disappoints. But as a concept Keith Jarrett is A number one stuff.
The concept of this album makes it, for me, a desert island disc. Have you heard it, Ken?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61vq8BeCpzL._SX425_.jpg)
Quote from: NJ Joe on May 26, 2015, 03:49:19 PM
The concept of this album makes it, for me, a desert island disc. Have you heard it, Ken?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61vq8BeCpzL._SX425_.jpg)
No, but I will seek it out. Thanks.
Jarrett's American Quartet (Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian) is excellent. The music they made in the '70s is the best stuff he has done, IMO. The Trio recordings are good, the Live at the Blue Note is probably my favorite document of this band. The European Quartet is also good. But, the American group is something else.
He can play.
If you like the concept but not the execution of Keith Jarrett, I would highly recommend Horace Tapscott. I do like Keith Jarret as a person and I like his ideas, but honestly much of his output bores me--I think there is about five minutes of good music on The Köln Concert
. I highly recommend the eight volume Tapscott Sessions on Nimbus.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-tapscott-sessions--volumes-1-8-by-frank-rubolino.php
(http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-tapscott-sessions--volumes-1-8-by-frank-rubolino.php)
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 25, 2015, 05:52:49 PM
Chet Baker
Charlie "Bird" Parker
Dave Brubeck
and
Julie London
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/feb2015/JLondonNumberPlease.jpg)
Trivia. Her second husband was the goofy looking doctor Dr Early on the show with her. He wrote
Route 66!
I bet you're a Schwarzkopf fan too!
Quote from: James on May 26, 2015, 07:19:20 PM
Jazz is so hit & miss with me, but I like a bit from all the eras and major artists I'm sure .. for this exercise, I'd probably pick Miles above all, his output has a nice diversity on all fronts and wasn't locked into any one stylistic cliché for too long, it's like a condensed history of jazz. Wide conception. Electric jazz was really happening for me, groups like Mahavishnu Orchestra & Weather Report (esp. Jaco Era) were very creative, pretty consistent too. Being a guitar noodler myself .. I really got an added kick out of guys like John McLaughlin, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Scott Henderson & others.
Check out the oeuvre of Elliott Sharp, James. Essential. Great guitarist.
The "usual suspects" above are also among my favorites, but here are some names that haven't been mentioned yet:
Count Basie. Master of minimal (not minimalist!) keyboard playing.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Experimentor on the level of Miles or Sun Ra.
Chick Corea. 'Nuff said. ;D
Louis Armstrong (early work, as in my recent posts on that thread)
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis