What are some of your favorite Jazz albums?

[WI_DEM]

I would say my top three are (in no order)

"Kind of Blue" (Miles Davis)
"The Ultimate Blue Train" (John Coltrane)
"The '56 Seattle Concert" (Duke Ellington)

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Pharoah Sanders "Tauhid"

Charles Mingus "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady"
Sun Ra "Space Is the Place"
John Coltrane "Live in Japan" and "A Love Supreme"
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet "Free Jazz"

[charlyvi]

11. Louis Armstrong

Hot Fives and Sevens.

Edit: I meant this to answer the original post. Oops.

[sundog]

2. Jobim - "Wave"

[progmom]

12. very nice!

:hi:

[sundog]

13. hehe... you know where my head's at

:7

[progmom]

3. off the top of my head

all of yours, plus:
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles - Miles Ahead
CLifford Brown & Max Roach - Alone Together
Ellington & Mahalia Jackson - Black Brown & Beige
Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Basie - Complete Decca Recordings
Basie - APril In Paris
Dexter Gordon - Go
Art Blakey - Moanin
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Max Roach - Bittersweet
Charlie Parker - Dial Sessions
Charlie Parker - Bird's Best Bop On Verve
Ornette COleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
Don Cherry - Art Deco
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin Else
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds


more in a bit - gotta get the kid to bed...

[Zuni]

9. ooooh---Julian "Cannonball" Adderly

one of my all time favorite jazz artists.

[democracyindanger]

4. Thelonious Monk, Live at the It Club

Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
Charlie Parker, "Bird" Soundtrack - what's cool about this is that they stripped original Bird recordings down to just him, then laid down tracks with modern musicians around him. Blasphemous, I suppose, but still a great album

[progmom]

5. crap - yes! Live At the It Club!!!

Charlie Rouse - Unsung Hero
Ike Quebec - It Might As Well Be Spring
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
James Moody - Moody's Mood For The Blues
Eddie Jefferson - The Jazz Singer
John Coltrane & Duke Ellington
Coltrane - Impressions
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought

more later...

[democracyindanger]

8. Damn, mom, you rock.

[progmom]

19. thanks!

:bounce:

[RetroLounge]

6. Anything by Del Paxton

RL

[Blue-Jay]

7. Cannonball Adderley w/ Nancy Wilson

Get it. Listen to it. Love it.

[Zuni]

10. would you consider "Bitches Brew" jazz or fusion?

because that album smokes...

[Blue-Jay]

14. Bitches Brew is jazz.

[Zuni]

17. whatever it is, it is some of the baddest shit I have ever heard

[mtnsnake]

15. I'm not a big jazz fan, but Ramsey Lewis would be my pick

I forget the name of the album, though.

[progmom]

16. The In Crowd?

[mtnsnake]

18. Yeah, The In Crowd was one of them, but there were a couple others

to. My oldest sister used to listen to The Ramsey Lewis Trio all the time and I got to liking their sound.

[saltpoint]

20. Some great choices in this thread. Can I throw in --

-- SKETCHES OF SPAIN by Miles Davis and maybe a handful of Paul Desmond recordings, and also Duke Ellington's Paris concerts.

[6000eliot]

21. "Time Out" by Dave Brubeck

[Demit]

22. That is a VERY nice album.

For when I'm taking a time out from Thelonius Monk. Also gotta throw in a vote for anything by Ahmad Jamal here. His "Poinciana" is beautiful.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. Here's some of mine:

Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)
Moanin' (Art Blakey)
Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith)
Somethin' Else (Cannonball Adderley)
Root Down (Jimmy Smith)
Headhunters (Herbie Hancock)

[retread]

24. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane

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