The TEN Greatest JAZZ ALBUMS | Ranked
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Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
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More jazz please!
Here's my top 10 :
1- Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
2- Coltrane : A Love Supreme
3- Don Cherry : Complete Communion
4- Jarrett : Survivors Suite
5- Monk : At Town Hall
6- Hancock : Maiden Voyage
7- Tristano : Live at Toronto 1952
8 - Tyner : Fly with the Wind
9- Braxton : Performance (Quartet) 79
10- Dolphy : Out to Lunch
HM : Silver "Song for my Father", Hill "Point of Departure", Corea "Three Quartets"
Andy, the raw emotion when describing what A Love Supreme means to YOU gave me goosebumps. If you ever wonder if you are getting it right...wonder no more cousin.
I would have a different list, but it doesn't matter. I would never be able to give such wonderful explanations. Great video.
Thank you for this video, I love your passion and how you can riff with so much knowledge on the Jazz greats. This is a very very good list of albums.
My pleasure!
Some other mentions:
"The Blues and the Abstract Truth" Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Eric Dolphy, Paul Chambers.
"Time Further Out" Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright.
"Jazz Impressions of Japan" Dave Brubeck Quartet.
"Land of Make Believe" Chuck Mangione Concert - Chuck Mangione Quartet with Esther Satterfield.
Just discovered your channel. Love your joyful , knowledgeable , compassionate approach to music ( especially jazz) and human dialogue. Thank you.
Thank you kindly!
Just great. I shared because you have fresh enthusiasm and great in depth discussion about what makes an album so revolutionary. Well done. Loved it.
I really enjoyed this Top Ten list, sir. I've been into Jazz since the mid-70's. My Dad liked to play Herb Alpert & The TJB on the weekends. I started playing trumpet in Jr. High, so of course I was a fan of Chuck Mangione and Maynard Ferguson in that time frame. Got the Jazz bug big time in High school. So you keep right on making these Jazz videos, sir!
I'm only 19 years old and i would love to hear more about jazz I'm falling in love with this genre and you are one the reasons why such a thing is happening, you talk with so much love that yours words cativate me to start this journey, yes i would love to have more jazz videos!!
Your enthusiasm makes me want to listen to all these albums again. Thanks!
Looking forward to this. I wonder where Mingus Ah Um, Kind of Blue, Somethin' Else and Blue Train will rank. I wonder if A Night in Tunisia, Waltz for Debbie or Song for my Father will get a mention.
What an assemblage of iconic albums... If they aren't on the list, they should be.
I would enjoy more videos about jazz. I listen to 50’s and 60’s Jazz more than Prog or fusion. Well, with the exception of Zappa.
I discovered you via your jazz discussions so I raise my hand for more jazz videos. I don't always agree with you but you are a very engaging speaker and you are so clearly immersed in this world. I always learn a lot from and enjoy your clips.
Just do it man, jazz is where everyone who loves music ends up. I loved this video on jazz and your favourite 10 albums. There’s great depth there and I will be up for more, for sure l!!! Thanks man.
Wonderful selections! I particularly appreciate your description of A Love Supreme and placing it where you did. It’s such a personal album for me, and your thoughts were quite moving.
A Love Supreme and Crescent: hypnotic music. You hear the echos when turning the music off. Giant Steps is more on the "athletic jazz" file.
You say on Giant Steps that three of the tracks are named for people. Actually, it’s four, the fourth being, of course, Cousin Mary.
Your videos about jazz priceless. For now your channel is my door to jazz & fusion. Please do more! Thank you.
Thank you so much. Great list with some albums I haven‘t heard.
Not a bad list. For me Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert (3 LP set) is a gold standard of a period. Fletcher Henderson is another.
Just found you and absolutely love jazz. Big Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett fan.
There is a lot of jazz here. Try my Keith Jarrett video
Top 10 most accessible jazz albums for rock fans. For example, Midnight Blue (1963) by Kenny Burrell, South Side Soul (1960) by the John Wright Trio, Lanquidity (1978) by Sun Ra.
Yes, please, more jazz! I'm learning so much from you.
Would have been surprised if Kind of Blue was not #1. Miles was a jerk however. A number of years after Kind of Blue was released, drummer Jimmy Cobb, Miles' only real friend of the musicians who played on it came upon some unreleased stuff done by that group when they were making the album.. Thinking Miles would be excited to hear the tape he went over to his place and rang his buzzer. Miles asked who it was and Cobb told him what he had for him. Davis was very unexcited and told Cobb he would buzz him in and he should leave the tape outside his door. Cobb was rightfully insulted and left. That may have been the end of their "friendship" True story-read about it in an article about Cobb .He died in 2020 at age 91
Yes, More Jazz please. Would also love your take on Jazz vocalist like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and their influence bridging jazz and pop music!
I loved the description of Paul Gonzales - Ellington and the near rioting of the Newport crowd. Inspired!
I only put that album on this list so I could tell that story
Just a great countdown. Full of insights and examples of the very history, innovation and spirituality of jazz. Good stuff!
Allan Holdsworth said transcribing Charlie Christian didn't get him anywhere. When Allan wondered what Charlie Christian was thinking when he solo'd, then he got somewhere. I love that quote. Too bad that we live in a musical world where everyone thinks success is defined by copying what others have done. This mindset of Allan must be preserved and preached about.
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Yes I agree but it’s important to learn transcriptions and theory etc when you’re learning but ultimately you have to forget all that and relax into the feeling and melody and trust your muscle memory to execute what you’re thinking, like talking.
As Bird was quoted saying - You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
His point was you have to get good enough on your instrument that you can forget mechanics and use your emotions.
How do you learn how he’s thinking without transcribing or doing the theory work in your mind
@@nomnomnommy2955 you can do a lot of that from just listening. But point taken
Definitely do more jazz videos. I'll watch!
I would add Armstrong at Town Hall, 1947(?) with Big Sid Catlett performing one of the finest drum solos ever recorded.
As great as Kind of Blue is, I dig Milestones right along with it.
Now that is funny. I've got absolutely no knowledge about jazz and who is who and what they can or could do, but as I watch through your list, felt a bell ringing, and I have several out of those 10 suggested albums ;) I just bought what I like when listening to a bit of them in a record shop.
Anyway, good music. Well done.
Kind regards.
i am exploring jazz indeed, starting listening to this music not so long ago. Which is not easy, sometimes you find music you really not like but other times I discover music in jazz that i really really like. Thanks for this list, I knew a little bit of it, but it helps me discovering Jazz. Thanks also for the info around these albums.
Incredible information! Much appreciated!
Kind of Blue is a great album to introduce someone to jazz!
Awesome video Andy -- makes me want to go get a bunch of albums out that I haven't listened to in a while
Bill Evans, Kenny Burrell and those with Miles at One Night at Blue Note way back in '85! Stanley and the Jazz Messengers, Billy Preston etc.. Oh my! Hope you can do it. Many thanks. ALAN
10. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane 1957
9. Time Out The David Brubeck Qt 1959
8. Piano Starts Here Art Tatum 1968 (1933)
7. Giant Steps John Coltrane 1959
6. The Shape of Jazz to Come Garnett Coleman 1959
5. Ellington at Newport 1956
4. The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes Charlie Parker
3. The Best of Lou Armstrong
2. A Love Supreme John Coltrane 1964
1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis 1959
It is Ornette Coleman
You must know that there's entire Carnegie Hall album from Monk and Coltrane, don't you??
Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert should be in the top 5.
The Sidewinder Lee Morgan 1964
Song ForMy Father Horace Silver 1965
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1966
@@choward5430thank you for including Lee Morgan people overlook him a lot he’s TOP 10 best jazz artist in my book
Thank you for the Album reference and why we called them Albums.
Hey Andy thanks for this mate, that was very nice thank you for your effort, it was a great video and very coherent, and yes please do more jazz 👍☺️🙏❤️
I just watched and subscribed. I love your depth of knowledge how you share your love and understanding of music. I also would encourage you to do more on jazz. There are two on this list that I don’t have, but will shortly. I am going to watch all of your jazz videos now. And maybe a few rock as well. Thank you. 🎉
Your number ten personal is probably my number 1. Brilliant choice. Love Brilliant corners too, but yeah Monk and Trane.
Great take. Love the insights and your opinions.
Monk and Coltrane is one of my favorite albums, as a sax player it is a must have! Coltrane is a saint in some circles, for real! BTW my fave cut on Steps is Naima. And yes i have half the albums on this list!
... also Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um could have a say at being there!
100%!
A great list and commentary
Jazz allways a favourite of mine,remember the wine bar I would go in the 80s was my personal time away from the usual. ❤
There seems to be an obsession with the same old jazzers. America's only real 'artistic contribution to the world was jazz. The list here contains the same old albums that so many showcase so it would be nice if there was some originality. The impetus was created by the Big Bands which are always ignored these days. The excitement and dynamics of say an 18 piece band is so much more entertaining, at least to my ears, than the little jazz groups which, by definition cannot have the same power or dynamisms. So a shout out for the great band leaders like Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Ted Heath, Maynard Ferguson, Basie etc etc. At least Due Ellington was showcased here but it is always that same Newport album that people pick.
Ellington -" Blues In Orbit " 1959
Very nice list, and especially applaud including Thelonius Monk, who’s my 2nd favorite Jazz musician after Miles Davis, although I would have picked the Thelonius Monk Trio album on Prestige instead. Of course it’s very difficult picking 10 albums, but besides Sunday at Village Vanguard, I’d want to include the Getz/Gilberto album, which is timeless music. It’s also very cool that Girl From Ipanema starts out with Take The A Train chord changes.
Its an impossible list but thank you for the history. You left out the 70’s where jazz evolved into many different expressions. Only to mention Heavy Weather and Birds of Fire should be in any list.
Here's a vote for more jazz Andy! So much more to cover and your informed analysis is "music" to my ear.
Here is my personal list of top ten jazz albums (not ranked):
Money Jungle by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Mingus at Monterey by Charles Mingus
The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Jazz at Massey Hall by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Max Roach
Ole by John Coltrane
Live at the Village Vanguard by John Coltrane
Time Out by Dave Bruebeck
The Girl from Ipanema by Stan Getz and Antônio Carlos Jobim
Reserved
Find sunday at the village vanguard much more relevant and fresh approach than time out imo. Bright size life should have made the list fmo, this list is way to turned into the golden era of the 50s. And probably the Köln concert with Keith Jarrett should be included. Skip giant steps for starters, no reason to represent coltrane three times when the result is to ignore the last 70 years of jazz music.
Even though it's a personal list, all the albums are selected for cultural and historical significance and their influences and you are very articulate in explaining your selections. Some of it seem like textbook classics to the more experienced jazz listeners but they're unavoidably essential. If you renamed it as the 10 most influential jazz albums, no one would blink an eye. I often struggle with the conflicting ideas of should I pick the "greatest" or simply my favorites as they don't always converged.
My baker's dozen in no particular order:
The Willisau Concert - Cecil Taylor
A Love Supreme - Coltrane
The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
Black Saint & Sinner Lady - Charlie Mingus
Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann
Pakistani Pomade - Schlippenbach Trio
Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Jimmy Giuffre
Complete Savoy/Dial Recordings - Charlie Parker
Complete Hot 5/Hot 7 - Louis Armstrong
Complete Candid Recordings - Cecil Taylor
Complete Miles & Coltrane Columbia Recordings - Miles Davis
Your channel is way better than Rick Beato!
Some excellent choices there, HP. Jimmy Giuffre's 'Thesis', 'Fusion' and 'Free Fall' are among my jazz favourites.
Wow! The Jimmy Giuffre 3 are so extremely underrated, glad to see them mentioned in your list, would be in mine, too.
"The Complete Ellington Indigos" is a exquisite and most beautiful album which came out in 1957 ... Due listen to it !
I'd love to hear you talking more about jazz. If you record them the people will come.
So Jazz can't include vocals? I think you need to relabel this as the Ten Greatest Jazz Instrumental albums. Or Ten Greatest Bebop Albums.
Art Tatum, Louis and Kind of Blue are not BeBop albums, the Louis album is vocal however....so I won't be relabelling anything
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I love all those albums as well. Maybe you could give us a list of 10 best Jazz vocal albums. Mingus Ah Um is one that I would have in that top ten.
Jazz doesn't make me spite top 10s as much as prog does.... And I do want you to talk more about jazz. There are several genres I really want to bring onto this channel. It's not just jazz.
More jazz always! Why not do an episode on 'Out to Lunch', what an astonishing album.
...and its companion album, POINT OF DEPARTURE (Andrew Hill). Same time frame, pretty much the same personnel.
I bought Out To Lunch when I was in law school. I didn't know much about jazz. I had listened to Kind of Blue and maybe some Headhunters? And I had no money. Every month, I would stiff some creditor. Like this month, the rent doesn't get paid, next month the phone, next month, the electricity, etc. So spending $8 on an album was irresponsible to the extreme. I get home, put it on and thought, "What is this shit? It sounds like a bad cartoon soundtrack." I was so upset that I wasted my money that I decided to force myself to listen to it over and over as punishment for my irresponsibility and to at least get my money's worth. On maybe the 8th time thru the album, I literally had this singular moment. It was just........Oh!......I get it! And it suddenly became beautiful. It was a very weird experience.
Nice story Stephen, Out to Lunch is musical magic.
@@stephenbellotti2036 The first jazz album I bought was Giant Steps. My first listen to it, I didn't like it at all. I put it aside and got on with my jazz music classes for a few months, and on a whim put it on again, and it had transformed in the interim from being the epitome of jazz I didn't like to literally the best music I'd ever heard! Ever since, I've been wary of my opinion of art I'm unfamiliar with.
@@robertcartwright4374 That's probably a good call. In my case, I don't think I suddenly appreciated it as art, but I suddenly understood it as music. Maybe that's the same thing? I mean, I am ok with music that makes demands on the listener. But only if it ultimately works on a music-level. (This might be completely subjective but I"m trying to make what I think is an objective point). If music only works on an intellectual level, it isn't enough for me. There is a lot of hip hop which I think is very clever lyrically. But I don't think of it as good music. There is some other modern music that uses sounds of everyday life and puts them together in interesting thoughtful ways, but again, doesn't work in the body. i feel the same way about other arts too. It can't just be "Aha, because I read this book, that music/painting/poetry, etc now makes sense!" The book can add a level but idk.....am i making sense?
10 Thelonius Monk: With John Coltrane (Jazzland, 1961)
9 Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia, 1959))
8 Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here (Columbia, 1968; recorded 1933-1949)
7 John Colttrane: Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960)
6 Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic, 1959)
5 Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: Ellington At Newport (Columbia, 1956)
4 Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy And Dial Master Takes (Savoy Jazz, 2002; recorded 1944-1948)
3 Louis Armstrong: The Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings (Columbia, 2002; recorded 1926-1929)
2 John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965)
1 Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959)
Thanks...creator should have done this.
Thank you!!
Sonny Rollins - Blue Note Vol.2 - The Best Live Studio Recording in Jazz
A good list and well thought out. I'd have put Louis on top, but, as you say, the Hot 5s and 7s were not recorded as an album , as we now understand the concept. I have a 'real album' version of some of those recordings which is like a stamp album or book containing 4 x 78s, which include West End Blues. It is called 'Louis and Earl'. Similarly as regards Duke, while Newport 56 was recorded as what we now call an album, to my mind, the finest of Duke's work was put out on 78s between 1940 and 1942 by Victor/Bluebird. Almost every one of those recordings is a miniature 3 minute masterpiece and that music was very influential e.g. Cottontail. I'm glad you have also mentioned Art Tatum's work from the 1930s and Parker's from the 1940s.
However, the main issue I have about this and other lists is that to summarise the pinnacle of jazz as albums issued on Prestige, Riverside, Blue Note, Atlantic , Impulse and Columbia between 1955 and 1965, with an apogee in 1959, does a disservice to all of the jazz that has been recorded between 1917 and 2023. This approach is also replicated in the re-issue programs of the companies issuing so-called audiophile vinyl LPs and I see a lot of online discussions which ignore a huge body of great jazz recordings outside of that ten year period.
I'm happy to see Louis, Duke, Bird and Art here, but what would others put in to represent all of the great jazz which has appeared between Love Supreme and the present? Is there anything fit to join the list or was it all done by the mid-1960s?
You did a video series about the history/impact of jazz and that’s how I got into your channel. Please do more.
Maybe do "10 Greatest Jazz Composers"?
People criticize TIME OUT saying that it's too structured -- aka "chamber jazz." But it really is a great groundbreaking album with amazing playing. "The Shape of Jazz To Come" legitimized "free" jazz. (Produced by Milt Jackson) . But in retrospection, it still has a bullshit element to it. As sacrilegious as it might sound, I think " Kind of Blue" is a bit overrated. There are about 10 MIles albums that I think are better. Now, "A Love Supreme" is in a league of its own.
5:20 Great choice -- I'm sure you're aware of the Carnegie Hall concert recording -- my personal fave recording of these two giants
found it catching the way you connected those 10 pieces with stories around them, the background and the influences which went so far, there is a few people know their way around jazz, and even more who know a lot about rock or prog-rock, etc, but your combined knowledge and the way you tie those fields together has impressed me so much, great enjoyment, THANKS!
I made it to the end! Please talk more about jazz! Do Eric Dolphy, or Bill Evans, or Charlie Christian. Maybe Ahmad Jamal, or Gene Harris, or Wynton Marsalis. More jazz!
Coming from a Prog Fan and Led Zeppelin Fan: More Jazz!!!! Why? well because the way you put forward how Kind of Blue informed Funk and Riffing. How the shapes of jazz came at changing music from the outside in, as giant steps tried to do it inside out... and much much more. I think you should do a series aiming to put Jazz in perspective within Prog, fusion, heavy metal, funk, hip hop, pop... It cannot be that The Allman brothers who created a whole genre of southern rock, talked more about Coltrane than they did about Elvis, for no reason. It cannot be that the great lineage of Hip Hop that is now the peak of pop, is somehow not clearly and deeply connected to Charlie Parker and Monk..... Do more Jazz, but do it with context of 1970s and beyond music forms, and do it outside in just like Ornette did it. meaning take one modern artist or modern genre or a 1970s artist/genre and make them the center of the video, and link them back to the Jazz
Bill Evans' contributions to jazz is definitely something worth spending time on I think. Another jazz giant.
Bill evans yes.
Of course Bill Evans was great. But when doing videos like that, the idea is to imagine the world without this artist. Can you imagine the music world without Loius? Duke?Parker? Coltrane? Miles? Tatum? Monk? Brubeck? Coleman? I also think This list should have included Mingus, Django, Blakey, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and Jobim which had top notch albums and could have gone as the next best top 10 albums.
Then there are the amazing musicians who were just as great but made slightly less impact like Evans, Getz, Chet Baker, Peterson, Dolphy, Les Paul, Adderley, Morgan and god, there are so many great ones.
@@kzustang those are all great and yes I agree with you but personally I would have learned more into the thirties and less fifties.
Bill Evans actually is represented as a musician - he played the piano on ‚Kind of Blue‘ which is on the list.
Bill is probably my favorite musician of all time
With the exception of the Ornette record, these are mainstream/predictable choices.
Yes more Jazz videos!
Great analysis of some truly great albums. I think A Love Supreme would be my number 1 and could just be the greatest record ever made of any sort at all. Whenever I play it time seems to fly by and I never tire of it. I would like to have all of it played at my funeral, along with In My Time of Dying by Led Zeppelin which in my opinion features the best pure rock drumming ever recorded
Thank you for including Ellington at Newport! An extremely important jazz record!
Sunday at the Village Vanguard needs to be on the list - in your own words, the greatest jazz piano trio and their greatest album , along with Waltz for Debby. But great choices and really great descriptions and explanations/justifications. Love it 😊
Monk was playing Bebop in the early 40's. Everyone thought he was nuts. Wasnt until over a decade later that others caught on. He took in Coltrane in 56 and in 57 they put the 5 Spot on the map. So, Monk with Trane is just as important as Kind of Blue.
Phillip Narte ...'Trane joined Monk in 1957, after he kicked his habit with heroin. 'Trane was in Miles' group in 1956.
I would argue Tatum created all of it in the early 30s. You can hear Monk, Parker, Miles even Coltrane in Tatum's solos. But the reason Andy put Kind of Blue at the top is as much because of what it does musically as its popularity, which is an undeniable part of "greatest" or "influential".
No need to apologize for Take Five. Great!
Great list, personally I'd put Ellington & Coltrane's album somewhere in the mix. It's the combination of these two musical geniuses that shows the way forward whilst celebrating the past.
And let's not forget Errol Garner's 1958 "Concert by the Sea". In many polls, it's a tossup between that and "Kind of Blue" as #1.
Erroll's Concert By the Sea is the most accessible recording for non-jazz listeners and the biggest selling album of ANY jazz albums to this day. Also, any of Oscar Peterson 's recordings deserve recognition on top 10 lists. But then I love pianists.
No it's not. " Kind Of Blue" is the biggest selling Jazz album.
@@remiadewusi4307 we're both wrong. The best selling "jazz" album is "Come vAway With Me' by NoraJones (If you can call it jazz). 12x platinum. It was recorded on Blue Note backed by jazz musicians so I assume it's jazz-light. Sad to say it's tied with that god-awful Kenny G. at 12x platinum.
Love that Eric Dolphy album, out to lunch.
Brilliant
To appease the commenters whose panties are twisted, your next video should be “The 100 Most Underrated Jazz Albums.”
Did you forget about Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones"? Brubeck could well have heard that before Take 5
While Ellington at Newport is important in jazz history, it's not a good representation of Ellington - the Blanton/Webster band or a career-spanning "hits" would be better (if you can do the complete Savoy/Dial for Bird, why not the big RCA box?)
Mingus Ah Um should have been included
But, hey, this was a quite enjoyable listen and you offer many insights into what's going on in the music - great job!
Thank you...George Russell was the guy that brought modality into jazz, it was in the air at that time. I chose the Ellington record because of the story, but you are right, the really important stuff is in the 30s.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer george among the greatest !
A very very difficult task you've taken on. I couldn't even attempt it..too many incredible and important lps .
There is another reviewer on here, TH-cam. Cannot remember his name. Has a decent following. Spotlights nothing but Jazz. Loves Miles Davis, but gets downright dismissive and vitriolic, and one could say arrogant when you mention Kind of Blue as #1 in your ranking, and for that matter anyone else that ranks it #1.
Cannot say I agree with your top ten. If I was forced to do a top ten if would be very hard. I do not even know if I could do so. I was more interested to see if I had all the albums mentioned in your list. Had all except the Art Tatum album.
Thanks Andy,
Don't know how I came upon this anthology and therefore your channel but you've filled a giant hole in my musical knowledge and I'm very grateful for that.
Took a few sessions to get up the mountain but the view is fabulous, I'll listen to it all.
I think the greatest gift is that, thanks to the path to the summit you've illuminated, I'll run each album complete and stay the course rather than dip and dive, skipping over the difficult bits.
Liked and subscribed - 'cause I want more Jazz content please!
Great job!. I, however, see it more as a list of albums that have had the greatest IMPACT on the development of jazz. For me, 'greatest' means the albums we are most likely to listen to many times. And this is really subjective.
Thanks for this great list, and count me amongst your viewers who would welcome more jazz posts! Although prog is a genre I enjoy very much, and there's certainly great diversity amongst its practitioners, it's a pretty limited area of music when compared to jazz. I suspect it might not be long before you run up against difficulty coming up with new things to discuss in the progosphere. On the other hand, the world of jazz, from Armstrong to Braxton, is so vast, and filled with just as much impassioned debate as to what does or does not merit inclusion under its banner, that it could keep anybody going for a lifetime.
Greetings Andy -- very interesting list -- we all have our own greatest lists -- yours is fine. An interesting show would be on the early jazz of Sun Ra.
The next best top 10 albums could include Mingus, Django, Blakey, Bud Powell, Roach, Dexter Gordon, Gillespie, Wes, Jobim and I'll let you choose the 10th....LOL
It's also hard to rank Jazz albums before the LP era. Still, an interesting video, I'm sure. Andy's videos are always filled with really great insights and insightful anekdotes.
Yes. I actually don't like it when people put things like The Complete Charlie Parker On Dial, or whatever, on lists like this. That's not an album, to me. Albums start with 10-inch 33s, and quickly get into proper albums with 12-inch LPs, and they don't include compilations. But I'm sure Andy will work it all out to everyone's satisfaction. And I'm sure he'll have Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk at the top, obviously, because who wouldn't, it's the greatest.
However, including Art Tatum is absolutely excellent, which goes against my little rule. Trying to embrace all of jazz history necessarily means including compilations, even posthumous ones. If it means including Art Tatum where a lot of people would miss him, hard to argue.
Defo gonna keep Square and Loopy as drums descriptors.
sinatra and basie at the sands would my in my top 10, sinatra at his very best, basie and his big band are on fire. imagine paying less than $5 and seeing this at the sands in the early 60s and getting a meal as well😳
Far and away, the best of these 'Top Ten Jazz' videos I've seen. This guy really knows what he's talking about. This is a great starting place for anyone new to jazz and a very succinct education on its key artists and contributors. I have a hard time quibbling with any of his selections. You would not be wrong in going out and buying all of these.
I must be a bigger jazzer than I realized. I own 6 of these & the other 4 - by Monk, Tatum, Parker & Ellington - I'm now eager to listen to. Thanks for the education, Andy.
Dizzy's stunt double! lovin' the goatee!
Now if only someone did funk - R&B - soul top 10 list of this quality
For be-bop small combo: The Giants (Peterson, Pass and Brown) - for me, anyway.
Interesting that so many great jazz albums came out in 1959. Another music reviewer argues that 1971 was the greatest ever year for rock albums, songs included Stairway to Heaven, Imagine. But what do 1959 and 1971 have in common?
In both years Jupiter was in its home sign of Sagittarius, the sign most famous for "pushing boundaries".
Just watched this video Andy. I'd love to see you do more Jazz content. I'm originally from Walsall but I've been living in Australia for the past 42 years. I visited my Mom in Aldridge, West Midlands for her 100th Birthday in February. I'm a massive Jazz Rock & Prog Rock fan and also Heavy Rock. But I grew up in the 60's listening to my Dad's Jazz & Classical records and my older sisters Motown & Beatles 45's. Because I was a teenager in the 70's I had the great fortune to see many of the great Jazz Rock, Prog Rock and Heavy Rock bands play live. Unfortunately, I missed out on seeing Hendrix and Cream play live because I was a bit too young (born in 1958). Anyway, I love your videos and yes, please cover more Jazz, I have an extensive collection of Jazz music. PS The Clee Hills and Ludlow were brilliant in the snow on my recent trip back home. And the drive back through Cleobury Mortimer to Bridgenorth from a trip to Wales brought back a lot of memories of my youth.
All the best and keep up the good work.
Regards,
John Scarratt
This is thoughtfully considered as always. I think the 1960s might be under-represented. Also I'd have zero second thoughts about leaving Brubeck off in favor of some of the ones you mentioned, like Out to Lunch, Sunday at the VV or Mingus Ah Um, all of which triumph over Time Out in every way possible except mainstream cultural impact. Idea for a future video: "The 10 greatest jazz albums that aren't on anyone's list of 10 greatest jazz albums", which would be a good way to go deeper than just arranging the usual suspects.
Love your insight on all of these great albums and musicians. I would of had to include something by Wayne Shorter!
Giant steps, love it
Now as a misicologist I am fascinated that you chose Charley instead of Django. Don't get me wrong, I love Mister Christian's work. As a melodicist Django blows my head off. TWO FINGERS. See kids, some people weren't blessed with all of the body parts...Django's sound blows my head off, not his fingers.
I’m just getting into Jazz and I love hearing you talk about it. I feel your passion. I’m a rocker at heart but I’m finding jazz be quite interesting