10 JAZZ ALBUMS (to listen to before you die!)
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Let me know your 10 jazz albums to listen to before you die!
One album I can think of - rather than top ten - is “Blue Train”. Thanks for your vlog again and hope you are well.
I'm new to the genre, as far as starting a Jazz album collection is concerned. Great video really informative.
search youtube 1957 JATP Concertgebouw - Oscar Peterson (p), Ray Brown (b), Joe 'Papa' Jones (d), Herb Ellis (g), Roy Eldridge (t), Stuff Smith (v), Don Abney (p), Ella Fitzgerald.
Best sound quality, smokin hot performances by everyone, in 3 sets.
Also, there's a Kenny Drew, NHoP and Alvin Queen, live in Taunton of all places.
Quite the best I've seen in a long time.
Sorry, but no sax.
Nice selection but I'd like to see your longer list off this beaten track please. Your choice is quite right but well known. Nothing wrong with that btw.
My top 10 in no order:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Birth of The Cool
Dexter Gordon - Go
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!
Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
I’m not sure about Ellignton at Newport. The paul gonsalvez solo is great but the rest of the performances are just ok. I mean is it really better than Masterpieces by Ellington, three suites, and his mother called him bill, such sweet thunder, the count meets Duke etc?
Kind of Blue is regularly mentioned as THE Miles Davis recording, and it is iconic, but my favorite Miles record is "Sketches of Spain", which is a spectacular jazz symphony. It brilliantly recreates that whole Ernest Hemingway, smoky bar in Madrid vibe. I'm also a big fan of the Jazzland recording "Theloneus Monk with John Coltrane", Art Blakey's "Moanin" mentioned below and for fusion, Pat Metheny's recording "Offramp".
I just listened to Sketches of Spain after I read your comment, the album is on YT. It's so good! I have it in my Amazon cart right now to buy on payday thanks to you. 😄
I love the mix of symphonic elements and jazz elements mixed. I'm new to Jazz and classical but have always loved when elements are mixed in more mainstream music I like, Mars Volta or Poe for instance.
I second this comment.
I love Miles Davis albums. Be they on Vinyl(40 plus) or CD’s (60+). Sketches of Spain is a very beautiful album. I think a lot of praise for that album must be with Gil Evans who was a superb arranger/Orchestrator. His partnership with Miles was fantastic. To me THE Dynamic Duo.
Love Charlie Parker, but string arrangements for jazz are just so syrupy & sickly sweet. So many other Bird albums to choose fro
So glad you included Mingus Ah Um. Often overlooked but it is possibly my favorite from the period.
Thanks Dan. Great music in any order. Nice playing too.
New jazz fan here, love the video. I've got some Ornette Coleman, Miles, Coltrane, and Herbie on vinyl but Donald Byrd seems to be my favorite. Recommendations for similar artists? I like pretty much everything from 60s and 70s I've heard.
Good list. My top 5 jazz albums in no particular order are:
1. Getz/Gilberto
2. Blossom Dearie-My Gentleman Friend
3. Chet Baker Sings
4. Bill Evans-Undercurrent
5. Antonio Carlos Jobim-Passarim
Great list and I enjoyed your playing. Among my favourites are Moanin' by Art Blakey and Relaxin by Miles Davis quintet. From more recent times, I like Walter Smith III 'Still Casual'
Very good list. I have 6 of those albums, and agree completely with numbers 1 to 3. My only suggestion is that a Duke Ellington recording--he did plenty after WWII--should have been included. Two suggestions are "Far East Suite" and "Three Suites". Thanks for posting this, Dan.
Here you are, Dan plus a bonus I couldn't leave off.
True Blue-Tina Brooks
Open Sesame-Freddie Hubbard
Go-Dexter Gordon
Power to Soul-Idris Muhammad
Jackie's Bag-Jackie McLean
Soul Station-Hank Mobley
Birth of the Cool-Miles Davis
Blue Train-John Coltrane
Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
The Sidewinder-Lee Morgan
Bonus: Prime Time-Eric Alexander
interesting that phonographic recordings turn clockwise in northern hemisphere.
Great Video! Thank you
Great choice. Coltrane will always be my choice for most stunning artist on Sax,
LOVE the Charlie Rouse mention!
FINALLY... a list I have actually heard or 10 live to offend loved grew up with and recall devouring the liner notes over and over. I even tried playing alone with my 4-Piece slingerland set in the basement
1) Sonny Stitt - Personal Appearances
2) Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus
3) Dexter Gordon - Biting the Apple
4) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
5) Sonny Stitt ans Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors in Orbit
6) John Coltrane - Blue Train
7) Mingus - Blues ans Roots
8) Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
9) Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
10) Sonny Stitt- Plays Bird
Hello Dan, i am looking for a track/ album for several years now, maybe you have any idea, thank you for any help in advance. THis is the info i can provide: i heard the track before 2018. Style is contemporary (i would say say, the record is from at least the 90s, maybe even from 2000-2017). Now the track starts with a single note on an electric piano. the key is stroke a few times, each time a little hard. Then the piano plays an intro. After the, a larger (4?5?6? players) horn section comes in playing tutti. it's not a slow track, it's quite forward, but as said, rather modern. it's not acid jazz, not funk or similar, rather like modern UK style or french or german like Nils Wogram, but it also could be an anthem international record ( though it does not sound like "tribal style conscious jazz). Do you maybe have any idea? i guess there are not too many tracks, that start with that repeated not on one key on an electric piano. thank you so much!
Thanx, it is cool
What is the track in the opening credits? Thanks!
I must say, I really like this list. On could argue, easily, that Saxophone Colossus should be on it, and the lack of Armstrong and Ellington or any of the bebop trumpet players raises a question, but you did say it was saxophone weighted. I think Parker with Strings is a terrific choice. My favorite Parker album is Live at Massey Hall, followed closely by the Dial/Savoy sessions, but those won't appeal to anybody who doesn't like bebop to begin with. As you say, Parker with Strings is a great introduction. What sold me your list though, is that my go-to Coltrane recording is Blue Train, and I would guess that I listen to it more than any other jazz album. I like Giant Steps a lot, but that find A Love Supreme gets a bit tedious after a a listen or two, but Blue Train never does. The title cut is just fabulous, from Curtis Fuller's wonderful trombone riff to open it up, and then the absolutely searing solos by Lee Morgan and Coltrane. Just wonderful. The other four tracks are terrific too, Coltrane at his absolute best as a composer (except for I'm Old-Fashioned), arranger and leader. I'm not sure one needs to listen to Ornette Coleman before one dies, but it would be a shame to miss Blue Train.
Jack Wilson, Easterly Winds
Bobby Hutcherson, Spiral
Miles Davis, Relaxing
Gene Ammons, The Big Sound
Lee Morgan, Cornbread
Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
Art Blakey, The Big Beat
Tony Williams, Civilization
Parker/Gillespie, Bird and Diz
Horace Silver, Silver 'n Percussion
no particular order but it will give the listener a nice survey of 25 years of jazz. enjoy👊🏾😎👍🏼
We Get Requests - Oscar Peterson Trio
Out There - Eric Dolphy
Now's The Time - Charlie Parker Quartet
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea
Hidden Treasures - Gary Smulyan
Inventions and Dimensions - Herbie Hancock
Red Garland's Piano - Red Garland
JuJu - Wayne Shorter
Pepper Adams Quintet - Pepper Adams Quintet
Inception - McCoy Tyner
To be honest though, it probably changes every two weeks
This list shows a deeper and greater appreciation for the art.
Very nice and inspiring.
1-KindOfBlue(Miles and the Cats)
2-Giant steps(Coltraine)
3-Love Supreme(Coltraine)
4-TimeOut (Brubeck)
5- Moanin (ArtBlakey and Jazz Messengers)
6-Takin Off (Hancock)
My fave miles album ..hands down is tutu ..no its not his best but its my favourite
I'd definitely go with Kind of Blue, Blue Train and Time Out, but for Herbie Hancock I'd go with the particularly piquant Mwandishi, for Monk I'd go for the intravenous cocktail of Straight No Chaser, I'd throw in the voluptuous On The Corner by Miles also, Eric Dolphy's carnivorous Out To Lunch, McCoy Tyner's totally tasty Real McCoy, Weather Report's haughty Heavy Weather and John Mclaughlin's awesome Extrapolation.
7:34 Bob Reynolds, fellow sax vlogger is one who started on Kenny G. I never hate on any musicians even Kenny G.
Great listening idea, Glad to see Miles high on the list.
ps
Kenny G is to jazz what Bert Kaempfert is to rock.
Coltrane-Coltrane's Sound
Horace Silver- Blowing The Blues Away
Hank Mobley-The Workout
Lee Morga-Cornbread
Jazz Messengers ST album
In no order:
Wes Montgomery: Smokin’ at the Half Note and Full House
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
John Coltrane: Giant Steps and My Favorite Things
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messangers: Moanin’
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else
Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds
Bolden: Original Soundtrack by Wynton Marsalis
Louis Armstrong: The Definitive Collection
I would have to include Bill Evans the Paris Concerts in the top ten.
At 34sec, the blues that comes in with horns...WHAT IS IT's NAME??It's driving up the _______ cause I can't name it & I know I should be able!!!(thanks.)
Blue Train (Coltrane)
you have 3 coltrane albums here. one is enough. kind of blue was selected by downbeat as the grwatest of all time
Great list. I think Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue has to be in there. But, not sure which one you could take out because they are all fantastic. Maybe make it top 11 😀
My Top 10
Duke Ellington - A Drum Is A Woman
Count Basie -Straight Ahead
Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln - Freedom Now Suite
Victor Feldman - The Arrival of Victor Feldman
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
MIles Davis and Horns
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Reflections in Blue
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Blossom Dearie - Needlepoint Magic
Clifford Brown - Study in Brown
Nice list Russ.
Study in Brown was the first jazz album i fell in love with.
I’ve got Sonny Rollins village vanguard, Chet Chet baker, joe Henderson in and out and mode for joe, blue train, miles smiles, bill evans explorations, herbie Hancock directions and dimensions, Freddie Hubbard ready for Freddie, monk the classic quartet live album. Deep cuts of course besides blue train
Herb Alpert?
Surely Blues for the Fisherman 1, Art Pepper meets the Rythm Section, Jazz at the Pawnshop, Satch & Josh
13 y/o future saxophonist here!
Heavy Soul - Ike Quebec
Blue and Sentimental - Ike Quebec
The Complete 45 Sessions - Ike Quebec
Soul Station - Hank Mobley
Poppin - Hank Mobley
At Ease with Coleman Hawkins - Coleman Hawkins
To Etta with Love - Houston Person
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guarlaldi Trio
Go! - Dexter Gordon
Look Out! - Stanley Turrentine
My ten would be vastly different. 1. Coltrane: Ascension. 2. Ellington: the Blanton-Webster Band 1939-1942 (double album). 3. Roscoe Mitchel: Nonaah (double album).4. Louis Armstrong: the Hot Five and Hot Seven: multiple albums. 5. Bob Brookmeyer-Jim Hall: 7x4: The Music of Alec Wilder. 6. 2 Degrees East 3 Degrees West: Grand Encounter (Bill Perkins, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Chico Hamilton). 7. Peter Brotzman-Fred Van Hove-Han Bennink: FMP 0130. 8. Spirituals to Swing, 1938-1939. 9. Keith Jarrett: My Song. 10. Gianluigi Travesi-Giani Coscia: In Cerca di Cibo.
The best live sets I've heard. Bud Powell trio, Cleveland, 1958. Horace Silver quintet, Cleveland, ca. 1959-60. Charles Mingus, NYC, 1963. Mongo Santamaria, with Hubert Laws and Bobby Capers, 1965. Abdullah Ibrahim, NYC, 1967. Shirley Horn, San Francisco, 1993? 4? David Murray, Cleveland (with Kahlil al-Zabar, ca. 2018?
Comments welcomed.
Oy! I'd have to include Eberhard Weber's Color's, the album with Touch and Sand Glass. And I'd have trouble cutting out Oliver Nelson's The lues and the Abstract Truth and an odd favorite of mine,. Gary Burton's Tennessee Firebird, which I've asked to be played after my death.
Mine Top 10 in disorder
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Charlie Parker - Jam Session
John Coltrane - Crescent
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Johnny Hartman - For Trane
Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background
Brillant choice, thank you. But where is the Kenny G album now........?????🙄
I was going to wait until I died to get to these, but I guess listen while I’m still alive.
Steve Lacy Troubles, Evan Parker Trio Imaginary Values, Archie Shepp the Magic of Juju, Wayne Shorter Super Nova, the John Coltrane Quartet Plays, Arthur Blythe Illusions, Ornette Coleman Dancing Inside My Head……..
The title "the Shape of Jazz to Come" must have come from the book "The Shape of Things to Come" by HG Wells, an early SF novel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come
That also inspired the fantastic song by the Yardbirds, "Shapes of Things":
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LOVE this list… most of these would be in my top 10 but a few would drop to my top 20. The only one that would not be close to my list is The Shape of Jazz to Come. I have it on cassette, which I purchased over 35 years ago. I listened to it exactly one time. The music went completely over my head, and I’ve never revisited it or anything else by Ornette Coleman.
Wow! That may be the first time I agree with someone's 10 jazz albums list!
I love the lost. A few I don't know yet. Ornette was always too much for me but maybe now I can appreciate it...
Only one change I would make: instaed of Kind of Blue, my faves for Miles are, in order:
1. ESP
2.Nefertiti
3.Files de Kilimanjaro
4. In a Silent Way
I also (given 15) would include something of Clifford Brown and something of Sonny Rollins.
Some of my LPs were stolen years ago so I can't locate which one easily...
Here it is!!! Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach- fantastic album.
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there was also some more obscure Coltrane I think with Miles?
and also Coltrane Live at Birdland.
Dave Brubeck-Time Out
Art Blakey- Moanin
Duke Ellington- Live at Newport
Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain
Charles Mingus,Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Thelonius Monk- Brilliant Corners
The Quintet- Jazz at Massey Hall
Herbie Hancock-Headhunters
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
A great Jazz album I've really hooked on lately that i feel more people should hear. Yusef Lateef-Detroit Latitude 42° 30° Longitude 83°
Really good stuff. Lateef is so underrated as a jazz legend.
Before we die? Why can't we hear them after we die?
If I had to pick ten you would have to put a gun to my head. I think my list might change depending on my mood.
If it really is 10 jazz albums before you die and Vince Guaradi’s “Charlie Brown Christmas” is not mentioned, it is a travesty
everyone has already heard most of the album since childhood. But, I feel U
1- Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
2 - Moanin - ArtBlakey and Jazz Messengers
3 - TimeOut - Brubeck
4 - Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch!
5 - Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
6 - Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
7 - Kenny Burrell - Bluesy Burrell
8 - Herbie Hanckock - Head Hunters
9 - Sonny Rollins Way Out West
10 - Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
11- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
12 - Charles Mingus - Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
13 - Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk
14 - Eric Dolphy - Out There
15 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Rather Coltrane-centric, but better than G-centric.
No Wes Montgomery, No Clifford Brown, No Lee Morgan, no list!
you should not play sax in the morning,
ah um mingus,bitches brew miles,moanin blakey,shorter see no evil,
Not that anyone gives a damn, but 6 jazz albums that without even batting an eyelash, would crack my Top 10 list include…
*Carmen Sings Monk - Carmen Mercedes McRae*
*Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock*
*Hi De Hi De Ho - Cab Calloway & his Orchestra*
*Soul Station - Hank Mobley*
*My Favourite Things - John Coltrane*
*Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance - Wynton Marsalis*
1- brad mehldau art of the trio vol.3 (1998)
2- brad mehldau Largo
3- Miles davis Tutu
I could never understand why people think Dave Brubeck's Time Out is such a great album. I have always thought it is pretty bland, a kind of suburban middle class man's version of what jazz should be. It's all brain, no soul.
Only 10? LOL c'mon get serious! Totally unrealistic!