Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 43 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Jazz for beginners: Your Top 5 Jazz albums
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:26 pm 
Offline
Big in Australia
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:00 am
Posts: 19821
Location: Chicago-ish
Coming from the
"Music we never talk about" thread:

I am admittedly a bit of a jazz novice, but I do listen to some, more than just on occasion. So... here are my top 5:

1. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
2. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
3. Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
4. Thelonius Monk - Best Of the Blue Note Years (yeah, it's a comp, but so what?)
5. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Others I love, but can't rank:
Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
The Quintet - Jazz Live at Massey Hall
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge

Anyone else wanna add?


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:30 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:04 pm
Posts: 9783
Location: NOLA
These six in any order

Coltrane - Blue Train
Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Coltrane - Love Supreme

_________________
I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Jazz for beginners: Your Top 5 Jazz albums
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:30 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm
Posts: 6459
PopTodd Wrote:
Coming from the
"Music we never talk about" thread:

I am admittedly a bit of a jazz novice, but I do listen to some, more than just on occasion. So... here are my top 5:

1. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
5. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Anyone else wanna add?


Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Clifford Brown - A Study In Brown
Charlie Parker - any good comp "Bird: The Orginal Recordings" is pretty decent


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:32 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:04 pm
Posts: 9783
Location: NOLA
I recently discoverd Carmel Jones - Jay Hawk Talk. Don't know where I 'd rank it yet.

_________________
I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:34 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:48 pm
Posts: 8062
Location: yer ma
I was about to start a similar thread...

I've been listening to as much Mingus I can get my hands on lately.

I'd have to say my #1 is probably:
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

_________________
toots Wrote:
COMPUTER...ENHANCE...


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:46 pm 
Offline
Second Album Slump
User avatar

Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:10 pm
Posts: 2030
Location: Brisbane
Charlie Christian- Genuis or Guitar
One of the best jazz guitarists of all time, he played with Benny Goodman and help invent be bop

Medeski, Martin and Wood- Last Chance to Dance Trance
Probably not essential but it is my personal favorite

John Coltrane- Forever Changes
A Classic enough said

_________________
///][)(!@#@!!


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:50 pm 
Offline
Garage Band

Joined: Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:22 pm
Posts: 526
Lester Young - The Immortal
Grant Green - Street of Dreams
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:54 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Fri Nov 12, 2004 8:40 pm
Posts: 5289
Location: Jacksonville, FL
My jazz thing is pretty limited, but favorites of all I've listened to, unranked:

Mingus- Ah Um
Chet Baker- My Favorite Songs
McCoy Tyner- Echoes of a Friend
Miles- Birth of the Cool
Coltrane- Giant Steps


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:56 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:48 pm
Posts: 8062
Location: yer ma
sallypally12 Wrote:
Grant Green - Street of Dreams


yes

_________________
toots Wrote:
COMPUTER...ENHANCE...


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:03 pm 
Offline
Indie Debut
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:07 pm
Posts: 1733
Location: Bay Area
1-Miles Davis - in a silent way- workin/cookin/relaxin/steamin with the miles davis quintet - round midnight - porgy & bess - kind of blue
2-Bud Powell - the genius of bud powell
3-Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives
4-John Coltrane - Giant Steps - Blue Train - Love Supreme - Ballads - w/Johnny Hartman
5-Charlie Parker - with strings (only for the sheer brilliance of his lyrical phrasing)
6-Charles Mingus - mingus mingus mingus mingus - black saint & the sinner lady
7-Billie Holiday- Collection - Lady in Satin
8-Oliver Nelson - blues and the abstract truth
9-Getz/Gilberto/Jobim - Getz/Gilberto/Jobim
10 - Thelonius Monk - brilliant corners - straight no chaser

_________________
"I would shoot a man if he put me through autotune"
- Charlie Louvin


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:15 pm 
Offline
Gayford R. Tincture

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:22 pm
Posts: 13644
Location: The Weapon Store
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3. Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
4. John Coltrane - Blue Train (or Giant Steps or Meditation)
5. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:16 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:48 am
Posts: 7332
Location: Cloud 3.14159
I can't believe you left out The Birth of Cool.

Also, I'm more of a "Giant Steps"/"My Favourite Things" kind of guy.

_________________
I remain,
:-Peter, aka :-Dusty :-(halk


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:21 pm 
Offline
Natural Harvester
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm
Posts: 23083
Location: Portland, OR
lonnie liston smith - expansions
john coltrane - blue train
eivind opsvik - overseas II
herbie hancock - maiden voyage
sarah vaughan - verve jazz masters


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:28 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:46 am
Posts: 6690
Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
I think the only jazz I own is Dave Brubeck's Time Out and Time Further Out and some Vince Guaraldi cd's.

I like what Benny Goodman I've heard, though.


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:31 pm 
Offline
Indie Debut
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:07 pm
Posts: 1733
Location: Bay Area
Dusty Chalk Wrote:
I can't believe you left out The Birth of Cool.


Other than a couple of tracks, I find Miles on the right path with this one but not quite reaching where he wanted to go.

Quote:
herbie hancock - maiden voyage

...so good

_________________
"I would shoot a man if he put me through autotune"
- Charlie Louvin


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:39 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:47 am
Posts: 6384
Location: red wing
I'm not sure, but I just bought these LPs yesterday:

John Coltrane "Sun Ship"
Sun Ra "Strange Strings"
Sun Ra "Sun Song"
Ornette Coleman "Free Jazz"


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:48 pm 
Offline
Indie Debut
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:07 pm
Posts: 1733
Location: Bay Area
If anyone is interested in a YSI of this, please PM and I'll get it out this evening -

Stolen Moments - OliverNelson/Freddie Hubbard
So What - Miles Davis
Blue Train - John Coltrane
Just Friends - Charlie Parker
Corcovado - Getz/Gilberto/Jobim
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong
Naima - John Coltrane
King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman
Smoke Rings - Glen Gray Orchestra
Chelsea Bridge - Joe Henderson
Hora Decubitus - Charles Mingus
Prisoner Of Love - Lester Young & Teddy Wilson
Parisian Thoroughfare - Bud Powell
You've Changed - Billie Holiday

_________________
"I would shoot a man if he put me through autotune"
- Charlie Louvin


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:59 pm 
Offline
frostingspoon
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:54 pm
Posts: 10626
Location: Petroleum, IN
while not necessarily essential, i've had a fondness for these albums over the years:

ahmad jamal - rossiter road
the ultimate tony williams - selected by jack dejohnette
john coltrane - interstellar space
miles davis - bitches brew
getz/gilberto - featuring antonio carlos jobim
django reinhardt - djangology vol. 1 1934-1935


and that new fieldwork cd is pretty great too

_________________
www.youngtobacco.com


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:03 pm 
Offline
May contain Jesus.
User avatar

Joined: Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:43 pm
Posts: 12275
Location: The Already, Not Yet.
Miles Davis-Miles Smiles
-Bitches Brew
Sun Ra-Live At the Village Vanguard
Thelonious Monk-Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Monk?
Herbie Hancock-Headhunters
Jaco Pastorius-s/t
Ornette Coleman-Science Fiction
John Coltrane-Live At Birdland
Charlie Parker---pick one.

standard list...one of my resolutions was to expand my jazz collection.

_________________
It's Baltimore, gentlemen; the gods will not save you.

Baltimore is a town where everyone thinks they’re normal, but they’re totally insane. In New York, they think they’re crazy, but they’re perfectly normal. --John Waters
Image


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:04 pm 
Offline
Winona Ryder wears my t-shirt on TV
User avatar

Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:30 pm
Posts: 2563
Location: Place where it is to be
I guess I'm the champion of new jazz around here. Someone has to be, I suppose. I did my time with the classics, but my thirst is for the new cutting-edge stuff:

Dave Douglas: trumpet. Follower of Miles, but not simply aping his style. Also a member of the amazing Masada (with John Zorn, Greg Cohen, and Joey Baron)

Matthew Shipp: piano. Truly one of modern jazz's most important artists. Angular and edgy, very intense stuff. He's very in-tune with trends in non-jazz music and works hard to incorporate what have become cliches in 'new jazz' like turntables and samples in meaningful ways - and he always does.

Brad Mehldau: piano. Mehldau's name is most recognizable from his Radiohead covers, but don't let that be the only reason you know him. A follower of Bill Evans and Monk, but, again, has found a special niche because of his classical training.

Bill Bruford: The Yes and King Crimson (and briefly Genesis) drummer turned to jazz in the 80s after King Crimson disappeared, creating the electric-jazz group, Earthworks, after a string of solo fusion albums. In the 90s he went back to acoustic and has been carving out a really nice spot for himself with his new acoustic Earthworks band that should appeal to fans of Dave Brubeck.

Branford Marsalis: Don't dismiss him because his brother Wynton is a closed-minded twit. Branford's a killer saxophonist and is much more daring than Wynton could ever be, mining territory similar to Coltrane's mid-period.

A couple others to watch out for:

Ravi Coltrane: Just like dad, he's a saxophonist, but does absolutely nothing to try and follow in his dad's footsteps. One might try to write him off for trying to ride the name of his father, but he's got the chops and compositional skills to stand out by himself. Seriously, check this guy's stuff out.

Jamie Saft: piano. One of Zorn's dudes, who takes on a set of brand new Masada compositions with Greg Cohen on bass and Ben Perowski on drums. The cacophony often present on Masada albums is a bit more subdued here due to the trio nature, but Saft's piano manages to fill the space left by the sax and trumpet.

_________________
People in a parade are cocky, you know. They think that they attracted an audience but really it's just people waiting to cross the street. I could attract a crowd if I stood in everybody's way.

--Mitch Hedberg


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:09 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm
Posts: 9020
too hard to put together a list but

NP: Image

Gabor Szabo "High Contrast"

Dusty Groove Wrote:
Excellent early 70s work from jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo -- a super-dope album that's one of the best he ever recorded! Part of the success of the record has to do with the presence of Bobby Womack -- normally a soul singer, but also a heck of a guitarist, playing here alongside Szabo in a very cool twin-guitar style that makes for an amazing sound. Both players have a hollow, warm tone to their work on the strings -- stepping around a blend of soul and jazz that's nicely tripped out in a 70s Blue Thumb style. The highlight of the record is the massive track "Breezin", a sample track used by more than one group over the years -- but the whole record's amazing, filled with slow, trippy grooves that were years ahead of their time! Titles include "I Remember When", "Just A Little Communication", "Amazon", "Fingers", and "Azure Blue".


Gabor needs more love. He's my favorite jazz guitarist.

_________________
Image


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:10 pm 
Offline
Winona Ryder wears my t-shirt on TV
User avatar

Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:30 pm
Posts: 2563
Location: Place where it is to be
I Got Ish Wrote:
I'm not sure, but I just bought these LPs yesterday:

John Coltrane "Sun Ship"

This was one of my first jazz purchases way back in the early 90s. Totally blew my mind and overwhelmed me. Traded it in after a few spins, then fell in love with it a few years later when, after getting more familiar with other jazz that grew increasingly more "out," I got the big 8-CD Complete Quartets set.

I Got Ish Wrote:
Ornette Coleman "Free Jazz"

First time hearing this was actually in a jazz-music appreciation class (gotta love college!) My only thoughts at the time were "What the hell is this?" Like Coltrane, a couple years later I found myself owning the 6-CD Beauty is a Rare Thing box and found myself shocked to discover that "Free Jazz" wasn't all that chaotic afterall. Same story as with Sun Ship - I simply found that my brain had learned how to hear through all that chaos. It's still one of my favorites.

_________________
People in a parade are cocky, you know. They think that they attracted an audience but really it's just people waiting to cross the street. I could attract a crowd if I stood in everybody's way.

--Mitch Hedberg


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:15 pm 
Offline
Garage Band

Joined: Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:22 pm
Posts: 526
I forgot to add Sarah Vaughn.

_________________
you are sleeping. you do not want to believe.


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:13 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:48 am
Posts: 7332
Location: Cloud 3.14159
The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:
Bill Bruford: The Yes and King Crimson (and briefly Genesis) drummer turned to jazz in the 80s after King Crimson disappeared, creating the electric-jazz group, Earthworks, after a string of solo fusion albums. In the 90s he went back to acoustic and has been carving out a really nice spot for himself with his new acoustic Earthworks band that should appeal to fans of Dave Brubeck.
That first Earthworks album is sublimely lyrical.

_________________
I remain,
:-Peter, aka :-Dusty :-(halk


Back to top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:29 pm 
Offline
Go Platinum
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:48 pm
Posts: 8062
Location: yer ma
billy g Wrote:
too hard to put together a list but

NP: Image

Gabor Szabo "High Contrast"

Dusty Groove Wrote:
Excellent early 70s work from jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo -- a super-dope album that's one of the best he ever recorded! Part of the success of the record has to do with the presence of Bobby Womack -- normally a soul singer, but also a heck of a guitarist, playing here alongside Szabo in a very cool twin-guitar style that makes for an amazing sound. Both players have a hollow, warm tone to their work on the strings -- stepping around a blend of soul and jazz that's nicely tripped out in a 70s Blue Thumb style. The highlight of the record is the massive track "Breezin", a sample track used by more than one group over the years -- but the whole record's amazing, filled with slow, trippy grooves that were years ahead of their time! Titles include "I Remember When", "Just A Little Communication", "Amazon", "Fingers", and "Azure Blue".


Gabor needs more love. He's my favorite jazz guitarist.


this is right up my alley, I'll check this out for sure.

_________________
toots Wrote:
COMPUTER...ENHANCE...


Back to top
 Profile WWW 
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 43 posts ] 

Board index : Music Talk : Rock/Pop

Go to page 1, 2  Next

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 11 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Style by Midnight Phoenix & N.Design Studio
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.