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What are the best jazz albums?
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Posted on 12/09/2001 6:56:18 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99

my choices in no particular order:

miles davis - kind of blue
charles mingus - black saint and the sinner lady
john coltrane - a love supreme
duke ellington - the webster-blanton years
the quintet - live at massey hall
sonny rollins - saxophone colossus
bill evans - live at the village vanguard


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I will think of more. please list your selections for best jazz albums.
1 posted on 12/09/2001 6:56:19 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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FOCUS - Stan Getz - if anybody knows of another like it, please post
2 posted on 12/09/2001 7:03:44 PM PST by midway
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Okay, I'll add...
"Blues and the Abstract Truth" - Oliver Nelson
"Concert by the Sea" - Errol Garner
"The Sermon" - Jimmy Smith
4 posted on 12/09/2001 7:09:31 PM PST by condolinda
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I'll add:
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas
6 posted on 12/09/2001 7:13:37 PM PST by irishjuggler
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Probably the only one I could bear listening to is Take 5. I usually hate the sound of saxaphones, but the one in Take 5 is just plain cool. What's his name's piano parts aren't bad either, in small doses.
7 posted on 12/09/2001 7:17:05 PM PST by dr_who
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Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Classics.

8 posted on 12/09/2001 7:20:36 PM PST by avenir
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Add Larry Young's "Unity". And Miles Davis' "Milestones".
9 posted on 12/09/2001 7:21:15 PM PST by condolinda
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To: midway
check out teo macero's stuff:
Teo Records
10 posted on 12/09/2001 7:22:18 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: tyner11
argh, I forgot those ones. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Check out Gil Evans' "Into the Hot" and Wayne Shorter's "Night Dreamer"

11 posted on 12/09/2001 7:24:36 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall.
12 posted on 12/09/2001 7:24:52 PM PST by Cicero
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have you heard the Garner Savoy stuff?
14 posted on 12/09/2001 7:25:27 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: tyner11
get "sketeches of spain" for sure. it's amazing.
15 posted on 12/09/2001 7:26:14 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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I love the trio and quartet stuff.
16 posted on 12/09/2001 7:26:53 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out, Time Further Out, Time Way Out
17 posted on 12/09/2001 7:27:21 PM PST by Petronski
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"The Girl from Ipanema"
20 posted on 12/09/2001 7:28:22 PM PST by fso301
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