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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

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To: ventana
The Dizzy Gillespie proper album by which I would swear would be his late-1950s bop orchestral set, Gillespiana. The pleasing surprise: the compositions by Lalo Schifrin, who was a pure jazz composer/experimenter before going to film music and, among other things, composing - Gawd help us - the theme from Mission: Impossible!
McCoy Tyner has always been a very colouristic pianist, but I have always thought he never quite delivered as strongly as with his earlier work with John Coltrane (before, of course, Coltrane went right off his crumpet). Freddie Hubbard I can take in supporting dosage only; I could never really make myself comfortable with his punch-and-stab style of soloing in his own settings as when he would work it deftly within work by Art Blakey or Horace Silver or Herbie Hancock (he was brilliant on Hancock's Maiden Voyage album). And as for Django Reinhardt, I'm still waiting for someone to clean up the mess that has been made of his catalogue and put the Quintette of the Hot Club of France back where it belongs: complete, up front, and available in a set worthy of the man's art.

I swear by Ella and Louis's Porgy and Bess as (sorry, Miles) the best you will ever hear of that seminal work. Then again, I also swear that the best of the Songbooks was The Duke Ellington Songbook, though any of the ones she did with Nelson Riddle's orchestra are always worth hearing. And I still love to listen to the one record she did get to cut with Benny Goodman (who actually wanted to hire her, before Chick Webb locked her in - and whose death turned her into his orchestra's bandleader), "Goodnight, My Love".
161 posted on 12/10/2001 6:09:37 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: tyner11
What other albums would any of you suggest for that crossover sound of hard bop and free jazz?

Albert Ayler Trio, Spiritual Unity
John Coltrane, Coltrane and Impressions
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come and Ornette!
Miles Davis, ESP
162 posted on 12/10/2001 6:11:14 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Anyone heard of a '60's eastern fusion guitarist Gabor Zabo? Use to like his stuff...or Wes Montegomery. Then I digressed back to RnR.
163 posted on 12/10/2001 6:17:59 PM PST by A Navy Vet
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Countrypolitians
166 posted on 12/10/2001 6:49:26 PM PST by RIGHT IN SEATTLE
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Go here: "http://www.doubletimejazz.com/index_new.htm
Click on 100 historically significant jazz albums. Great list and great prices.
170 posted on 12/10/2001 8:34:05 PM PST by petbop
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To: Facecriminal
You're still here? Let's put it this way. You know what you know, I know what I know, but you don't know what I know.
171 posted on 12/10/2001 9:24:27 PM PST by Lower55
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To: Facecriminal
Oh, and speaking of newbies, you're brand spanking newbie, huh?
172 posted on 12/10/2001 9:25:34 PM PST by Lower55
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Oh my! Are you Elvis??????
173 posted on 12/10/2001 9:31:10 PM PST by Lower55
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
A lot of good listening, but here are a few odd balls that many years ago I listened to over and over.

Don't know if there was an album, but Jimmy Giufre playing "The Train and the River" was a great. Also the early Mose Allison. Charlie Byrd did some great things, especially with Keeter Betts on bass.

176 posted on 12/10/2001 9:49:42 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
The Artistry of Mark Murphy(vocal)
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Ornette Coleman live at the Golden Circle
"The String Project" (unofficial title of yet-to-be-released album by Steve Kuhn)--my wife, who is a good friend of Kuhn's has heard this and thinks it will make Jazz history.
178 posted on 12/10/2001 9:53:03 PM PST by willyboyishere
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To: Facecriminal
I believe I'd play a little Garth Brooks over that mess....lol
179 posted on 12/10/2001 9:55:18 PM PST by Lower55
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