What are the best jazz albums?

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[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

[A Navy Vet]

I suspect you're tastes run similar to mine...I prefer melody with form and resolution. What I used to call progressive jazz is just too much all over the map. But I do see the musicality in it...just makes my ankle tire from trying to find the beat.

[Lower55]

I agree. On 839 on DSS there's light jazz. It's fine . but on 840, there's jazz. It sounds like a band tuning up.

[Lower55]

DSS 840 Listen to that noise...lol rest my case...lol explain that to me...lol

[Lower55]

It says lonely woman.. Sounds more like dying cat!

[A Navy Vet]

"DSS 840 Listen to that noise..."

Where is DSS 840?

[Lower55]

Can you hear what's on right now??

[Lower55]

On DirecTV the little dish thinggy.

[A Navy Vet]

Never use it...has a flat sound to it. I've got a pretty nice separates system, so I try to use the capabilities.

[oceanperch]

All bought out and playin" on the ole' '78,

"Strange Fruit" for the melody and "Good Morming Heartache" for the pain and drug that put her here.
Can anyone name her usaual back up in the band they were a family I am sure.

[Lower55]

I'm 48. When I was 7, I played at the Saenger theater in New Orleans. I've been playing professionally ever since. I'm almost retired now, but I still play almost every weekend. I bought a farm. I have a little more that 200 beef cows on 400 acres. I've had three planes. 2 Cessna's and a Beechcraft. My friend was just killed a week before thanksgiving in a plane crash. He was playing in a Always Patsy Cline show at the Grand Casino in Biloxi. Even he made around 3k a week....He played on tons of albums too. He played for Hank Jr. for a few years. I miss him...But I sure enjoy a good argument, as you can tell....lol

[Lower55]

Yeah, mine sounds ok too.

[oceanperch]

My son suggested the Drifters and Tom Amos at Christmas on CD. It was halariotous.

[A Navy Vet]

Yeah, goes directly into my pre-amp but I noticed a flat unatural sound. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a noticable drop off around the 18,000 frequency range. Could be my Definitive Technology tower speakers...I've heard things through them I've never heard before on CD's. I highly recommend them if you like bi-polar speakers.

[A Navy Vet]

There's my problem...it sounds "okay". The system I have now has shown me what I've been missing. Okay, doesn't get it for this media snob...unless it's for background music, which is pretty much how I see light jazz anyway. Besides, the chicks like it with a few candles burning...so my buddy tells me.