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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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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
In no particular order of preference...

Duke Ellington, The 1943 Carnegie Hall Concert
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Sonny Rollins, Live At The Village Vanguard Complete
Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music Vols I-II
Count Basie, Sixteen Men Swinging
The Modern Jazz Quartet, No Sun In Venice
John Coltrane and Milt Jackson, Bags & Trane
Charles Mingus, Blues and Roots
Horace Silver, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Duke Ellington, Masterpieces by Ellington
Thelonious Monk, Live At The It Club Complete
Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' At The Half Note
John Coltrane, Blue Trane
Miles Davis, In A Silent Way
Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage
Benny Goodman, The Famous 1938 Jazz Concert at Carnegie Hall (Complete)
Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Dexter Gordon Quartet, Manhattan Symphonie
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto
Sonny Rollins, Volume Two
Artie Shaw, The Complete Gramercy Five
Duke Ellington, Ellington At Newport
Miles Davis, Miles Ahead

....just for openers...
61 posted on 12/09/2001 7:59:17 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
1."Kind of Blue" is out in front. 2. "A Handful of Modern Jazz" Parker, Davis & Gillespie (Baronet label) 3. "John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman"Coltrane, Johnny Hartman (vocals), and Teddy Wilson (piano) 4. Art Tatum "Solo Piano" 5. Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (Verve, I think rereleased on Fantasy)
62 posted on 12/09/2001 7:59:40 PM PST by Pinetop
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To: tyner11
When you say "Some Other Stuff" is out there, is it out there in like a Cecil Taylor/Ornette Coleman way(free), or out there in an Eric Dolphy way (i.e.-cross between hard bop and free)?
It kinda reminds me of Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch".
63 posted on 12/09/2001 8:01:11 PM PST by condolinda
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To: Lower55
The problem is that rap and jazz are not musical. I just don't get it. I've tried, I just don't get it. The people who say they get it, are the same ones that can't clap to the music, or dance in time. They're music lovers, for sure, they just don't know why. ...oh, well...

Let me take rap out of this for a second - are you really saying that people who "get" jazz have no sense of rhythm, and that they love music but don't know anything about it? And jazz is "not musical"? Nah...couldn't be. (I'm a professional musician also - 25 years.)

If you're wondering if it's you, no offense, but it is.

64 posted on 12/09/2001 8:01:26 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
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To: tyner11
amazing album . . . Teo Macero did a great job producing that one.
66 posted on 12/09/2001 8:02:37 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: Luis Gonzalez
In almost all of the groups I've been with, when a player made a mistake and the others looked at him/her,.....the most consistent response to this reaction was....."JAZZ"
67 posted on 12/09/2001 8:03:01 PM PST by Lower55
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To: BKT
"We've Only Just Begun", by the Carpenters.

Okay, what's the punch line? (That was a joke, right?)
69 posted on 12/09/2001 8:04:20 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: BluesDuke
Do you have Wes Montgomery's fingerpickin'? GREAT ALBUM! I have the complete riverside set. It's worth the $200.
70 posted on 12/09/2001 8:04:22 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: Facecriminal
anyone who says that has no idea what they're talking about.
72 posted on 12/09/2001 8:05:47 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
I only wish I could afford that set. Wes Montgomery remains my favourite jazz guitarist. And...the best news...he never forgot the blues!
74 posted on 12/09/2001 8:06:27 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
There's a differnce between jazz and real music played jazzed up. I can put ANYONE on piano in a jazz band and have them pound out ANYTHING and if they looked like they meant to do it, most 'jazz' fans would eat it up.
75 posted on 12/09/2001 8:06:48 PM PST by Lower55
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To: tyner11
all those albums are well produced. basically, they let the tapes roll and then eidted the 'best parts' together. There are almost no 'whole takes' on any of those albums.
77 posted on 12/09/2001 8:08:23 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: tyner11
Bitches Brew, you're no Miles In The Sky...
79 posted on 12/09/2001 8:08:55 PM PST by BluesDuke
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
I doubt you'd want to compare your resume to mine. I did't say you shouldn't like jazz, I just said it's not musical. It makes no musical sense.
80 posted on 12/09/2001 8:08:58 PM PST by Lower55
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