[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I will think of more. please list your selections for best jazz albums.

[SwankyC]

What are the best jazz albums?

I didn't know there were ANY good ones. Hehe flame away

[Spaulding]

Oh! Can't Resist.

Sonny Rollins - "The Bridge" with Jim Hall and others (Looks like it is now called "The Best of Sonny ...: The Complete RCA Recordings"
"Coltrane with Ellington" or "Coltrane with Johnny Hartman"
Jimmy Giuffre 3 (With Bob Brookmeyer and Ralph Pena)
Coltrane - "Cresent" (with sublime Lonnie's Lament)
Miles - "Jazz Track" (Now available as "Stella" with amazing Cannonball cadenza on Fran Dance), Or
Miles "In a Silent Way" with Wayne Shorter, Hancock, Vitous, McLaughlin, ...
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "Inner Voyage" (If you've never heard the name, and liked Evans, Corea, Jarrett, Hancock - trust me, a musician's musician)
Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby" with Scott LaFaro

[Lurking Libertarian]

A great list; I would add Louis Armstrong's "Hot 5" and "Hot 7" sessions, and Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage."

[habs4ever]

John Coltrane's Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
Miles Davis's Miles Ahead

Both a pleasure

[tallhappy]

Mingus Ah Um

[Wm Bach]

Marcus "Marthaniel" Roberts - "The Truth Is Spoken Here".
Louis Armstrong playing Fats Waller - "Satch plays Fats"
Art Tatum - "Piano Starts Here"
Stephan Grappelli - "Greatest Hits" (there all hits, and great)
and
Jean Luc Ponti - "A Taste For Passion" (just to infuriate the purists)

[zoot]

All your KennyG are belong to us

It's really hard to name just a few great albums because Jazz is such an evolution and so much has been said.....I find a lot of value in any John Coltrane or Miles, Cannonball, etc.

As for modern stuff, anything from Mike Brecker, Joe Lovano, etc.

Too many great artists for me to single out.

[A Navy Vet]

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.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Countrypolitians

[petbop]

Go here: "http://www.doubletimejazz.com/index_new.htm
Click on 100 historically significant jazz albums. Great list and great prices.

[AmericanVictory]

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.

[willyboyishere]

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.

[steveisright]

Bump for John Coltrane: A Love Supreme!

[My Favorite Headache]

Burning For Buddy Volume 1 and 2 By Neil Peart and 25 other drummers. A massive tribute to Buddy Rich with the Buddy Rich big band.

[Benrand]

The Real McCoy: McCoy Tyner

Filles de Kilimanjaro: Miles Davis

Spectrum: Billy Cobham

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame

Believe It and Emergency: Tony Williams Lifetime

Juju: Wayne Shorter (really most anything with Elvin Jones is good)

Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker (also the Brecker Brothers: Heavy Metal Bebop)

Pick Hits Live: John Scofield

And I like ECM music, sorta austere German/Icelandic crystalline jazz. It's relaxing and not abrasive or too involved...like Denmark.

[Nogbad]

I am surprised no one has mentioned:

Bill Evans: "Conversations with Myself"

This is not only one of the great jazz albums,
it is one of the greatest musical recordings of all times, of all genres.

(With that extraordinary gloomy meditation "NYC's no Lark"
which is an anagram on Sonny Clark)

[Tuba-Dude]

I recently purchased Stan Kenton's Journey Into Capricorn just to hear the song "Pegasus," which we were playing in marching band. After listening to the whole album rather than skipping through the tracks like I normally do, all I can say is, "Wow!" This is probably the best Latin-jazz album out there. If you can find a copy at a local music store since they're hard to find at such retailers, by all means BUY IT!!!

[Trailerpark Badass]

"Straight, No Chaser" Thelonious Monk. Blue Note.

[Old Fud]

Sonny Clark - "Cool Struttin'" (aptly described to me as "smacked out hard bop")

Bud Powell - "The Bud Powell Trio Plays"

Art Tatum - "Piano Starts Here"

Blue Mitchell -"The Thing to Do"

Chet Baker - "Let's Get Lost - The Best of Chet Baker Sings"

Kenny Dorham - "Una Mas"

Joey Calderazzo - "The Traveler"

Larry Goldings - "Light Blue"

Oscar Peterson - "Walkin' the Line"

Anything by Pat Martino, Johnny Hartman, Fats Waller, Nat Cole, Don Menza. Just a few of thousands.

[shaggy eel]

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