All Time Classic Jazz Recordings (1 Viewer)

[Klimtology]

Kind of Blue 
Something Else
Midnight Blue
Best of Chet Baker Sings
Billie Holiday Love Songs
Billie Holiday and Lester Young
Big Joe Turner's Greatest Hits

 

[Murph]

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Saxophone Colossus

The Africa/Brass Sessions

 

[Ilov80s]

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Saxophone Colossus 

Giant Steps 

Time Out

Maiden Voyage

Ellington at Newport '56

 

[Murph]

Maiden Voyage

Love this album and can't believe I forgot to include it in my post.

 

[Ilov80s]

Love this album and can't believe I forgot to include it in my post.

Works out because I didn't even notice you Sonny so I doubled up on him

 

[Neal Cassady]

A Love Supreme- John Coltrane

Blue Train- John Coltrane

#####es Brew-Miles Davis

Sketches Of Spain- Miles Davis

Mingus Ah Um- Charles Mingus

The Shape Of Jazz To Come- Ornette Coleman

The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings- Bill Evans

Saxophone Colossus- Sonny Rollins

Time Out- Dave Brubeck

 

[wikkidpissah]

this, this & this

ETA: and Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, which's every note i can & often have played on a woman's body

 

[rockaction]

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Coming today on 180 gram vinyl for a very reasonable price. I'll be back to let people know how it sounds. Whoohoo!

eta* Want to add Time Out to the list, as I have Time Further Out on vinyl, too. 

 

[Neal Cassady]

this, this & this

That McCoy Tyner song is sweet.

 

[Klimtology]

this, this & this

ETA: and Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, which's every note i can & often have played on a woman's body

Love the In a sentimental mood track.

 

[Maggot Brain]

Moanin'' - Art Blakey / Messengers

 The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan

 

[zamboni]

Some fusion: Weather Report - Heavy Weather

 

[Bonzai]

Out To Lunch

 

[wikkidpissah]

some ivory for you elephants:

Giant of Giants

Oscar

Downright Felonious

it is to weep

bonus

 

[Neal Cassady]

Joshua Redman 

https://youtu.be/XvpCbS_luj0

https://youtu.be/CvcS3PTtpcs

 

[wikkidpissah]

favorite 'new' tinklers:

hi @krista4

wait for it

 

[Ilov80s]

I have discovered a quality soundtrack: The Subterraneans. It's an MGM production of a Kerouc novel and the movie itself was a dud, but they got a top notch movie composer in Andre Previn to do it and knowing that the movie needed authentic jazz, he hired Gerry Muilligan and Carmen McRae to help out. The blend of jazz and 50s/60s movie score makes for a hell of an album. It is on Spotify

 

[wikkidpissah]

next to Kind of Blue, the jazz no home should be without is Django Reinhart. i'm sure the purists disagree about the definitive recording but his career preceded album concept and i have a 3-disc set called Django with his American Friends which causes my day to go hella better with than without. more effective against depression than most SSRIs.

 

[jamny]

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[OrtonToOlsen]

“Time to Blow” Del Paxton

 

[Otis]

Las Vegas Tango - Gil Evans

Japanrse Folk Song - Monk

The Bass and I (album) - Ron Carter

The Sermon - Jimmy Smith 

Midnight Blue - Kenny Burell

My Funny Valentine (live album) - Miles

The above is some of the best jazz ever made. YWIA 

 

[wikkidpissah]

PBS's American Masters series is doing a 2-hour piece on Miles Davis tonite @ 9pm (check your local listings)

 

[Eephus]

PBS's American Masters series is doing a 2-hour piece on Miles Davis tonite @ 9pm (check your local listings)

It was pretty interesting.  At first I didn't like the gimmick of using an actor to imitate Miles reading from his autobiography but I got used to it.  I'm glad the filmmakers were able to interview Frances Taylor Davis before she passed away.  She was a pistol.

 

[wikkidpissah]

It was pretty interesting.  At first I didn't like the gimmick of using an actor to imitate Miles reading from his autobiography but I got used to it.  I'm glad the filmmakers were able to interview Frances Taylor Davis before she passed away.  She was a pistol.

i guess so. either the smartest kind of stoopit or the stoopitest kind of smart - couldnt figure it out w the small sample size but the human equivalent of a popcorn walker it seemed. Cicely Tyson, Juliette Greco....yeah, but what's that?!?!

 

[Van Dyman]

some ivory for you elephants:

Giant of Giants

Oscar

Downright Felonious

it is to weep

bonus

I'm checking these out now but went straight to Peterson first. Just always been a sucker for anything he played.

You guys are posting some great stuff. Keep 'em coming.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Giant of Giants

I'm checking these out now but went straight to Peterson first. Just always been a sucker for anything he played.

You guys are posting some great stuff. Keep 'em coming.

Oscar is cheeseburger-tasty & all, but i wish i could get you young folk to understand how unprecedented Art Tatum and other of the stride pianists were. Deconstructing forms before they were fully built. You get no Oscar, no Bird, no Diz without these guys. Like a cubist in 1630s Amsterdam, Tatum was.

 

[Maggot Brain]

Oscar is cheeseburger-tasty & all, but i wish i could get you young folk to understand how unprecedented Art Tatum and other of the stride pianists were. Deconstructing forms before they were fully built. You get no Oscar, no Bird, no Diz without these guys. Like a cubist in 1630s Amsterdam, Tatum was.

Yep....and with BLAZIN' fast hands.

 

[Eephus]

i guess so. either the smartest kind of stoopit or the stoopitest kind of smart - couldnt figure it out w the small sample size but the human equivalent of a popcorn walker it seemed. Cicely Tyson, Juliette Greco....yeah, but what's that?!?!

Betty Davis' records are fierce

 

[wikkidpissah]

Betty Davis' records are fierce

listening now - holy schnikies!! makes Courtney Love feel like Toni Tenille. man could lay a lot of pipe with a forewoman likat....

 

[lardonastick]

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[Eephus]

Oscar is cheeseburger-tasty & all, but i wish i could get you young folk to understand how unprecedented Art Tatum and other of the stride pianists were. Deconstructing forms before they were fully built. You get no Oscar, no Bird, no Diz without these guys. Like a cubist in 1630s Amsterdam, Tatum was.

Yep....and with BLAZIN' fast hands.

This is an interesting Tatum re-recording by Zenph Studios.  They took a 1949 live recording of Tatum and digitally transcribed the notes so it could be played back through a Disklavier.  Here's the fun part, they then took the Disklavier to the same concert hall where the original was played.  It's weird to listen to the Tatum and Zenph recordings back to back.  The notes are all in the same place but it sounds very different

It's kind of like the player piano rolls of Gershwin and Rachmaninov.

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Looks like we haven't even begun to scratch the surface here. I consider all of these to be essential.

Wayne Shorter- Speak No Evil

Freddie Hubbard- Red Clay

Oliver Nelson- The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Herbie Hancock- Headhunters

John Coltrane- Blue Train

Miles Davis- In A Silent Way

Horace Silver- Song For My Father

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Eric Dolphy - On Green Dolphin Street

Great rendition here

 

[Ilov80s]

I am surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet

Getz/Gilberto 

 

[Neal Cassady]

Never heard of this cat until this morning.  John Wright, pianist out of Chicago.  Recorded 5 records for Prestige in the early 60’s.

https://youtu.be/UvvJWkG0oKk

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar

Perfect anytime music

 

[Ilov80s]

Put your headphones in and enjoy the tones

 

[Ilov80s]

IDK

texture drippin

 

[AAABatteries]

Started listening to more jazz recently but I know little about it. Will work my way through these recommendations - anything new out there worth checking out?

 

[Ilov80s]

Started listening to more jazz recently but I know little about it. Will work my way through these recommendations - anything new out there worth checking out?

I would say jazz is definitely a genre where the best stuff is in the past and your time will be best spent focusing on artists like Coltrane, Rollins, Armstrong, Blakely, etc.

 

[Klimtology]

Mingus

New Tijuana Moods

 

[pecorino]

Looks like we haven't even begun to scratch the surface here. I consider all of these to be essential.

Wayne Shorter- Speak No Evil

Freddie Hubbard- Red Clay

Oliver Nelson- The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Herbie Hancock- Headhunters

John Coltrane- Blue Train

Miles Davis- In A Silent Way

Horace Silver- Song For My Father

It’s funny how A Kind of Blue is so revered and lauded, yet In a Silent Way gets much less attention. It’s a perfect record, imo. Listen to it a lot.