Desert Island discs

buck65

Ok all you jazz and blues buffs out there , let's have your favourite Cds or records. Top 3 or 5 or how many you want!!

buck65

I reckon my favourites at the moment are
-Kind of Blue - M Davis,

Blues and Roots - C Mingus,

Impressed with Vol 1 and 2 (British jazz) - Various (Gilles Peterson),

A New Perspective - Donald Byrd,

Crescent - J Coltrane.

Rigsby

My desert island discs ( not in any particular order) would be :

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Chasin' the 'Trane - Charles Gayle

Ascension - John Coltrane

Bitche's Brew - Miles Davis

Fat Albert Rotunda - Herbie Hancock

buck65

just bought Bitches brew on saturday - wow! sounds great

Rigsby

buck65 wrote: »

just bought Bitches brew on saturday - wow! sounds great

Congrats !! You wont be disappointed.

Hermy

Five long term favourites of mine are:

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Nippon Soul
George Benson - White Rabbit
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame

Setun

Larry Young - Unity (get it if you haven't already!)
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Joe Harriot - Abstract
Miles davis - Filles de Kilmanjaro

Maybe I'd try to smuggle Manu Katché's Neighbourhood onto that island aswell.

Gyalist

Mosaic - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Ready For Freddie - Freddie Hubbard
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
My Conception - Sonny Clark
Smokin' At The Half Note - Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
Art Of The Trio, Vol. 5: Progression - Brad Mehldau

Setun

Gyalist wrote: »

Mosaic - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Ready For Freddie - Freddie Hubbard
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
My Conception - Sonny Clark
Smokin' At The Half Note - Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
Art Of The Trio, Vol. 5: Progression - Brad Mehldau

Damn you Gyalist, youve mentioned at least another two records there I'd have to squeeze into my top 5.

Gyalist

Daddio wrote: »

Damn you Gyalist, youve mentioned at least another two records there I'd have to squeeze into my top 5.

Heh. It really is difficult for me to pick a top 5/6 albums too. The first two in my selection are definites though.

Gyalist

Damn, I forgot:
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

For that alone I deserve to have my hard-bop card suspended.

Setun

I just 'rediscovered' that album last week actually. Hadn't listened to it in a long time previously. Better git it in yer soul, eh?

buck65

Guys if ye haven't already check out Blues and Roots by Mingus. Really class, soulful album.

Gyalist

Goodbye Porkpie Hat is my favourite track on that album. Beautiful, haunting melody although strangely that same piece appears on Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus as Theme for Lester Young.

buck65

Yeah that's a great piece, pity it doesn't last 10 minutes.

boneless

Gyalist wrote: »

Goodbye Porkpie Hat is my favourite track on that album. Beautiful, haunting melody although strangely that same piece appears on Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus as Theme for Lester Young.

Ever listen to the song Joni Mitchell wrote to that number?

Gyalist

boneless wrote: »

Ever listen to the song Joni Mitchell wrote to that number?

No, can't say that I have heard it. What's the title?

Setun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSuCOcL39U

This is a Joni version with pat metheny, michael brecker, don alias and jaco pastorious. It was soon after Mingus died, and played in memory of him afaik.