What are your favourite jazz albums

Rothko

I don't know an awful lot about jazz but these are my top 10:
1. Giant Steps - John Coltrane
2. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
3. Blue Train - John Coltrane
4. Blues & Roots - Charles Mingus
5. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
6. My Favourite Things - John Coltrane
7. Jazz Impressions Of Japan - Dave Brubeck Quartet
8. The Bridge - Sonny Rollins
9. Sextant - Herbie Hancock
10. Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis

18AD

All jazz fusion, but these are the albums I always find myself coming back to.

Pat Metheny - The Way Up, Bright Size Life
Herbie Hancock - Man-Child, Head Hunters, Thrust
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius, Word of Mouth
Weather Report - Black Market, Heavy Weather
Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty - Rite of Strings

Rigsby

In no particular order :

Chasin' the 'Trane - Charles Gayle

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Out to Lunch - Eric Dolphy

Ascension - Coltrane

Colour - Rick Margitza

Diminutive Mysteries _ Tim Berne

Enter the Spirit - Bob Berg

Go See the World -David S. Ware

Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann

Fat Albert Rotunda - Herbie Hancock

Komodo Studios

Jaco Pastorius: The Birthday Concert

bullpost

Speak no evil - Wayne Shorter
Kind of blue - Miles Davis
Tijuana Moods - Charles Mingus
Go - Dexter Gordon
Larkin's Jazz Various Artists
Careless Love Madeleine Peyroux

PaulieBoy

Suas11 wrote: »

I don't know an awful lot about jazz but these are my top 10:
.....
5. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

Just reading "Discovering Great Jazz" by Stephen Stroff,
Quote " ... and even Miles Davis, who made a rather sad plea for attention with his Bitches' Brew album. page 131 New Times New Sounds chapter.

I have to agree!!

Rigsby

PaulieBoy wrote: »

Just reading "Discovering Great Jazz" by Stephen Stroff,
Quote " ... and even Miles Davis, who made a rather sad plea for attention with his Bitches' Brew album. page 131 New Times New Sounds chapter.

I have to agree!!

Depends on who/what you read.

"The Penguin Guide to Jazz," which is one of the most reputable jazz album review books, gave Bitches Brew a four-star rating (out of four stars), describing the recording as "one of the most remarkable creative statements of the last half-century, in any artistic form".


I have to agree.

PaulieBoy

Rigsby wrote: »

I have to agree.

We shall have to agree to disagree! :-)

Rigsby

PaulieBoy wrote: »

We shall have to agree to disagree! :-)

I agree !

PaulieBoy

Rigsby wrote: »

I agree !

It's agreed then! :-)

PaulieBoy

I guess it's hardly fair of me to criticize the selection of others and not do one myself!
In no order:
Thad Jones : The magnificent Thad Jones
Miles Davis : Kind of Blue
Manny Album : The Blues is Everybody's Business
Art Pepper : <insert any Art Pepper album here>
Duke Ellington : Jazz Violin Sessions
Clifford Brown : A Study in Brown
Bill Evans : Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Zoot Zims : Hawthorne Nights

Rigsby

PaulieBoy wrote: »

I guess it's hardly fair of me to criticize the selection of others and not do one myself!
In no order:
Thad Jones : The magnificent Thad Jones
Miles Davis : Kind of Blue
Manny Album : The Blues is Everybody's Business
Art Pepper : <insert any Art Pepper album here>
Duke Ellington : Jazz Violin Sessions
Clifford Brown : A Study in Brown
Bill Evans : Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Zoot Zims : Hawthorne Nights

Great choices !! You are obviously not a fan of any electric jazz then ?

kwalshe

Passion Grace and Fire : McLaughlin , Di Lucia, Di Meola
Heavy Weather : Weather Report
Wave : Antonio Carlos Jobim
Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club Quintet : Django Reinhardt
Marcus Miller : Tales
Light as a Feather : Return to Forever

This is off the top of my head, I could add too many others

PaulieBoy

Rigsby wrote: »

Great choices !! You are obviously not a fan of any electric jazz then ?

None that I've heard. Has a sound that does nothing for me, but that would be the same for big bands they also do nothing for me either. I'm odd like that :-)
When it comes to jazz I'm fairly in the bob and cool style for the most part.

Rigsby

PaulieBoy wrote: »

None that I've heard. Has a sound that does nothing for me, but that would be the same for big bands they also do nothing for me either. I'm odd like that :-)
When it comes to jazz I'm fairly in the bob and cool style for the most part.

So it's not just "Bitches Brew" that you don't like, but most electric jazz ? For some reason, I thought you had singled out "BB" for particular criticism. Nothing wrong with that. To each their own.

PaulieBoy

Rigsby wrote: »

So it's not just "Bitches Brew" that you don't like, but most electric jazz ? For some reason, I thought you had singled out "BB" for particular criticism. Nothing wrong with that. To each their own.

Correct! I don't like any electric jazz, my dislike of said same is not restricted to BB. Although I still can't believe that Miles Davis came out with that C*** :-)

Rigsby

PaulieBoy wrote: »

Although I still can't believe that Miles Davis came out with that C*** :-)

Some share your opinion, but AFAIK you are in the minority, not that it makes any difference one way or the other. Granted Miles did lose some of his disciples, when he turned electric. The majority though stuck with him. I would certainly agree that his last few albums before his death left a lot to be desired. "BB" though, IMO is a masterpiece. Wouldn't it be a sad and boring old world indeed if everyone liked the same music ?

stick girl

The top favorites, but in no particular order:

In a silent way - Miles Davis
Essential T. Monk - Thelonious Monk
Speak no evil - Wayne shorter
The black saint and the sinner lady - Charles Mingus
Go - Dexter Gordon
Souvenirs - Django Reinhardt
Live at the newport jazz fest 1959 - Duke Ellington
Giant steps - John Coltrain
The Koln concert - Keith Jarrett
Saxophone colossus - Sonny Rollins
That old feeling - Zoot Sims quartet
Soul station - Hank Mobley


Nice to see what other folks are listening to!

acidskiffle

Can't get enough of The Brian Blade Fellowship- Perceptual at the moment.

18AD

Perceptual is fantastic.

Listening to Highway Rider by Brad Mehldau at the moment and would highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1C0K27x3Yk

flaccidmember

Blue Train - John Coltrane
Point of Departure - Andrew Hill
No Room for Squares - Hank Mobley
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
New Directions - Greg Osby et al
Mother Ship - Larry Young
Shade of Jade - Joe Henderson
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter

gotta love Blue Note records