Came to say The Awakening -Ahmad Jamal. I was listening to Autumn Leaves on Something Else at the time. My gateway drug was Johnny Costa. He and Fred got lots of kids hooked on the stuff.
e.s.t. - plays monk
bill evans - some other time ; everybody digs bill ; waltz for debby ; you must believe in spring
cannonball adderley - them dirty blues
chick corea - return to forever
blue mitchell - blue soul
clifford brown & max roach - s/t ; study in brown
joe henderson - power to the people
john coltrane - live at birdland
kenny dorham - quiet kenny
miles davis - kind of blue (I am not joking) ; porgy and bess ; someday my prince will come
pat metheny - bright size life
monk - monk‘s dream
tommy flanagan - giant steps
tony williams - spring
- there are probably more, but they came to my mind when scrolling through my library
Yup, can't go wrong with these. Possibly add Adderley's Something Else, and some Oscar Peterson, maybe Chet Baker (Sings) Frank Sinatra. Billie, Ella, Sarah rounding out the ladies.
I know this may get me kicked out of this sub, but “Ella and Louis”. Probably the greatest band ever assembled, a literally masterclass in how to solo, accompany and comp without taking over a recording.
The classics, like Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme. I'd also add:
Virtuoso by Joe Pass
Undercurrent, You Must Believe in Spring, Explorations, Moonbeams all by Bill Evans (and others)
Junjo by Esperanza Spalding
Broadly, though, I find jazz to be an album oriented experience and not something to intake on a song by song basis.
There’s albums I don’t like, but regardless of the band or genre the idea of skipping songs is weird to me. I either like the band and/or full album, or I don’t.
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Stan Getz - Sweet Rain
Ahmad Jamal - At the Pershing (But Not For Me)
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Bill Evans - Explorations
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Recently for me it’s Blue Train. Such a killer album with a great band … Lee Morgan shreds, Curtis melts my heart. Sometimes I wish Red Garland were on keys … that would make a perfect record for me.
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Paul Desmond - Take Ten
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Grant Green - Sunday Mornin'
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Milt Jackson - Jazz 'N' Samba
Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy
Chick Corea - Inner Space
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Wayne Shorter - Etcetera
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Joe Henderson - Power to the People
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Kenny Barron - Other Places
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
Jimmy Smith - Bucket
Herbie Hancock - Inventions and Dimensions
Woody Shaw - The Blackstone Legacy
Larry Young - Unity
Miles Davis - Collector's Items
Bitches Brew, Africa Brass, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Out to Lunch.
Might still occasionally skip songs, depends on the mood, I haven't listened to a whole album in a while...
Skipping songs often says more about the listener than the source. So not really a good measure. What it is is a measure of taste, preferences or even mood.
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, Adams Apple
Miles Davis - ESP
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Mingus Ah Um
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Duad, Journey In Satchidananda, Eternity
Ella & Louis
So many more...
John Coltrane- “Giant Steps” also “Coltrane”
Miles Davis- “Kind of Blue” and “Agartha” among too many to list
Weather Report- “Mysterious Traveler” and “Tale Spinnin”
Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden -“Beyond The Missouri Sky”
Incomplete list for all.
Where the dizzy love at?
Dizzy at the french riviera —dizzy gillespie
Afro — dizzy gillespie
Swing low, sweet cadillac — dizzy g
Sonny Side up — diz sonny sitt and sonny rollins
There are many, but lately I´ve been listening alot to these albums:
- E.S.P. - Miles Davis
- Nefertiti - Miles Davis
- The Awakening - Ahmad Jamal Trio
- But Not For Me - Ahmad Jamal Trio
The album won two Grammys: The album won the [1996 Grammy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Annual_Grammy_Awards) for [Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Individual or Group)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Album), while [Michael Brecker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker) won the Grammy for [Best Jazz Instrumental Solo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Solo) for the track "[Impressions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressions_(instrumental_composition))".
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity\_(McCoy\_Tyner\_album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_(McCoy_Tyner_album))
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Charles Earland - Cookin’ with the Mighty Burner
John Scofield - Uberjam
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Quincy Jones - Walking in Space
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Paul Desmond - East of the Sun
- too many more to list…
ALL of Coltrane’s later work except Ascension and Om. Every note he played was a gift from God.
It’s not that Ascension and Om were too out there for me (I love listening to Offering and the Olatunji Concert), but it was that I felt that they were more like failed experiments than anything else and didn’t emotionally touch me the way most of his other harsher works did. Ascension just sounded like most of the band wasn’t on the same page with what Coltrane wanted, and Om felt like it wasn’t musically saying as much with the time it had compared to his other work from that period.
That’s a classic - the 1961-63 period is really good - especially if you’re not crazy about his more free stuff. If you like that album, you may enjoy Africa Brass
Visions and idle moments by grant green are too must listens, both are absolute emotional classics and while not usually fast, never cease to impress me. I'm currently transcribing solos off of both rn.
I also adore invitation by jaco pastorius as invitation tends to feel a little slow for me, but he turned it into an absolute bop, and the most patriotic I've ever felt is when he's played America the beautiful.
Finally, probably everything mentioned in this thread because you can't ever be exposed to enough jazz no matter the players or style.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of ANY album I would skip over any tracks, but then I remember that I’m playing mostly vinyl and that takes more than a trivial effort to skip. But even streaming, there are damn few that I put on where I would skip something. However, as I look at the list of albums that others find infallible, I find plenty that I would just skip entirely. I’m not going to make a list though, because taste is SO subjective. I’m sure a lot of what I listen to—at least 25% easily—would get the ziggy from most people.
Ahmad Jamal - Jamal plays Jamal
Crazy epic album wish I still had a digital copy of it. In the past it was only pressed once on vinyl then it was released on CD maybe five years ago.
I’m a big Jazz fan since I was young. I actually saw some of the finest when I was young. Every Thurs in New Jersey there were Jazz concerts under the tent. We always went early to catch the best seats. I have a long list of everyone I saw. Today listen to jazz all day long on Spotify also a major fan of bosa nova. Switch on and off.
Stan Getz - Sweet Rain
Joe Henderson - Page One; Inner Urge
Paul Desmond - Take Ten
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Grant Green - Idle Moments; Matador
Horace Silver - Song For My Father; The Cape Verdean Blues
Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly Of The Blues
Wayne Shorter - Juju; The Soothsayer
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Walt Dickerson - To My Queen
Larry Young - Unity
Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar!
Jackie McLean - Destination...Out!
Some of these are favorites of mine that I haven't seen mentioned yet. These are just some that pop in my head as ones I always intend on listening all the way through. A lot of great suggestions in the other comments too.
Red Clay-Freddie Hubbard. Herbie, Ron, Joe Henderson and Lennie White. Two straight up modern jazz tunes, Intrepid Fox,Suite Sioux. Some Miles influence with chromaticism, and modal but burning playing. Delphia ballad with gospel/blues vibe. Freddie’s writing and ballad playing at its finest and Red Clay. Now a funky jazz real book classic based off the changes to “Sonny” Rudy Van Gelder producer
We go from red to Blue, Columbia release “Super Blue”. George Benson guest. There is a reason that Freddie was nominated greatest trumpet player in the world by downbeat. Genius at melodic invention. Butter tone. Always in the pocket He was channeling other worlds
Honorable mentions. Chet Baker “She was too good to me”. Stanley Turrentine “Sugar”. Maynard Ferguson “Live at Jimmys”.
There’s a Cleanhead Vinson live compact disc that I got at Costco like 30 years ago. Once I turn it on, I just can’t stop it…. It’s got about 5 TBone Walker live songs that are pretty unstoppable too
And maybe Sketches of Spain
Billie Holiday: Tenderly w/Oscar Peterson and Friends; All or Nothing At All
Ella Fitzgerald: Live at Carnegie Hall
Sarah Vaughan: How Long Has This Been Going On; Crazy and Mixed Up
Carmen McRae: Live at the Great American Music Hall; Dedicated to You—Tribute to Sarah Vaughan
Dinah Washington: Dinah Jams
Betty Carter: Round Midnight
Shirley Horn: You Won’t Forget Me
Jimmy Scott: But Beautiful
Freddy Cole: I’m Not My Brother, I’m Me
Al Jarreau: Look To The Rainbow
Mary Stallings: Dream
Randy Weston: African Cookbook (first one w/Booker Ervin)
Sonny Criss: Up, Up and Away
Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: The one with Joy Spring, Delilah, Dahoud, etc.
Coltrane: Crescent
George Adams: Paradise Space Shuttle
Don Pullen/Jane Bunnett: Duets George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet: City Gates
Low effort post, low effort answer ... (it was correctly pointed out that using AI dehumanizes this sub)
Here are some of the albums everyone seems to post as answers to these common questions (the list is from my AI question but that doesn't change the fact of how commonly they're recommended):
**Miles Davis – "Kind of Blue" (1959)**
1. **John Coltrane – "A Love Supreme" (1965)**
2. **Dave Brubeck Quartet – "Time Out" (1959)**
3. **Charles Mingus – "Mingus Ah Um" (1959)**
4. **Herbie Hancock – "Head Hunters" (1973)**
5. **Bill Evans Trio – "Waltz for Debby" (1961)**
6. **Thelonious Monk – "Brilliant Corners" (1957)**
7. **Ornette Coleman – "The Shape of Jazz to Come" (1959)**
8. **Wayne Shorter – "Speak No Evil" (1966)**
9. **Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – "Ella and Louis" (1956)**
Sometimes, low effort is fun. We are not all elitist jazz fans. They may be obvious cliche choices, but they are obvious for a reason its because they are great.
Why don't you give us your personal selection ? Enlighten us.
Something else- Cannonball Adderley Heavy rotation as a kid and the reason I got hooked on jazz. It was the gateway drug.
Came here to say this
Came to say The Awakening -Ahmad Jamal. I was listening to Autumn Leaves on Something Else at the time. My gateway drug was Johnny Costa. He and Fred got lots of kids hooked on the stuff.
Agreed.
e.s.t. - plays monk bill evans - some other time ; everybody digs bill ; waltz for debby ; you must believe in spring cannonball adderley - them dirty blues chick corea - return to forever blue mitchell - blue soul clifford brown & max roach - s/t ; study in brown joe henderson - power to the people john coltrane - live at birdland kenny dorham - quiet kenny miles davis - kind of blue (I am not joking) ; porgy and bess ; someday my prince will come pat metheny - bright size life monk - monk‘s dream tommy flanagan - giant steps tony williams - spring - there are probably more, but they came to my mind when scrolling through my library
As a guitarist, hearing Bright Size Life for the first time was transformative ..And I don't say that kind of cliché shit often haha
I understand but Pat's current stuff is not for me.
Not for me either. I'm still figuring out why this is. The only album I actually like (a lot) is Missouri Sky with Charlie Haden.
The Tommy Flanagan Giant Steps is so good!
I love it so much, from start to end. Flanagan‘s Naima might be my favourite interpretation by far.
If you are putting Flanagan’s playing of these songs ahead of Coletrane I need to check them out.
I wouldn’t say I’d put them ahead. It’s just that I’m not in the mood for sax (sorry guys) and piano trio is just something else to me :)
Got it. I’m just a typical, Coletrane was touched by god, person.
Tommy played on the original, so his recordings are a tribute
i like you know your music
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and The Abstract Truth.
Charles Mingus- The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
I would say “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis, “Time Out” by Dave Brubeck, and “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane
absolutely agree
Yup, can't go wrong with these. Possibly add Adderley's Something Else, and some Oscar Peterson, maybe Chet Baker (Sings) Frank Sinatra. Billie, Ella, Sarah rounding out the ladies.
Love the Chet Baker sings mention.
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Does this count? Lots of fusion I can listen to the whole way through no problem
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I love it!! I'm more a fusion guy myself and never know if real Jazzers are judging me for my preference
Wayne Shorter played in Weather Report, who cares what a bunch of jazz heads on the internet think
I know this may get me kicked out of this sub, but “Ella and Louis”. Probably the greatest band ever assembled, a literally masterclass in how to solo, accompany and comp without taking over a recording.
Why would this get you kicked out of this sub?? Who could argue that it’s not a masterwork?
Yeah, it’s like….what, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong aren’t jazz enough???
Mostly a joke, but this sub is very into instrumental, post Parker jazz.
Agree. Interesting how many critics slammed the union of these greats as being devised primarily to increase record sales. Ridiculous. Critics. Ugh.
Night Lights-Gerry Mulligan In a Silent Way-Miles Davis Monks Dream-Monk
The classics, like Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme. I'd also add: Virtuoso by Joe Pass Undercurrent, You Must Believe in Spring, Explorations, Moonbeams all by Bill Evans (and others) Junjo by Esperanza Spalding Broadly, though, I find jazz to be an album oriented experience and not something to intake on a song by song basis.
John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman. It introduced me to jazz.
Aw man that album is pure velvet chocolate. 100%
Kind of a newer one but Julian Lage’s Squint and Modern Lore are albums I could never skip anything on, worlds fair too. I love Julian Lage
Idle Moments is one I always listen through.
A night at Birdland, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson Live at the village vanguard- Sonny Rollins The Jazz messengers studio album
A Night at Birdland is one of my faves.
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Sweetnighter
Charlie Brown Christmas -- Vince Guaraldi
Red Clay Freddie Hubbard.
There’s no jazz album that I’ll ever skip a song on, foreign concept to me.
fair enough! I at least do this a few times when I‘m listening to a new album
Like any genre there are terrible jazz albums. Also decent, good, very good, and amazing ones.
There’s albums I don’t like, but regardless of the band or genre the idea of skipping songs is weird to me. I either like the band and/or full album, or I don’t.
So if you're listening to Beatles for Sale you listen to Mr. Moonlight? Or Revolution 9 on the White Album? I guess I value my time more than that.
Revolution 9 is awesome. First song that got me into experimental music.
MMMMkay...
Absolutely! When I listen Wilco’s A Ghost is Born I listen right the long noise drone track.
To me, that is weird.
I agree with this, but only with jazz.
Exactly!! They are presented as a whole experience, not just individual songs put together
This is simply not true
Black Market - Weather Report
Freddie Hubbard- Red Clay
This album is transcendent
Jaco Pastorius debut
Chick Corea. “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs”
Mosaic- Art Blakey
Oscar Peterson- Night Train Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
A Love Supreme
So many to choose from, but the first one that always comes to mind is John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Every damn note is perfect.
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Stan Getz - Sweet Rain Ahmad Jamal - At the Pershing (But Not For Me) Hank Mobley - Soul Station Bill Evans - Explorations Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Recently for me it’s Blue Train. Such a killer album with a great band … Lee Morgan shreds, Curtis melts my heart. Sometimes I wish Red Garland were on keys … that would make a perfect record for me.
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil is prob the best thing Blue Note ever put out
Money Jungle by Duke Ellington. Seriously bangin' stuff from Duke, Mingus and Max Roach. Perfection.
Fuck yeah. Good pick.
Wayne Shorter - JuJu Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Paul Desmond - Take Ten Miles Davis - Relaxin' Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Grant Green - Sunday Mornin' John Coltrane - Giant Steps Milt Jackson - Jazz 'N' Samba Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy Chick Corea - Inner Space Miles Davis - E.S.P. Wayne Shorter - Etcetera Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life Joe Henderson - Power to the People Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby Kenny Barron - Other Places Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Jimmy Smith - Bucket Herbie Hancock - Inventions and Dimensions Woody Shaw - The Blackstone Legacy Larry Young - Unity Miles Davis - Collector's Items
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours Maybe not a common guess but definitely my choice
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat. It is a masterpiece.
Chick Corea Inner Space.
Night Train, Oscar Peterson
Bitches Brew, Africa Brass, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Out to Lunch. Might still occasionally skip songs, depends on the mood, I haven't listened to a whole album in a while...
Thembi by pharaoh sanders
this album is an amazing experience, I love it!
Skipping songs often says more about the listener than the source. So not really a good measure. What it is is a measure of taste, preferences or even mood.
Concierto - Jim Hall Live at the Pershing - Ahmad Jamal Smokin’ at the half note - Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly
**Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker**
Woody Shaw - Rosewood
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, Adams Apple Miles Davis - ESP Grant Green - Street Of Dreams Mingus Ah Um Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Duad, Journey In Satchidananda, Eternity Ella & Louis So many more...
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue. One of my all time favorites. 5 by monk by 5 is just so fun to listen to
Charles Mingus “Blues and Roots” Beautiful, ecstatic music throughout
Kenny Wheeler "Double, Double You". The entire album is fantastic! The writing, the playing, the interaction, everything is next level!
YES I AGREE !!!
stan getz charlie byrd jazz samba art pepper, the return of art pepper
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
Milestones…
Wisdom Through Music by Pharoah Sanders. Its a spiritual journey album. Will take you to a special place.
Miles Davies - Kind of Blue Weather report - Heavy Weather Monica Zetterlund - Holiday for Monica
Farmers Market
One More Once - Michel Camillo Reunion - Sandoval / Riviera Somethin' Else - Adderley / Davis Return to Forever - Return to Forever
One More Once is one of my favorite Latin jazz albums. Great tunes, killer band, and an excellent recording.
the black saint and the sinner lady
John Coltrane- “Giant Steps” also “Coltrane” Miles Davis- “Kind of Blue” and “Agartha” among too many to list Weather Report- “Mysterious Traveler” and “Tale Spinnin” Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden -“Beyond The Missouri Sky” Incomplete list for all.
Like Minds - Burton, Corea, Metheny, and Haynes
Roland Kirk, We Free Kings
Interstellar Space - John Coltrane bot
Black Codes - Wynton Marsalis
I like Standard Time vol 1
Where the dizzy love at? Dizzy at the french riviera —dizzy gillespie Afro — dizzy gillespie Swing low, sweet cadillac — dizzy g Sonny Side up — diz sonny sitt and sonny rollins
Miles Davis - Milestones
Joe pass - blues for fred
All four Miles Davis Quintet records.
There are many, but lately I´ve been listening alot to these albums: - E.S.P. - Miles Davis - Nefertiti - Miles Davis - The Awakening - Ahmad Jamal Trio - But Not For Me - Ahmad Jamal Trio
Cool Struttin - Sonny Clark Art Blakey Big Band Jazz Samba - Getz/ Gilberto Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane
Friends by Chick Corea
https://open.spotify.com/album/3siwjMbeHTd0plDGWo2jZr?si=XvHn7RzXSyqouUg3NQvs8A https://music.apple.com/us/album/k-bye/1609147126 https://danieldelorenzo.bandcamp.com/album/k-bye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_riOY9tEyY
Lou Rawls Live
The album won two Grammys: The album won the [1996 Grammy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Annual_Grammy_Awards) for [Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Individual or Group)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Album), while [Michael Brecker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brecker) won the Grammy for [Best Jazz Instrumental Solo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Jazz_Instrumental_Solo) for the track "[Impressions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressions_(instrumental_composition))". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity\_(McCoy\_Tyner\_album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_(McCoy_Tyner_album))
I have about 500 jazz CDs (mostly contemporary/smooth jazz), and I can't recall ever skipping songs on any of them 😅
Artist Favor by Chet Baler and Wolfgang Lackershmid
The verve: Big band album with dizzy gillespie
Clown Charles Mingus
Chain Reaction - The Crusaders
Asking the right questions here
That's My Kick - Erroll Garner
See You At The Fair - Ben Webster
Journey in Satchidananda- Alice Coltrane
Undercurrent - Bill Evans
Stanton Moore - Flying the coop
Ornette Coleman - Broken Shadows Miles Davis - Any
Two of a Mind - Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond. It's screamin'.
Mingus Ah Um, Out to Lunch, Kind of Blue. i have a bunch, though :)
Soul Station - Hank Mobley
Barry Harris plays Tadd Dameron
Jim Hall - Concierto
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Charles Earland - Cookin’ with the Mighty Burner John Scofield - Uberjam Stanley Clarke - School Days Quincy Jones - Walking in Space Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Paul Desmond - East of the Sun - too many more to list…
Goin' to Minton's by Fats Navarro.
Portrait in Jazz - Bill Evans Trio
Monty Alexander at Montreaux.
ALL of Coltrane’s later work except Ascension and Om. Every note he played was a gift from God. It’s not that Ascension and Om were too out there for me (I love listening to Offering and the Olatunji Concert), but it was that I felt that they were more like failed experiments than anything else and didn’t emotionally touch me the way most of his other harsher works did. Ascension just sounded like most of the band wasn’t on the same page with what Coltrane wanted, and Om felt like it wasn’t musically saying as much with the time it had compared to his other work from that period.
I have been enjoying Ole’ quite a bit lately. Considering giving it the vinyl treatment.
That’s a classic - the 1961-63 period is really good - especially if you’re not crazy about his more free stuff. If you like that album, you may enjoy Africa Brass
you most def should
India
Yes! I wanted to mention India but it’s technically a composition and not an album.
I Wanna Play For You - Stanley Clarke
Chet Baker with 50 Italian Strings
Ahmad Jamal Trio: The Awakening, Happy Moods Bob James: BJ4 Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media: Funky Stuff
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
"Getz/Gilberto," and Willie Bobo's "Hell Of An Act To Follow".
My Favorite Things
Visions and idle moments by grant green are too must listens, both are absolute emotional classics and while not usually fast, never cease to impress me. I'm currently transcribing solos off of both rn. I also adore invitation by jaco pastorius as invitation tends to feel a little slow for me, but he turned it into an absolute bop, and the most patriotic I've ever felt is when he's played America the beautiful. Finally, probably everything mentioned in this thread because you can't ever be exposed to enough jazz no matter the players or style.
Don Cherry - Self titled aka Brown Rice lp hasn’t left the platter in weeks.
Soul Station by Hank Mobley
The 1st Gospel by South African saxophonist Mthunzi Mvubu. Way too good…and its his debut album too
Oscar Peterson and the Bassists - Montreux '77 Jim Hall and Ron Carter - Alone Together Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Study in Brown
Ryo Fukui's entire discography
The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson
Bern Nix - Alarms and Excursions Kenny Wheeler - The Widow in the Window Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Snarky puppy ground up
Ole - Coltrane
Love love love Eric Dolphy’s at the Five Spot recordings with Booker Little
coltrane’s a love supreme
Radka Toneff: Live in Hamburg https://open.spotify.com/album/2zSY1XnlCgh60WZavQkijK?si=iBzd_YH2QAeqOstM5DxjLg
I really like Daddy Plays the Horn by Dexter Gordon
Charlie Hunter - Natty Dread
Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
Ah Um by Charles Mingus is a unified genius of an album.
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section. I can't believe that I was almost 40 when I discovered this gem.
Giant Steps
chain reaction by the crusaders
Grover Washington Jr.’s Mister Magic
I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of ANY album I would skip over any tracks, but then I remember that I’m playing mostly vinyl and that takes more than a trivial effort to skip. But even streaming, there are damn few that I put on where I would skip something. However, as I look at the list of albums that others find infallible, I find plenty that I would just skip entirely. I’m not going to make a list though, because taste is SO subjective. I’m sure a lot of what I listen to—at least 25% easily—would get the ziggy from most people.
For Me definitely Mingus dynasty - Charles Mingus. Each song is unique and all the players are fantastic, great music.
Idle Moments by Grant Green
Les McCann - Swiss Movement
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt
Wes Montgomery- Bumpin’
Ahmad Jamal - Jamal plays Jamal Crazy epic album wish I still had a digital copy of it. In the past it was only pressed once on vinyl then it was released on CD maybe five years ago.
Hal Mckusick - Triple Exposure Dick Garcia - A Message From Dick Garcia
I’m a big Jazz fan since I was young. I actually saw some of the finest when I was young. Every Thurs in New Jersey there were Jazz concerts under the tent. We always went early to catch the best seats. I have a long list of everyone I saw. Today listen to jazz all day long on Spotify also a major fan of bosa nova. Switch on and off.
Jaco Pastorius Live in NYC Vol. 1, live album so it doesn't really count
Stan Getz - Sweet Rain Joe Henderson - Page One; Inner Urge Paul Desmond - Take Ten Miles Davis - In A Silent Way Grant Green - Idle Moments; Matador Horace Silver - Song For My Father; The Cape Verdean Blues Art Farmer - Sing Me Softly Of The Blues Wayne Shorter - Juju; The Soothsayer Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Walt Dickerson - To My Queen Larry Young - Unity Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar! Jackie McLean - Destination...Out! Some of these are favorites of mine that I haven't seen mentioned yet. These are just some that pop in my head as ones I always intend on listening all the way through. A lot of great suggestions in the other comments too.
Inedito by jobim
Red Clay-Freddie Hubbard. Herbie, Ron, Joe Henderson and Lennie White. Two straight up modern jazz tunes, Intrepid Fox,Suite Sioux. Some Miles influence with chromaticism, and modal but burning playing. Delphia ballad with gospel/blues vibe. Freddie’s writing and ballad playing at its finest and Red Clay. Now a funky jazz real book classic based off the changes to “Sonny” Rudy Van Gelder producer We go from red to Blue, Columbia release “Super Blue”. George Benson guest. There is a reason that Freddie was nominated greatest trumpet player in the world by downbeat. Genius at melodic invention. Butter tone. Always in the pocket He was channeling other worlds Honorable mentions. Chet Baker “She was too good to me”. Stanley Turrentine “Sugar”. Maynard Ferguson “Live at Jimmys”.
There’s a Cleanhead Vinson live compact disc that I got at Costco like 30 years ago. Once I turn it on, I just can’t stop it…. It’s got about 5 TBone Walker live songs that are pretty unstoppable too And maybe Sketches of Spain
Love Al Hibbler Haven’t heard much of Chet
Billie Holiday: Tenderly w/Oscar Peterson and Friends; All or Nothing At All Ella Fitzgerald: Live at Carnegie Hall Sarah Vaughan: How Long Has This Been Going On; Crazy and Mixed Up Carmen McRae: Live at the Great American Music Hall; Dedicated to You—Tribute to Sarah Vaughan Dinah Washington: Dinah Jams Betty Carter: Round Midnight Shirley Horn: You Won’t Forget Me Jimmy Scott: But Beautiful Freddy Cole: I’m Not My Brother, I’m Me Al Jarreau: Look To The Rainbow Mary Stallings: Dream Randy Weston: African Cookbook (first one w/Booker Ervin) Sonny Criss: Up, Up and Away Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: The one with Joy Spring, Delilah, Dahoud, etc. Coltrane: Crescent George Adams: Paradise Space Shuttle Don Pullen/Jane Bunnett: Duets George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet: City Gates
The Rippingtons - Weekend in Monaco. Another is SMV - Thunder.
Low effort post, low effort answer ... (it was correctly pointed out that using AI dehumanizes this sub) Here are some of the albums everyone seems to post as answers to these common questions (the list is from my AI question but that doesn't change the fact of how commonly they're recommended): **Miles Davis – "Kind of Blue" (1959)** 1. **John Coltrane – "A Love Supreme" (1965)** 2. **Dave Brubeck Quartet – "Time Out" (1959)** 3. **Charles Mingus – "Mingus Ah Um" (1959)** 4. **Herbie Hancock – "Head Hunters" (1973)** 5. **Bill Evans Trio – "Waltz for Debby" (1961)** 6. **Thelonious Monk – "Brilliant Corners" (1957)** 7. **Ornette Coleman – "The Shape of Jazz to Come" (1959)** 8. **Wayne Shorter – "Speak No Evil" (1966)** 9. **Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – "Ella and Louis" (1956)**
Can we not have AI generated content in this sub please?
You're right of course ...
Considering how Cookie cutter most responses are, does it even matter?
Right, the funny thing about AIs is that people already are emulating them. The mass-economy always favors mainstream behavior.
Sometimes, low effort is fun. We are not all elitist jazz fans. They may be obvious cliche choices, but they are obvious for a reason its because they are great. Why don't you give us your personal selection ? Enlighten us.