From the article: A List of Ten Great Recordings to Start Your Jazz Collection.
Hundreds of albums could be on this list. What albums do you think stand out the most? Which are the most important recordings made in jazz history? What records should a new jazz fan buy to become familiar with the many periods and styles of jazz? What Are Your Picks?
em... what?
- Kind of Blue and Giant Steps not on the top 10 list? that's just silly!
- —Guest 1959
No one mentioned...
- "Blues and the Abstract Truth"!!! Giants led by a giant. 36 minutes of heaven and all originals.
- —Guest Steve Job
"Blues & The Abstract Truth"- O.Nelson
- A classic LP with top class musicians with the beautiful first edition of "Stolen Moments"
- —Guest Graham
Dave Brubeck
- Time Out -- great. Time Further Out -- even greater.
- —Guest Richard
Some things are missing!!!
- The "Blanton Webtser Years"-"Bird and Diz and Bud Powell w/ Roy Haynes "Live at Birdland" Count Basie w/ Lester young on Clarinet "The KC 7" "The Genius of Bud Powell," "Solo Monk,"Louis Armstrong's "The Hot Five" and "Hot Seven," Billie Holiday's "Lady in Satin." Billie Holiday w/ Pres – ANYTHING!!! John Coltrane's "Live at Birdland," Billy Eckstine Big Band "Bird and Fats Navarro "Ornithology"......
- —Guest Pete Peterson
COOL IMAGINATION
- PAUL DESMOND COOL IMAGINATION BLUEBIRD SLOW MELODIC JAZZ SAXOPHONE AT ITS BEST
- —Guest pAUL dESMOND COOL IMAGINATION
My Jazz
- Louis Armstrong & his Hot 7; Miles Davis' Bitches Brew & The Birth of Cool; Charlie Parker Live at Birdland 1950; & a little Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddamn"
- —Guest My Jazz
Essential
- Dave Brubeck - 'Take Five' Cannonball Adderley - 'Somethin' Else' Those are essential.
- —Guest GUEST
Gene Harris: Black and Blue
- This record was one of the discs that really moved me in terms of composition, personnel and general quality. I was able to see Gene live, and he did not disappoint.
- —Guest rcmoredock
My Picks
- This is my current list. It changes all the time: 1. Blue Train - John Coltrane 2. Night Train - Oscar Peterson 3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 4. Portrait In Jazz - Bill Evans 5. Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson 6. Monk's Dream - Thelonious Monk 7. Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-Fi - Gerry Mulligan/Stan Getz 8. Count Basie And The Kansas City Seven - Count Basie 9. Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues Back To Back - Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges 10. The Magnificent Thad Jones - Thad Jones
- —Guest Chris D
KIND OF BLUE
- IN MY CIRCLES, I'VE TRAVELED, READ, ATTENDED GIGS & CONCERTS, COVERSED, ETC., BUT WHATEVER I WAS DOING AND JAZZ WAS MENTIONED, MILES DAVIS' ALBUM OF, "KIND OF BLUE" WAS BY FAR THE ALL TIME FAVORITE ... EVERYWHERE!
- —Guest MILES DAVIS
Blues and the abstract truth
- This desert island disc alone guarantees composer Oliver Nelson his spot in the jazz Hall of Fame alongside Evans, Hubbard, Dolphy and Roy Haynes, each at their own creative peak on this date. This record ranks with the Coltrane Blue Note and Miles's Kind of Blue as one in which the assembled talents manage to nail every track.
- —Youngtrummy
Miles and Gil
- "Porgy and Bess" by Miles Davis, arranged by Gil Evans. A simply gorgeous, breathtaking version of the great Gershwin score.
- —Guest Kieran Downey
Dave Brubeck is the best.
- Any album by Dave Brubeck. We never tire of them. The early ones are the best!
- —Guest Willsgirl1
Night Train
- My favorite! Oscar swings like no other, and plays blues, boogie, and great swing.
- —Guest Oscar Peterson
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