Your favourite jazz albums?

[davidraphael]

Which are your favourite jazz albums? Maybe some are classics, maybe there's one you love that isn't particularly well-known. Let's hear about it!

This is my list.
(I only included one by each artist, otherwise my list would contain dozens of Miles, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson albums!)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests
Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Ben Webster - For the Guv'nor
John Coltrane - Ole
Ramsey Lewis Trio - More Sounds of Christmas
Ella Fitzgerald - The Songbooks
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloe
Weather Report - Black Market
Charles Mingus - Ah Hum

If I could only take one to a desert island, it would be Kind of Blue. I never tire of listening it, and I've been listening to it for decades.

Obviously, there are dozens more compilations by pre-war artists that mostly recorded only 'sides'.

 

[Dan'l]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (I think this is the biggest selling jazz album)
Thelonious Monk - The Complete Columbia Years
Charlie Parker - With Strings, the master takes
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
I'll stop here. Cool thread.

 

[Rat Pack]

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[Talbot]

Great thread. Ditto on all the above.

+ Ahmad Jamal - The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings.

 

[dr greg]

been playin it for 40 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDiXszQeVY

 

[Gilboa]

Hmm ... difficult. Does it have to be golden era? My list will be a wild mix on a time scale.

Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Midnight Train (with Stanley Turrentine)
The Crusaders - Free As the Wind
Lalo Schifrin - (the best of 1962 1972)
Cannonball Adderlely - Somethin' Else
Stan Getz with Joao & Astrudo Gilberto (give me anything, I'll take it on my little island)
Horace Silver - The blue note years
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream


I probably change my mind in 2 hours

 

[Chas]

Too many to name, but to name a few:

 

[Mark D]

That's a tough one. The top two on my list are...

John Coltrane - Ballads
Joe Pass - Portraits of Duke

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Bill Evans Trio- The Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
Grachan Moncur III- Evolution
George Russell- Ezz-Thetics
Curtis Counce Group- You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!
Charles Mingus- The Clown

Bobby Hutcherson- Oblique
Miles Davis- E.S.P.
Harold Land- Harold in the Land of Jazz
Chet Baker- Sings
Lee Morgan- The Procrastinator

EDIT: The first two immediately come to mind, then the others all fall in randomly.

 

[Spitfire]

Tough....there are so many....but if I must only choose three?

Ben Webster meets Gerry Mulligan
Saxophone Collossus/Tenor Madness - Sony Rollins
Body and Soul - Colemann Hawkins

Not in that order - just shuffle them around.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Dave Brubeck - Greatist Hits
Buddy Rich - Stick It

 

[Nathan Dodge]

I feel guilty for forgetting to include:

Ornette Coleman- The Shape of Jazz to Come

 

[JimWagner]

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Dave Brubeck - Time Out and Time Further Our

 

[Gilboa]

I would have to add: Barbara Dennerlein - Straight Ahead (if you like hammond organ ... have a listen)

 

[Trombone]

The Entire Duke Ellington Centennial Edition, all 24CDs!
--The following are all LPs unless stated--
Jack Teagarden -Meet Me Where They Play The Blues
Woody Herman -Bijou
Urbie Green -The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green
Duke Ellington -Ellingtonia Vol. 1 (the 1930s 4' 78 record set from Brunswick)
Buddy Morrow -Night Train
Charles Mingus -Blues and Roots
Tommy Dorsey -The Fabulous Dorseys in Hi-Fi (a promotional 2 LP set)
Tommy Dorsey -The Best of Tommy Dorsey (a collection of his late 40s & early 50s MCA recordings)

 

[MD_SPencer]

Cannonball Adderley Something Else
Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Round about midnight
John Coltrane Ballads
John Coltrane With the Red Garland Trio
Joe Henderson Mode for Joe
Wynton Marsalis Standard Time Vol. 1

 

[martinsantos]

Usually the LP I get to hear!!! By now, Count Basie's "Shootin' High".

 

[DavidVillaJr]

'Trane - A Love Supreme
'Trane - Crescent

Art Pepper - The Art of the Ballad - it's a compilation/collection
Art Pepper - Meets the Rhythm Section

Anything with Bird and Dizzy, or Bird and Miles

Miles Davis - any and all

Branford Marsalis - Requiem
Branford Marsalis - Eternal
Branford Marsalis - Footsteps of Our Fathers

Wayne Shorter - Alegria
Wayne Shorter - Footprints

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - everything in his discography

and the list goes on and on and on and on

dv

 

[DavidVillaJr]

Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth

how could I have forgotten that one?!!!


dv

 

[Brian Sheridan]

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse)