Jazz

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Do we have any gurus? (I cnt spell connoisseurs)

Its something, like Classical, that I've wanted to get into, and there is fook else to do...

I'm currently on Charlie Mingus Quartet"s Chazz which is quite foot tapping as is his Blues and Roots.

I'm sure there must be different genres etc?

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His "The Impulse Story" is decidedly pleasant too.

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I'll be posting a link to my top 100 (and/or 200 if I have enough time or inclination) albums sometime soon in the music forum, I'm mainly a rock fan but have quite a few jazz albums too - Mingus "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" will be in the top ten, but is more avant garde so maybe not for everyone! Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is the biggest selling jazz album ever for good reasons, you may well have it already, and will have heard it many times maybe without realising (it turns up as backing music, recently on a beatles documentary for example) and will also be in my chart, as will John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme".
You'll hear a fair bit of newer jazz if you listen to 6 music - the Moses Boyd new album is a personal favourite, as are The Comet Is Coming's two albums from last year.

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Dump the top Jazz ones here?

His Black Saint.... is good too, (I have kinda binged him today).

Which progs on R6 play it?

[quizking]

There are lots of lists of greatest jazz albums on t'internet, but mostly written by academics or show-offs - this is a more approachable list as it's voted for by the public, from the year 2000, collated from the virgin top 100o albums vote;

1. Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
2. Coltrane, John – A Love Supreme
3. Davis, Miles – In a Silent Way
4. Davis, Miles – Sketches of Spain
5. Mingus, Charles – Mingus Ah Um
6. Ellington, Duke – the Blanton Webster Years
7. Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew
8. Nelson, Oliver – Blues and the Abstract Truth
9. Coltrane, John – Blue Trane
10. Davis, Miles – Birth of the Cool
11. Jarrett, Keith – Köln Concert
12. Coltrane, John – My Favorite Things
13. Davis, Miles – Miles Smiles
14. Monk, Thelonious – Genius of Modern Music Vols 1 & 2
15. Rollins, Sonny – Saxophone Colossus
16. Basie, Count – Atomic Mr Basie
17. Parker, Charlie – Complete Savoy Sessions
18. Mingus, Charles – Black Saint and Sinner Lady
19. Hancock, Herbie – Maiden Voyage
20. Mulligan, Gerry – Meets Ben Webster
21. Ellington, Duke – At Newport
22. Evans, Bill – Waltz for Debby
23. Davis, Miles – My Funny Valentine
24. Fitzgerald, Ella – George & Ira Gershwin
25. Davis, Miles – Milestones
26. Hawkins, Coleman – Body & Soul
27. Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
28. Mingus, Charles – Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
29. Davis, Miles – Round About Midnight
30. Holiday, Billie – Lady in Autumn
31. Ellington, Duke – Money Jungle
32. Ellington, Duke – Indigos
33. Smith, Jimmy – Organ Grinder Swing
34. Rollins, Sonny – Sonny Rollins Vol 2
35. Metheny, Pat – Travels
36. Gordon, Dexter – Our Man in Paris
37. Morgan, Lee – Sidewinder
38. Silver, Horace Quintet – Song for My Father
39. Fitzgerald, Ella & Louis Armstrong – Ella & Louis
40. Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
41. Davis, Miles – Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
42. Metheny, Pat – Offramp
43. Smith, Jimmy – Got My Mojo Workin’
44. Coltrane, John – Impressions
45. Smith, Jimmy – the Cat
46. Monk, Thelonious – Solo Monk
47. Coltrane, John – Giant Steps
48. Davis, Miles – Porgy & Bess
49. Weather Report – Heavy Weather
50. Monk, Thelonious – Monk’s Music

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More jazz at the weekend than midweek - especially gilles peterson, and the freak zone show.

[bspittles]

Excellent list, thank you!

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More jazz at the weekend than midweek - especially gilles peterson, and the freak zone show.

Ah, they were the only 2 I could think of, and first should shut up rather than do a "cool" voice. Ditto Craig Charles who plays some great stuff.

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Excellent list, thank you!

Indeedy

YouTube used to have "The Life and Crimes of Lenny Bruce" from BBC, which had my ideal of jazz as an Intro. Obviously it got zapped....

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Sam Cooke's My Kind of Blues is beyond lush.....

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More jazz at the weekend than midweek - especially gilles peterson, and the freak zone show.

Just quoting a shorter post....

Thanks for the list: Our Man in in Paris is

[Spinynorman]

Blimey. A list of 100 jazz albums and no Dave Brubeck.

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Great point.

I was just looking for names that I hadn't heard of tbh.

[quizking]

Ok, try this one with brubeck at number 4, from jazz100 (apologies for the formatting, or lack thereof, the site list was designed to link to sell stuff obvs)

1 Miles Davis Kind of Blue 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 2 John Coltrane A Love Supreme 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 3 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 4 The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 5 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 6 Miles Davis Bitches Brew 1970 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 7 John Coltrane Giant Steps 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 8 Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 9 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Moanin' 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 10 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 11 Charles Mingus Black Saint & the Sinner Lady 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 12 Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 13 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 14 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 15 John Coltrane Blue Train 1957 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 16 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 17 Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert 1975 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 18 Bill Evans Trio Waltz for Debby 1961 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 19 Miles Davis In a Silent Way 1969 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 20 Herbie Hancock Head Hunters 1973 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 21 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 22 Lee Morgan The Sidewinder 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 23 Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame 1971 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 24 The Horace Silver Quintet Song for My Father 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 25 Louis Armstrong Hot Fives & Sevens 1928 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 26 John Coltrane My Favorite Things 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 27 Weather Report Heavy Weather 1977 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 28 Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club 1997 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 29 Oliver Nelson The Blues & the Abstract Truth 1961 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 30 John Zorn Naked City 1990 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 31 Pharoah Sanders Karma 1969 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 32 Charlie Parker The Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions 1948 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 33 Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 34 Dexter Gordon Go! 1962 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 35 Wes Montgomery Incredible Jazz Guitar 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 36 Albert Ayler Trio Spiritual Unity 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 37 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Ella & Louis 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 38 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Ellington at Newport [2CD] 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 39 Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 40 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 41 Hank Mobley Soul Station 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 42 Grant Green Idle Moments 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 43 The Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train 1962 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 44 McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy 1967 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 45 Andrew Hill Point of Departure 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 46 Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 47 Miles Davis Birth of the Cool 1950 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 48 Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire 1973 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 49 Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius 1976 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 50 Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda 1971 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 51 Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 52 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 53 Billie Holiday Columbia Recordings (1933-44) 1944 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 54 Chick Corea Return to Forever 1972 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 55 Count Basie Orchestra The Complete Atomic Basie 1957 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 56 Sonny Clark Cool Struttin' 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 57 Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsy 1976 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 58 Peter Brotzmann Octet Machine Gun 1968 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 59 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Study in Brown 1955 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 60 Krzysztof Komeda Astigmatic 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 61 Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall 1957 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 62 Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances a Sophie 1970 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 63 Charles Mingus Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus… 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 64 Sun Ra & His Arkestra Jazz In Silhouette 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 65 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section 1957 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 66 Billie Holiday Lady in Satin 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 67 Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown 1954 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 68 Pat Metheny Bright Size Life 1975 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 69 Django Reinhardt Best of Django Reinhardt 1940 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 70 Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds 1961 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 71 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Blanton-Webster Recordings 1942 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 72 Duke Ellington w/ Mingus & Roach Money Jungle 1962 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 73 Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight 1957 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 74 Cecil Taylor Unit Structures 1966 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 75 The Gerry Mulligan Quartet The Best of… with Chet Baker 1953 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 76 Antonio Carlos Jobim Wave 1967 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 77 Billy Cobham Spectrum 1973 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 78 Max Roach We Insist! Freedom Now Suite 1960 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
2 79 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Bird and Diz 1950 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 80 Coleman Hawkins Body & Soul [RCA] 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 81 Joe Henderson Page One 1963 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 82 Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin' Lovers 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 83 Lester Young With the Oscar Peterson Trio 1952 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 84 Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus 1956 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 85 Larry Young Unity 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 86 Mozdzer, Danielsson & Fresco The Time 2005 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 87 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba 1962 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 88 Sidney Bechet Legendary Sidney Bechet 1941 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 89 Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 90 The Quintet (w/ Charlie Parker) Jazz at Massey Hall 1952 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 91 Charles Mingus Blues & Roots 1959 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 92 Jimmy Smith The Sermon 1958 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 93 Diana Krall Live in Paris 2002 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 94 Wayne Shorter Juju 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 95 Charlie Christian The Genius of the Electric Guitar 1941 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 96 Bix Beiderbecke At the Jazz Band Ball [ASV] 1928 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
1 97 Modern Jazz Quartet Django 1955 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
-1 98 Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages 1992 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 99 Frank Sinatra & Count Basie Reprise Studio Recordings 1964 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s
0 100 Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue 1965 Shop at Amazon USA Shop at Amazon UK Download unrestricted MP3s

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How glad am I that I started this

Dexter Gordon's "Our Man in Paris" is delicious Cool Jazz, and Charlie\Charles Mingus is so lush....

Thanks, and post more like those, please.

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Aha, I have some weirder lists if you like - maybe later or tomorrow, wolf hall is about to start on BBC4 ...

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Wolf Hall is on IPlayer

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hopping from Spotify to random BBC for Wolf Hall had me on R6 where it had Clarion by Ben Lukas Boysen which sounded rather

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definitely no connoisseur, but Jazz has always been there in the background for me since I was an 18 year old living away from home for the first time, working as an apprentice engineer, into Post Punk, Ska, Daydream Nation and Surfer Rosa.
Every Thursday night was Jazz night though. Live Jazz at the local Irish club. Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald and Mingus records nestling between Nick Cave and the Sugarcubes. Pure accident really. Like most things in life it started with a girl. She was into jazz so took her there. The girl didn't last long but the jazz did

Think quizkings list says it all really. I know you know all about A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue, but personal favourites of mine apart from Miles and Coltrane would be Solo Monk (definitely an essential listen), Brubeck quartets Time Out, Nina Simone (sort of jazz - near enough anyway) Silk and Soul, Ella Plays the Cole Porter songbook and Keith Jarretts Koln concert (flagged on here years ago by someone - maybe Billy Whiz?)

plus Tom Waits Nighthawks at the diner (as far as I'm concerned its a Jazz album), and if you've never heard Bitches Brew then give it a go - it might just change your life

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Hmmmm. So not the "bunny" girl that got Scott into Jacques Brel? (I seriously struggle with the idea of him in one, but then I'm gullible...)

Tom is as interesting as the jazz\blues divide\unison. I'm on the the unison side with Closing Time and Blue Valentine being so very good and close to Kind of Blue etc.

Tom is so interesting as his music is back to front i.e. starting as a crooner and moving to industrial jazz etc?

How I hate an ex who said: "I nearly got us tickets to Tom Waits"

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Here’s what you could have won...

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Exactly....

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I've seen tom waits - hammersmith, 1988 i think.

Anway, a couple more lists,

https://www.thejazzresource.com/top_25_jazz_albums.html

https://100greatestjazzalbums.blogspot.com/

1. Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
2. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
3. Charlie Parker / Dizzie Gillespie – Bird & Diz
4. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
5. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis
6. Getz/Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
7. Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea
8. Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
9. Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
10. Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser
11. Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert
12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
13. Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings
14. John Coltrane – Blue Train
15. Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
16. Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here
17. Dexter Gordon – Go!
18. Count Basie – Count Basie at Newport
19. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
20. Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
21. Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
22. Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
23. Naked City – Naked City
24. Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
25. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall
26. Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Clifford Brown & Max Roach
27. Dizzy Gillespie – Afro
28. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
29. Pharoah Sanders – Karma
30. Abbey Lincoln – Staright Ahead
31. Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings
32. Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Somethin’ Else
33. Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
34. Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul
35. Art Blakey – A Night in Tunisia
36. Stephane Grappelli – Afternoon in Paris
37. Andrew Hill – Compulsion
38. Thelonius Monk – Monk’s Dream
39. The Bad Plus – Suspicious Activity?
40. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
41. Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off
42. Benny Goodman – The Famous Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert 1938
43. Oscar Peterson – The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
44. Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
45. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit
46. George Gershwin – Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue
47. Grant Green – Idle Moments
48. Sun Ra – Secrets of the Sun
49. Patricia Barber – Mythologies
50. Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
51. Duke Ellington – Such Sweet Thunder
52. Carmen McRae – The Great American Songbook
53. Blossom Dearie – Once Upon a Summertime
54. Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures
55. Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz – Hamp & Getz
56. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley – Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley
57. David Axelrod – Song Of Innocence
58. Weather Report – Heavy Weather
59. Albert Ayler – Slugs’ Saloon
60. Branford Marsalis – Trio Jeepy
61. Roland Kirk – We Free Kings
62. Shirley Horn – Travelin’ Light
63. Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard
64. Diana Krall – Live In Paris
65. Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings
66. Milt Jackson – Bags & Trane
67. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
68. Etta Jones – Don’t Go To Strangers
69. Herb Ellis – Ellis in Wonderland
70. Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
71. Rosemary Clooney – Blue Rose
72. Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
73. Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill
74. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
75. Stanley Clarke – School Days
76. Brad Mehldau – Elegiac Cycle
77. Joshua Redman – Wish
78. Jason Moran – Artist in Residence
79. Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad’s Blues
80. Moondog – Sax Pax for a Sax
81. Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground)
82. Duke Pearson – The Right Touch
83. Astrud Gilberto – The Astrud Gilberto Album
84. Chick Corea – Return To Forever
85. Bill Frisell – Blues Dream
86. Sarah Vaughn / Lester Young – One Night Stand – The Town Hall Concert 1947
87. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights
88. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Full Force
89. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
90. Jimmy Scott – Mood Indigo
91. Elis Regina – Elis & Tom
92. Pat Metheny Group – Offramp
93. Stan Getz – Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
94. Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet – Husky
95. Cuong Vu – Come Play with Me
96. Anthony Braxton – Five Compositions (quartet)
97. Madeline Peyroux – Careless Love
98. Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
99. Max Roach – M’Boom
100. Robert Glasper – In My Element

(that from noiseaddicts.com)

and scaruffi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Scaruffi a most unusual and eclectic writer who has unusual and eclectic opinions and writes on many many topics. But he agrees with me on "black saint ..." anyways ...

https://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/best100.html

Fill yer boots ...

[Spinynorman]

Honorable mention for Soft Machine who from their 3rd album in particular invented prog/jazz which got jazzier with each subsequent release. They were awesome and also when I saw them a couple of years back the loudest band I have ever seen.

Also worth checking out is Neil Ardley who did some amazing stuff in the seventies sometimes in collaboration with Ian Carr (the man behind Nucleus another pioneering jazz/prog/fusion combo) and also was the man behind much of the writing for the Dorling Kindersley "The Way Things Work " books.

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Just a thought but could this be moved to the "music" forum as would fit there perhaps? As and when we're busier after this lockdown, would be easier to find then,

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The featured album on tonight's freak zone has been jan garbarek's "whichi -tai -to" from 1974, one of my favourites from the seventies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchi-Tai-To_(album)

Still think this thread should be in the music section!