Key track: Red Clay, After three largely ignored self-released albums, this Los Angeles tenor saxophonist who had previously eked a living as a sideman for Snoop Dogg and Lauryn Hill burst into the mainstream like a supernova in 2015 with The Epic, a sprawling triple album that more than lived up to its title. I knew the minute this was posted it would draw controversy. Either of Monks big band concert albums or Monk Alone in San Francisco is Number 5. Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue The 1968 compilation, Piano Starts Here, offers a rewarding snapshot of Tatums jaw-dropping technique and sparked a revival of interest in Tatums music twelve years after his death. Key track: Cheese Cake, Considered a member of the Holy Trinity of female jazz singers along with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday Sassy Sarah Vaughan entered the studio with rising trumpet god Clifford Brown to record this album, which many jazz critics believe to be her best. On May 20, 1997, the compilation album The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve first came out. Funny, I do have about 75% of the Albums listed. He was a pupil to Coltrane Ive red in SOHLMANS Musik Lexikon Andra reviderade och utvidgade upplagan. I understand and totally agree ART TATUM has his place among the Gods, so he need not be listed with these mortals. Key track: Carlos, From Toledo, Ohio, the visually impaired Art Tatum set an impossibly high bar for jazz piano playing between 1933, when he made his first recordings, to his death in 1956. The influence of Duke Ellington is almost palpable, but such was the force of Mingus individuality as a composer that his personality dominates the album. -Abbey Lincoln Straight Ahead (Max Roach, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, Julian Priester, Mal Waldren) This, their debut album, was an incendiary confection of searing guitar and violin lines jousting over churning rhythm tracks played in unusual time signatures. Rollins receives sterling support from pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and legendary bebop drummer Max Roach, and together the quartet created an alchemical synergy that results in pure magic. what about On the Corner? Night Bird Song Thomas Chapin. I dont know of a recording that predates this particular Hi-hat groove, we can clearly hear Isaac Hayes and the song Shaft coming out of this groove archetype. 1966 was, after all, the age of game-changing albums such as Revolver and Pet Sounds, but in the Copa Room, in Sinatras presence, none of that seemed to matter. Pilgrimage was Breckers final solo album, recorded during 2006 in the stellar company of Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette. There is no doubt in my mind that Time Out introduced more people to jazz than Miles ever did. I dont think so. The infectious Strasbourg/St. Lucky Thompson Tricotism. Oscar Peterson I agree that a list like this would changing like the weather here in Indy, but I would like to add Wes Montgomery-Movin Wes to the list. ; Heikki Hltt, Pentti Mnnikk, engs. The groups harshest detractors damned them as pretentious and self-indulgent, but, amazingly, they achieved mainstream success, particularly in America, where they were wholeheartedly embraced. Id have to include Sweet Rain and Crescent in my list of great albums theyre among my Desert Island Discs (8 tracks). It captures Parker at the peak of his powers before heroin addiction blighted his career. Key track: Part 1, A switch from Prestige to the bigger Atlantic label in March 1959 witnessed Coltrane upping his game with his debut for his new company. Blue Sun Mark Isham. Thanks anyway for Jarretts Koln album Happy to know I am not the only one to Love this album ! For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Bounce Terence Blanchard. Name your favorite Oscar Peterson album. - Whats Best There are certainly 50 best for each decade or sub-genre, style, composer, voice, instrument and geographic region (USA and World-Wide). The Sidewinders title song, with its jaunty soul-jazz groove and infectious horn motifs, was a hit single for Blue Note and helped the parent album become the labels best-selling LP. Oscar Peterson: albums, songs, playlists | Listen on Deezer Best Jazz Pianists: A Top 50 Countdown | uDiscover This is the only Bud thats truly amazing. LIve in Larissa Nate Birchall. Key track: Blue Monk, A leading exponent of hard bop and a founder member of The Jazz Messengers in the 50s, Horace Silver was a Connecticut-born pianist/composer who was instrumental in establishing the two-horn frontline as de rigueur in post-bop small-group jazz. On the back of hits such as Heebie Jeebies and the influential West End Blues, Armstrong became a huge star and later assumed an ambassadorial role in the jazz world. "They were opposites in how they sung, but were still completely functional together, and respectful of each other." Not to mention numerous others they have listed above him. Stayed at the top of the charts for a long time. somebody else noted nothing since 1977. ill add and precious little before approx 1950. Mings Samba and/or Ballads for Bass Clarinet should be on there. of Frank Sinatra: Five essential albums WebWith Oscar Peterson 1974 The Good Life 1975 The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux 1979 Night Child 1982 Face to Face, Peterson/ Freddie Hubbard 1983 A Tribute to My Friends 1983 If You Could See Me Now 1986 Oscar Peterson Live! 19. Thres nothing wrong with this list All of these are classic albums. Ganelin Trio Baltic Triangle I think Blue Trane is overrated and I find much of Weather Report difficult to swallow (particularly in terms of the smooth production. Joe Zawinul electric piano, organ Timeless John Abercrombie. If each and every one of you compiled your top 50, it would be a beautiful and diversified list. I myself could not be happy living without this chunk of music in the world. 39. hehe. The albums title given to the sessions on their original album release in 1957 reflects the influence the sides had on the West Coast cool jazz sound. No Ella. Thats a pretty ordinary Weather Report album by the way Mysterious Traveller is probably better qualified. Time Out by Brubeck is way too high up the list. They were my house Gods those days. Over half a century later, this magnum opus ranks among the best jazz albums as an essential, must-hear example of paradigm-busting post-bop jazz. Important and essential pioneers among many others of early jazz. Its an important album, but I dont know if Id consider it the #5 jazz album ever. 4. if the Holbaek Concert was an album it would be mine; Steve beat me to it. Yes, I did see Getz/Gilberto, but even if most of the musicians on this recording were no US citicens, it was a very American production on a famous US label. Lester Young ? Kind of Blue will be hard to beat ever. Sketches of Spain and Any Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaboration should be there. I second with knobs on the comment by Trevor Hyde a travesty not to include those he mentions. As a long time Jazz fan I never view one of these lists as truly definitive, especially like this one where nothing is said about how the list was compiled. Cool Struttin' and Leapin and Lopin' are classics. Ive got a fever and the only thing that will cure it is more Chet, Pretty standard down the middle sort of list, no Herbie Nichols, no Sam Rivers, no Joe Henderson. Guess not Michael Kroll. Dexter Gordon Go Dexter Go The MJQs suspenseful rendering, which opens the album, reveals that Colemans haunting melody possesses a universal beauty; the dialogue between Lewis piano and Milt Jacksons bluesy glistening vibes has an ethereal quality, though the engine room of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Connie Kay keeps the music grounded. 22. Believe it or not, youll be cornered at Koln with Keith Jarrett performance. Ten years from now their work may be re-considered. I knew that a Waltz for Debby could be great if played by Bill Evans Trio Rollins references his familys Caribbean roots in the jaunty, self-penned calypso-esque St Thomas (which became one of his signature tunes) and contributes two more original songs in the shape of Strode Rode and Blue 7. His brilliance as a balladeer is highlighted on a gorgeous reading of the standard You Dont Know What Love Is. Some of it wouldnt even count as jazz in his book. This is a list compiled by a hifi hobbyist and not a music lover. Hard to believe that nobody has complained about the omission of the great Benny Carter. What about Steamin, Workin, Cookin Relaxin with the Miles Davis Quintet? Some of my personal favourites are; Best dog ever. And Iron Man should be on there as well. All others were, I believe, Brazilian. Excellent list, dont agree with them all. And a Fletcher Henderson and 3 or 4 Traditional Jazz titles from the 20s and 30s too ? Garners manager heard the tapes and persuaded Columbia to release them as an album, whereupon it sold by the truckload (by 1958, it was estimated to have made over $1 million in sales). The Shape Of Jazz To Come was extremely divisive at the time, but its status as one of the best jazz albums in history is secure today; it gave birth to the free jazz movement that would gain momentum as a viable musical currency in the 60s. What should be my next album? No Ellington/Blanton band? Infernal Machines Darcy James Argue. 25. Where are Nina and Ella? The Storyteller Uri Gurvich. Cecil McBees sturdy but pliable bass is the lynchpin on the four studio cuts, providing the musical bedrock on which Coltrane and her cohorts construct edifices built of swirling harp glissandi, bluesy piano runs, spacey tamboura drones, and soaring soprano saxophone cries (the latter courtesy of Pharoah Sanders). Brubeck is number 3, and Charlie Parker number 20. Beam Me Up Shauli Einav. Thomaz Stanko Leosia This earns its place among the greatest jazz albums of all time by being one of the best albums on Blue Note. Pretty good but I would have found room for a compilation of King Oliver Creole Jazz Band 1923on Archeophone 2CD. There are some great albums and I have got a lot of them, but everybody seems to have been listening in the other direction. No way you could leave him out. A good job compiling this list as I have almost all of them. Head Hunters proved to be a hugely influential album, transforming Herbie Hancock into a fusion superstar. the five I have mentioned are sidemen on some of these other albums in my list and as such do what they need to do, but none of them perform that well as leaders . Time Out, because it helped bring jazz to the non-jazzers. Duke Ellington. Faire une liste des 100 meilleurs albums serait plus juste et permettrais peut tre d en oublier moins. One of the best jazz albums of the era, it still sounds startlingly original today. I would take Brown-Roach over Miles any day. Perhaps it is not the fault of the writer or the editor but perhaps it is. Kind of Blue cant be higher on this list than A Love Supreme and The Black Saint, seriously, you cant do this to me.
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