I am happy that mentioning 50 Great Jazz Albums leads to much communication. But the woeful Ayler and Dolphy are in there? Hard to believe. What about the Cti label? Key track: Birdland, This live recording of Monk and Trane playing together for a charity benefit concert in November 1957 was thought lost until the master tape was discovered languishing in the vaults of the US Library Of Congress in 2005. I COUNT the Complete Atomic BASIE everything became clear. Just wondering: Don Cherry Brown Rice, Miles In a silent way, Return to Forever Light as a Feather. Pharoah Sanders Summon Buckmun Umyun, No Grover Washington Jr? Double the list and not rank them for more harmony among Jazz lovers. Jazz Goes To Junior College Time Out by Brubeck is way too high up the list. A good job compiling this list as I have almost all of them. Elevated Michael Blake. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley all have albums in this list. On the Town 3. From beginners to life-long hobbyists to industry professionals, we enjoy learning about new things and meeting new people, and participating in spirited debates. Dexter Gordon Go Dexter Go Donald Byrd Slow Drag After three years recording for the Prestige label, Nelson joined producer Creed Taylor at ABC-Paramounts newly founded jazz imprint, Impulse!, in 1961. Thats a pretty ordinary Weather Report album by the way Mysterious Traveller is probably better qualified. Its impossible to limit Jazz to 50 greatest and please the diversity of its audience. The Art of Rhythm Tom Harrell. Usually music lists have me swinging immediately out of the gate! You are dismissing albums like Maiden Voyage and Speak No Evil? Though he was terminally ill at the time, Breckers playing is wonderfully vibrant and brimming with a life-affirming vigor. Infinitude Ingrid and Christine Jensen. 13. Thats crap. An edited version became a hit single and created a huge global audience for the seductive bossa nova sound. what about On the Corner? With that in mind, weve tried to make room for a wide array of musicians, styles and reasons for inclusion in this list of the best jazz albums of all time. Kind of Blue cant be higher on this list than A Love Supreme and The Black Saint, seriously, you cant do this to me. PS a tune being popular is not a bad thing. Getz/Gilberto, the defenders of the Jazz Realm. How can that possibly be??? The original album only contained five tracks, but it was expanded to a two-hour-long CD release in 2009. I love Miles Davis too but although he was a giant of jazz you cannot include all his great albums, what about the second great quintet albums? 6. Chick Corea electric piano You forgot, Like Minds, Burton, Corea, Holland, Haynes, and Metheny.Im sure it was just an oversight. A few others I like (that I didnt see mentioned) John Mclaughlin Extrapolation, Eberhard Weber Yellow Fields, Michael Brecker Tales From the Hudson, Frank Zappa Hot Rats, Roland Kirk Domino. Saxophonist Benny Golson contributes four top-notch songs, including Blues March, Along Came Betty, and The Drum Thunder Suite, the latter of which is an explosive showcase of Blakeys polyrhythmic prowess. Well done good choice what about diz and bird? It celebrates its 60th birthday in 2019 but still sounds as cool and hip as the day it was first recorded. Two rarely mentioned Miles albums Friday Night and Saturday Night Live at the Blackhawk. Paul Desmond ? etc. The Storyteller Uri Gurvich. Every Soundgarden album ranked from worst to best From Superunknown to Badmotorfinger, we chart the recorded legacy of Seattle sound behemoths Soundgarden. I would suggest two other albums for consideration. Translators Note Oded Tzur. Solar Energy is one that comes to mind but he has so many. List includes Oscar (Page 2) And Coltrane Ole Coltrane is a better example of his work than My Favorite Things. Short much of famous jazz artistes in the list, Kind of blue is good but still faraway to the first ranking , Im glad you got Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, but how about the Greatest What does that say for the future? 7. Key track: Sputnik, The 2007 winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institutes International Jazz Award, Oakland-born Akinmusire is a versatile, technically accomplished trumpeter who is just as comfortable producing breathy, mellow, low-end sounds as he is blowing stratospheric high notes. Seriously? The great Jimmy Smith not on the list? Key track: My Mans Gone Now, Thelonious Monk was ahead of his time, which was why for many years his music was often misunderstood and even ridiculed. They all furthered the art of jazz!!!!! The all-time best 50 list should have a wide scope for inclusion.By that count Chick Coreas The Romantic Warrior , Wayne Shorters Native Dancer(seldom has one heard a better Latino fusion jazz-featuring also Milton Nascimento & Herbie Hancock),Stanley Clarkes School Days,and Billy Cobhams Magic should also rightfully find their pride of place in the list! Any such list that leaves out albums by Ella, Dizzy, Lady Day, Count Basie, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith, Art Tatum (among others), and includes the albums numbered 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 34, & 36 (among others) is simply not properly constituted. Key track: Flight 19, After the experimental music of his early 70s Mwandishi band fell on deaf ears, Herbie Hancock reinvented himself as an afro-topped jazz-funk wizard with this 1973 blockbuster album, which hit No.1 on the US jazz charts. Key Keith Jarrett album: The Kln Concert This is a kind of free jazz, in that it is a completely improvised solo piano concert. Over the course of Petersons acclaimed career, he won seven Grammy Awards, was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. With more than 200 published recordings to his name, its hard to know where to start exploring this body of work. Key track: My Favorite Things, Though it was recorded on 16 January 1938, Benny Goodmans Carnegie Hall concert didnt surface until 1950. When he was at the top; he could not be beat! What! sorry, but this place would be for the first solo album recorded by K. Jarrett for ECM in 1973 ! By the time that the North Carolina pianist/composer recorded Brilliant Corners for Riverside in 1956, however, he was beginning to get the recognition and accolades he deserved. Blue Sun Mark Isham. Some of us know. Gone, Just Like a Train Bill Frisell. John Zorn Big Gundown What about ARCHI SHEPP? 36. Of course there will always be omissions, but no Oscar Peterson? Joining Dolphy on the Out To Lunch! Are there no new Records? The 1959 record Time Out stands as one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. If you were to tell that to Oscar Peterson & Ray Charles because they would set you straight were they alive. People, dont get your panties in a bunch. No Brecker, Corea,, Tatum, Tristano, Marsh, Tyner?? Have been a jazz buff all of my life. Voyage with Herbie Hancock was made smoothly. The albums song titles Ghosts: First Variation, The Wizard, Spirits, and Ghosts: Second Variation serve to underline the otherworldly essence of Aylers unique musical universe. ? Its notable for a phenomenal solo by saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, who blew 27 choruses and whipped the crowd into a frenzy. Sunday At The Village Vanguard is a tremendous live album from 1961 that shows how Evans, together with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, brought a new concept of collective improv to the piano trio aesthetic. We Get Requests is my fave. This is a great list. YEAY!!! Jarrett has recorded many solo piano albums since, and theyre all good, but none of them can top the transcendent feeling that defines The Kln Concert. "They were opposites in how they sung, but were still completely functional together, and respectful of each other." If you are to Speak No Evil, Trust me, a SHORTER note is WAYNE better. But I do agree there is a lack of recordings by other significant jazz artists from outside of the States. Here, Hill traverses a narrow tightrope separating advanced hard bop from full-on avant-garde jazz, but he does so convincingly. Easy Living Enrico Rava. Key track: The Eternal Triangle, A bebop disciple who wasnt afraid to venture to jazzs far side, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was in an experimental mode in the early 1960s, pushing the hard bop aesthetic to breaking point with a series of increasingly progressive albums for Blue Note. was Dolphys debut for Blue Note and came on the back of several LPs for Prestiges New Jazz imprint. Washington takes the listener on an enthralling journey through varied sonic landscapes, where exploratory cosmic jazz collides with martial arts mysticism. Key track: Duet Solo Dancers (aka Hearts Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces), From Fort Worth, Texas, Ornette Coleman made two albums for Lester Koenigs California-based Contemporary label before joining Atlantic in 1959, where this, his debut for the company, proved one of the most revolutionary albums in jazz. Gives people like me all sorts of new ideas to fill in the collection! Not only did the album take Washingtons career to another level, it inspired a spiritual jazz resurgence and drew droves of young people to the genre. Key track: Stolen Moments, Famed for his florid, virtuosic keyboard style, Pittsburgh-born Erroll Garner was heavily influenced by Earl Hines and Fats Waller but managed to find his own distinctive voice on the piano. Looking for classic tunes, LP Power To The People, including the great classic piece Black Narcissus should be somewhere in the list. 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. Also not to forget the fantastic album from Michael Naura Quintet European Jazz Sounds on Brunswick label and Elsie Bianchi Trio The Sweetest Sound on Saba. Thats 69! Your email address will not be published. The fusion music of the late 60s & the 70s is what drew me to the world of jazz. Genius of Modern Music should be placed at number 6 then just back up the list from there. It featured his first four studio sides including wonderfully flamboyant renditions of Tea For Two and Tiger Rag augmented by scintillating live recordings recorded at LAs Shrine Auditorium from 1949. Key track: Spain, A collaboration between bebop architect Gillespie and two Charlie Parker acolytes, Sonny Side Up pits the veteran trumpeter against rising saxophonist stars Stitt (alto) and Rollins (tenor) in an informal jam session context. Other highlights of this immortal set include Cousin Mary and Mr PC, the latter a tribute to bassist Paul Chambers. 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His debut for the company found Hubbard in exalted company with sidemen of the caliber of saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and 21-year-old drummer Lenny White. Black Codes From the Underground Wynton Marsalis. This is a masterpiece that few of these records can compare to. Capturing Garner in an assembly hall in Carmel, California, in 1955, Concert By The Sea began as an unofficial recording made by a local broadcaster for US armed forces radio. Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holliday, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, and Sidney Bechet ??? virtuoso. Im just getting into Jazz, with my only album being Kind of Blue, and its fantastic. In terms of its elegance, though, nothing surpasses the superlative opener, Stolen Moments. Important and essential pioneers among many others of early jazz. Yes thats what happens when you are limited to 50 selections. I dont see how you can take something as broad and diverse as the entire body of jazz recordings and narrow it down to 50. Brubeck Time out at #3, you kidding? Agree with previous post that the omission of Hartman/Coltrane is a major oversight. This list is not nearly as bad as some of the other lists of its kind floating around the internet, but some items should be disqualified because they were not conceived and/or recorded as albums. If you take the term album in its strictest sense, that would disqualify everything made before roughly 1948. 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. The foundation of all that followed. Woody Shaw Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers they Moan because they get the job done. I also would find a place for The Guitar of John Gray The New Wave which is my all time favorite jazz album. If A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue were switched, I would have no problems with this lists top ten. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/50-greatest-jazz-albums Aided by the soulfully smoky effusions of tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, Burrell digs deep into the blues, delivering tasteful solos where the balance between flawless technique and emotional expression is perfect. Key track: Lullaby Of Birdland, One of the earliest jazz supergroups, The Quintet comprised Charlie Parker who was originally billed as Charlie Chan for contractual reasons with Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Brubeck is number 3, and Charlie Parker number 20. Perhaps too early to tell about music out of England/Europe by: Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey and their collaborators. A scintillating contemporary take on big band, and one of the greatest jazz albums of all-time. 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. 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. youre missing some good Wes Montgomery albums Dexter Gordon one flight up I believe Charles Mingus both albums are overrated good this is your list, There is always some crazy nutter adding all the albums to a spotify-list with other great jazz-albums. No matter who you list in the top 50, youll get 10,000 comments questioning your suggestions. Would like to add David Murray and The Arts Ensemble of Chicago to this list. Ive heard most of this list and Ive not listened to plenty of it for years, but I cant go more than a few months without listening to at least Columbias This Is Jazz #1. germany to be exact, sorry billie Is it by historical importance, best performance, best compositions, best improvisor, etc. 33. Would also like to see some more adventurous material. "I love the way Ella and Louis work together," she remarked. A vivid example of Jamals less is more aesthetic, the tune was revived on the soundtrack to Clint Eastwoods 1995 movie, The Bridges Of Madison County. Lingua Franca Peter Epstein/Brad Shepik. if the Holbaek Concert was an album it would be mine; Steve beat me to it. 48. 3. Key track: Spanish Key, At 88 years old, Sonny Rollins is one of the last surviving greats of jazzs golden epoch. 31. You may wonder why, say, Bud Powell or Oscar Peterson or Tommy The resulting album quickly gained notoriety and, to date, it remains the biggest-selling album of unaccompanied piano music. Lots of albums with big names on here but theres way better stuff (Koln Concert that high? Whenever I listen to Sarah, I have Vaughan I always view them more as a resource for new listening to treasures I may have missed. Further Definitions is both important and wonderful. Thanks for this list and all the others. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. From early ragtime to international modernism, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (a 2011 update of the milestone 1973 Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz) lets you enjoy this uniquely American musical genre through its legendary innovators, including Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Gillespie, Fitzgerald, and Marsalis. In the matter of Clifford Brown & Max Roach, the public finds in favor of Max Roach & Clifford Brown I will be able to spend the rest of the year listening to some of your recommendations. Many guitarists that followed in Christians wake among them Wes Montgomery, Grant Green and George Benson were indebted to the Texan fretboard genius. Heavily influenced by the complex language of bebop, in the late 40s Powell transposed the innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie onto the piano. 1985 Breakin' Out with George Shearing, Marvin Smith (Concord Jazz, I can honestly say that was the single most talented band I have ever seen put together. Carla Bley Escalator Over The Hill The rest of the album is devoted to standards, including a Latin-style take on Cole Porters Love For Sale. A self-confessed connoisseur of ballads, the saxophonist infuses his version of I Guess Ill Hang My Tears To Dry with a subtle soulfulness. There were THREE great jazz albums released in 1959; Brubecks Time Out, Daviss Kind of Blue, and Gerry Mulligans What is There to Say?, which was released before the other two and I believe is the #1 jazz album of all time. Key track: Idle Moments, This jazz aristocrats band was famed for its panache, dynamism, and unerring sense of swing, and all those qualities can be heard on this explosive 1957 recording. Thanks!!! There are certainly 50 best for each decade or sub-genre, style, composer, voice, instrument and geographic region (USA and World-Wide). Charlie Parker Complete Savoy and Dial Studio recordings Key track: Spirits, A prodigiously gifted multi-reed player who excelled on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Los Angeles-born Eric Dolphy was also a virtuoso flute player. Duke Ellington Hot Summer Dance What about Tubby Hayes, Victor Feldman, Jimmy Deuchar, John Dankworth, Harold McNair, Phil Seaman , Peter King and Ronnie Scott !!! Key track: Red Top, A graduate of the formidable Jazz Messengers drummer Art Blakeys famous Hard Bop Academy New Jerseys Wayne Shorter recorded for Vee-Jay before joining Blue Note in 1964. It is a preference list and indicates only one persons preferences. The title tune, with its memorable clarion-call horn theme, sets the tone for a six-track album that contains only one standard (Im Old Fashioned) and highlights Tranes signature sheets of sound style. What about Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek, or Trilok Gurtu? There are no trombonists listed! Louis Armstrong (t, v), Ella Fitzgerald (v), Trummy Young (tb), Ed Hall (cl), Oscar Peterson, Billy Kyle (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown, Dale Jones (b), Buddy Rich, session are Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis, and an 18-year-old Tony Williams on drums. Also you have nothing of Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and Bix Beiderbecke. CU, Oscar, Good list, thank you, For me I miss Carla Bley: Escalator over the hill and Tropic apetites and Chet Baker LetsLets get lost. Track listing Side one 26. The Best Jazz Pianists of All Time A Simple Thank You Virginia Mayhew. Leading a nonet that included saxophonists Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan, as well as drummers Max Roach and Kenny Clarke, across 1949 and 1950 Miles recorded a series of singles for Capitol that redefined modern jazz. http://www.amazon.com/CTI-Records-Revolution-Various-Artists/dp/B003YVNZ2M/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1420035622&sr=1-2&keywords=cti+records+40th+anniversary+edition. Though Coltrane recorded several landmark albums both before and after A Love Supreme, this game-changing 1965 LP sealed his immortality and sits rightfully among the best jazz albums of all time. JavaScript is disabled. This is the only Bud thats truly amazing. 5. You know that by American it was meant as North American and more specifically the United States of American rather than Canada, Central or South American. Only Ellington is Ellington at Newport.
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