Darktremor's Favorite Jazz Albums
Submitted by darktremor on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 08:24
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- I'm just starting to listen to jazz, so this is a growing list...
- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
- Charlie Parker - The Best of the Savoy and Dial Sessions (1944-1948)
- Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (1965)
- Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958)
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1964)
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out (1959)
- Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
- John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
- Lenny Tristano - Descent into the Maelstrom (1966)
- Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1963)
- Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
- Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners (1956)
- Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1956)
- Lennie Tristano - Crosscurrents (1949)
- Don Cherry - Mu (1969)
- Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Escalator over the Hill (1971)
- Bud Powell - Time Waits (1958)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie (1970)
- Wynton Marsalis - Live at the House of Tribes (2005 - but it's all old recordings played in the old style)
- Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (1966)
- Really difficult album - good luck getting into this one! Well worth it though, in my opinion.
- Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
- Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby (1961)
- Tim Berne - Fractured Fairy Tales (1989)
- John Coltrane - Ascension (1965)
- I'll take suggestions too. My favorite styles are bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, hot jazz, and free-jazz. I don't know if "modal jazz" is a real subgenre, but I like everything I've heard described as such quite a bit (note that my top 2 are "modal"). I don't like swing jazz or smooth jazz, and I'm not that fond of fusion-jazz (although it may just be that I haven't gotten into it yet). I have yet to hear any vocal jazz I've liked either - which doesn't include weird vocal experiments and scatting - I enjoy both.
recommendations:
John Coltrane - you cannot go wrong with any of his stuff, but Ascension and Live at the Village Vanguard are good places to start.
Jazz Composer's Orchestra - COMMUNICATIONS; Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures; Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity; Miles Davis - like Coltrane he has many: start with Bitches Brew; Sun Ra - Magic City & Atlantis; Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch. most all of these are the standard "great" jazz albums, so, you cannot go wrong with any of them.
Yep, all are excellent, and I've listening to all of them (except for Communications and Live at the Village Vanguard, which I'll definitely get).
Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm still considering my favorites in jazz, so this list will grow over time...
Man, I'm dying to hear Decent into The Maelstrom. I don't suppose you would have any idea where I could find the title track; perhaps YouTube?
I only found it on soulseek after much searching. Try doing both a regular search for it, and entering the jazz room, right clicking, then clicking "do a room search." Also add it to the wishlist, and wait a while, and eventually it will turn up (just leave soulseek on for a long time, and it will inevitably appear).
Or, if you send me your soulseek screen name, and a range of time you'll have soulseek on, I can upload it to you. :D
do you have slsk? is your name on their "darktremor" as well?
yeah, go to slsk and add my moniker to your list and search my files!!!! and send me a message about what your name is on there as well even if it stays the same as "Parable." i am not sure how i spell my name on their, it is either "FeifUmgotnn" or "Feif Umgotnn." caps matters, and so do spaces, so put both in and see what you get!!!!
OK. I'm Darktremor on soulseek as well, so try adding that.
I don't have Soulseek at the moment. I'll probably download it in the near future, at which point I'll definitely look you guys up.
Sounds great! :D
Make sure you get it from slsknet.org though, there are a lot of sites pretending to be soulseek.
Anything by Anthony Braxton?
No, I find him too minimal and too difficult.
Really? I found him very enjoyable from the first listen. Weirdly, I really didn't like Coltrane at first, but he grew on me a lot.
Odd, I was the other way around. I suppose that's to be expected with such avante-garde music, though. My main issue was that I like hearing a more "full" sound in jazz with a sort of "talking" between different instruments - one guy playing his sax doesn't grab me the same way that the intense dynamic interplay of Coltrane's band does.
I know what you mean about the 'full' sound, I had that with Mingus, but strangely Coltrane not so much. I'm not a huge fan of most of Braxton's stuff, but JMK-80 CFN-7 is really in a league of its own. :)
Actually, I think you've got me on this one. I'm re-listening to "For Alto" (months later), and this time I love it. It also turns out that I had Saxophone Improvisations series F mixed up with Alto Saxophone Improvisations, which is apparently a greatly inferior record.
Glad to hear it :)
And also, congrats on the engagement!
Thank you :D
Lenny Tristano, Warne Marsh: Intuition is an amazing album if you don't own it yet. It took me about a week to fall in absolute love, but it was well worth the wait. Also, thanks for pointing out Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, I burned my grandmother a copy of the album and SHE'S been listening to it for days LOL.
Awesome! It really is a universally lovable album. I still look forward to listening to it, and I've heard it something like 12 times now. That never happens with me.
I'll give Intuition a listen sometime soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
I love all the albums listed here that I have, very nice list. Jazz is a genre that I'd love to delve into more, but it just seems to expansive and daunting to try and hear the entire history, so I'm sticking with the acknowledged 'greats' at the moment. Mingus Ah Um & The Shape of Jazz to Come are albums I'm surprised not to see here, is that because you don't like them yet or because you haven't got em?
No, I like The Shape of Jazz to Come, I should add it. Mingus Ah Um annoys me though. I have a few other things to add, actually...
Lennie Tristano: Descent Into the Maelstrom here. Free too!
Gotta love this blog
Indeed, I'm in love with that album.
Thanks for the post! I already have it, but it's a nice addition for those viewing the list who don't.