The ones that introduced me . . .

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The ones that made me a fan for life . . .


And a few of my favorites that I picked up over the years . .




And one for your consideration, one of the greatest records ever made that promotes the beauty and greatness of jazz:



And yours?
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i like 'a love supreme' a lot, and i love a lot of stuff that his widow alice released - 'transcendence' is probably my favorite, though i don't know if a lot of her music can be categorized as jazz, other than simply by association. i do wish more people knew her stuff, though. it's amazing.

Here's a few:

Ella & Louis

Getz/Gilberto - featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim

Freddie Hubbard - "Red Clay" "First Light" "Straight Life"

Herbie Hancock - just about anything but particularly "Thrust" & "Headhunters" "Manchild" "Secrets" & "Maiden Voyage"

Miles.... et cetera.....

Miles-Kind Of Blue,Miles Smiles,Bitches Brew
Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Wayne Shorter-JuJu
Weather Report-Heavy Weather
Flora Purim-Encounter
Stanley Clarke-Stanley Clarke
Herbie Hancock-Maiden Voyage
Jaco Pastorius-Jaco Pastorius

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Those are fantastic choices... I also like "Impressions" and the "Coltrane quartet" album by Trane... "Requiem" and "Contemporary Jazz" by Branford Marsalis are great.... Although he's most often fusion, I've always liked anything by Jean Luc Ponty. By the way, how do you post those pics along with your replies?
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"In a Silent Way" is my pick.

CANNONBALL!!!

sdekm1 said:

Good info.

As for pics: it's not terribly difficult when you figure out HOW to do it (it took me well over a year). Copy the link to the pic, paste it into your post, then highlight the link and click on the "img" button at the top of the post screen.

It's better to have 2 web "windows" open when you do it because it makes the task easier.

Here's a Few of My Faves

jacktheimprovident said:

And excellent ones they are!

Goodness, where do I start. Some great ones have already been named.

This was the 1st Jazz guitarist on record that I ever heard...



...The Johnny Smith Quartet


His sound is etched into my head to this very day...



...The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions


The world of jazz in the late '40s, '50s, and early '60s was graced with one of the most talented guitar virtuosos of all time: Johnny Smith. Unless you were a budding young jazz guitarist or a lover of guitar at that time, you probably don't own or haven't heard most of the incredible recordings that this great artist produced. Mosaic Records' release of The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions is exactly that.


This 8-CD box set release contains 178 tracks that cover 15 original LPs and 4 ten-inch sessions in a beautiful digital format, paying due homage to the guitar virtuoso in celebration of his 80th birthday. This set fills a missing piece in the recorded history and legacy of jazz guitar. A large part of Smith's life-work is covered in this volume - and, of course, some of the greatest jazz guitar performances ever heard.


The musicians appearing on the recordings are for the most part Mousey Alexander (drums), George Roumanis (bass), and Bob Pancoast on piano. Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Eddie Safranski, and Don Lamond are also featured, along with Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Paul Quinichette. Johnny Rae (vibes and percussion), another great musician, also appears on some of the cuts.

http://www.allaboutjazz.c...p?id=10907


Guitarist Johnny Smith's career spans the decades of the 1940's through the 1990's. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, other guitarists mention Smith almost as often as they mention Charlie Christian as a major influence on their playing. And today, in the late 1990's players still feel and respond to the influence of Johnny Smith. In the preface to Steve Silverman's 1998 transcriptions of Johnny Smith Guitar Solos he acknowledges that Johnny Smith has been "a source" of inspiration and influence on guitarists as diverse as Pat Martino and Chet Atkins.

Even before he hit the New York jazz scene in the late 1940's Johnny Smith was setting an example of great musicianship and brilliant jazz guitar playing. There is a story that Lou Mecca tells about his first meeting with Johnny Smith when Smith was playing trumpet in the army band. This story, told to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, May 1995, exemplifies the influence Johnny Smith has had on other guitar players. Mecca visited Johnny in the barracks at Valley Forge, VA in the late 1940's. Their discussion immediately went to guitars and Johnny offered his guitar to Mecca and asked him to play something. Lou Mecca played something he knew and Johnny said he like it. Then Johnny proceeded to play several startling pieces including Rhapsody In Blue. Mecca ends this memory by commenting, "I then realized I was in the presence of one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

http://www.classicjazzgui...?artist=29


This will be where my next large expenditure of cash on CDs goes.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

namepeace said:

Aw shucks, thanks

I also might add to this thread some of my favorite compilations that are quite useful for jazz musicians who made music in the pre-album era: Charlie Parker's Complete Savoy Sessions, Dizzy Gillespie's Complete RCA/Victor Recordings, Duke Ellington's Never No Lament: the Blanton-Webster Years, Monk's Complete Blue Note Recordings. All very worthy additions to a jazz fanatics collection

namepeace said:

Yummmy

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew, In a silent way, Kind of Blue
Sonny Rollins: Live at the village vanguard
Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The inner mounting flame, Birds of fire
John Coltrane: a Love supreme

This man introduce me to jazz back in the day....

funkpill said:

Indeed. He had the same exquisite combination of fire and ice that Miles had. And he also happened to make the greatest protest song of the last quarter-century, IMHO . . . "B-Movie." It was uncompromising, and prescient.

namepeace said:

For sure....

funkpill said:

He's one of the reasons for my jazz upbringing. Do u have Real Eyes, Moving Target, Free Will, The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron & Secrets ?

JazzyJ said:

yup....

I have all of them on vinyl & cd...

Well, Bridges, Secrets, & Real Eyes, I don't have on cd format...
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'Sketches Of Spain' by Miles, my all time favorite jazz-record.
I also like 'Quiet Nights' (with Sketches.. outtakes on it).
And everything from The Miles Davis Quintet 1956.
My favorite compilation would be 'The Gentle Side Of John Coltrane', especially the tracks with Johnny Hartman.
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BT11 said:

BT, Quiet Nights, IMHO, may be the most underrated of the Miles albums that I own (a fraction of his discography). It's exquisite.

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I bought a cheap ass compilation by her which got most of her recordings with Teddy Wilson,,,,that what really introduced me to Jazz.

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Evan Parker & Co. - Titan Moon
Don Byron - Romance With Unseen
Borbetomagus - Borbetomagus
Ellery Eskelin - Trash Jazz

In No Order:

MILES DAVIS - KIND OF BLUE
JOHN COLTRANE - A LOVE SUPREME (REMASTERED 2 CD DELUXE EDITION)
GEORGE BENSON - BREEZIN
DONALD BYRD - PLACES, SPACES, & THINGS

Harlepolis said:

That's what helped fuel the habit -- cheap tapes from random record companies. I had my fair share of Duke, Bird and Monk tapes for $2.00 and $3.00.

It is also economically better to buy jazz. Even the remastered CDs are 2-5 bucks cheaper on average than other CDs.

Great thread, namepeace. I don't really own any Jazz and was gonna dig in my friend's crates for some of his stuff. He's got Bird, Miles, Thelonius, Coltrane and Sara Vaughan compilations. I don't know where to begin.

A Few Favs.







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