Anybody jazz fans in the HOOOUSE!!! After listening to many many hundreds and hundreds of jazz recordings. I decided to compile a list of my favorite jazz recordings(not the BEST...but MY favorites). Please feel free to list your favorite 25 or even your top 10 favorite jazz recordings.

NOTE: I tried not to duplcate any artsits, or the whole list would have been Miles,Freddie Hubbard,Herbie Hancock and Wes Montogomery(Wes doesn't make my personal 25 list but he is on my list of favorite jazz recordings below 25). Ok here it goes. Also note that a few of these records are out of print. I may come back later on and do a list of the next 25 or so favorite jazz recordings. Ok here's the list...



1. Miles Davis- Miles Davis And The Modern Jazz Giants

2. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers- Moanin

3. Louis Armstrong- Satchmo At Symphony Hall Vol. 1

4. Jaco Pastorious- Jaco Pastorious

5. Freddie Hubbard- Life Flight

6. Thelonious Monk- Underground

7. John Coltrane- A Love Supreme

8. George Benson- Beyond The Blue Horizon

9. Rachelle Ferrell- First Instrurment

10. Grant Green- Alive!

11 Pat Metheny Group- We Live Here

12. Chick Corea And Return To Forever- Light As A Feather

13. Roland Kirk- The Inflated Tear

14. Herbie Hancock- Thrust

15. George Duke- Brazilian Love Affair

16. Woody Shaw-Rosewood

17. Wynton Marsalis- Hot House Flowers

18. Horace Silver- Song For My Father

19. Sarah Vaughan Trio- Swingin Easy w/ The Sarah Vaughan
Trio

20. Wayne Shorter-Native Dancer

21. Keith Jarrett/Jack DeJohnette/Gary Peacock- Tokyo 96'

22. Echoes Of An Era- Echoes Of An Era

23. Patrice Rushen- Before The Dawn

24. CTI All Stars- California Concert At The Hollywood Palladium 1971

25. Rachel Z.- Room Of One's View
[This message was edited Wed Apr 23 8:54:54 PDT 2003 by Brother915]

lets see this is so Hard because I dig tons of Jazz: Miles Davis"Jack Johnson,Sketches of Spain,Kind of Blue,On the Corner,In a Silent way.John Coltrane "Live at the Village vanguard,Lush Life,My Favorite things, Frank Sinatra Live at the sands with Quincy Jones&the Count Basie Orchestra.Herbie Hancock:Thrust,Headhunters,Man-Child,Return to Forever Romantic warrior,Stanley Clark"School Days,Mahavishnu Orchestra"Birds of Fire"Freddie Hubbard "MMTC"Hugh Masekela "The lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga"Jimmy Smith&Wes Montgomery"The Dynamic Duo",Thelonious Monk"Straight No Chaser",Billy Eckstine"Jazz Around Midnight",George Benson"Breezin",Louis Armstrong"Best Of".Shirley Horn"You Won't Forget Me",Lonnie "Listen" Smith "Move Your Hand",Wynton Marsalis"The Midnight Blues"Charles Mingus "Mingus Moves",Sun Rai"Angels&Demons",Pharoah Sanders"Jewels Of Thoughts",Lou Donaldson"everythign I Play is Funky",Jaco Pastorius self-titled.Art Blakey's "Jazz Messengers Hard drive",Grant Green"Blue Breakbeats",Rashaan Roland Kirk&Yusef Lateef"Seperate But Equal",Charlie Bird Parker Yardbird Suite,Wayne Shorter"The Soother"Roland Kirk"Volunteered Slavery",Bobbi Humphrey"Black&Blues",Dizzy G.Best of.

I'm not an expert at all, does Bossa Nova count? "Girl from Ipanema" Getz/ Gilberto/ Jobim

Chet Baker 'Let's Get Lost'; anything by Billie Holiday. Probably horrendously uncool to say it, but I quite like Diana Krall, All For You. And Diana is so boneable too!! Cute and talented - unbeatable!! (someone mentioned Pat Metheny: his 'Zero Tolerance for Silence' would definitely be my 'least favourite jazz recording', if that counts as jazz).

Miles Davis:
NEFERTITI, KIND OF BLUE, MILES SMILES, IN A SILENT WAY, ON THE CORNER, 'ROUND MIDNIGHT, Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain, Sorcerer, ESP...

Mingus
Pithecanthropus Erectus, Changes, BLues And Roots, MINGUS AH UM, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Reincarnation of a Lovebird, Changes One, Changes Two
Cumbia & Jazz Fusion, Three or Four Shades of Blues

Monk
More Genius, Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1,Thelonious Monk/Milt Jackson, Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2, Monk's Moods, Blue Monk, Vol. 2, Work, We See, Brilliance, Bright corners, Evidence, Criss cOrss, Straight No Chaser...

Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers
Moanin', A Night in Tunisia, Freedom Rider, Mosaic, The Big Beat, Like Some In Love, Caravan, Ugetsu, Kyoto Straight Ahead, Keystone 3...

Wayne Shorter
Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, The Soothsayer, The Collector, Et Cetera, The All Seeing Eye,Adam's Apple,Schizophrenia, Native Dancer...

Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child, Fat Albert Rotunda, Head Hunters...

John Coltrane
Blue Train, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things, Coltrane Jazz, Africa Brass, Impressions, A Love Supreme, Crescent, Kulu Se Mama, SunSHip, Stellar Regions Instellar Space,...

These are just studio recordings; just scratching the surface!!

Bye!

Louis Armstrong – Complete Hot 5s and 7s
Duke Ellington – Blaton-Webster Band
Count Basie – Complete Decca Recordings
Charlie Parker – Complete Live Savoy Recordings
Stan Getz – Girl from Ipanema
Dexter Gordon – Go!
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Stitt – Constellation
John Coltrane – Blue Trane
Charles Mingus – Roots and Blues
Miles Davis – Jazz at the Plaza
Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Joe Henderson – Page One
Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
McCoy Tyner – Englightenment
Elvin Jones – Live at the Lighthouse
Mahavishnu Orchestra – anything!
Kenny G. - Miracles: The Holiday Album
[This message was edited Wed Jul 31 11:41:31 PDT 2002 by Xtreme]

PFunkjazz said:

PFUNKJAZZ, I like the way you formatted this list. I may come back later and list my favorites by artist.

NOTE: Albums that are my favorites are measured by this crtieria.

1) The album must display the artist's musicianship at a high level.

2)I enjoyed all the songs from beginnig to end.

3) The sidemen playing on these sessions contribute memorable performances.

Saxophone Collossus - Sonny Rollins
Dinah Jams! - Dinah Washington
Crescent - John Coltrane
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Heavy Weather - Weather Report
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Canteloupe Island - Herbie Hancock
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Blues and Roots - Charles Mingus
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
'Round About Midnight - Miles Davis
Blue Light Til Dawn - Cassandra Wilson

...off the top of my head.

Here you go WatchThemFall. Again, hope you enjoy your journey through the wonderful world of jazz.


BRO915

acoustic

miles davis kind of blue
miles davis '58 sessions
miles davis nefertiti
john coltrane giant steps
john coltrane lush life
john coltrane a love supreme
charles mingus mingus ah um
duke ellington live at newport
duke ellington the great london concerts
chet baker live in paris volume 2
chet baker the italian sessions
wayne shorter adam's apple
wayne shorter speak no evil
lee morgan the procrastinator
lee morgan live at the lighthouse
lee morgan taru
sonny rollins way out west
sonny rollins saxophone colossus
thelonious monk mysterioso
thelonious monk in action
art pepper smack up
art pepper + 11
shelly manne live at the blackhawk volume 1
shelly manne live at the manne hole volume 2
roy hargrove of kindred souls
roy hargrove family
wallace roney village
wallace roney standard bearer
dexter gordon go
dexter gordon gettin' around
bill evans waltz for debby
bill evans sunday at the village vanguard
bobby hutcherson the kicker
shorty rogers the swinging mr. rogers
sarah vaughn gershwin song book volume 2
sarah vaughn sassy swings tivoli
billie holiday the essential...volumes 7 & 9
mark turner ballad session
joshua redman moodswing

fusion

pat metheny secret story
pat metheny still life talking
pat metheny a letter from home
jean-luc ponty aurora
jean-luc ponty imaginary voyage
steps ahead
steps ahead modern times
return to forever hymn of the 7th galaxy
stanley clarke school days

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[This message was edited Tue Apr 22 9:43:18 PDT 2003 by medoc2003]