What is your favorite Jazz album?

[jligon]

What is your favorite Jazz album of all time?

Mine is Thelonious Monk's great LP from 1957, "Monk's Music."

80% for the great music, 10% for the sonics and 10% for that incredible cover!

[mcow1]

Tough to choose but at the moment I'll have to go with "Time Out" by Dave Brubeck.
Great time signatures and Paul Desmond to boot.

[Dave]

I'll go with Billy Thorpe: Children Of The Sun. At least at this moment.

[MagicAlex]

That's a real hard one but I guess I have to go with John Coltrane's 'Blue Train' on Blue Note. You can't go wrong if your album has Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, John Coltrane, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones on it.

Bill Evans' 'Waltz For Debbie' and, of course, Davis' 'Kind Of Blue' are right behind!

[Kayaker]

I'd have to agree with you on "Monk's Music" - my favorite - the new remastered K2 is wonderful.

Second right now is "Art Farmer and Benny Golson Meet the Jazztet" - (the import K2 from Japan). I just got this six months ago, and could cry at what I have missed out on all these years.

[Cousin It]

Originally posted by Dave
I'll go with Billy Thorpe: Children Of The Sun. At least at this moment.

Billy Thorpe ????
It's not a jazz album is it ???

[Cousin It]

I don't know if it's my fave but it was the first jazz album that I listened to constantly that got me into jazz.

Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus

[romanotrax]

I would have to say mine is "Bill Evans Live At Village Vanguard" Just Beautiful

Second would probably be "My Spanish Heart" by Chick Corea

Would the "Sun Bear Concerts" by Keith Jarrett count?

[Ronflugelguy]

Oliver Nelson-"Blues and the Abstract Truth"

[Steve Hoffman]

My favorite jazz album?

Very tough call. At the moment I'm on a Contemporary Records jag, so maybe "Music For Lighthouse Keeping" by Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars

http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/lighth.html

Or, Barney Kessel's "Some Like It Hot" with Art Pepper, or "The Poll Winners".

Tomorrow I'll be on to another label...

[NoTinEar]

Well it varies of course from week to week. This week Ellington at Newport 1956 Complete. A amazing performance that just reminds you why you need to go out and listen to and absorb LIVE jazz. Essential to the nth degree. Your milage may vary, but I don't care because this albumn is amazing.

[ATR]

In the best of all possible worlds, whatever I'm listening to right now. There's no entry on Billy Thorpe in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, by the way. But Clifford Thornton and Henry Threadgill are there, and they've made some of my favorite jazz albums.

[Dave]

ATR,

I'll bet Carlos Santana isn't listed in your dicitionary either but just give The Santana Brothers a listen. I'd also choose John McGlaughlan (spelling) or how about Al DiMeola.;)

[Bob Lovely]

All,

Jazz Samba, Kind of Blue, Art Pepper Plus 11, Night Train and The Poll Winners!

Bob :D

[ATR]

Dave, it's not my dictionary, it's the New Grove Dictionary which is a well respected source of information on Jazz. Carlos 'Devadip' Santana and John McLaughlin are of course both represented, although I'm not familiar with a Santana 'brother'. I've done a lot of listening to both of those guys over the years and they are among my favorite musicians, jazz or otherwise.

[Dave]

ATR,

Santana Bros. is essentially a Santana family album. The 3 musicians on it are: Carlos (of course), brother Jorge Santana, and nephew of both, Carlos Hernandez.

I fully realize that you simply own the dictionary but I still say that Billy Thorpe was known for his jazz works (fusion) long before Children Of The Sun.

[Uncle Al]

I always went for "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis and "Ahhh Um" - by Mingus. In the vocal catagory, I also was VERY fond of a Lambert, Hendricks and Ross album on the budget label Emus (vinyl). I am having a hard time finding any of their recordings on CD, however.... and I mean all three of them together. They had sort of "swing time" magic that came close to original Andrews Sisters recordings. They were damn good on their own, but great together.

[KLM]

Boy this is a tough one. At the moment I would have to say either Miles Davis' Bags Groove or Sonny Rollins Way Out West. I'm sure I can name more of my singular favorites with another hour of thought or so.

[peterredtrumpet]

Wow... favorite jazz album?! That would be like picking the most beautiful woman or the best building ever designed or your favorite book. (Homer Simpson's favorite color, by the way, is chocolate.) I don't really like the idea of "best" or "favorite" -- for me it reduces the incredible diversity of the music world to a contest, instead of recognizing how lucky we all are to have so many remarkable contributions.

Here are some jazz albums I wouldn't want to be without:

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Bill Evans' Vanguard albums (Sunday at the VV / Waltz for Debby)
Coltrane: Giant Steps
one of the early Clifford Brown/Max Roach LPs
Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section
Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Duke Ellington: Indigos
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
one or two by Red Garland
Billie Holiday: Body and Soul
Ella Fitzgerald: The Gershwin Songbooks
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

...and a lot of others.

It's a pretty catholic list, but hey, I'm a traditionalist. 8^)

Take it easy!
Peter

[Ronflugelguy]

can I add Peter's list to mine?:D

[peterredtrumpet]

Originally posted by Ronflugelguy
can I add Peter's list to mine?:D

Absolutely! Permission granted. Please feel free to pass on my opinions as the truth anytime you feel the desire to do so!

Take it easy!
Peter

[Ronflugelguy]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL.!!!!!!!!!:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[Paul C.]

"The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson" (Verve, 1959)

[mcow1]

Okay different day, different favorite. Today it's Herbie Mann "At The Village Gate":D

[John Oteri]

Getz/Gilberto

Tied with

Ella Fitzgerald "Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie"

:D