Podcast: A Jazz Collector Top Ten
Selections from ten of Jazz Collector’s favorite albums. Featured artists including Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Donald Byrd, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and many more.
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If anyone is interested, there are, as of now, two comments on the next post that are actually related to this post. Time for a Top 10 extravaganza? All are welcome.
This is a fun topic. I know I like the outside stuff more than most here, but I’ll play along. My top ten, right now anyway, are, in no particular order:
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Grachan Moncur III – Some Other Stuff
Bennie Maupin – Jewel In the Lotus
Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity
Don Cherry – Symphony For Improvisers
Eric Dolphy – Out There
Joe Henderson – The Elements
Michael White – Spirit Dance
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
Well, I’d like to play.
Perhaps my selections will be anathema to some as they’re being made based on cd issue, not lp. With that caveat:
Sun Ra Bad and Beautiful (Saturn)
Sam Rivers Fuschia Swing Song ( Blue Note)
Jackie McLean Lights Out (Prestige)
Charlie Rouse. Yeah (Epic/Fresh Sounds)
John Coltrane Meditations (Impulse)
John Coltrane Live in Japan (4 cds worth) (Imp)
Miles Davis On the Corner (box set) (Columbia)
James Moody Hi-Fi Party (Prestige)
Charlie Parker Big Band. (Verve)
Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun. (FMP)
Too many great records, but here are ten I really enjoy:
Lucky Thompson- Lucky Strikes
Lester Young- The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio
Hank Mobley- A Slice of the Top
Tete Montoliu- A Tot Jazz, Vols. 1 & 2
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
John Coltrane- Coltrane
Sonny Criss- Birth of the New Cool
Lee Morgan- Search for the New Land
Bill Evans- How My Heart Sings!
Phineas Newborn/ Paul Chambers/ Roy Haynes- We Three
Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
Oliver Nelson – blues and the Abstract truth
John Coltrane- A love surpreme
Dave Brubeck – time out
Nina Simone – Little girl blue
Art Blakey – Moanin
Oscar Peterson- Night train
Thelonius Monk – brilliant corners
Erroll Garner – concert by the sea
Cannonball adderley – somethin else
(Miles davis – Kind of blue )
Made this list for what I like but also what I found Original and diverse and would Show to people to get an overview on different fields.. surely , 10 are too few 😉
This list is more like a hard bop list- just realizing how many other favorites I have that are more linked to fusion genre, but still have this roots in jazz… like billy cobham – crosswinds, turrentine – salt song, george duke – Aura will prevail, volker kriegel- missing link, Eberhard Weber – silent feet….