What's your favorite Jazz album?

What's your favorite Jazz album?

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This shit's great. Monk was a genius.

Just got into Jazz, this really helps me out. I've been to Jazz-clubs before, quite a few times actually, but now I really started loving it.

damn i love attila

Pic related or weather report - black market

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>*acknowledges you*

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Though here are some mentions that I think are worth shouting out I don't see
>Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
>We Insist!
>Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink (if your counting Athiest as Jazz)
>Roxy & Elsewhere
>On Jupiter
>Sleep Dirt
>The Africa Brass Sessions Vol. 2
>Sextant
>Space is the Place
>Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle
>Out to Lunch!
>Eric Dolphy in Europe Vol 2
>Electric Bath
>New Grass
>Spiritual Unity
>Music is the Healing force of the Universe
>... and his mother Called Him Bill
>Black, Brown and Beige

Solid choices

Still haven't sat down for this one yet

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Hank Mobley is honestly better than Coltrane desu

This is really chill

I don't feel like they're comparable at all. While Hank Mobley has always been a hard bop player and his albums tend to be more casual and really fun. Coltrane is more technical and has cover much more music.
Anyway, both are excellent. I hope you have heard Dippin'

nice

A Love Supreme or Out to Lunch

Eh, fair enough, it's just that in terms of saxophonists you have Coltrane always being mentioned, then maybe Cannonball Adderley and Sonny Rollins, possibly Stan Getz, but rarely Hank Mobley. He's just got this very relaxing, fun quality that there are very few that can come close.

Dippin' is a fantastic album, the rhythm section there is going absolutely nuts, I love it.

I love this album. I just wish they would record some new stuff. They haven't recorded an album since, and their (relatively) new single, which came out last December, is still impossible to find online.

Underrated

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All great picks

>John Coltrane
>Paul Chambers
>Hank Mobley
>fucking Elmo Hope
How haven't I heard of this album before?

Pic related is even better.
I never got the appeal.
Incredible album, but I can't listen to it so often because of emotionally intensity.
Excellent album, but Coltrane wins. Hell of a lot better than Sonny Rollins though.

*Blocks your path*

Not my favorite, but this is an excellent album.

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Too bombastic for my liking. Mingus seems to have an ego which degrades everything he does.

listening rn this is comfy af. album cover is cute as well

gling gló, klukkan sló
máninn ofar skýjum hló
lysti upp gamli gótuslóð
þar glaðleg Lína stóð

gling gló, klukkan sló
máninn ofar skýjum hló
leitar lási var á leið
til lína hanns er beið

unnendum er máninn kær
umm þau töfraljóma slær
lási á biðilsbuxum var
brátt frá línu fær hann svar

gling glo, klukkan slo,
máninn ofar skýjum hló
lási varð svo hyr á brá
þvi lína sagði já

y'all gotta get a load of this shit. either pic related or anything by Medeski, Martin & Wood

Listened to pic related at least a hundred times since 2014.

Listening to this is like listening to Satie. Its just so calming

Credit where it's due, Coltrane is still fantastic and Rollins has something of an enjoyable mix between Coltrane's lightning fast technicality and Mobley's more melodic and deliberate style, but he definitely feels like he falls between the lines for each rather than standing out. He's still one of the greats, though.
Lou Donaldson is a god of alto saxophone, no doubt, but I'm a tenor man.

>implying ego isn't earned
>also implying doesn't realize most geniuses have egos

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Charles Mingus is my favorite jazz composer. I like The Clown quite a bit. And "Blue and Roots" (Because who doesn't like Moanin'?) But this is the GOOD shit.

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this

I've been digging this a lot

I have posted my favorite, Anthony Davis' Variations In Dream-time, before. But rather than the album cover, imma just post this bit from the physical copy that explains what it is he's trying to do.

Here's the album itself if you're interested: youtu.be/iGcaDlejBec

I don't speak Icelandic, user. What is this?

wouldn't have expected to see this sucker on here. I actually own this on LP. Nice.

'75-'81 was a magical time for music.

THERE
IS
NO
DEATH
FOR
AN
ANGEL

Any time music exists is pretty magical tbqhwyf

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It’s hard not to get emotional, especially by The Prisoner track

gil has such an amazing voice.

Right, since we know everybody digs Bill Evans, what is his best album? The '61 Village Vanguard Sessions are a classic, but I am partial to Conversations with Myself.

Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charlie Parker - Bird & Diz
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Return To Forever - Musicmagic
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Matthew Halsall - Fletcher Moss Park
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanugard
Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here

Undercurrent because i love jim hall too

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I can't get enough. Title song is a fucking master stroke

Explorations or Waltz for debby

OP didn't ask for all the jazz albums you've listened to

Looking for album recommendations of fast paced bebop/swing with crazy free solos

Those are some of my favourites?

Right, but what is your favorite one

Currently it's probably Let My Children Hear Music.

>Kamasi Washington - The Epic
one of these is not like the other

RTF's musicmagic was a shocker, but what specifically do you like about the epic?

I've only seen the live performance of The Epic, I just liked the strong musicianship. Ahahaha Musicmagic is hilarious to me, bit of a guilty pleasure. But yeah, these albums listed are just things off the top of my head, some I enjoy a lot more than others.

Funny you mentioned the live performance.

me and my brother both disliked the record, but he actually saw them live in Rotterdam I think and told me the energy was amazing so there's that.

yeah Musicmagis is the only dud in their discography imo although it's still the only album of theirs I have on vinyl

patrician miles choice

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"maybe it was just that I was coming up on amphetamines (I'm always so fucking hype after I take my meds and go for a run in the morning) but" - and see I could preface my rave review of so much jazz with that statement ya know, because I get a lot of listening done on the morning commute right - but a few favorite records as of late:
Andrew Hill - Lift Every Voice
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy - Live at Dreher Paris 1981
Cecil Taylor Unit - S/T
Paul Motian - Sound of Love
Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin

Hey I recommend the Penguin Guide to Jazz as a resource. Get like the 8th edition. It's a bit outta date, and it only lists stuff that was in print on CD at the time of publishing, but the 8th edition is much superior to the later editions which cut down the featured recordings to their Core Collection. If you really wanna nerd out, you wanna get their old version with "over 14000 CDs reviewed"

also also, more important albums for me lately:
The Ganelin Trio - Live in East Germany
Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet (or you can get it on Tatum's Pablo Group Masterpieces)
Mingus at Antibes
David S. Ware Quartet - Freedom Suite
Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol 1/Vol 2/Memorial Album (all three albums are from the same show)
Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett
McCoy Tyner - Sahara

also
all based picks

i understand that i appear to have misunderstood the point of the thread, but I think it's to the benefit of the spectator, the lurker, to get their head filled with as many jazz albums as possible.

oh and another great one:
Rova::Orchestrova - Electric Ascension
this one is for the real avant-teens out there, the Rova sax quartet plus Nels Cline, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Otomo Yoshihide, many more.

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Love this one. Each track , including the bonus ones, are great

This is amazing

fag

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