What are the five ESSENTIAL jazz albums?

What are the five ESSENTIAL jazz albums?

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Charlie Brown Christmas
Wynton Marsalis Greatest Hits
Kamasi Washington Greatest Hits
Kind of Blue
Kidz Bop 14

Bitches Brew
A Love Supreme
Kind of Blue
Waltz For Debby
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

There's more than five essential jazz albums, but that will get you a decent understanding of the genre

fuck.

Jazz volume 1
Jazz volume 2
Jazz volume 3
Jazz volume 4
Jazz volume 5

Kind of Blue
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
A Love Supreme
Bitches Brew

fyck ta

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-Various Artists - Jazz Loves Disney 2 - A Kind of Magic
-Kenny G - Silhouette
-Herbie Mann - Push Push
-Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Cheek to Cheek
-Charlie Brown Christmas

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The Epic
Amnesiac
Madvillainy
John Coltrane's Greatest Hits
To Pimp a Butterfly

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fucking delete this

Birth of the Cool
Undercurrents
Moanin'
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Time Out

Kind of Blue
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
A Love Supreme
Bitches Brew
In a Silent Way

My Fair Lady
Tristano - Intuition or Wow
Evans - Undercurrents, California here I come, take your pick
Johnny Smith - Moonlight in Vermont
~any be-bop album ~

the black saint and the sinner lady
blue train
sketches of spain
spiritual unity
science fiction

>~any be-bop album ~
Probably Coleman then, Free Jazz or Change of the Century

Miles Davis - 'Round about Midnight
Thelonious Monk - The Thelonious Monk Trio
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

This is better solved by going backwards and choosing the five biggest men of jazz, so Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

The really essential ones are Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis; Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live; Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Sessions; Miles Davis - Kind of Blue; John Coltrane - A Love Supreme.

It should cover the evolution of jazz as much as possible.

I think it's better go by instrument.

Louis Armstrong - Comeplete Hot Fives And Hot Sevens
Duke Ellington - Blanton Webster Band
Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes OR The Complete Verve Master Takes
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come OR Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

This is more based on musical decisions, though I can get what you mean. If doing so, you still need Louis Armstrong, but now you can't get rid of Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers because that set the style of the quintets we still use today, and thankfully that also covers drumming. Afterwards, you want Bird, definitely, but then the matter raised is whether we keep Coltrane. In any case, we'll need Bill Evans to be there. This is where things get finnicky, because in terms of instrumentation we may want to drift into fusion.

In other words? It's a damned mess.

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I understand what you mean, but I still think it's feasible if you focus on the essential "instrumental personalites" rather than straight virtuosos. Like, I would start off with drums, piano, bass, trumpet, and saxophone, come up with bandleaders who specialized in each, and then narrow in on albums which feature a good balance between tuneful music and famous features.

>Kidz Bop 14
>bop
fucking kek

Kidz post-bop when?

Simple, but good

Very good

trying not to cum

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Miles Davis - Walkin'/Cookin'/Relaxin'/Workin'/Steamin'
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Charles Mingus - Ah Um!
John Colltrane - Giant Steps

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I'm not so much focusing on virtuosos so much as specializing in the unique sound of it, but if you're going with that then the issue becomes defining who you want and where. In any case, I reckon it'd be something like Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers/Art Blakey - Moanin'; Bill Evans - The Complete Live At The Village Vanguard; Miles Davis - Kind of Blue; Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes; Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Plays Charles Mingus/The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady/Mingus Ah Uhm.

What do you think of Thelonious Monk and Mingus's earlier album Pithecanthropus Erectus? I only ask because I personally consider Monk more interesting than Evans (especially his early work), and I prefer PE over any of Mingus's later albums.

This.

>Monk
Yeah, he definitely can work in this scenario, especially given Evans already was present in Kind of Blue.
>PE
Good album, really good - not great, personally. I feel the same about Black Saint, but that's kind of his most "important" album.

Jazz is itself the use of musical understanding to play deeply eccentric rhythms and improvise along scales and modes in a manner that half-works so that the kind of people who prefer a glass of chinotto to a glass of coke can pat themselves on the back for being clever for liking things that are self-evidently bad and dysfunctional.

yall are missing out on an album that is my personal favorite and honestly just due to the fact that it is the quintessential bossa nova album is my opinion.
Getz/Gilberto

John Coltrane- Blue Train
Miles Davis- Miles Smiles
Ornette Coleman- The Shape of Jazz to Come
Sonny Sharrock- Ask the Ages
Pat Metheny- Bright Size Life

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
A Love Supreme
Out to Lunch
Bitches Brew
On The Corner

A list of 5 will always be incomplete. Here are 10:

Louis Armstrong- Best of Hot 5's and 7's
Duke Ellington- Early Ellington
Charlie Parker- Best of Dial and Savoy Recordings
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers- Moanin'
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Ornette Coleman- The Shape of Jazz to Come
Charles Mingus- Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Andrew Hill- Point of Departure
Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
Dave Holland Quintet- Extended Play

Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra - September Of My Years
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool

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