Top ten jazz albums.

Abraxas

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Post your top ten jazz albums.

My list in no part. order:

Birds Of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus
Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy - Return To Forever
Crossings - Herbie Hancock
Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Live-Evil - Miles Davis
Journey To Next - Benny Carter/Dizzy Gillespie/Quincey Jones
Badfoot Brown & The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band - Bill Cosby
 

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"Romantic Warrior" Return To Forever
"Back Together Again" Coryell and Mouzon
"Enigmatic Ocean" Jean-Luc Ponty
"Elegant Gypsy" Al DiMeola
"Journey To Love" Stanley Clarke
"Spectrum" Billy Cobham
"Believe It" New Tony Williams Lifetime
"Transformation" David Sancious
"Heavy Weather" Weather Report
"Where Have I Known You Before" Return To Forever
 

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You two have almost the same list as I do...:D

In Flight - George Benson(I know it's Light Jazz, but it was the first jazz/fusion album I ever bought).

Casino - Al Di Meola

Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever

Redeye - Michael Melvoin

Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra

Heavy Weather - Weather Report

Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra,,,yeah I know but I love that record and it feels more jazz than rock to me.;)

School Daze - Stanley Clarke

A Taste of Passion - Jean Luc Ponty

Headhunter - Herbie Hancock
 

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Jazz/rock/fusion is my choice when it comes to this style of music but I do have some traditional jazz LPs in my collection.

To get a lot of music for my money I picked up these double albums.
The Verve Years (1950-51) by Charlie Parker
The Other Village Vanguard Tapes by John Coltrane
Masters Of The Modern Piano (1955-1966)
The Small Group Recordings by Wes Montgomery
The Cole Porter Songbook By Ella Fitzgerald

I Also have a couple of Claude Bolling LPs,
Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano with Jean-Pierre Rampal
Concerto For Classic Guitar And Jazz Piano with Alexandre Legoya
 

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^^I think I have a couple Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett pure jazz albums, but I cannot stand "Scat Singing" with the exception of George Benson, he does it just perfect. That takes a lot of the best vocalists out of the picture.

I just picked up a couple of Miles Davis albums a while back, but haven't listened to them yet...never enough Time Chevelle.
 

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You two have almost the same list as I do...:D

Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra,,,yeah I know but I love that record and it feels more jazz than rock to me.;)

We all have great taste. :grinthumb:cheers2

I love Morning Dance by Spyro Gyra. I have two copies of that album on cd and vinyl. :greenie:
 

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Nice to see a jazz thread, after rock and classical, jazz is my favourite music, me and my wife probably have at least a couple of hundred jazz albums between us, mainly old vinyl, quite a lot of Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Art Tatum, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Lee Morgan, that sort of stuff, safe classic jazz and nothing too weird or extreme, some contemporary/improvised/abstract jazz is just hideous, but when it’s good, jazz for me is better for the soul and for chilling out to at the end of a long day than any other genre in music.

We actually have tickets to see the Brecker Brothers Band at the famous Blue Note club in Greenwich Village in a couple of weeks, I really always loved Randy Brecker’s music, and it’s been an ambition of mine all summer to go along to Blue Note, so now I am in NYC I’m going to go there once in a while, though this city has literally 100’s of jazz clubs open 7 nights a week, been to a few of them with friends, live music for me has always been where it’s at.

Lists of favourites aren’t really something I like doing, as great music I forgot about always gets left off, so every list is essentially flawed, but here are a few classic jazz records that have been very important to me over the years...I think ‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis remains the benchmark album by which all other jazz artists have to be judged, which maybe a predictable thing for me to say as it’s pretty widely regarded as maybe the best jazz album ever made on many critics/fans lists, but IMO it happens to be true....since you only asked for 10, I’ll try to keep it to around that number...

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Stan Getz – Sweet Rain
John Coltraine - Blue Train
John Coltrane/Thelonious Monk – Live at Carnegie Hall
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
Charlie Parker – Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
Thelonious Monk – Live at the It Club
Art Blakey – Mosaic
Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village
Dizzie Gillespie – Afro
Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea
Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
 

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^^I think I have a couple Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett pure jazz albums, but I cannot stand "Scat Singing" with the exception of George Benson, he does it just perfect. That takes a lot of the best vocalists out of the picture.

I just picked up a couple of Miles Davis albums a while back, but haven't listened to them yet...never enough Time Chevelle.

Yeah, I know. When I retired I thought I would have all the time to do anything I wanted but it's not always that way.
After joining this forum I started thinking about pulling out a lot of LPs that I haven't heard in a while but I've only listened to a few.
I am unorganized and quite a procrastinator.
 

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My preferences would lean more towards more "Classic" jazz. 20's, 30's early 40's and would include

Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw etc.. This too me was a little easier on the ears as opposed to "Be-Bop" Jazz of Coltrane, Parker, Gillespie. Can't name any albums off the top of my head though.
 

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When I was a kid I got into my Dad's albums and found one called Rhapsody In Blue. I had no idea what it was but the name sounded interesting so I put it on.
It just blew me away and I probably listened to it three times a week for a couple of months.
I'm looking at the album now and it is The Hamburg Philharmonia Ochestra conducted by Hans Jurgen Walther with David Haines, pianist.
I'm glad I discovered this record when I did because it showed me at an early age that there are different kinds of music out there.
Since then I've tried not to get stuck in a rock and roll rut (groove?)
 

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