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Essential Jazz
La Creme:
--- Quote from: Moiche ----- The Marsalis Family - A Jazz Celebration (All five of the musical Marsalises: Ellis, Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, Jason; playing in a septet, shortly after a momentous reconciliation between Wynton & Ellis);
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Marsalis < Dead Mule Cocks
Sorry, I just really hate Wynton and Branford.
Essentials:
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
One of the first albums that can be truly considered 'funk'. 4 historic tracks.
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach - Jazz At Masey Hall
GETGETGETGET!!!
Charles Mingus - Ah-Um
Seriously, everyone is right.
Miles Davis - Live Evil
I always have and always will consider this a much more pivitol and powerful fusion album than either Bitch's Brew or Get Up With It. Both of those are amazing too though.
Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Neils Orsted-Scott Pederson - The Trio
Arguably the greatest hard-bop of all time. Fast, tight, raw, and totally without a drummer.
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
If Miles was the virtuoso, Lee is the fun-loving guy who dropped out of music school to play gigs in Brazil where he lit his trumpet on fire and shit.
Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz - Diz & Getz
Best version of "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" ever on this album!
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
"Syeeda's Song Flute" is just my favorite jazz song ever so I'm a little biased here.
Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now
Argueably the best sax player ever (if a little INSANE AS FUCK) and his weirdest release (in my eyes anyways).
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - something in japanese i cant read...*
20 years after Clifford Brown's death at 22, Miles Davis said "If what happened to Brownie had happened to another, the world would never have heard of Miles Davis". And it's true. If Miles was the virtuoso and Lee was the funtastic guy, Clifford was the crooner. And by gosh did he fucking croon his heart out in his short but prolific recording career.
Oliver Nelson - Blues And Abstract Truth
The best arranged jazz album of all time. Oliver Nelson also arranged the one below this.
Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery - The Dynamic Duo
My favorite jazz album of all ever.
There's always more.
* As far as I know, it's one of dozens of recordings simply called "Clifford Brown and Max Roach". This one's got "Delilah" as the first track and the most inspiring version of "Joy Spring" in ever.
JLM:
If we're talking vocalists, locate and pick up at all costs the complete Ella Fitzgerald songbooks. Ella, in the twilight of her career, recorded the entire songbook of many of the great composers of the day: Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Rodgers and Hart, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, and Duke Ellington.
rive gauche:
i'm sooo glad i'm not the only person who says Charlie Parker. he is all you need for one reason:
salt peanuts.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: La Creme ---* As far as I know, it's one of dozens of recordings simply called "Clifford Brown and Max Roach". This one's got "Delilah" as the first track and the most inspiring version of "Joy Spring" in ever.
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There's actually a proper album by the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet called "Clifford Brown and Max Roach" - it's got a bright orange and blue cover and it's widely available through Verve Records. It does have awesome versions of both "Delilah" and "Joy Spring" on it, so it might well be the one your talking about - though why it should be a Japanese import, I have no idea. Anyway, the Brown-Roach Quintet was one of the greatest bands in jazz, and put out several amazing records, first with Harold Land on tenor sax (my favourite version of the band) and then with Sonny Rollins - apart from the aforementioned self-titled one, there are:
- Brown-Roach Inc.
- A Study in Brown (err . . . yeah, the less said about the title of this one the better!)
- At Basin Street
- Sonny Rollins + 4 (this one's actually listed under Sonny Rollins' name, but it's the Brown-Roach Quintet).
JLM speaks the truth about the Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks - I've already recommended the Gershwin set, but also highly recommended are the Cole Porter Songbook (one of the most famous vocal recordings in jazz) and the Harold Arlen Songbook (just listen to Ella sing "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe", and tell me it doesn't make you want to rush straight out and buy the album!). Both of these are 2-C.D. sets, but well priced. Although I wouldn't exactly call it the twilight of her career - she was at her absolute vocal peak during this period!
Also: Lester Young. Seriously. Lester god-damn Young. A lot of his early stuff was as a sideman in the Count Basie band, so one of the best places to get his stuff currently is the recent Columbia 3-C.D. Basie set "America's #1 Band". Also the Kansas City Sessions (as previously stated), Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, the various Lester Young in Washington D.C. live albums, the Savoy recordings . . . So much. Don't listen to any idiot who tells you the old story about how Young's post-war recordings are terrible. That's just a lazy excuse for people who can't be bothered listening (although his late-50s stuff - from about '57 onwards (he died in '59) - is definitely of inferior quality).
Shit, this is gonna start me off on a wave of Count Basie recommendations . . .
Garcin:
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EDIT: Oh, and as for Moiche's recommendation of the Massey Hall concert - there was a limited-edition print of it a few years ago, with some fancy jiggery-pokery done to the remastering, and the sound quality is a bajillion times better than on other versions. I think it was only limited to 10,000 copies or something, but if you can get your hands on it then do so.
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Thank-you, Inlander, for all the excellent suggestions. This list is going to keep me busy for a while, but it's a good kind of busy. There were a few releases of the remastered Massey Hall concert and most of them were not limited. I believe that the one I have a copy of is this one.
--- Quote from: La Creme ---Marsalis < Dead Mule Cocks
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Second time I've seen you bash the shit out of the Marsalis family. I'm curious -- what motivates this hatred? And why is Ellis spared?
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