What's good party people?
After numerous Windows failures and hard-drive crashes I am finally making a proper attempt to rebuild my jaw-dropping, awe-inpsiring jazz collection. Ahem...
Since I know the Start Snitching crowd fucks with cabernet sauvignon and turtlenecks, I'm sure y'all can recommend the quality albums that deserves to be in any real jazz collection.
I do it all.
Fusion.
Bossa Nova.
Latin Jazz.
Vocal Jazz.
Bebop.
Modal.
Just list the album names, I can acquire the actual files myself.
Any Kenny G recs and I will block your IP address.
Update:
If you name a big name like Miles, Coltrane, Monk, etc. then you need to name a specific album or three.
Obscure jems are appreciated.
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Everything by:
ReplyDeleteJohn Coletrane and Herbie Hancock.
yea, its that easy.
..."by the time this night is over"
(an awful kenny g song, that you should probably avoide listening to at any and all costs... i'm pretty sure theres a MIT medical report linking listening to impotence.
Artist: John Handy. album: Live at the Monterrey Jazz Festival (1965). This album contains two tracks (one for each side of the orignal vinyl), "If We Only Knew" and "Spanish Lady." Both come in around the 20min. range. "If..." is one of the baddest songs ever recorded and features Michael White on violin, a guitarist, and Handy's alto to give the track a breezy mystical feel. 5 stars.
ReplyDeleteI am FAR from a jazz connoisseur, but I do love the music — all music actually. And I've got to help out a fellow wine lovin' Wolverine.
ReplyDeleteI offer up a few of my must have albums from my small, but valued jazz collection:
Keith Jarrett
• At The Blue Note: June 4th, 1994
• At the Deer Head Inn
• Standards in Norway
Soulive
• Turn It Out
I look forward to reading all the recommendations.
Im a fusion jazz cat.
ReplyDeleteBob James - I, II, III & IV
Grover Washington Jr. - Feels So Good
Grover Washington Jr. - Mister Magic
Gabor Szabo - Mizrab
David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence
Dorothy Ashby - Dorothy's Harp
David Axelrod - Seriously Deep
David Axelrod - Strange Ladies
Roy Ayers - He's Coming
Roy Ayers - Everybody Love's the Sunshine
Roy Ayers - Coffy Soundtrack
George Benson White Rabbit
Blackbyrds - Blackbyrds
Blackbyrds - City Life
Blackbyrds - Flying Start
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Step into Tomorrow
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Crusaders - 1
Crusaders - 2nd Crusade
Crusaders - Southern Comfort
Deodato - Prelude
Lou Donaldson - Hot Dog
Lou Donaldson - Pot Belly
Maynard Fergesun - Conquistador
Grant Green - Alive
John Hammond - Higher Ground
John Hammond - Gears
Headhunters - Survival of the Fittest
Eddie Henderson - Heritage
Freddie Hubbard - Sky Dive
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Satin Doll
Ahmand Jamal - Jamalca
Yusef Lateef - Detroit
Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensative
Ramsey Lewis - Maiden Voyage, Upendo Ni Pamoja, Funky Serenity, Sun Goddess
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Stanley Turrentine - Cherry
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
Young Holt Unlimted - Soulful Strut, Just a Melody, Wack Wack
I am not some Deadhead/Jamband freak but everything by Medeski, Martin & Wood is great as far as contemporary Jazz/Funk goes.
ReplyDeleteOther must haves are:
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos
Idle Moments by Grant Green
East Coasting by Charles Mingus
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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
The Miles Davis Quintet albums like Steamin', Cookin' and Workin'
Getz/Gilberto
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Poinciana by Ahmad Jamal
Phineas Newborn, Jr. He was an amazing jazz pianist.
ReplyDeleteJust cause he's my namesake and once challenged someone to come on stage and box him: Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
ReplyDeleteBop/Hard Bop (generally)
ReplyDeleteThe Dial Masters - Charlie Parker
Jazz at Massey Hall
"Moanin" - Art Blakey & the JMs
"Steamin" - Miles Davis Quintet
"Beginning and the End" - Clifford Brown
"Workin" - Miles Davis Quintet
"Blue Trane" - Coltrane
"Back at the Chicken Shack" - Jimmy Smith
"Ready for Freddie" - Freddie Hubbard
"Sidewinder" - Lee Morgan
"Born to Be Blue" - Grant Green
"Mingus Ah Um" - Charlie Mingus
"Misterioso" - Thelonious Monk
Stretching Out 60s/70s
"Miles Smiles" - Miles Davis
"Page One" - Joe Henderson
"A Love Supreme" - Coltrane
"Nefertiti" - Miles Davis
"See No Evil" - Wayne Shorter
"Jack Johnson" - Miles Davis
"Headhunters" - Herbie Hancock
"On the Corner" - Miles Davis
"Maiden Voyage" - Herbie
FREE JAZZ craziness
"Spiritual Unity" - Albert Ayler
"Song X" - Ornette Coleman/P Metheney
"Meditations" - John Coltrane
"Free Jazz" - Ornette
Obscurities from Throughout:
"Infinite Search" - Mirsolav Vituous
"Face to Face" - Baby Face Willette
"Songs of Innocence" - David Axelrod
"Afro-Harping" - Dorothy Ashby
"Crystals" - Sam Rivers
"Enlightenment" - McCoy Tyner
I've thoroughly enjoyed your blog for a while, man. Thanks for giving me the chance to give something back.
Just leaving a couple that might not get mentioned elsewhere...
ReplyDeleteHerbie Nichols gets forgot about.
Sun Ra - see if you can find "Interstellar Low Ways".
Charlie Hunter - oh man ...
Stan Getz & Jao Giberto -"Getz/Gilberto"
ReplyDeleteJohn Coltrane - "Coltrane Plays The Blues"
Quincy Jones - "The Dude"
Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew"
Wally Badarou - "Echoes"
Steely Dan - "Aja" and "A Decade Of Steely Dan"
Charles Mingus:
ReplyDeleteBlues and Roots
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Mingus Ah Um
Let My Children Hear Music
Coltrane:
Africa/Brass
Ole
Monk:
Monk & Sonny Rollins
Brilliant Corners
Misterioso
Sun Ra:
Atlantis
Space Is The Place
Sound Sun Pleasure
Jazz In Sillhouette
Wayne Shorter:
Native Dancer
Etc
Juju
Adam's Apple
Schizophrenia
Speak No Evil
Ornette Coleman:
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Miles Davis:
In A Silent Way
On The Corner
Miles Smiles
Jack Johnson
Rahsaan Roland Kirk:
Inflated Tear
Rip, Rig, Panic
Herbie Hancock:
Maiden Voyage
Thrust
Fat Albert Rotunda
Mwandishi
I also wanted to suggest this German group I just heard about called "Bohren & Der Club of Gore." They used to be a metal band, but in the mid-90s they decided they were gonna start making reeeeeally dark-sounding jazz.
ReplyDeleteShit sounds like the soundtrack to the darkest film noir ever. Really mellow, very smooth, a little unsettling. SO good.
"Black Earth" is their best record.
God damn, y'all came through. This is what blogging is all about.
ReplyDeleteMy weekend is pretty much set now.
If you put up something that kinda rare (eg John Handy at Monterey) please through up a www.Mediafire.com link.
startsnitching@gmail.com
Plus so I can go homer...Fertile Ground.
ReplyDelete^ Just copped the Bohren & Der Club of Gore, "Black Earth". NICE! Thnx!
ReplyDeleteGrover Washington Jr - Reed Seed
ReplyDeleteAnything by Wes Montgomery.
Kenny Dorham & Hank Mobley. Anything by them is usually very good.
ReplyDeletecoltrane "love supreme"
ReplyDeletedexter gordon "clubhouse"
Coltrane "Lush Life"
ReplyDeletea really short record, but great... look for the cut with Johnny Hartman on it for some unreal baritone
Brubeck - any sessions compilation...
he's pretty underrated (too much airplay on smooth jazz stations) but he's practically giving lessons on rhythm with every song
Lots of great stuff has been mentioned already. But I gotta make the STRONGEST possible recommendation for a couple things that have yet to be named:
ReplyDelete1. Everything by AHMED ABDUL-MALIK. "Jazz Sounds of Africa" is my personal favorite.
2. Almost everything by YUSEF LATEEF. "Live at Peps" being an excellent place to start.
3. Chicago Underground Quartet can be a good look, as far as modern stuff.
Also you can message me for blogs to hit up. I enjoy yours a lot, btw.
If you love jazz guitar, visit :
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