Recommend Some Jazz Albums

[slickpoppa]

I am in the mood for jazz, but all I have is My Favorite Things by Coltrane, which I love. So please suggest some albums along the same lines.

[PoBoy321]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

[partygirluk]

1 (http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=5218085)

2 (http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=5029832)

Those links are 9GB worth of Coltrane.

Great stuff, there isn't much chaff in there.

[cwsiggy]

Cannonball Adderly - Something Else
Miles Davis - Relaxing, Steaming , Working, Cooking
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

[MrWookie47]

If you like MFT because it's off beat from regular (4/4) jazz, look up Dave Brubeck's Take Five. If you want some just spectacular jazz that's been knocking my socks of lately, I'd recommend:

Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens Collection
Duke Ellington - Masterpieces 1926-1949
Gene Harris - The Best of the Concord Years
Various Aritists - For Dancers Only!

[JaBlue]

Maynard Ferguson - The essence of maynard ferguson
Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
Barney Kessel - It's a Blue World
Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots
Charlie Parker - Jazz 'Round Midnight
Chops - Chops II [I know the band leader who is awesome and the group is very good - good luck finding it though]
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong did some recording together, so find whatever album it is that they cut

[StevieG]

nice list so far

"Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington"

[Allan]

Anything from the RVG series on Blue Note.

Allan

[AZK]

Kind of blue - miles davis
Take five - brubeck
bluetrain - coltrane

[jgorham]

For something a little different, try my avatar /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Amon Tobin's Bricolage

[dynamite]

John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin
Miles Davis - Four and More

[edtost]

apart from some awesome suggestions already made, anything by:

clifford brown
stan kenton

[KDawgCometh]

there's tons of great stuff out there


branford marsalis: requiem, the dark keys, contemporary jazz

sonny rollins: saxophone collosus, way out west, sound of sonny

lee morgan: search for new land, the rumproller

hank mobley: this I dig of you, no room for squares

freddie hubbard: ready for freddie, red clay

mc coy tyner: the real mccoy

herbie hancock: any blue note herbie

miles davis: anything from the sextet with cannonball, trane, and the rythm section

charles mingus: black saint and the sinner lady, mingusX5

dizzy gilespie: sonny side up, the conercert(its from toronto with mingus, parker, max roach)

any thad jones/mel lewis big band

trane: crescent, with johnny hartman, ballads, coltrane's sound, giant steps

joe henderson: y todavia la quiero( i think that's the name off the top of my head), inner urge, a shade of jade, tetragon

wayne shorter: bascially any blue note wayne

stan getz: voyage, sweet rain

this is a good list to get you started, I was a jazz performance major in the past, so this is my specialty

[dibbs]

The others give good advice.

I haven't seen Coltrane's A Love Supreme mentioned though which if you dig MFT I think you'll love.

[bholdr]

If you like that coltrne lbum, check out some dave Brubeck, specifically, 'time out'... also, as another poster mentioned, try coltrane's 'a love supreme'

[ChipWrecked]

Best of Blue Note Vol. I (one of my all time favorite LP's, I think the CD is import only but well worth finding)

George Benson - Breezin'

Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

[KDawgCometh]

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The others give good advice.

I haven't seen Coltrane's A Love Supreme mentioned though which if you dig MFT I think you'll love.

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i think before he steps off into those waters, he should get familiar with some more stuff in the vein of mft and other hard bop/early 60s jazz just so he has some more background. A love Supreme can be very confusing to someone who isn't completely familiar with what trane is doing there

[KDawgCometh]

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George Benson - Breezin'

Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

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he wants to listen to good jazz, not crap wannabe rock jazz, plus if you're gonna give him good fusion recomendations, none of these fit that bill either.

OP, if you're gonna check out George Bensen, check out Cookbook

[Uston]

If you want something very accessible yet great, Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock. You'll get the greatest technical trumpeter of the last 60 years at his absolute peak.

[asofel]

hey man, couple thoughts from my bro:

[18:04] bro: definitely a love supreme
[18:04] bro: kind of blue of course
[18:04] bro: blue train's good too
[18:04] asofel: cool
[18:04] asofel: is there stuff people haven't mentioned there?
[18:05] bro: ah nice i was just about to say art blakey but someone said that too
[18:05] bro: his stuff is really cool
[18:05] bro: oh
[18:05] bro: wayne shorter
[18:05] asofel: cool
[18:05] bro: yeah i think the KDawgCometh guy basically said it all
[18:06] asofel: hehe ok, i'll post this, thanks

[KJS]

Matador by Grant Green has a great version of My Favorite Things, done by Green, a guitarist, with Tyner and Jones from Coltrane's band. Also try:

Tom Cat by Lee Morgan
Oblique by Bobby Hutcherson
Judgement by Andrew Hill
Inner Urge by Joe Henderson
The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner

KJS

[ChipWrecked]

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George Benson - Breezin'

Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

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he wants to listen to good jazz, not crap wannabe rock jazz, plus if you're gonna give him good fusion recomendations, none of these fit that bill either.

OP, if you're gonna check out George Bensen, check out Cookbook

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Oh. My mistake.
Guess I'll open a Coors Light.

[ebaudry]

Herbie Hancock: Headhunter

And the poster than suggested Amon Tobin's Bricolage, he meant to say the album Permutation, but they are both amazing.

Jazz is in there for sure, hard to call it jazz though. You won't be disappointed.

[ChipWrecked]

Other crap rock/wannabe/fusion/suck jazz I like but you probably shouldn't bother with:

Jeff Beck - Wired

Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight

[Pyromaniac]

No Keith Jarrett on this list?

I'd suggest

At The Blue Note - 6 discs, shorter standards, accessible

or

Sun Bear Concerts - 6 discs, longer improvs, reasonably accessible

[KDawgCometh]

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No Keith Jarrett on this list?

I'd suggest

At The Blue Note - 6 discs, shorter standards, accessible

or

Sun Bear Concerts - 6 discs, longer improvs, reasonably accessible

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good call. THe complete set of his american quartet is awesome. I don't know if there is a complete set of his european quartet, but all of the albums of that group are readily available on ecm. also, any of Jarrett's standards trio is top notch

[Benjamin]

Here are a couple essentials I haven't seen mentioned yet:

The Thelonius Monk Quartet: Monk's Dream
John Coltrane: Giant Steps

B.