Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Some would be in the top 50, others would be bubbling under Another standout is the blithe and becalmed Dolphin Dance. Eminently accessible yet with an ear for what was cutting edge at the time, Maiden Voyage is the jewel in Hancocks Blue Note crown and was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999. Though he was terminally ill at the time, Breckers playing is wonderfully vibrant and brimming with a life-affirming vigor. Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: March 1967: Unverified: Sushi: Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson Trio: March 16, 1990: Covered by : The Smudge: Oscar As it has short track Ramsey Lewis would definitely be somewhere on my top 50 along with Chris Botti and Paul Hardcastle. etc. 1985 Breakin' Out with George Shearing, Marvin Smith (Concord Jazz, There are certainly 50 best for each decade or sub-genre, style, composer, voice, instrument and geographic region (USA and World-Wide). Denis is an update of gospel-tinged 60s soul jazz while The Stinger is a propulsive swinger that Art Blakey would have been proud of. I would have liked to have seen the Zoot and Sonny collaboration interaction on this list. Key track: Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue, A native New Yorker, pianist, and poet, the late Cecil Taylor, was pushing musical boundaries several years before Ornette Coleman introduced the concept of free jazz to an unsuspecting world. Mahavishnu Orchestra not that high either). Rising to fame in the 1990s along fellow Young Lions, saxophonists Joshua Redman and Branford Marsalis, Texas-born Hargrove was a passionate devotee of neo-hard bop but also dabbled with Afro-Cuban music and R&B-tinged jazz-funk. Despite this, Pepper who claimed he hadnt touched his sax for several weeks prior to the session made a transcendent jazz record. Sunday At The Village Vanguard is a tremendous live album from 1961 that shows how Evans, together with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, brought a new concept of collective improv to the piano trio aesthetic. Quoting from your website With a few exceptions every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in someway by her genius . Key track: Journey In Satchidananda, Described by Duke Ellington as the Maharajah of the keyboard, Montreal-born Peterson was famed for a florid piano style that expanded the virtuoso aesthetics of his mentor, the great Art Tatum. Harmonious Creatures Sarah Manning. What about Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan Garbarek, or Trilok Gurtu? 25. No Sarah Vaughn? Not sure In a Silent Way would be on my top 50, but your comment did give me a craving to listen to it since I havent for a long time. Duke. What a ton of wasted effort on this inadequate list. Giant Steps Trane What resulted was a thrilling showcase for Methenys clear-toned, flowing virtuoso style which was defined by elliptical melodic filigrees, liquid improv and flights of untrammeled lyricism. List includes Oscar (Page 2) YOU MISSED THE GREATEST, COUNT BASIE, DUKE,AND LOUIS ARMSTRONG. But as my old Grandpappy used to say One mans meat is another mans poison . With an incendiary and inspiring performance that wowed the Newport audience, however, Ellington and his band demonstrated that they could still deliver the goods while asserting that big bands still had a place in jazz. Concierto by Jim Hall? Agreed on how absurd it is to leave off the Sun Ra Arkestra! Circles reed player Anthony Braxton and drummer/percussionist Barry Altschul collaborated with Holland on the album along with saxophonist/flautist Sam Rivers; combining their talents to create a free jazz album that bristles with invention but which also has moments of ear-catching accessibility. What makes it special is the presence of Miles Davis in a rare sideman role (Adderley was a member of the trumpeters sextet at the time), while the contributions of the great Art Blakey on drums, along with excellent work from pianist Hank Jones and bassist Sam Jones, conspire to make this one of the best jazz albums recorded by a small-group ensemble. Seriously? My Favorite Things, Key track: Flight 19, After the experimental music of his early 70s Mwandishi band fell on deaf ears, Herbie Hancock reinvented himself as an afro-topped jazz-funk wizard with this 1973 blockbuster album, which hit No.1 on the US jazz charts. What about the Cti label? Albums include Night Train, We Get Requests, Please dont leave them out!! Duke Ellington Hot Summer Dance The exact order is not so important. Magico and Folk Songs Charlie Haden and Jan Garbarek. Voyage with Herbie Hancock was made smoothly. Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) was a jazz pianist. The album came out on Mingus own Debut label later that year, but not before he had re-recorded his bass lines, which were barely audible on the original recording. While _Ellington at Newport_ is a fine document, if were only taking one Ellington, it really needs to be a collection from the Blanton-Webster years, no? 23. Love the selected Artists Like the (+) 50 others. No Bix Beiderbecke? This earns its place among the greatest jazz albums of all time by being one of the best albums on Blue Note. Double the list and not rank them for more harmony among Jazz lovers. I myself could not be happy living without this chunk of music in the world. Ill use it to listen to some tunes that maybe I have not discovered. I would have included Mingus New Tijuana Moods, Armstrongs Plays WC Handy, perhaps an Abdullah Ibrahim album (Voices of Africa?). Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers they Moan because they get the job done. Black Codes From the Underground Wynton Marsalis. with Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges on number one! Who can really argue with the This is a damn fine list. It also won him two posthumous Grammy awards. Were sure youll have your own favorite albums. Im sorry. In fact, just put McCoy Tyners album Infinity on there, it is a great album an kills two birds with one stone. Need to broaden your 50 spectrum, and while there change some already in the list that could be swapped.. Art Esemble of Chicago People in Sorrow The list and the comments thread has been a great learning curve for me. Though not a jazz pathfinder, he was prolific and produced a formidable body of work for Blue Note between 1955 and 1970. A seven-time Grammy winner, Schneiders 2020 opus, Data Lords, is arguably her most ambitious project; an epic double concept album that explores the uneasy intersection of the digital and natural worlds and though a series of exquisite tone poems offers an eloquent critique of surveillance capitalism and the dark side of technological advancements. How can anyone enjoy listening to musicians play when the musicians werent listening to the other players? Here are just a few of the albums that showcase the genius of legendary musician Paul Desmond. Herbie Hancock Man Child? No matter who you list in the top 50, youll get 10,000 comments questioning your suggestions. Duke Ellington is universally acknowledged as one of the greats of jazz, you could argue that he is woefully under represented here, it is a list of some great jazz albums, you could never chime with everyones ideal top 50 list and In a Silent Way can look after itself, it is an album that any self respecting jazz collector must have, simply because it is so ubiquitously and cheaply available, even if you are not sure if it is you thing it is better to have it than not. Should have expanded to the top 100 !!! WebJackson, Johnson, Brown & Company (Original Jazz Classics, 1983) Soular Energy (Concord Jazz, 1984) One O'Clock Jump (Verve, 1984) Bye Bye Blackbird (Paddle Wheel, 1985) Don't Forget the Blues (Concord Jazz, 1985) The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio (Concord Jazz, 1987) rec. Looking for classic tunes, LP Power To The People, including the great classic piece Black Narcissus should be somewhere in the list. Like Shorter and Zawinul, Pastorius was a gifted composer, and his tunes Teen Town, a funky vehicle for outrageous bass pyrotechnics, and Havona, a superb ensemble piece, highlight his growing maturity as a jazz conceptualist. Billie and the other biggies mentioned above too. But what gets me about top jazz lists is that almost always the majority of the albums are more than 50 years old. Hard to believe that nobody has complained about the omission of the great Benny Carter. would have put more Miles in there ( Milestones) what no Billie or Nina or Ella ? You forgot Ornette Colemans The Shape of Jazz to Come And Mingus Mingus Ah Um. Its a disgrace to menchen a word like that in this context with these geniouses.But SHEPP was anything than that!!! Key track: Ashes Of Our Forever, This Pennsylvanian tenor saxophonist rose to fame playing jazz-funk in the 70s with his elder sibling Randy in the Brecker Brothers but also carved out a career as a first call sideman for rock artists that ranged from John Lennon to Steely Dan. MICHAEL BRECKER have a place for me but also CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS is beautiful, right ? Key track: So What. Thank you for this list. Thank you for a great source for me that continues the conversation. 35. It seems that only in the USA are outstanding jazz-performances! In the meantime, these jazz albums are essential for anyone looking to start a collection, or to go beyond classics they already know. Those and the old stuff from the 20s and 30s as someone else said. TRad? Never No Lament: the Blanton Webster band. Jaco Pastorius. We Get Requests is my fave. difficult indeed to make a list. Ive loved jazz for 60 years and cannot imagine what a hole would exist without JC. Though for health reasons he no longer plays his beloved tenor saxophone, this seminal 1957 album which gave Rollins his nickname reminds us of his unparalleled brilliance as an improviser. Bop? Key track: Well You Neednt, This 2013 compilation brings together all the sides that Basie recorded for Decca between 1937 and 1939, captured at the height of the swing era when big bands held sway. I would add Miles In a Silent Way, Getzs Sweet Rain, and Wayne Shorters Native dancer with Milton Nascimento. Charlie Parker Complete Savoy and Dial Studio recordings Bill Evans Sunday school professor at the village Vanguard. Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants is Number 7. It was recorded during a weeklong engagement in the Copa Room at The Sands hotel in Las Vegas when Sinatra, as leader of the Rat Pack, was a regular in that town. Jimmy Smith, Herbie Nichols Complete Blue Note Recordings NHOP in competition with Ray Brown at the Montreux Jazz Festival Oscar P. at the piano! Great list! Back to back by Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges AGAIN! Faire une liste des 100 meilleurs albums serait plus juste et permettrais peut tre d en oublier moins. So let me share this information with you. ONLY one Louis Armstrong record listed! I dont I think I see Song For My Father or Clifford Brown and Max Roach or on the list, but I love both records with Delilah being in the running for my favorite tune of all times. Any such list that leaves out albums by Ella, Dizzy, Lady Day, Count Basie, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith, Art Tatum (among others), and includes the albums numbered 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 34, & 36 (among others) is simply not properly constituted. I went to St. JOHN station to catch the COLTRANE, its got everyones Favorite Things I should be consulted to provide such insight. Im new to jazz music but I would think Lester Young would be on this list. 7. Its a joke !!! Jelly Roll. I am a senior, and compile bibliography as a avocation. Concert By the Sea is great, but also One World Concert and At the Piano are superb. 32. Space is thePlace. virtuoso. Its an important album, but I dont know if Id consider it the #5 jazz album ever. Speak No Evil was the saxophonists third album for Alfred Lions iconic jazz label and was recorded three months after he had joined the Miles Davis Quintet. No Ellington/Blanton band? The Art of Rhythm Tom Harrell. My dad grew up in the South, used to sneak into all-black venues to hear the early jazz artists. Renowned for patenting an idiosyncratic approach to composition, Shorters otherworldliness reached its apotheosis with Emanon, an esoteric triple album that also doubled as a graphic novel depicting the adventures of a superhero who traverses multiverses combating baddies. If you dont have it (though many of you will have some individual songs), get it! There are a few incredible cuts on that album that still blow me away after all this time. Key track: C Jam Blues, This was the 1956 album that accomplished the cunning master plan of Fitzgeralds then manager, producer, and jazz impresario Norman Granz, who desired to transform his then 39-year-old protg from a cult jazz singer into an international household name. Hmmmm. Billie Holiday : Stange Fruit, Hey there, The title song recast a key number from Rodgers and Hammersteins popular Broadway musical The Sound Of Music and transformed it into a 13-minute modal jazz waltz with Eastern overtones. BTW, there is a 12 year old up for Two Grammy Nominations, just maybe he heard Jazz like me. Oscar Peterson Albums and Discography | AllMusic Come on. Almost 50 years ago I bought my first record, WAY AHEAD, by him if Im not wrong? Wheres Milestones by Miles? Kind of Blue is truly great, but A Love Supreme is celestial! This list is totally NOT the 50 greatest!!!!! ? Offramp Pat Metheny. Clifford Jordan You forgot, Like Minds, Burton, Corea, Holland, Haynes, and Metheny.Im sure it was just an oversight. Duke Ellington has been mentioned in many comments, and I agree. And of course Lester Yoiung! anyway, how can this list be without billie??? Chet Baker ? Interesting that Ornette Colemans The Shape of Jazz to Come was #5. In my opinion the one above is pretty narrow-minded, sticking just to 50s-60s-70s stuff. so starting from this post on, lets see what your favorites are. It is a preference list and indicates only one persons preferences. Gosh, to even attempt a list like this. WebAll three albums draw on the material in George and Ira Gershwin 's operatic stage drama of that name, a piece that had its original Broadway production in 1935. Chick Corea electric piano Id rather put on Four and More or even Nefertiti. Like Thelonious Monk before him who exerted a strong influence on Hill the Chicago pianist/composer ploughed a lone furrow, expressing himself in a unique and idiosyncratic style defined by asymmetrical melodies and unorthodox meters. Web7 Essential Jazz Piano Albums. And of course Bechet. In Mingus canon, this albums brilliance is only eclipsed only by the earlier Mingus Ah Um. Not to mention multiple members of the Mahavishnu Orchestra were not American, with only Goodman being American among the original members. The 1968 compilation, Piano Starts Here, offers a rewarding snapshot of Tatums jaw-dropping technique and sparked a revival of interest in Tatums music twelve years after his death. But the woeful Ayler and Dolphy are in there? The Lester Young-Count Basie discs (on Mosaic) are Number 2. The best part of these lists are the comments. Especially Inner City Blues? Ive got about 30 of the listed Albums on CD and Vinyl (Some of them in Both formats!) Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man Aaron Parks. Gone, Just Like a Train Bill Frisell. Billie H. Ella. Where is: Happens to be me, this time: https://open.spotify.com/user/sweetcharlie/playlist/0eCji3Yc8H6WNjC9iOABuH, I guess the most important person in Jazz is Louis Armstrong, because he had the most influence and made jazz as popular as it is(unfortunetly was!). There is one Dexter Gordon album, but should be at least two. From his earlier Miles and Monk period to his middle McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones period to his free period with Pharoah Sanders, nobody, other than Miles, compares. I miss Michel Legrands LeGrand JAZZ: Michel Legrand Dirige Les Gants Du Jazz American. And if theyre gonna include compilations, then you MUST include the phenomenal CTI Records- The Cool Revolution. no Freddie Hubbard, Gato Barbieri, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans Trio Portrait In Jazz Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Song Book for me. No Modern Jazz Quartet? Featuring the Brazilian singer Flora Purim, her husband, drummer/percussionist Airto Moreira, saxophonist Joe Farrell and double bassist Stanley Clarke, the band served up wonderful tracks in the shape of the ethereal title cut, the mercurial Captain Marvel, the trippy 500 Miles High and its epic closer, Spain, where Corea reconfigures the main theme from Spanish composer Rodrigos famous guitar concerto. Only Corea and Clarke would remain for the next incarnation of the band but the lineup on Light As A Feather were responsible for one of the best jazz albums ever. Key track: Never Will I Marry, Together with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, this prolific classically-trained pianist expanded the parameters of the piano trio format in a fertile ten-year spell between 1995 and 2005. The bluesy Delphia shows Hubbards sensitivity as a balladeer while The Intrepid Fox is a propulsive showcase for the trumpeters incredible chops. LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE or ELLA AND OSCAR (now THERES killing two birds with one stone!) I guess Jazz Trombone never existed..typical. How can you not have a single album of Sun-Ras on the list? I dont think so. 8. They came together for one night only on Friday, 15 May 1953, at Torontos Massey Hall. Arguably his greatest album, Karma was Sanders second long-player for Impulse! Pingback: Why you need to Start "Jazzing" up your Agile Scrum Tactics - MetroStar Systems. I think its a good list to start with but maybe extend to 100 or 200 great albums because of all the new artist that have contributed to some great jazz. No albums/box sets of Jelly Roll Morton,Bix,early Ellington,Ftas Waller, Sidney Bechet. Agree with previous post that the omission of Hartman/Coltrane is a major oversight. A lot of the people mentioned have all made great music, worthy of any jaz list, but they made it in the pre-album age where EPs and 78s where the medium. Key track: Confessions to My Unborn Daughter, Before this satin-voiced jazz cat in a hat became a household name in America and Europe after his 2013 album Liquid Spirit broke him into the mainstream, Bakersfield-born Porter was largely a cult figure who only figured on the radar of the jazz cognoscenti. Sinatra at the Sands (1966) Issued on his own Reprise label in 1966, this is Sinatras first ever live album. Fusing jazz with soul, blues and gospel flavors, Porter showed he had songwriting skills to match his rich mellifluous baritone voice. We all like what WE like and disagree sometimes on what others are digging. Also not to forget the fantastic album from Michael Naura Quintet European Jazz Sounds on Brunswick label and Elsie Bianchi Trio The Sweetest Sound on Saba. Romantic Warrior Return to Forever And wheres Sidney Bechet? Somewhere on the limmit to free form jazz(? if you take away 47, 36,33,23,and 13 0ff the list as far as I am concerned they are rubbish compared to the stature of the other players, I have 41 of these albums and would not like to be with out any of those 41, the missing few I just havent bought yet. 43. My jazz collection of records went from ten to one hundred. Songs written by Oscar Peterson | SecondHandSongs Metheny was just 21 and teaching at Bostons Berklee School of Music when ECM producer Manfred Eicher, who had heard him play with vibraphonist Gary Burtons group, recorded the young guitarist with fretless bass maven Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages (saw him at the old knitting Factory??? Most people do not know the work of Laurindo Almeida, and of course we know Sergio Mendes. SHEPP at his best is an enormus power, everybody of you must listen to his records THE NEW WAVE OF JAZZ IS ON IMPULS, that was the slogan on these albums IMPULSE: LP-records of those days. Key track: Giant Steps, Recorded and released in 1965, this album, whose five tracks are united by a nautical theme, was the Chicago pianists fifth solo outing for Blue Note. What about Tubby Hayes, Victor Feldman, Jimmy Deuchar, John Dankworth, Harold McNair, Phil Seaman , Peter King and Ronnie Scott !!! http://open.spotify.com/user/pollysnack/playlist/5fOw8V2UL19QPEZwgiA6T2. Key track: Idle Moments, This jazz aristocrats band was famed for its panache, dynamism, and unerring sense of swing, and all those qualities can be heard on this explosive 1957 recording. Im surprised the list didnt include any of Grover Washingtons albums. Such a list would take years to compile, and would take the combined efforts of many jazz buffs, but could be extraordinary, and a great gift to prosperity. Tomasz Stankos Litania belongs in the top 50, as does Larry Young, Shelly Manne live at the . 22. Glad to see Brubeck near the top. But then Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records heard Monk, recognised his unorthodox brilliance, and began recording singles with him in 1947. This here is Bobby Timmons The album spawned an unlikely hit single in 5/4 time (the jaunty, Desmond-written Take Five) and went on to sell over a million copies. my apologies. Key track: My Foolish Heart, A trumpet prodigy from Philadelphia who joined Blue Note when he was still a teenager, Lee Morgan rose to fame as a member of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers. All great jazz musicians playing jazz in the UK. Max Roach Freedom Now Suite The Mulligan/Desmond Duets come to mind as well as the early Chico Hamilton quintet with Fred Katz on Cello. You have left out many other greats. Just saying. Peterson seemed to hit commercial and artistic peaks at the same time, and the early sixties was one of those periods. A compelling portrait of one of jazzs most gifted musicians and improvisers. They were also released in 1959 and are in the Top 5 according to this list. So good, I cant choose which one to kick off to make room for Moran/Harris/ et als New Directions. but only one Duke Ellington ( must be a 1920s or 30s Duke in there surely ) ? was Gordons third album for the label and found him in the company of pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Billy Higgins. Good music, not the 50 I would have chosen, but then every jazz fan is liable to have a very different list. So did you not see Gilberto/Getz on the list? The resulting album quickly gained notoriety and, to date, it remains the biggest-selling album of unaccompanied piano music. All others were, I believe, Brazilian. Angel Song Kenny Wheeler. Personally, Ill rather list greatest songs by the great jazzistts rather than categorizing albums. Getz is the only American on the recording. Some deemed Duke Ellington to be well past his sell by date when he appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival alongside many of the jazz worlds modernists in 1956.