Favourite J***-CDs

Jimmy Smith "Off The Top" and Art Farmer/Jim Hall "Big Blues" are my two all-time favorites I have owned - unfortunately hard to find - got an mp3 of "Off The Top" at amazon last weekend to replace my scratched cd and still have Big Blue on cd (also at amazon on cd for $24 US)

This changes all the time, but at the moment the list would probably include:

Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Edsel Gomez - Cubist Music
Luis Perdomo - Focus Point
Bill Evans - Everybody digs Bill Evans
Duke Ellington - The Intimacy of the Blues


Michael

Thelonious Monk quintet - Monk's Music
Duke Ellington - And his mother called him Bill
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Oscar Peterson trio - We get requests
Stefano Bollani - Gleda

This ignores so much, five is just not enough!

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (fusion) 1969
Thelonious Monk Septet - Monk's Music (be-bop) 1959
Tommy Chase Quartet - Groove Merchant (hard-bop) 1988
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (be/hard-bop) 1958
Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue (cool) 1959
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (be-bop/cool?) 1958
Miles Davis - Panthalassa (fusion/funk)(re-mixed by Bill Lazwell)1969-74 (mix 1997)
Louis Armstrong - The Essential Satchmo (vocal)1930's-60's
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (fusion/funk) 1973
Toshinori Kondo, DJ Krush - Ki-Oku (modern beats) 1990's (no date on album)

A lot of these are very well known and others can probably give more advice about, but the following three are a bit more obscure, so a few words about them.

If you want to try Miles Davis 70's music Panthalassa is a great way to start. It is not a 'dance re-mix', but Bill Lazwell took the original tapes from Davis' 70's sessions and edited them to produce four 15 minute pieces. he also used more modern studio equipment to clean up and enhance the sound too.

The Tommy Chase Quartet were part of the 80's re-emergence of British jazz, very strongly influenced by 50's bands. Short, concise tunes, very tight and an awful lot of fun. Jazz for the feet, not for the head.

Toshinori Kondo is known as the 'Japanese Miles Davis', he plays his trumpet through a wah-wah pedal as did Miles in the 70's. In the early 90s's he did Ki-Oku with dance DJ DJ Krush. It is an instrumental album that to me blends the best elements of the 90's dance with beautiful jazz trumpet. Very chilled.

Also, I do know some of the above dates are a bit rough, but give an idea of the time and style to expect.

Jamie

Great!!!

Thanx

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Originally posted by Luxen:
Since I love good Jazz-CDs,

Which ones do you love?

Miles Davis - Kind of Blues
John Coltrane - A love supreme
Charlie Haden - nearly all of him
Avishai Cohen - Gently disturbed
Bill Evans - Vanguard recordings
Keith Jarrett - Köln concert
Stan Getz - But beautiful
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain, On The Corner, Dark Magus, Bitches Brew Oh! sod it anything by Miles.
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass, Giant Steps
Eberhard Webber - Colours/Silent Feet
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
David S Ware Quartet - Renunciation
Parker/Guy/Lytton - Zafiro



I only have a small Jazz collection



Dean..

Carla Bley: The Very Big Carla Bley Band

John Coltrane: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings.

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, the various albums done with Gil Evans (particularly Miles Ahead and Porgy and Bess, though I love Sketches of Spain too), In a Silent Way and, well, I could go on and on but I'll stop there.

Bill Evans: Conversations with Myself, Complete Live at the Village Vanguard (or the two albums that were derived from this - Sunday Night at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debbie) and The Paris Concert.

Don Ellis: Electric Bath - unique, I don't know anything else that sounds quite like this.

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong sing Gershwin.

Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba.

Not sure if it's jazz or classical but I love Jacques Loussier's jazzy versions of classical music, especially Bach and particularly the Brandenburg concertos.

Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson (short album but absolutely perfectly formed).


regards, Tam

Luxen - I can recommend lots of good albums for you but here are a few to start with. A little different than what you have been listening to but very rewarding when you get into them. Also these are all fairly recent recordings with a fair amount of European bias (except for KJ trio), which is what I prefer.

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven days of Falling - fantastic ground breaking new jazz. His death this year has been one of the saddest pieces of news I have heard.

The Keith Jarrett Trio play standards like no other. Their latest album is one of their best.

Keith Jarrett - Personal Mountains

Tord Gustavsen - The Ground - all three of his CD's are wonderful .

And of course, Tomasz Stanko - LONTANO. Beautiful trumpet

Jan garbarek. I took up the runes



Charles Mingus. Ah um



Mingus Mingus Mingus

And if you get a taste of Tord Gustavsen Trio, you should try this aswell



Mathias Eick. The door

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Originally posted by Btl:
And if you get a taste of Tord Gustavsen Trio, you should try this aswell


Mathias Eick. The door

That I would agree with - one of the best new jazz releases this year. Here's another worth trying

Some favorites of mine that I always come back to. All are small group, hard bop jazz. And they all have such great tunes & performances.

"Clifford Brown & Max Roach", Clifford Brown & Max Roach. Absolute killin' hard drivin' tunes!
"Coltranes Sounds", John Coltrane (mid period Coltrane)
"Money Jungle", Duke Ellington, with Max Roach, and Charlie Mingus
"Speak No Evil", Wayne Shorter
"Bass Desires", Marc Johnson, with Peter Erskine, John Scofield,, and Bill Frisell. A bit different from the above, but I always will come back to this one. Post bop date on ECM that has great tunes, well recorded, killer performances.

** Bonus suggestion : Any of the Charlie Parker box sets are great to listen, and very rewarding if you really want to know where a lot of the music is derived.

Max
p.s. Not surprising, Duke Ellington gets mentioned quite a bit. I think you can do no wrong with the Duke !

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Btl:
And if you get a taste of Tord Gustavsen Trio, you should try this aswell


Mathias Eick. The door

That I would agree with - one of the best new jazz releases this year. Here's another worth trying

Hey Lontano, many thanx.

This one I have & love...great, will check out the others....

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Luxen - I can recommend lots of good albums for you but here are a few to start with. A little different than what you have been listening to but very rewarding when you get into them. Also these are all fairly recent recordings with a fair amount of European bias (except for KJ trio), which is what I prefer.

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven days of Falling - fantastic ground breaking new jazz. His death this year has been one of the saddest pieces of news I have heard.

The Keith Jarrett Trio play standards like no other. Their latest album is one of their best.

Keith Jarrett - Personal Mountains

Tord Gustavsen - The Ground - all three of his CD's are wonderful .

And of course, Tomasz Stanko - LONTANO. Beautiful trumpet

Dear Lontano,

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven days of Falling:
Fantastic.

The Keith Jarrett Trio - Up for it:
Superb.

Tomasz Stanko - LONTANO:

Wonderful.

Thank you from my heart!!!!

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Originally posted by Luxen:
Dear Lontano,

Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven days of Falling:
Fantastic.

The Keith Jarrett Trio - Up for it:
Superb.

Tomasz Stanko - LONTANO:

Wonderful.

Thank you from my heart!!!!

You did not hang about there. Glad you liked them. If you like EST then others to look at include Viaticum, From Gagarins Point of View (my favourite), Good morning Susie Soho and Strange Place for Snow plus their Live in Hamburg effort.

Let me know when you want some others recommendations in a similar vein and I will see what I can do.

Cheers
Adrian

Great list, Adrian, especially Keith Jarrett's Personal Mountains, one of the greatest albums of any kind of music, of all time.

There are so many more I would recommend, but I think I'll take it one at a time:


The Third Man - Enrico Rava and Stefano Bollani




Elder statesman Enrico Rava, trumpet, and young phenom Stefano Bollani, piano, are two of the greatest musicians from Italy, or from anywhere. This gorgeous, luminous album is an inspired, lyrical, impressionist collaboration of the highest order. Their empathic-verging-on-telepathic dialogue takes on a life of its own ... the sum of their parts is really "the third man."

All best,
Fred

1 "Good Morning Susie Soho" ,E.S.T.

1 "Skagerrak" ,Tingvall Trio

1 "When You Come Home", Triosence

These I just ordered....