Last week over at Bop & Beyond, Christopher posted a link to Amazon.com's 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time. Shocked by what was included, excluded & the ranking itself, I left a comment that we should compile our own top lists. The only criteria was that the albums are personal favorites. We also decided to cut it down to 50 albums, or else we'd both still be working on our lists.
Christopher posted his list here.
UPDATE (05/20/09): I was listening to Monk's Dream last night & decided that I really should have it in the top 50, so now it's in place of Misterioso at #14.
I guess you could call this my Desert Island Jazz Top 50:
- Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Grant Green - Idle Moments
- Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
- Thelonious Monk - Alone in San Francisco
- Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
- Hank Mobley - Workout
- Stan Getz & the Oscar Peterson Trio - Verve Silver Collection
- Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
- Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate [1961]
- Astrud Gilberto - The Astrud Gilberto Album
- Thelonious Monk -
MisteriosoMonk's Dream - Bill Evans - Interplay
- Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
- Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
- Chico Hamilton - Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette
- Stan Getz/Cal Tjader - Stan Getz with the Cal Tjader Sextet
- Miles Davis - Nefertiti
- John Coltrane - Giant Steps
- Art Blakey - A Night in Tunisia
- Tony Williams - Life Time
- Stan Getz/João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
- Chet Baker - Chet
- Ornette Coleman - This is Our Music
- Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
- Milt Jackson - Milt Jackson Quartet
- Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues [Blue Note]
- Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
- Charles Mingus - The Clown
- Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
- Gene Ammons - The Happy Blues
- Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio, Vol. 4 - Back at the Vanguard
- Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
- Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
- John Coltrane - Lush Life
- Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
- Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
- Duke Ellington - Uptown
- Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
- Andrew Hill - Judgement
- Sam Rivers Trio - Live [Impulse!]
- Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
- Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
- Charlie Parker - South of the Border
- Mal Waldron - Blues for Lady Day
- Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
- John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
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5 comments:
Nice list! Will have to explore some of these I missed.
Two I'd definitely include: Milt Jackson's "That's the Way It Is" (originally heard on vinyl at WMWC) and ... crap. I can't really decide which Shepp album. One of these:
http://www.addreviews.com/searchreviews.php?search=shepp&genre=&reviewer=1&sort=revrating&results=
That's the same record that turned me on to Milt Jackson -- same location too!
At one point Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco [Impulse!] was in the top 50. If I were doing the full 100 (or even 60 for that matter) it'd be on there.
whats jazz?
I humbly submit that Jackie McLean's "New and Old Gospel" should be given a fighting chance to edge Chet Baker off of this list ;)
I haven't heard "New and Old Gospel" - I'm gonna have to track it down.
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