Favourite Jazz albums of all time?

sonic juice

There are so many!

John Coltrane-A love Supreme
Eric Dolphy-Out To Lunch
Miles Davis-In A Silent Way
Thelonious Monk-Brillant Corners
Sonny Rollins-Saxophone Colossus
Pharoah Sanders-Pharoah
Charles Mingus-Mingus Ah Um
Ornette Coleman-Free Jazz
Cecil Taylor-Unit Structures
Manu Katche-Neighbourhood

and the list goes on forever...

Setun

Nice list, mine:
Bitches Brew
Blue Train
Unity
Song For my Father
Mingus Ah Um
Idle Moments
Out of the Cool
Sonny Side Up
Go!
Time Out
Study in Brown
Dialogue
Getz/Gilberto
The Sidewinder
The Sermon
Smokin at the Halfnote

fillmore jive

jazz samba

huh!

satchmo

Oooh, that's a tough one. Here's a couple:

Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Ella & Louis - The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Lionel Hampton - Just Jazz - Live At The Blue Note
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
Monk & Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall
Wynton Marsalis - Live at Bubba's
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Art Pepper - Modern Art
Count Basie - Basie Jam: Montreux '77
Jimmy Smith - Root Down Live!
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Count Basie & Oscar Peterson - The Timekeepers
Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note

...there must be tons more, but they're the best ones I can think of at the moment.

stevejazzx

wes montgomery - willow weep for me
coltrane - my favourite things
duke live at newport
louis armstrong - hot five sessions

mike65

Short list

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way.

Mike.

shatners basoon

hmmmm.....

Brad Mehlday - live in Tokyo
Wes Montgomary - Full House
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi's
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Herbie Hancock - Speak like a child
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music Vol 1 (+ 2)
Jim Hall - concierto
Coltrane - Giant Steps
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
Pat Metheny - The Way Up
Evans and Hall - Undercurrent
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

Hard to keep to a smaller list by including one per artist (well.. sort of!), it'd be more interesting if you gave us a limit damn it!

The live Evans Trio one is my current favourite as i just got it on vinyl about a month ago, getting into the Coltrane- Monk Live one now too.

Alos got a good Kenny Garrett album - beyond the wall in anticipation of his playing Galway this Friday, sounds excellent.

sonic juice

Alright,10 albums,in no order.

Fusion251

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Miles Davis - Round' Midnight
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Steve Coleman - Motherland Pulse
Pat Martino - Strings

There we go!
Fusion

Skellington

1st...miles davis: sketches of spain
2nd...miles davis: bitches brew

fish-head

John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
Freddie Hubbard- Red Clay
Miles Davis- Miles Smiles
Jimmy Smith- The Incredible Vol. 3
Kenny Burrell- Midnight Blue
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
Charlie Christian- Platinum Series
Dave Brubeck- Take Five
Wayne Shorter- The All Seeing Eye

Rigsby

Miles Davis Kind of Blue
John Coltrane Intersteller Space
Charles Gayle Touchin' on 'Trane
Miles Davis A tribute to Jack Johnson
Herbie Hancock Head Hunters
Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun
John Coltrane A love Supreme
Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch
Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity

Lust4Life

Oh. My. God!
No one has mentioned George Benson?

Artist: George Benson
Album: Very Best of George Benson: The Greatest Hits of All
Year: 2004

George RULES!

Desmo

and no one has mentioned Kenny G!!!!

Fav albums:
Birth of the Bland
and
Kind of Beige

carl_

saxophone midget?

surfin_shoes

the best jazz albums are the live ones, simple as that

Setun

carl_ wrote:

saxophone midget?

Any actual suggestions Carl?

As regards live albums, yep they're great. Ya gotta love Smokin at the Halfnote.

carl_

In no particular order and by no means exhaustive...

The Survivor's Suite - Keith Jarrett
Westering Home - John Surman
Witchi-Tai-To - Jan Garbarek
Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland
Jaywalkin' - Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Tales of Another - Gary Peacock

Setun

carl_ wrote:

In no particular order and by no means exhaustive...

The Survivor's Suite - Keith Jarrett
Westering Home - John Surman
Witchi-Tai-To - Jan Garbarek
Conference of the Birds - Dave Holland
Jaywalkin' - Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Tales of Another - Gary Peacock

Interesting choices - obviously a fan of ECM jazz? You'd probably enjoy Manu Katché's neighbourhood, or Dave Holland's Extended Play aswell.

What's the Pedersen album like? Heard him play with Gordon on One Flight Up and was very impressed.

Mr. Presentable

Rock 'n' Roll Gumbo - Professor Longhair

18AD

Partially biased list based on current favourites:
Buddy Rich - Mercy, Mercy
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Weather Report - Black Market
Joe Henderson - Black Narcissus

John

I'm only really getting into jazz at the moment but the Albert Ayler double live CD on Impulse is phenominal.

Pherekydes

18AD wrote:

Partially biased list based on current favourites:
Buddy Rich - Mercy, Mercy

Ahh, Channel One Suite! Mmmmm, I must go and listen to it now!

Keep the Customer Satisfied
Big Swing Face
Gone with the Wind (Brubeck)

Also, The Power of Positive Swinging by Bob Brookmeyer and Clark Terry.


Swing that music!

joenailface

charles mingus - the clown
duke ellington and john coltrane - s/t (i believe they only have one anyway)
miles davis - the birth of cool
louis armstrong - the gold collection (sifting through his unbelieveable amount of albums is too hard :P)
john coltrane - soultrane
thelonious monk - thelonious monk with john coltrane

im sure i could think of more but they're the ones that sprang to mind

shatners basoon

18AD wrote:

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue

Ah.... Devil takes the hindmost.... *drool.....*

carl_

Daddio wrote:

Interesting choices - obviously a fan of ECM jazz? You'd probably enjoy Manu Katché's neighbourhood, or Dave Holland's Extended Play aswell.

What's the Pedersen album like? Heard him play with Gordon on One Flight Up and was very impressed.

Yeah, I think ECM are a pretty solid label. The Pederson album is a classic in my opinion.

DominoDub

Will try and stay clear of the ones on every top list !

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus -The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Miles Davis - E.S.P
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - Ascension
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby

Also a big ECM fan some of my favs

Nils Petter Molvær- Khmer
Dave Holland - Dream of the Elders
Terje Rypdal -Skywards
Jack DeJohnette - New Directions
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - Tokyo '96
Arild Andersen - Hyperborean
Charles Lloyd - Canto
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette - Gateway: Homecoming
Chick corea - Return to forever

flanger20002003

As of the moment, some of mine are...

Kind of Blue
Blue Train
EnRoute (the John Scofield live album, absolute genius!)
Smokin' at the Halfnote
The Way Up
Giant Steps