My top ten jazz albums.

[Redleg]

1. "Time Further Out"- Dave Brubeck Quartet.
2. "Time Out"- Dave Brubeck Quartet
3. "Midnight Blue"- Kenny Burrell
4. "Mingus Ah Um"- Charles Mingus
5. "Blues on Bach"- The Modern Jazz Quartet
6. "Kind of Blue"- Miles Davis
7. "The Essential Thelonius Monk (Ken Burns Jazz Series)- T. Monk
8. "The Essential Sidney Bechet (Ken Burns Jazz Series)- S. Bechet
9. "Miles Ahead"- Miles Davis
10. "Bluesy Burrell"- Kenny Burrell and Coleman Hawkins


Honorable mentions to "Brubeck and Rushing"- Dave Brubeck Quartet with Jimmy Rushing; "Blues and Roots"- Charles Mingus; and "Monk's Dream"- Thelonius Monk.

[Redleg]

1. Hey, Redleg- that's a nice list. How come no Coltrane?

LOL

[turbo_satan]

2. No Coltrane?!?!?

Can't you drop one of the Brubeck albums and put "A Love Supreme" on your list? I know it's *your* list and all, but couldn't you make "A Love Supreme" one of your favorites?

[Redleg]

4. Sure but I would have to listen to it first.

I am just getting into Coltrane. I have the Ken Burns Jazz compilation which is pretty decent. I think Coltrane's version of "Round Midnight" is the best I have ever heard.

[Zensea]

3. No Coltrane?

shame on you! Oh, Kind of Blue counts. I forgot for a second.

My top 10 as of this moment.... once I start thinking about it I'll think of 10 more...

Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard
Miles - Jack Johnson
Mingus - Ah Hum
Sun Ra - Space is the Place
Art Ensemble of Chicago -- Third Decade
John Zorn -- Masada
Monk -- Underground
Rahsaahn Roland Kirk - Three Sided Dream
Gary Burton Quintet - Ring
Coltrane -- Giant Steps

[Redleg]

5. I am just getting into Coltrane's stuff. As you said, he is on some of

the other albums I mentioned.

[Zensea]

7. happy listening!

Your list is a good one on its own terms, I was just adding my two cents.....

[progmom]

10. Oh Redleg, you must get A Love Supreme

..and Giant Steps. Oh - you cannot cannot cannot miss Blue Train. And My Favorite Things. And Crescent. And Africa/Brass. And Coltrane's Sound. And Impressions. And Coltrane.

I kid you not, these records will change your life.

[Redleg]

21. I will get both. I have heard parts of both and want to get them.

Coltrane's later stuff, however, seems a bit "out there" for me.

[BlueJazz]

6. Fine..Fine Choices..

About 4 years ago My (then) Girlfriend dragged me into a Goodwill store and I finally strolled by the record table and sitting in a box was about every Brubeck album that had ever been made. I couldn't believe my eyes. ...And even cooler, when I went up to pay for them I found out it was "Half off Day".
I think I paid 25 cents for each one.

[jdots]

8. Paul Desmond made it sound simple

to this day his playing kills me

[Redleg]

9. Sublime.

EOM

[bif]

18. When asked to describe his sound, Desmond once replied:

Dry martinis.

[jpgray]

11. Chavez is going to murder you when he sees this

And his sig pic is going to brain you with a sousaphone.

[Redleg]

19. Huh?

EOM

[medeak]

12. Bill Watrous - bonified

and basic start...Oscar Peterson Trio :-)

thanks for thread

[donheld]

13. Louis Armstrong is my choice

[mark414]

14. Three (Two?) Words: A Love Supreme

by John Coltrane

quite possibly the jazz album to end all jazz albums

[Guaranteed]

15. Dave Brubeck's mother taught my grandmother to play piano.

My grandmother actually grew up with Brubeck, in Ione, CA.

I lived right down the street from the Brubeck Institute at UOP in Stockton, too, just before I moved out to IL.

[medeak]

16. vry cool

Take Five was like a thesis given to me by my Dad..

[seemunkee]

17. Dizzy? Bird?

Maybe add Jazz at Massey Hall?
I'd swap Birth of the Cool for Miles Ahead too, but that's just me.
The problem here is not finding godd stuff for a list. It's deciding what great stuff to leave off. Too many choices.

[Redleg]

20. I agree.

EOM

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Add me in with the "What?! No Coltrane?!" crowd

Especially necessary is the 2 disc set of "A Love Supreme" that has the live version he performed in France, and some extra studio outtakes of different versions of some of the parts of the piece.

That's fuckin' jazz, man.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. And you have no Sun Ra, either

"Nuclear War" should be in every musicians or music afficionado's library.

[Ron Green]

24. Gotta shout out to Bill Evans....

...his first trio with Scott LaFaro.