JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

THANKS to all who voted. 39 ballots is more than double what I expected so thank you very very much for taking the time to fill out a ballot,it's much appreciated, and I hope you enjoy the results.

A HUGE thanks to seandalai for doing all the work and making this poll happen. Without him it would not be possible so please direct all your thanks to him!

As I'm doing a top 250 roll-out I thought I'd start today,I like to give the lesser known albums 15 minutes of ILM fame. For those who are only interested in the top 150 join us on Monday if you like, but I sure hope you hang around and check out some good albums.

I'm sure the results will be controversial as albums I was sure would be top 50 missed out on the 250, and albums I don't know got in, but it wouldn't be an ILM poll without some controversy, just play nice, ok? :)
It will certainly maintain the suspense all the way.

And now, Howard will present you with the Spirit Of Jazz to give you the results..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/mightyboosh/images/series1/ep7/ep7_4.jpg

250 - 250    Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross    359 points   4 votes  
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51si8FzN5UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0QTVbs5gj4pbv3Je4fJ3VI
 

I don't have this one. Crap, I'm gonna be buying way too much jazz in coming weeks aren't I.

Ha, I was thinking something similar.

Nice way to start. Made my list. Title track is gargantuan. I love the way Monk plays these melodic little trills and ends them with an unexpected but still somehow tastefully chosen PLONK.

I don't have it either. Will be playing that spotify.

top 250? my goodness

will try to read along

249    Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up    364 Points,   3 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GGohtV3oH8A/Sn2jyJrhKCI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/8H3SBeWYuo0/s320/blowup.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3PeSy6F5JfIi7cjpqmEdKr

this is one of the herbies i don't have.

yeah i don't have it either.
re: monk, it's funny -- when i first started getting into jazz people told me to avoid monk's 60s columbia records. but they're great! for the most part anyway. and the recordings themselves are wonderful, much better production values than his 50s stuff.

criss cross too low!

i missed the voting thread or I would have voted sorry yall

ive never heard blow up

was hoping you would vote deej, hope you hang around for the results.

next one up is one I thought might be top 100

248    Gil Evans - out of the cool    365 Points, 3 Voters
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417PS2X5SHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1aCRy8c7fwUsNpZM5jxqQU

250!?! Damn.

I'll check back around top 50 or so.

how predictable. Dont you just hate people who only like the canon?

Anyway i hope everyone else enjoys checking out the rest of the albums.

har har. Don't think you want to go there again.

i wondered why you did

I shoulda known better. Some things won't change.

Have fun, I'll check it out later.

i hope you do. The countdown and comments are the best thing. Don't get the just want to know the results thing but hey-ho. Each to their own.

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street 367 Points, 3 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J3TY1ESJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1JtqZokXUT3yXYPsAQFXso

thats #247 btw

so low!!!! that record is incredible, best Clifford Brown??

xxp Didn't vote for that or any Gil Evans, only know him from his work w miles, Checking it out now, it great though only a few tracks from the album are available on spottify in the us. "Where Flamingos Fly" is incredible beautiful and haunting. david Lynch vibes

Clifford Brown's trumpet tone was so huge

hey everyone feel free to predict what will be top 10 or 20 if you like. See if anyone can get close.
What all do you hope makes it?

deej what would your #1 have been?

(just dont post your ballots)

kind of blue if i'm feeling lazy. I'd have to think about what else but that's such an easy / true choice

it was tough deciding. I'd probably have a different #1 each day if you asked me over 10 days.

246    Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots    369 Points, 4 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Bluroots_mingus.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6YTb5avpSPK5ig5jBFxM8L

great album, would prob pick the clifford brown & monk records ahead of it though

This album is not available in the United States
:(
I don't know that album too well, never owned it, probably need to correct that, mainly voted for it on the basis of "Moanin'". Speaking of which, onetime we had a little thread about it
TS Moanin' vs. Moanin'

Actually heard a great version of that song three Mondays ago from the Mingus Big Band at the Jazz Standard which is a regular gig that I highly recommend to any one reading this thread who is in the city on a Monday night. Boris K quoted the signature "Moanin'" lick on his bass in another song, can't remember which, but it was the first or second tune and then near the end of the set Conrad H said "OK, we are going to call an audible now" at which point Lauren S started the song on its proper instrument, the bari sax.

might be worth doing a search on spotify if albums I link aren't available, as sometimes there will be a version available to the US we don't get due to licensing.
xps

OK, I'll try that, thanks.

Right now listening to Max Roach & Clifford Brown anyway, had something else on them but never heard this album. Amazing.

thats their best together imo

245 Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strings    373 Points, 4 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CZ-XNOup4P0/SwIImow1TCI/AAAAAAAAAVI/d9k22slb8O0/s1600/02.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0mhRXVlIDo03GqnNCEBDjf

I did say some really good albums were in the lower reaches. Some really good ones didn't even make the cut!

And I mean GOOD albums. Albums I thought might be top 100.

Wow, so far two of mine have made it (Basin St. and Strange Strings).

Bet you're glad it's a top 250!

Strange Strings is spectacular, though it's almost closer to Harry Partch than it is to "Jazz".

The only thing I know about the Blow-Up soundtrack is that it's the source of the main sample in "Groove is in the Heart".

243 Sonny Sharrock - Guitar 376 Points, 2 Votes
http://jazzbluesclub.com/uploads/posts/thumbs/1275211459_sonny.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4aj1w1pMSVv3O2q7yZrEjt

Lotta great shit down at the bottom - I love 60s Monk on Columbia.

That is why I did the top 250. Just because it's not in the top 50 doesn't mean it's no good. Hopefully others will check this good stuff out, I know I will be checking out the stuff I don't know.

oops that's a tie with
TIE
243    Milford Graves - Babi    376 Points, 2 Voters 
http://www.recordmania.net/media/covers/WJF44104.jpg

Always meant to check Milford Graves out, shame it's not on Spotify.

I believe Guitar was my #7.

next one up I was sure would be top 100

242    Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks    377    3
http://www.soundstagedirect.com/media/art_ensemble_chicago_message_folks.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5XvmZV63Y8OPDbD2cS0mXU

never heard this one before tbh - probably would have voted for it if I had

thats a great album imo

i prefer 'nice guys' tho

TIE
240 Peter Brötzmann - Nipples 377 Points, 4 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZRYySFc6Ezc/RnIVmo8Ln3I/AAAAAAAAAGM/Tw0ZOoFkLfs/s400/nipples_cover250.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6jJRegh41ry4oP4w0ohDTQ

240 Elvin Jones - Dear John C. 377 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.charliemarianotribute.de/Cover/2041.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1HL5ixGdqbdEWkmJw36j0I

huh, i don't think i've heard any elvin jones solo joints. is this the best one, or will we be seeing more of his stuff in the poll?

well, that might be telling.

though i dont know myself as i cant remember what's all in the 250.

He does have another album nominated though which is very good.

239 Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata 380 points, 2 Votes
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/rahsaan-roland-kirk-natural-black-inventions-root-strata.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ojyRBXDuMN1OJSKaFKuv9

need to check this one out too.

Guess I should make a playlist of all these while we go on.

would be cool to have a playlist w/ a track from each album! or something. one big sampler.

here is the playlist featuring albums so far, wish I had thought of putting this in my opening post so it wont get lost , could a mod possibly do that?
Top 250 ILM Jazz Albums Spotify Playlist

^ you can all subscribe to that

238    Sun Ra - Other Planes of There    381 Points,  3 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415XGVK48NL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

dunno this one. Any good?

one of the real big hitters up next. If you didn't vote for it don't shout 'too low!'

237 John Coltrane - Live at Birdland 384 Points, 4, Votes
http://www.soundstagedirect.com/media/coltrane_live_at_birdland.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1pVLiArpS7mibit7dSQm8t

Hm. I meant to vote for it, voted for plenty of other Coltrane. Must have accidentally deleted it. What can I shout in that case?

'bollocks'?

which is what i said as i forgot to vote for it too. Shocked it's not in top 100 but its partly my fault. Yeah i guess i listed other coltrane and somehow left this off. Obviously others did too. Always the problem with think others will vote for it...then they dont.
Anyway if you dunno this album, then play it!

Love at birdland insanely low, grossed out that sun ra has already placed two records

*live

Live at birdland >>>>>> a love supreme

you don't dig sun ra? or just the 'ilm' thing about certain acts you dont like? like new order or stooges in polls.

Thought you meant love at (for) Live at Birdland

Its a thing in general we had abig debate about once how outsider/avant/weird jazz artists are overrated relative to mainstream jazz innovators in certain circles that happen to overlap with ilx (mingus and ra are both artists I love, esp mingus, but they both benefit from this and ime guys like duke and bird suffer)

haha yeah i thought that too

xp

another big name next

aw coltrane at birdland is in my personal top 5

And yes I expected it to be much higher
xp

did you vote, grady?

236 Herbie Hancock - Thrust 386 Points, 3 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cNufAawkL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/00Uf5PRAinCJ0oiCX1Cv2k

no i didnt know about this until today
xp

Always meant to check Milford Graves out, shame it's not on Spotify.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I can't recommend Babi enough. If there is a single, definitive "energy music" record, it's this one.

ahh damn. The voting was open for like a month and nominations 2 weeks before that.

yeah i hate ILM tho so

i erm downloaded Babi Will play it soon.

dunno this one. Any good?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:05 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

I love it. It has probably my single favorite Pat Patrick (aka, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's dad) moment, on "Pleasure." The rest of it is very nearly at the level of The Magic City.

i dont hate ilm i just never pay attention to dates on polls

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Hm. I meant to vote for it, voted for plenty of other Coltrane. Must have accidentally deleted it. What can I shout in that case?

― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:22 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

I didn't vote for this only because I would've rather voted for "Live" At The Village Vanguard, but it's my own fault for not nominating that one.

That Elvin Jones disc was recently reissued; I reviewed it on BurningAmbulance.com.

i erm downloaded Babi Will play it soon.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

That record is ridiculously out of print (never seen it go for less than $80), and unfortunately Graves missed the window for putting out a potentially decent-selling reissue.

been too busy with real life shit in recent weeks to vote, but really hoping that the soul zodiac album gets some love.

was pretty funked out to see that one listed.

[it also happened to be one of the few that i actually have listened to and loved]

FFS i forgot to vote for thrust. It was in my top 20 shortlist but i somehow didnt c&p it over. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

still wouldnt have got it in the top 150 anyway i dont think. but still.
aaaaaaaaaarrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Im wondering how a lot of the 70s disco/pop/fusion jazz stuff will fare here. My prediction is that you see stock dropping for guys like Parker and hard bop artists (clifford brown etc) while stock rises for Mingus & Sun Ra type artists (at least, relative to the traditional jazz canon). But w/ people getting into the Mizell stuff and the weirder Herbie Hancock records, I'm wondering if that stuff has made inroads at all. I kind of treat it as pop more than jazz personally (or at least 'dance') but ..yeah

235  Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement  387 Points, 3 Votes 
http://thebadpennyblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/les-mccann-and-eddie-harris-swiss-movement-album-cover.jpg?w=300&h=300

also rlly curious how the sonny rollins stuff will shake out!! village vanguard?

Im wondering how a lot of the 70s disco/pop/fusion jazz stuff will fare here. My prediction is that you see stock dropping for guys like Parker and hard bop artists (clifford brown etc) while stock rises for Mingus & Sun Ra type artists (at least, relative to the traditional jazz canon). But w/ people getting into the Mizell stuff and the weirder Herbie Hancock records, I'm wondering if that stuff has made inroads at all. I kind of treat it as pop more than jazz personally (or at least 'dance') but ..yeah

― D-40, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:00

Afraid I can't answer that.
Well, I could, but y'know..

Would it be possible to start including the years for these albums? Just might be handy for titles some of us are unfamiliar with.

if spotify went by release date it would be easier but ok, as long as someone else scrolls up and does that stuff while i get on with this. Need to google release dates now for each album.

234    Derek Bailey - Ballads  (2002)  387 Points, 5 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xSpWY1epn2g/TOaWoVKwWSI/AAAAAAAAAkU/EissXG_uang/s1600/Ballads.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/509NZ5uv94HI1xp9mtdVdk

i dont know anything about that. anyone want 2 tell me??

grossed out that sun ra has already placed two records

This is kind of why I didn't vote. I didn't want to gross out any of the real jazz fans. Well, there's more to it than that. If I find I don't like most of the genre I guess I should disqualify myself. What's the point in voting in that case?

Other Planes of There is great. I like Ballads as well.

x-post:

It's the "jazziest" Derek Bailey I've heard. Takes jazz standards and takes them apart or then veers into typical Derek Bailey style (I guess--I haven't actually heard that much of his work), but you do get at least part of a straightforward rendering before they get taken apart.

its not that the records arent great its that sun ra will be way overrepresented

233  Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 points, 4 votes
http://images.bizrate.com/resize?sq=220&uid=1128457
http://open.spotify.com/album/3BM4ZseBRzpQBC2SiwvR92

dunno this one. Anyone?

thats a great record but i havent heard it in a long time

Root Strata was my #5, great album with a clear avant influence but still really soulful and expressive.

232    Roland Kirk - Blacknuss (1972)    398 Points,  4 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZRMQDKMJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1OnXBqIDGKpI3Y9qugJ85p

Guitar is among my all-time favourite albums. It's really special.

I was never able to really get into Babi but I'll try again.

Awfuckenright! Blacknuss is a great ablum

Hyped at #232 placement

Like, I get that it's obviously intense etc but I just haven't personally really clicked with it yet.

I really loved Ballads, when I listened to a lot of outside improv music and didn't listen much at all to standards. Now that the proportions have shifted a little, I wonder how I'd respond to it. Weirdly, it seems to be one of the CDs I packed for storage even though I could swear I intended to bring it with me to my new place. I'll try to download a copy.

xpost to myself

231    Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia  (1966)  402 Points, 5 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Nubians_Of_Plutonia.jpg/220px-Nubians_Of_Plutonia.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb73XTtbyhw

Need to hear Guitar again. Owned it way back but was way too much of an indie schmoo to give it a proper go.

230 Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent (1962)   412 Points, 4 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Bill_Evans_and_Jim_Hall-Undercurrent_(album_cover).jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3b2s2A8DPISbaQNxhrEsGQ

Always meant to check Milford Graves out, shame it's not on Spotify.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I can't recommend Babi enough. If there is a single, definitive "energy music" record, it's this one.

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:46 PM (1 hour ago)

I dl'ed this on your recommendation a while back, and it is, indeed, "all that" ... also, I totally do not pay attention to deadlines for ballot polls

233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 points, 4 votes

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:31 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dunno this one. Anyone?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:40 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats a great record but i havent heard it in a long time

― D-40, Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:46 PM (31 minutes ago)

sweet poll so far, like all these records. ballads is really really pretty.

glad you're enjoying it.

229    Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (1971) 413 Points, 3 votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G9FtQLF2VFE/SzJB-H3KhvI/AAAAAAAAAqs/3hHrFG2aCaE/s400/front.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4iWJYzYbD0S6e3I8Xzr7LR

good album btw

might have voted for blacknuss, i remember old rugged cross as amazing

should pick up ballads, i like some free improv & bailey's 1992 tv series on (mostly non-swinging) improvised music is gr8 http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

the sun ra i know is ok but i love mingus and hardly think he can be overrated tbh, tho i own one record each of duke and bird, both comps, so what does that tell u

228    Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet (1954)   415 Points, 4 Votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Miles-Davis-Miles-Davis-Quart-457137.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6wjxLxMqbDzTT5QlYrtOPI

There will prob be a lot of Miles albums on this list if that made it, ha

who will get the most entries, eh?

Evans/Hall is the first album I've downloaded because of this list.

227    Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet (1966)  415 points, 5 votes
http://i43.tower.com/images/mm105905024/marion-brown-quartet-cd-cover-art.jpg

dont know that one at all

Guessing from the artwork it's on ESP-Disk?

i wonder if any jaki byard will make it (((??? maybe 'freedom together!'??))))

Never even heard of Marion Brown. Must check that out.

Oh yeah, of course.

i totally recommend that marion brown quartet album

226 Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954) 417 Points, 4 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/22/albumcoverMilesDavisAndTheModernJazzGiants.jpg?1198367842
http://open.spotify.com/album/5QwUkCyyFqFxzLWFX5SydM

need to play that one again

225 Grant Green - Street Of Dreams (1964) 422 Points, 4 votes
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/162/162545_1_f.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1xh7V9UTTezA3YDczzAGYo

Voted for a few Grant Greens, but don't know that one

Evans/Hall is the first album I've downloaded because of this list.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:26 PM (53 minutes ago)

yeah not too familiar with it myself. Definitely heard it though, my mate has that cd. I love the cover.

Looking at the names on that cover, this is another one for further investigation.

^ Indeed. Definitely will check out that one.

next one seems a bit appropriate!

224    Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) 431 points,  4 votes
http://joefarrell.jazz59.com/images/066wesmontgomeryincrediblejazzguitar.gif
http://open.spotify.com/album/5RwRaAJXxc7SULhw1Z1j0y

oof low

Only four votes? Too low.

yeah i expected it to be higher, but some stuff has missed out on the 250 completely!

223    Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman (1969) 432 Points, 4 votes
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/shep_6743.jpg

taking it down to 220 tonight btw

i totally recommend that marion brown quartet album
this
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:05 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't remember if i voted for this or not, but if i didn't, i'm very sorry. this is a good one!

blue note covers are so grebt

222  Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963)  436 Points,  4 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/dolphy_eric_ironman~~_102b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0qqoAq1kzfSXEkX2b3SSrr

LOVE that grant green album. the title track is one of my favorite standards, frank sinatra's vocal version kills.

expecting to see more bobby hutcherson - san francisco is only the tip of the iceberg

221  Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 Points, 5 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Album-Ornette-Coleman-Ornette.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7BxOi2aKqOyAcOXo6EpIFl

Last one for the night up next

220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440points, 3 votes
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/OFPCD00Z/posters/bacon-paul-bill-evans-trio-portrait-in-jazz.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7l1aeOeJMvkxnlpd5byUbn

Recap

250    Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross  359    4
249    Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up    364    3 
248    gil evans - out of the cool    365    3
247    Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street    367    3
246    Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots    369    4
245    Sun Ra - Strange Strings    373    4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar    376    2
243(tie)243    Milford Graves - Babi    376    2
242    Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks    377    3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples    377    4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C.    377    4
239    Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata    380    2
238    Sun Ra - Other Planes of There    381    3
237    John Coltrane - Live at Birdland    384    4
236    Herbie Hancock - Thrust    386    3
235    Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement    387    3 
234    Derek Bailey - Ballads    387    5 
233    Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite    394    4
232    Roland Kirk - Blacknuss    398    4 
231    Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia    402
230    Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent    412    4 
229    Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco    413    3 
228    Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet    415    4 
227    Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet    415    5 
226    Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants    417    4 
225    Grant Green - Street Of Dreams    422    4 
224    Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar    431    4 
223    Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman    432    4 
222    Eric Dolphy - Iron Man    436    4 
221    Ornette Coleman - Ornette!    436    5  
220    Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz    440    3  

the trane record placement is prob the craziest to me still

and thrust and wes ...

you should see what missed out

a) were you expecting ppl to vote for 20 trane albums

b) the whole premise of this poll is insane, though props to kerr for trying; it is too huge and precious few voters (eg me) have heard enough of these enough times to constructively vote

c) very looking forward to checking out some new stuff, but i don't think bitching about the rankings is gonna get us anywhere

d) sorry i hate jazz guitar (should try again) so wes/grant's placements are partially my fault

d) sorry i hate jazz guitar (should try again) so wes/grant's placements are partially my fault

If you haven't heard Sharrock's Guitar, let me recommend it with his quote in mind: "I consider myself a saxophonist with a very fucked-up axe."

Ha. Just put that on. I also like the regular, boring jazz guitar that mookieproof and hurting hate, but otherwise mookieproof otm.

tbf to deej he's not bitching, he knows what polls are like. but i dont blame him for being baffled at the low placement of the trane album.
but it's an ILM poll, you know these things happen!

Also i think 1 or 2 did vote for (nearly) all the miles or trane albums.

haha yes i have heard a bit of sharrock which seemed like not at all the same thing! but yeah

Anyone want to predict the top 10/20? Then we can compare the guesses when the poll is done and see who was closest.

As somebody already said, Kind of Blue is a strong favorite for number one

In the top 10 (or at least top 20): Love Supreme, Kind of Blue, Silent Way, Black Saint, Evans @ Village Vanguard, Brilliant Corners, Shape of Jazz to Come, Out to Lunch. Maybe Spiritual Unity? Anyway, I expect like most polls it'll get less interesting near the top. Already d/l'd that Clifford Brown from emusic, I can tell this list is going to give me a lot to dig into.

(So as someone who didn't vote, thanks to those who did.)

*bookmarks thread*

I love jazz so much and occasionally feel terrible for not listening to it that much anymore

didn't vote obv, but KoB is one of the few instrumental records out there that I can sing along to. every lick has been etched. thanks, high school band nerdery

Have ended up embracing the fool's errand white elephant nature of this poll and think ILX- centric voting can only help. I like jazz and that is the kind of music I go to see most often live but, for good or for bad, I never really listened to it, um, systematically, the way I did rock music way back in the day, when I spent an entire weekend listening to every minute I could of The Beatles A-Z on WNEW-FM or would read something like Stranded over and over and try to seek out every single record in there. As somebody already pointed out, it is relatively easy to have listened to the entire recorded output of one or many of the big sixties rock bands and have an opinion, whereas with jazz the career of even Miles Davis is hard to enough to keep track of, let alone, say, Duke Ellington or all the other hundreds of important musicians, so an ILX poll is as good as any angle to try to approach it.

I don't expect 20 trane records, just that particular one to do better than it did

219    McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/MT-SotNW.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1A67ghHDy13lBPPhAxUagR

i passed up the chance to see him once. My mate even offered to pay for the ticket

218    Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen    457 (Points) 5 votes
http://www.musicmookreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/baby-face-willette-stop-and-listen.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4zRa00V4pk2EfX25ivof8m

pleased to see this one make it!

didn't vote for it but i do recommend it.

and now..

217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/s/sander_phar_summunbuk_101b.jpg

next one is for deej :)

216  Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DNhzENDzgeU/TQ5hrsMURII/AAAAAAAAAAk/LepgXq9wtqw/s1600/Sun-Ra-Lanquidity.jpg

dunno that one, any cop?

215  Albert Ayler - Love Cry 461 Points, 6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z9Ea8FZ7OO8/S_VwhXJPb7I/AAAAAAAACcg/4j0XcO8-2EY/s1600/Albert%2BAyler%2B-%2BLove%2BCry%2B1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5pdwSWy9b4mCPs21luyUbi

Spotify playlist updated

haha thats one of my favorite ra records so i cant complain abt that one too much

Do you know the Baby Face Willette album?

214   Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970)  465 Points, 3 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418M4Cdo0GL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2dsmGxE74ufKZgSFpEMxel

213    Nina Simone - At Town Hall  (1959) 470 Points,  4 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Nina_Simone_At_Town_Hall.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4iqSDm2Exfy3beNaE4B7TZ

212    Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (19740  473 Points, 6 Votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/247/0000024724_350.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1zCeavwN7ZhPIGR5phKxJv

Really good album this, nice to see it place.

Great poll, there's already more than ten albums I need to check out for the first time. Can't believe I slept on that Dolphy album. I'm thinking this early part is the most interesting because later we'll get to the more widely known/canon stuff.

211    Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs    474 Points, 3 Votes
http://newsodrome.com/jazz_news/1970-evan-parker-derek-bailey-han-bennink-the-topography-of-the-lungs-20828587.jpg

Never heard that one no mult xps

The bobbi humphrey stuff is what I was wondering about earlier re fusion

I'm thinking this early part is the most interesting because later we'll get to the more widely known/canon stuff.

Fastnbulbous,that is exactly why i go for big rollouts, thanks! But the other end of the poll is great too!

210    John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/12331.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6DVFU5Hn53Yk5YSLljR29J

who is going to say it?

209    Jimmy Smith - Root Down    477 Points, 4 votes
http://www.krlx.org/uploads/Jimmy_Smith-Root_Down_b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Osp1w3F3BkqxbYMuy9Hsm

awesome album

and that album is beastie boys approved

Interesting results so far. Glad Summun Bukmun Umyun placed at all. :)

208    Albert Ayler - New grass  (1969)  478 Points, 4  votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NQ6ZKX7HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7zMrveb8rim4pdPBZ238W9

Always thought of this as ILM's fave Ayler

Jobim's Stone Flower is wonderful, If you dont know it check it out, Probably my favorite bossanova album. its CTI, so there is definitely a 70s smoothness factor in the arrangements, but it is an excellent collection of tunes. with some really suprising arrangements/ production choices too.

207  Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam  (1969)  478 Points,  5 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZTlxMakmL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

206    Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points,  3 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hzTXdKqCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Jobim's Stone Flower is wonderful, If you dont know it check it out, Probably my favorite bossanova album. its CTI, so there is definitely a 70s smoothness factor in the arrangements, but it is an excellent collection of tunes. with some really suprising arrangements/ production choices too.
--dsb

205    Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957)   501 Points, 4 votes
http://img.noiset.com/images/album/dizzy-gillespie-at-newport-disc-4630.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/744GdhKX0hRaodxvev83Th

204    Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye  501 Points, 6 votes
http://www.najlepszamuzyka.pl/_var/gfx/56ea97e8c2c1cb9a372ea7db31549ce5.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4N4dY3g7Sm4mMNKwXC3ieT

excellent album

203    Alice Coltrane - Eternity    502 Points, 4  votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IyDZgXq8QH0/SYhglVgAdZI/AAAAAAAACcI/wrlOHLtpUaE/s400/Alice+Coltrane+-+Eternity.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4mv5aLE0vrWGPzLYfEsUxw

damn forgot to tag the pic, can a mod fix that please?

YAY. Not her best album, but worth it for 'Om Supreme' alone. That song is so unlike anything else she ever did and it's just so perfectly 70s.

211 Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs 474 Points, 3 Votes

TOO LOW ;_;

202    Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (1962)   505 Points,  4 votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e51XckQap7E/S3QP3p6MtOI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/mO_e1NF9neM/s400/Cecil+Taylor+1962+Nefertiti,+The+Beautiful+One+Has+Come+a%5B1062%5D.jpeg

201    Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1990)   507 Points, 5 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DAPJ5RTWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5vXMwvBidoteqCN6APRPo9

deej to thread...

ILM just has to get an eno album in, eh?

just leave it armand, it's not worth the hassell

lmao

corny indie jazz fuxx

Love that Jon Hassell album, though I admit I have my doubts it belongs in a jazz poll.

200    John Coltrane - Ballads (1962)  510 Points, 5 Votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/3/albumcoverJohnColtrane-Ballads.jpg?1199357418
http://open.spotify.com/album/65iE2klct5VviQiJSq9ygF

Never really bothered with that album tbh

next one up will please Tuomas

199    Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4IO4mEmRGoA/SAsrqwXO9BI/AAAAAAAAB7I/FVNwZhilU2I/s320/sarah.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0bdDfiGx7Eiy1I0O3SgGrJ

man id love to hear that, i never have

iirc my parents saw her live once & it was amazing

198    Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974)   512 Points, 6 Votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411VYSJEH0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5Gt5U9wyy6Ki6YdE8T8mtn

you can tell that is the 70s

197    Jimmy Smith - The Sermon  (1958) 513 points, 4 Votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/24/albumcoverJimmySmith-TheSermon.jpg?1198498111
http://open.spotify.com/album/6OD5MDWh6u8ow1f384ayGz

196    John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues  (1962) 513 Points   5 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Coltraneplaystheblues.jpg

Stone Flower is the second album I downloaded because of this thread. Apparently, I am mellowing out in my old age.

you're not gonna become one of those mellowed out jazz bores are you?

Ha, let me light this cigar, then I'll tell you.

Fun exercise: For each piece on Ballads, listen to a performance by a canonized vocalist first, then play the Bailey version. So far, I think "Body and Soul" might work best in terms of showing the most connection between the original tune and the out improvisation.

195    Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)  515 Points, 5 votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-SRYPec0ur0/TTmA0C9ld3I/AAAAAAAANEA/U2m3h74vTEA/s400/ART%252BPEPPER.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2uovPNWvIF0KQbJuf4Sxvp

Nice album this

194    Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962)  519 Points,  5 votes
http://jeepsterdesign.com/swatchpica/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/15_1962-freddie-hubbard-hub-tones1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6WXQu3KjFlb9Hjwzy3vyS5

This is a real classic

yeah love that

193    Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975)   519 Points, 7 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hender_eddi_sunburst~_101b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0OBbbHk9bIj8k5DnzzQnkk

another classic imo

thats a good album

still 'incredible jazz guitar' & 'live at birdland' are better than almost all of the records (of the ones ive heard) that have listed since

well if you had voted then they would have been higher!

im not sure i would have been able to do this ... it covers such a huge amt of music

it does, but it's fun! And the whole top 250 is full of great music.

192    Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie  (1961) 521 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.miomusik.com/freddie_hubbard/ready_for_freddie_CD_large.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1WW55eOxlZCvPWJDYmhZXD

and that is a terrific album.

206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes

Maybe everyone prefers their Carnegie Hall album now -- I do -- but this is TOO LOW

can't c&p today evidently

191    Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (1962) 523 points, 5 votes
http://storage.canalblog.com/82/35/500408/44184374_m.jpg

Great to see this make it too!

for the bulk of my jazz listening days 'ready for freddie' was out of print so i built it up in my mind as some kind of lost classic. finally found a japanese import, have to say I was kind of disappointed by how regular it was, great performances & everything but I think I was imagining something incredible

190    Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do (1964)  525 Points, 5 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/22/albumcoverBlueMitchell-TheThingToDo.jpg?1198362921
http://open.spotify.com/album/0av5agyPuFMf5oW3nStEPM

always kind of underwhelmed by blue mitchell for w/e reason -- i mean hes def solid but just solid

So pleased to see this get in , it really is a classic bit of hard bop!

i havent heard that record in particular tho

You really should!

TIE
188
John Coltrane - Traneing In (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GHZk4JXYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3G4iWm5LEhCRPyRCTl5PlD

188
John Coltrane - Lush Life (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
http://www.musicaparliamone.com/coltrane_lush_life.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3lT7z06WwFTTIeRT6gGDKL

seems appropriate they tied

deej you a fan of 50s coltrane at all? or do you prefer the 60s stuff?

187    Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (1958)  528 points, 3 votes
http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/L10001187.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/05dECqC2jTJKERNKAOykqk

A wonderful album, a masterpiece. Check it out!

186    Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965)  529 Points, 6 votes
http://shop.allaboutjazz.com/images/andrewhillcompulsion.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4KL9IZQdZKRj3gtR90EVp0

i love 50s trane.

185    Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (1957) 530 Points, 5 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/4/15/albumcoverArtBlakeyAndTheJazzMessengers-ANightInTunisia.jpg?1208297463
http://open.spotify.com/album/0oGkNKWrFghBenF0j16VVW

i'm curious about that Lou D. I've owned a couple of his over the years and never woulda thought he had a "masterpiece" in him....

Plenty of the jazz guys had a 'masterpiece' in them, just that some had several and a few had a dozen (then there's miles & trane!)

so some get overlooked. I'm really glad these albums are being introduced to people who have never heard them (including me) I'm also revisiting some stuff for the 1st time in ages.

So subscribe to the Spotify top 250 playlist that I created and enjoy!

184    Archie Shepp - On This Night (1966)  530 Points,  6 votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/004/910/0000491047_350.jpg

One I voted for. I love Archie Shepp.

183    Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967) 534 Points,  6 votes
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2011-01/1294284532_15.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2w8CUvLWgSw0FdQ4vE2vR5

Another brilliant album.

TIE
181    Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8gvtYuOL_SA/Sxvnk1q0bFI/AAAAAAAAAN8/AnZlZL2P3DY/s400/worldgalaxy.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/19CHRB8Sg7K5WRYMxllspL

181    Albert Ayler - Bells (1965) 535 Points, 5 votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Albert-Ayler-Bells-459353.jpg

most of these albums ive posted (that I know) i feel the urge to shout 'too low' and this next one is no exception

180 Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962) 537 Points, 7 votes
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/Large/6240801.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7GfDutks6MtlOJA7JFRe45

both those jackie mclean albums are classics so please check em out.

179    Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (1965) 539 Points, 5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dQgK1fr9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4RvpKDJOaZviOSomNRyob4

178    Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969) 540 Points, 5 votes
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/9f2b70106a767c13c10674c7c7a1f7df/61423.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0ilO7avgQcUxwYhgJkZRsU

good album this but wouldn't say it was better than The All Seeing Eye

177  Tony Williams - Lifetime (1964) 542 Points,  7 votes
http://jazzsermon.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/02/williams-lifetime.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5eh7h0yLICXabyJMRI66B2

he was only 18 when he recorded this album.

dope ass album

176    Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Archie_Shepp_-_Attica_Blues.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2lt1zOeMpfEPbxb8hQg80M

both those jackie mclean albums are unfuckwithbale, tho i might've expected to see let freedom ring place a little higher

wondering if i'm the only person who rates freddie hubbard's early CTI albums above his blue notes? we shall see

kinda weird that voters like hammond organ jazz AND "out" stuff so much, but hey unpredictability is good

i own that hassell/eno album on vinyl and have always dug but never associated it with jazz

anyway culling some excellent recommendations from this - keep em coming

kinda weird that voters like hammond organ jazz AND "out" stuff so much, but hey unpredictability is good

not only does that sum ILM up, but me too. i got into 60s coltrane then blue note 60s avant bop stuff then fusion/electric/rock came naturally as i loved funk and i went into free jazz then i worked my way back devouring everything i could find from about 1950-75. I really do need to go back further, hoping this poll will clue me in on new stuff, then the pre45 tracks poll ez snappin suggested in the nominations thread might happen and i'll find good stuff in that.

ok next one up actually has a #1 vote. And it's a good album.

175    Curtis Fuller - the opener (1957) 548 Points, 4 votes,    One #1 vote
http://www.emimusic.es/images/novedades/1015/big/curtis_fuller_the_opener_300.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3eva44waMaCOJMWbbarsuH

When I nominated this classic I didn't expect it to get many votes, so nice one ILM!

174    Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958) 548 Points, 5 votes
http://www.cannonball-adderley.com/leadpic/1144.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2fDg4j0a74aPZMyVQ5ac11

Love Somethin' Else... LOVE it. This thread is going to result in way, way too many hours of Spotify patronage.

yeah i woulda voted fr this one

how many records on a ballot?

173    Donald Byrd - places and spaces (1975) 550 Points, 5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-eg-CWVHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6btV6MDYhXZ2F6ZKKUfvdh

You could vote up to a maximum of 100 (a lot did)

last two are A+++++ records (although the byrd record is more a pop album to me)

172    Charles Mingus - The Clown (1957) 550 Points, 7 votes
http://img.noiset.com/images/album/charles-mingus-the-clown-download-45901.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2XtydLjClSxUt6uMA9Zhpb

i did warn you guys there was shock low placings

but that's a biggie

yeah some of this is crazy

you just can't predict an ilm poll sometimes

seandalai is still stunned with Lanquidity placing so low

lanquidity is awesome but "this is how i feel" is like a thousand times awesome

xp - Really surprised Lanquidity wasn't at least 100 places higher - I was under the impression that it was the "crossover" Ra album, certainly the one I'd play to a first-time listener.

honestly i think his 'greatest hits for intergalactic travel' comp is one of the few jazz comps that is a better introduction to an artist than any particular albunm

at least in terms of giving an idea of an artist's breadth

TIE
170  Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DorlDAK3iLM/TWH50ZyvzfI/AAAAAAAAByM/TJHouj85SLo/s1600/count_basie-atomic_mr._basie_180_gr.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/03M3VID0s2wANlxJIJBWKb
  
170    Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points,  5 votes   
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-svpWXLOSM4/SP9Cy-EtEzI/AAAAAAAABrs/8X6sfNB35Cg/s400/6g4cwhj.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5ufqOq0QvMNnlexELRazNO

xp I'll keep that in mind deej; Mingus is someone who I've wanted to get into for a very long time...

thats a sun ra comp -- i was talking about that vs lanquidity

mingus' ah um is actually a great album introduction to him, imo -- it is almost like ... each of his archetypal song types in one lp

169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000014KI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Don't know that one

lmao this is getting ridiculous

the best jazz albums ever + sun ra's entire discography

it's a good 'un to be fair

168    Noah Howard - The Black Ark    558    6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKVXbIp0-Z0/SdWQpaQ_8SI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/29ZKkgMG8oI/s320/black+ark.gif
http://open.spotify.com/album/21yTq5npCbZZVl9bTBWxpW

i get the feeling everyone has their own fave sun ra album and there's little consensus

this noah howard album is a great bit of free jazz btw

167    Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/283/0000028335_350.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/62r4UbMeVkISnWjWO0xprJ

fantastic live album that. Love Lee Morgan.

166    Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One  561 Points,  5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4124KBRWV8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Is that his album of Yes covers?

165   Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points  5 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r9BHjNdFgbI/SZnvsO-CUoI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/v3bc6Lsq3vs/s400/49.+Kenny+Burrell+-+Midnight+Blue+(1963)b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0hMuKAciHKinu4L3R4Ojjl

lovely album that. Glad it placed.

if there's anyone around i can do a few more tonight

if i could get to 160 tonight that leaves 40 for monday and 30 for the other days.

I think those tuning in on a monday at work will be happier with the smaller countdown as it will be by then?

midnight blue is so goooooood

164    Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points  6 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/30/albumcoverMilesDavis-Walkin.jpg?1199005833
http://open.spotify.com/album/7nFwdPkEbfMUb1c5xuHGR6

glad this beat some sun ra, deej?

163  Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
http://www.zonadejazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ggs_fr.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0fsN0YALT8WGjJQALq73Ac

I love that cover

Spent some quality time this afternoon listening to Bailey, Green, Hutcherson, Art Ensemble, Dolphy, Montgomery and Roach. For a Sunday the mellower stuff from the first three worked especially nicely. Not quite in the mood for more Pharoah Sanders right now.

162    Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
http://53rdand3rd.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/judgment.jpg?w=497&h=497
http://open.spotify.com/album/1UTKa9k864z70CFgpoJy1f

the interplay between hill & hutcherson on judgement is amazing. plus: elvin jones = classic album

161    Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)  580 Points,  6 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2009/8/31/Eric_Dolphy--Out_There.jpg?1251754457
http://open.spotify.com/album/1RQIum14JDyvpYKD8dbKYJ

could someone repost the link to the results spotify playlist? pleeeeeaze?

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done, thanks!

This is great. Sorry I didnt participate, I knew it was there, saw it for weeks/months, just couldn't get myself to actually do anything about it. Lush Life may have been my number 1. That Sarah Vaughan record is pure, my dad saw her as well, said it was the best voice he ever heard.

Recap -

250 Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross (1963) 359 4
249 Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up (1966) 364 3
248 gil evans - out of the cool (1960) 365 3
247 Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956) 367 3
246 Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots (1959) 369 4
245 Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1966) 373 4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (1986) 376 2
243(tie)243 Milford Graves - Babi (1977) 376 2
242 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks (1969) 377 3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples (1969) 377 4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C. (1965) 377 4
239 Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971) 380 2
238 Sun Ra - Other Planes of There (1966) 381 3
237 John Coltrane - Live at Birdland (1963) 384 4
236 Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974) 386 3
235 Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) 387 3
234 Derek Bailey - Ballads (2002) 387 5
233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
231 Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia (1966) 402
230 Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent (1963) 412 4
229 Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (1970) 413 3
228 Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet (1954) 415 4
227 Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet (19670 415 5
226 Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954-56) 417 4
225 Grant Green - Street Of Dreams (1964) 422 4
224 Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) 431 4
223 Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman (1969) 432 4
222 Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963) 436 4
221 Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 5
220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440 3
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
218 Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (1961) 457 (Points) 5 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
216 Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
215 Albert Ayler - Love Cry (1967) 461 Points, 6 votes
214 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970) 465 Points, 3 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
212 Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (1974) 473 Points, 6 Votes
211 Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs (1970) 474 Points, 3 Votes
210 John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
209 Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972) 477 Points, 4 votes
208 Albert Ayler - New grass (1969) 478 Points, 4 votes
207 Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (1969) 478 Points, 5 Votes
206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes
205 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957) 501 Points, 4 votes
204 Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye (1965) 501 Points, 6 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
202 Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (1962) 505 Points, 4 votes
201 Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1990) 507 Points, 5 Votes

200 John Coltrane - Ballads (1962) 510 Points, 5 Votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
198 Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974) 512 Points, 6 Votes
197 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (1958) 513 points, 4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
195 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) 515 Points, 5 votes
194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
192 Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (1961) 521 Points, 4 Votes
191 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (1962) 523 points, 5 votes
190 Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do (1964) 525 Points, 5 votes
TIE
188 John Coltrane - Traneing In (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
188 John Coltrane - Lush Life (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
187 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (1958) 528 points, 3 votes
186 Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) 529 Points, 6 votes
185 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (1957) 530 Points, 5 votes
184 Archie Shepp - On This Night (1966) 530 Points, 6 votes
183 Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967) 534 Points, 6 votes
TIE
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
181 Albert Ayler - Bells (1965) 535 Points, 5 votes
180 Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962) 537 Points, 7 votes
179 Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (1965) 539 Points, 5 votes
178 Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969) 540 Points, 5 votes
177 Tony Williams - Lifetime (1964) 542 Points, 7 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
175 Curtis Fuller - the opener (1957) 548 Points, 4 votes, One #1 vote
174 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958) 548 Points, 5 votes
173 Donald Byrd - places and spaces (1975) 550 Points, 5 votes
172 Charles Mingus - The Clown (1957) 550 Points, 7 votes
TIE
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
170 Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points, 5 votes
169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
168 Noah Howard - The Black Ark 558 6 votes
167 Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
165 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points 5 votes
164 Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points 6 votes
163 Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
162 Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes

deej did you ever see these posts? Nominations Thread for ILX POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL (nominations now closed)(includes Spotify playlist)

The list looks pretty nice so far, I voted for these:

233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes

The Sarah Vaughan album was my #2, it's simply has incredible performances by everyone involved, particularly Vaughan herself, who does some wonderful scatting and other improvisation that doesn't sound like showing off (as scatting sometimes does to me), but feels integral to the song. The version of "Lullaby of Birdland" on this album is pretty much the definite version for me.

Glad to see Alice Coltrane's Eternity place, like Turangalila said, "Om Supreme" on it is an amazing tune, possibly the single best song she ever recorded. I wish she'd done more choral works like that. Other parts of Eternity are good too, especially the tune that (according to the liner notes) imitates the four gaits of a horse; despite the silly concept it has a killer organ groove! I was also suprised to see World Galaxy place so low, as many people (though not me) seem to think it's her best album... I guess it's partly because World Galaxy has never been reissued except in Japan? Though if it's now available in Spotify, that will at least make it easier for people to hear it.

It's also nice to Journey to One place: it's a beautiful, meditative album, despite (or because of) being much smoother than Pharoah Sanders's late 60s/early 70s work. If you've dismissed Pharoah because you think he's just an overblowing free jazz man, you should check that album out, it might change you opinion. There is some fusiony stuff on it, but parts of it are suprisingly traditional be/hard bop, and Pharoah proves he can excel in that style too.

160    Herbie Mann - Memphis underground  (1969) 586 Points, 5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D-cpQmkJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0nAhB6PO2myKUZtkgSPDGB

Sonny Sharrock,Roy Ayers and Larry Coryell are on this brilliant album.

Tie
158    Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping  (1968) 592 Points, 6 votes
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/d/a/daily_album/dorothy.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4STr3oNvdlt2S5LbQx4nG6

158    Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (1961) 592 Points, 6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__EEazoSy5Go/TMel-yHvsRI/AAAAAAAAACw/v-6UA0O9Sbg/s1600/albumcoverYusefLateef-EasternSounds.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0963505kg714S5rqZwKZ9I

the interplay between hill & hutcherson on judgement is amazing. plus: elvin jones = classic album

― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

OTM. I wish Elvin had been on more of Hill's records.

fantastic live album that. Love Lee Morgan.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I wouldn't count myself a huge Morgan fan, but this record is a fucking monster. "Speedball" with DeJohnette is terrifying.

157 Miles Davis - Dark Magus (1974) 595 Points, 6 votes
http://blog-imgs-44.fc2.com/j/c/a/jcalife/2011070511215898a.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0oNoEAy0RMBOqwRYtkhKRb

dunno, aside from a few trax, i thought that doroth ashby record was a little disappointing. not sure what i was expecting. it's cool, but most of the records below it are better!

if she actually played harp with her afro, that would be something

but first she would have to grow an afro

I voted for the Ashby album, it has a nice groove. But yeah, it's arguably a bit out of place in this company.

Actually thought Dark Magus would place a little higher. Isn't the consensus that this is the best of his mid-70s live doubles?

156    Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy! (1966) 597 Points, 4 votes   One #1
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/160/160334_1_f.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Utj0CAgAWsPLFCVfaqDnB

^^^such a sweet record, what a great band. the keyboards on this are all time.
re: dark magus -- i dig it, it might be the record you'd recommend to Can fans or something, but it feels a little monochromatic to me overall, just bludgeoning you over and over. agharta and pangaea really show off what that band was capable of -- it wasn't all pounding, relentless stuff.

Isn't the consensus that this is the best of his mid-70s live doubles?

No, not at all. There is no real consensus, though most people tend to pick Agharta. I'm a big fan of DM, but it's as close to metal as Miles ever got. I also like In Concert from '72, which a lot of people find weird and off-putting and too spacey.

in concert is sort of the companion to on the corner right? or am i getting them mixed up.

while we're on the topic, these '75 shows are worth your time! http://theultimatebootlegexperience2.blogspot.com/2011/08/miles-davis-1975-three-shows-live-in.html

No, not at all. There is no real consensus, though most people tend to pick Agharta. I'm a big fan of DM, but it's as close to metal as Miles ever got. I also like In Concert from '72, which a lot of people find weird and off-putting and too spacey.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, August 29, 2011 11:40 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think I assumed that because of how Robert Quine used to talk about it, and how Robert Palmer's RS obit mentioned it (but not Agharta or Pagaea) as a key document/turning point. Personally, I'm on the fence between it and Agharta, but like tylerw said, they serve different purposes.

155    Miles Davis - Pangaea (1975) 598 Points, 6 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h8n9d-0WL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0lYz13Pd1IYa7kZVoTUlN4

ha, well there ya go. love this thing, such an experiential record. used to have a tape of it and it was the perfect soundtrack for driving around LA at night.

btw listening to the spotify playlist on random (or at least i've categorized it "by album"). great stuff! thx for putting it together.

154    Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame  (1971)  600 points, 7 votes
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/649/cover_38361312112010.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0chWLemqlI6G1GOEr1q1bz

Always thought this was ILM's fave MO album.

153 Hank Mobley - Workout (1961) 604 Points, 6 votes
http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/05/611905.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0ho5QwQEbCrcMdl3aecViv

Inner Mountain Flame is my fave, but only 70 on my ballot. Just so many dang albums.

i don't think i've ever (knowingly) heard hank mobley, but that looks badass

plus it reminds me how much i want to purchase that Blue Note album covers book. whoever oversaw their design back then was badass. it was probably hank mobley

yeah blue notes are beautiful.
can't go wrong with mobley's late 50s-early 60s stuff. i assume soul station will show up pretty near the top? maybe not i don't know. but it's definitely one of the great hard bop records of all time.

152    stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto (1964) 607 Points, 5 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/10/gilberto.jpg?1197308631
http://open.spotify.com/album/5p7LZlOPMvScCXw5M77xyV

Mobley's Soul Station is arguably THE hard bop/blue note epitome and surely Hank's finest moment

hank mobley is brilliant and Soul Station is one of the greatest albums ever imo

151    Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)  612 Points, 7 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511PVjD%2BrPL._SS500_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4dtxRpI4YLoLu5kAzht41r

plus it reminds me how much i want to purchase that Blue Note album covers book. whoever oversaw their design back then was badass. it was probably hank mobley

whoa there's a book? want

Aye, its a great looking book too.

Recap - 250-151

250 Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross (1963) 359 4
249 Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up (1966) 364 3
248 gil evans - out of the cool (1960) 365 3
247 Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956) 367 3
246 Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots (1959) 369 4
245 Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1966) 373 4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (1986) 376 2
243(tie)243 Milford Graves - Babi (1977) 376 2
242 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks (1969) 377 3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples (1969) 377 4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C. (1965) 377 4
239 Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971) 380 2
238 Sun Ra - Other Planes of There (1966) 381 3
237 John Coltrane - Live at Birdland (1963) 384 4
236 Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974) 386 3
235 Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) 387 3
234 Derek Bailey - Ballads (2002) 387 5
233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
231 Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia (1966) 402
230 Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent (1963) 412 4
229 Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (1970) 413 3
228 Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet (1954) 415 4
227 Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet (19670 415 5
226 Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954-56) 417 4
225 Grant Green - Street Of Dreams (1964) 422 4
224 Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) 431 4
223 Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman (1969) 432 4
222 Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963) 436 4
221 Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 5
220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440 3
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
218 Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (1961) 457 (Points) 5 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
216 Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
215 Albert Ayler - Love Cry (1967) 461 Points, 6 votes
214 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970) 465 Points, 3 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
212 Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (1974) 473 Points, 6 Votes
211 Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs (1970) 474 Points, 3 Votes
210 John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
209 Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972) 477 Points, 4 votes
208 Albert Ayler - New grass (1969) 478 Points, 4 votes
207 Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (1969) 478 Points, 5 Votes
206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes
205 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957) 501 Points, 4 votes
204 Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye (1965) 501 Points, 6 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
202 Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (1962) 505 Points, 4 votes
201 Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1990) 507 Points, 5 Votes

200 John Coltrane - Ballads (1962) 510 Points, 5 Votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
198 Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974) 512 Points, 6 Votes
197 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (1958) 513 points, 4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
195 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) 515 Points, 5 votes
194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
192 Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (1961) 521 Points, 4 Votes
191 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (1962) 523 points, 5 votes
190 Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do (1964) 525 Points, 5 votes
TIE
188 John Coltrane - Traneing In (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
188 John Coltrane - Lush Life (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
187 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (1958) 528 points, 3 votes
186 Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) 529 Points, 6 votes
185 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (1957) 530 Points, 5 votes
184 Archie Shepp - On This Night (1966) 530 Points, 6 votes
183 Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967) 534 Points, 6 votes
TIE
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
181 Albert Ayler - Bells (1965) 535 Points, 5 votes
180 Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962) 537 Points, 7 votes
179 Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (1965) 539 Points, 5 votes
178 Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969) 540 Points, 5 votes
177 Tony Williams - Lifetime (1964) 542 Points, 7 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
175 Curtis Fuller - the opener (1957) 548 Points, 4 votes, One #1 vote
174 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958) 548 Points, 5 votes
173 Donald Byrd - places and spaces (1975) 550 Points, 5 votes
172 Charles Mingus - The Clown (1957) 550 Points, 7 votes
TIE
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
170 Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points, 5 votes
169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
168 Noah Howard - The Black Ark 558 6 votes
167 Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
165 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points 5 votes
164 Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points 6 votes
163 Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
162 Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes
160 Herbie Mann - Memphis underground (1969) 586 Points, 5 votes
Tie
158 Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping (1968) 592 Points, 6 votes
158 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (1961) 592 Points, 6 votes
157 Miles Davis - Dark Magus (1974) 595 Points, 6 votes
156 Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy! (1966) 597 Points, 4 votes One #1
155 Miles Davis - Pangaea (1975) 598 Points, 6 votes
154 Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) 600 points, 7 votes
153 Hank Mobley - Workout (1961) 604 Points, 6 votes
152 stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto (1964) 607 Points, 5 votes
151 Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) 612 Points, 7 votes

Hope everyone is enjoying the poll so far. Enjoying all the comments so keep them coming. Always interested in hearing anyones thoughts.

never been really able to get into jazz at massey hall, prefer the Birdland '50 parker date, with Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Art Blakey. sound is not awesome, but listenable, and captures Parker playing some of the most amazing stuff of his career. navarro was just a week or so away from dying, but he's incredible too. something off about the performance/sound quality of massey hall that puts me off. some cool stuff, but more of an "event" than a great show?

the sgt peppers of jazz? ;)

tylerw OTM re: Massey Hall. Never heard of that Birdland date! Holy crap! Will check out, post-haste.

yeah it's less famous because it's not (to my knowledge) ever been a standalone (might only be 30 minutes of music or so). but it's on a bud powell set I have on proper, and on another parker live set called chasin' the bird. really incredible recording.

It's been def overhyped as greatest jazz concert ever, based on the big names. Interesting bit on Wiki - "...owing to a boxing prize fight between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott taking place simultaneouly, the audience was so small that the Society was unable to pay the musicians' fees."

TIE
149    Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973 618 Points, 6 votes
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/BC-Spec.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5JmNk3ayVaujKO5hFvU5YA

149    Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music (1947?)  618 points, 6 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vIdq12StL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/07kblmHGjZ8KmwogxMDd4q

the playing on Spectrum is amazing. One for the rock fans - it features Tommy Bolin on guitar.

Spectrum has some nice moments, but man I can't stand the hard rock guitar riffs on it.

(x-post, hahaha!)

^ posts completely in character hahaha

148    j.j. johnson - proof positive  (1964)  619 Points, 7 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QJ5BWZ2RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7dTSo2PZoS6W7aKny9I1hW

excellent album this.

147    Miles Davis - Workin'  (1959) 620 Points, 7 votes
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/21PCD00Z/posters/miles-davis-workin-with-the-miles-davis-quintet.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1vktIbBz606HKcMr6Cs6jw

I didn't vote for that Monk album only because my own lists start at 1949. Before that, LPs didn't exist. Those Monk sides were issued as 78s, and first issued as a compilation on a 10" LP in 1951, and expanded from 8 to 12 songs on 12" in 1956. This poll doesn't include comps does it?

Workin is a must-hear even if you're not into 50s jazz so much - "trane's blues" is where the big guy comes into his own

that prestige box of the miles quintet is essssssential. sort of interesting -- not really similar to a lot of the stuff that was happening at the same time? at least to my ears. more delicate and deliberate than the blue note/hard bop stuff.

This monk comp got in because people pleaded that it should be and that it wasn't a greatest hits style comp etc.

And Workin' is indeed great.

"alabama" just came up on the spotify playlist, which is always a "stop you in your tracks" kind of song.

lol followed up by an ad for mastodon's new album. #awkwardspotifysegues

TIE
145    Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958) 621 Points, 5 votes
http://jazzismylife.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cover31.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3C2hpKCQ1C8l8F5sLAQHXe

145    Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands (1980) 621 Points, 5 votes   
http://www.amiright.com/album-cover-themes/images/album-Herbie-Hancock-Mr-Hands.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6RvJbmTWu2vW5XRubeZeTF

don't know that herbie album. Seems strangely high

me neither -- is it disco-y?
y'know, i've never been able to get too into that jazz messengers/monk record. i should give it another try. doesn't seem as strong as both of the principals' records from around the same time.

mr. hands isn't disco-y at all, not really like the headhunters heavy funk era either. kinda like herbie stepped back from what he'd been doing, incorporated some world music vibes. nice.

i feel the same way about the jazz messengers/monk. not an audiophile by any means but i never thought it sounded that great (performances aside)

yeah that might be one of the problems, monk's piano sounding kinda harsh?
i'll have to check out mr. hands.

It's not that disco-y, except for "Just Around the Corner", which is an awesome piece of disco-funk-jazz. Most of it is actually pretty straightforward jazz, and it has Herbie at his most melodic, but his using a whole bunch of early-80s synths whose sound is of acquired taste. Personally, I love it! Also, it has one of the most wtf covers ever to grace an album by a mainstream recording artist.

(xx-post)

hee, yeah that cover is rad.

144    Grant Green - Matador (1964) 624 Points, 6 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_elCAjJC38T0/RuF2iXZ9FbI/AAAAAAAAAsA/75Vrk_XmwC0/s400/12LPjap%252520142.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5eubtUqOh4fqfaZXA8Ha4X

Grant Green recorded so much high-quality music for Blue Note during the first half of the '60s that a number of excellent sessions went unissued at the time. Even so, it's still hard to figure out why 1964's Matador was only released in Japan in 1979, prior to its U.S. CD reissue in 1990 -- it's a classic and easily one of Green's finest albums. In contrast to the soul-jazz and jazz-funk for which Green is chiefly remembered, Matador is a cool-toned, straight-ahead modal workout that features some of Green's most advanced improvisation, even more so than his sessions with Larry Young. Part of the reason for that is that Green is really pushed by his stellar backing unit: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Elvin Jones. Not only is Green leading a group that features one-half of the classic Coltrane Quartet, but he even takes on Coltrane's groundbreaking arrangement of "My Favorite Things" -- and more than holds his own over ten-plus minutes. In fact, every track on the album is around that length; there are extended explorations of two Green originals ("Green Jeans" and the title track) and Duke Pearson's Middle Eastern-tinged "Bedouin," plus the bonus cut "Wives and Lovers," a swinging Bacharach pop tune not on the Japanese issue. The group interplay is consistently strong, but really the spotlight falls chiefly on Green, whose crystal-clear articulation flourishes in this setting. And, for all of Matador's advanced musicality, it ends up being surprisingly accessible. This sound may not be Green's claim to fame, but Matador remains one of his greatest achievements.

this one is great - m favorite things works surprisingly well with guitar. doesn't hurt to have coltrane's band behind him of course.

Just dropping in to say that this has been an amazing list so far. Lots of stuff that I know and love, but just as much that I haven't really listened to much, so I'm extra psyched that it is all going into Spotify. Thanks all!!!

yeah spotify is making this a pleasure.

thirded -- am really enjoying knowing that it is all there on spotify for those times when i have time to go through it

143    Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy (1971) 625 Points, 6 votes
http://ring.cdandlp.com/splash/photo_grande/114030344.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/6BZmB3e4cPEBkCX7nTVMpP

Dunno this album, but it gets 2 stars on AMG

This is a strange LP. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his quintet (which consisted of tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes) is joined by a chorus, a string orchestra, several reciters, an organist and a variety of processed sounds emanating from tapes. The thoughts expressed in the music (topical and anti-war messages) are quite sincere but the abstract sounds will only be enjoyed by a limited audience; jazz fans should look elsewhere.

I think,like MR. Hands, Tuomas nominated it.

I remember tuomas playing a track from it in outloud and it was nice. That was the first I had heard of it, but it seems a few of you do. Will check it out later.

142 Joe Henderson - In 'N Out (1964) 629 Points, 6 votes
http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/disk17/658758.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4KI0kC5rANmc5YeXyNshDr

This is a really good album.

wtf @ random hubbard album

thats gotta be from these dudes nominating harp jazz and sci fi record covers right

it's not an ilm poll without huge albums being left out completely,finishing low,some bizarrely low and some weird inclusions, is it?

194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes
143 Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy (1971) 625 Points, 6 votes

you guys are nuts placing that over Hub-Tones!

141    Don Cherry - Brown Rice (1975)  633 Points, 6 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p-UiZMwvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6r01XL7XUvSTK4p6M7bmbC

xxxp because harp jazz is not Real Jazz, right? o_O

I didn't nominate Songmy, but I voted for it. Probably not as "classic" as some other Hubbard albums, but it's unlike anything I've ever heard, and that counts for something. The intro alone is a brilliantly creepy piece of experimentalism, though I think we have to thank Ilhan Mimaroglu (the producer of the album) more than Hubbard for all the weirdness.

140    Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods (1957) 635 points, 5
http://www.coversdaddy.com/frontcovers/charles-mingus-tijuana-moods-1957-music-front-cover-5716.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4kaQvqgh3GVhDhV0OeNYIwvotes

you guys are nuts placing that over Hub-Tones!

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, August 29, 2011 1:58 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and ready for freddie!!

it's not an ilm poll without huge albums being left out completely,finishing low,some bizarrely low and some weird inclusions, is it?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, August 29, 2011 1:54 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

more like its not ilm without extra credit given to albums that are 'weird' in genre polls

tijuana moods is pretty wild -- the spoken stuff gets out there. liner notes are hilarious too, in usual mingus style.

"ilm post-1945 jazz albums that do not feature anything weird poll"

not just genre polls...'o superman' winning 1981 poll

Who said anything about "extra credit"? The album placed at #143 (and it was #60 in my ballot), it's not like we voted it to top ten or something.

"ilm post-1945 jazz albums that do not feature anything weird poll"

― Spectrist, Monday, August 29, 2011 2:21 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who said anything about 'not featuring anything weird' ... im talking about 18 sun ra albums making a list that has 'live at birdland' near the bottom of the 250

o superman is great!!! (can't believe the o superman argument has spilled over into this poll thread lol)

Don't worry Deej, I'm sure there'll be much more Coltrane than Sun Ra in the actual top 100.

139 Herbie Hancock - Man-child 635 Points, 7 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hancoc_herb_manchild~_101b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5ez9bb1h1hOLV8Wb5YCmkj

i voted for this, one of my fave HH albums, admittedly it's more a funk album, but hey

Tijuana Moods was one of my top picks. I think I nommed that, too.

138    Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought (1969)  637 Points, 6 votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-SRYPec0ur0/TOJ5wtU8-PI/AAAAAAAAMZ4/KZ9QwDpjn3U/s400/Pharoah%252BSanders%252B%25281969%2529%252BJewels%252Bof%252BThought.jpg

Kinda disappointed at that one placing so low; it's arguably even better than Karma (which suffers from a weaker second track, unlike Jewels of Thought).

I voted for Jewels of Thought although it was the lowest-ranked of the four Sanders albums in my list.

Really enjoying the poll so far by the way - not got around to posting before now but have been busy noting down/listening to some of the many albums I've not heard. Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata has impressed me the most so far but also really enjoyed Brown Rice and Stone Flower. So much beautiful cover art on the thread already too.

137    Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll (1965) 646 Points, 7 votes
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/images/covers/john-patton-let-em-roll.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6GikhGod1ea9wJLMdX7Fk7

Classic!!

136    Sonny Rollins - Way Out West  (1957) 656 Points, 6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kx1SR8aqMWY/ScnRpQ1vtDI/AAAAAAAAAXI/q5Aeli0vubg/s400/OJCCD-337-2~Sonny-Rollins-Way-Out-West-Posters.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1umQ9vRpNkLL6mS7Te7zqS

brown rice is a great record, so is the rollins

oh man i love sonny rollins
awesome cover

yeah way out west is a cool example of taking what seems like a pretty questionable concept and making amazing music anyway. love the spareness of the trio sound here, rollins doesn't need a piano to sound huge.

i remember reading some interview with the photographer of the way out west cover and him saying that through the whole shoot rollins was like "are you fucking kidding me." you can kind of see that in his expression. but then later he told the photog he loved the end result.

Haha, that's funny. Such a great record.

next one is dedicated to deej

135 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2 (1966) 659 Points, 8 votes
http://www.musicbazz.com/sites/default/files/1722-1313074001.jpg

sun ra feat. charles mingus - celebrating krautrock

"One of the things I used to love about buying records was that thing where you just can't get hold of the stuff you want- like now, where people go round every dance shop in London, or every indie shop in London for some American import, until finally you find it, and it's like - 'YES! I've got it!' And then that record really becomes a part of your life. And I used to get that with Sun Ra. I got really into that sort of way-out avant-garde jazz, but you couldn't find his records anywhere. So, one day I was in a jazz shop in Chicago -which I think is where Sun Ra came from - and I said, 'have you got any Sun Ra?' The guy says, 'Yeah, all his stuff.' I said, 'give me everything.' 'Everything?' 'Yeah.' He comes back with 250 albums. Most of which I've still got in that room over there, still in the shrink-wrap."

-- Pete Townshend, picking this as one of his 10 favorite records

134    Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse (1972) 662 Points, 7 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BApIdqirL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5Xe3jzd5GQMGVOrvTW1pUQ

BRILLIANT album

Sounds like it was Jazz Record Mart Townsend spoke of. I wonder what year that was!

^ I was thinking the same thing! My guess is around 1967. He has also said that he listened to Heliocentric Worlds while writing the songs for My Generation, so he probably had that one Ra record, then tried to find all the others.

133    Miles Davis - Sorcerer (1967) 667 Points, 6 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/davis_miles_sorcerer1_101b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/55tHsdolIq77ph1iiepCJt

132    Theolonious Monk Quartet and John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (1957) 673 Points
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513V4ZRAJNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3x38mYlwkm6L6vYIn0Hzqk

votes?

huh! thought that one would place higher. lives up to the hype -- totally fucking magical.

it didnt tell me the votes

oh man, much too low

6 votes btw

131    Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970) 674 Points, 8 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/23/albumcoverFreddieHubbard-RedClay.jpg?1198408924
http://open.spotify.com/album/3rbGfGoXGh1pFkzyehRJww

i thought that one would be higher

like top 20