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

"one of the reasons"

60    Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter (1966) 1099 Points, 10 votes
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000589UT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3G4RWt6cqZDeNumYAZOL8C

this thread has had an inverse effect on my bank account. got the blue note covers book, maiden voyage and money jungle and get paid tomorrow so may have to look for some more.

I'm going to have to buy that blue note covers book aren't i?
Sam do you use spotify?

yuh but i only have an ipod, no iphone, so i have to have seperate mp3s to listen to at work

oh well, jazz on spotify makes an excellent soundtrack for footy manager when you're at home at least.

fo sho but atm the timbo playlist is driving my 'pick a team' page craziness ott. thinking orient. or maybe fiorentina.

Any idea when FM2012 is out?

59    Duke Ellington - Far East Suite (1967) 1125 Points, 9 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/e/elling_duke_fareastsu_102b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1JQ7TkPUI1x04CCZLpYMzU

lets all thank matt p for his constructive criticism of this poll

One of Ellington's best, surely on the same level as his 40s recordings.

58    Donald Byrd - off to the races (1958) 1132 Points, 11 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/byrd_donald_offtother_102b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/37LKWNJ1xP9OlbKwjDYkZi

xp yeah, that's the one that got me out of the 30s-40s for ellington and into his later work.

not sure if i've heard that byrd album tho. is there something about it that distinguishes it from his other early blue notes?

jackie mclean is on it!

Though obviously he's on a few

ha yeah -- i think the early donald byrd blue notes i've heard haven't knocked me out. solid, obviously, but maybe not as strong as, say, lee morgan's stuff from the same period.

but maybe not as strong as, say, lee morgan's stuff from the same period.

yes, but what was??

lee morgan ruled blue note in the early 60s

Certainly came up with a big hit for them.

57    Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (1972) 1135 Points, 10 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BJFDMx8gL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/03zH4bkGb2jSZAQIVW2px1

never heard of that; any good?

oh yeah

:)

Yes. "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers" is there!

One of Mingus' best, definitely. Fucking cinematic.

shit rocks

apparently it was his favourite album he made

mingus's last great record, probably -- there are some good tunes on the albums that follow, but none of those 70s records are masterpieces. this one seems like a fully formed statement, everything perfectly put together.

56    Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (1958) 1151 Points, 10 votes
http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/b8/80/000c80b8_medium.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5PzlTnVafjgt5RtjTdIKoC

weird I've never even heard of any of the last four

xp

okay I know that Art Blakey one

you have some catching up to do then

"Fleurette Africaine" off of Money Jungle has to be one of the most beautiful recordings ever made.

oh absolutely, listened to it again yesterday and it really stands out.

I am listening to "Let My Children Hear Music" now it is really fantastic, I don't know why i never really got into it before. I guess when i started really investigating Mingus a couple of years ago it was more orchestral than what i was looking for with him. I was very wrong..

55    Wayne Shorter - JuJu (1964) 1194 Points, 12 votes
http://www.jazz59.com/joefarrell/images/juju.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/46VoobaZCtFPReElOHFEqq

weird I've never even heard of any of the last four

Funny the gaps in what people know. I suspect you're more familiar with jazz than I am, so this surprises me, but I know I've surprised people with some of the things I don't know.

eh there's a ton of jazz stuff I've never heard. prior to the internet collecting this shit was a ton of work/$$$

54    Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (1965) 1200 Points, 12 votes
http://minoltamania.com/Herbie%20Hancock_Maiden%20Voyage.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7huPJTTsWVt854oZkr88mf

shakey I'm sure you know this album

yeah I know that one. never owned a copy tho

lovely record. george coleman doesn't get enough credit, he's great on everything i've heard. though on that elvis costello TV show, herbie praised him, and you could hear like one guy in the audience burst into applause.

53    Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser (1967) 1201 Points, 12 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k0WjwbwIL._SS400_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1BHwJqnHhuIryphXMZ0PMQ

why did Monk get such awful covers...? seems so unfair

there's that one, and the one with the kiddie wagon. just.... why

52    Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1964) 1207 Points, 11 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrIbhNHgFFs/TcwBt22sHdI/AAAAAAAAAOU/xcshO2zJV-c/s1600/COVER.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/27Rl7A8jXEQOkIfUKOa6ZU

Hope Night Dreamer makes it. Never was much of a Hubbard fan, definitely prefer Lee Morgan.

51    Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions (1974) 1216 Points, 10 votes
http://www.soulstrut.com/images/uploads/reviews/B000005MLY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6gTHTc1DucAt6we7SLRDog

Oh come on, the vocal mantra lasts for maybe a minute, and it's hardly the thing that makes the album great. Sure, A Love Supreme has unnecessarily eclipsed all the other great Coltrane albums, but that happens to a lot of artists (it's the same with Kind of Blue for Miles, Ah Um for Mingus, Time Out for Dave Brubeck, etc). On the other hand, with artists like Coltrane who have such a large and sprawling discography, it might be good a thing there is a canonical album for newbies to start with, especially since it's a great album that exemplifies well what was great about Coltrane. With artists like Sun Ra who've released dozens of albums but none of them is the canonical one, the newbie might be kinda lost at where to start. (This is certainly one reasons I've never really delved into his music.)

― Tuomas, Thursday, September 1, 2011 1:43 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fwiw this is bullshit -- kind of blue for example actually has a case for being the best Miles album, a love supreme isnt even close to being the best trane record

also i love that lonnie liston smith album but its yet another example of a pop record beating jazz ones

POPISM RULES