1) Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages (57 pts)
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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe I should say that ESPECIALLY the rockers love (judging from personal experience, anyway).
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
--Kurt Elling, Tanya Jean
--Kurt Elling, Night Dream
--Billy Drummond, Dubai.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joel (aquabahn), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
oh man, i know fuck all about jazz. good work on the poll, anyhow.
― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I almost voted for Branford Marsalis' Requiem. Then I put those points into Kenny Garrett's Songbook, because it's the same rhythm section (Kenny Kirkland, "Tain" Watts, and I think Eric Revis) but with a more unique sax player, way better tunes, and more fire and funk.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Piero Scaruffi - Best jazz albums 90s list:
http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/90.html
The best of the decade
1. Guillermo Gregorio: Ellipsis (1997) 2. Charlie Haden: Dream Keeper (1990) 3. Butch Morris: Testament (1995) 4. Toshiko Akiyoshi: Desert Lady (1994) 5. Myra Melford: Even the Sounds Shine (1994) 6. Matthew Shipp: Circular Temple (1990) 7. Michael Formanek: Wide Open Spaces (1990) 8. Maria Schneider: Evanescence (1992) 9. Butch Morris: Dust To Dust (1990) 10. Don Byron: Tuskegee Experiments (1991) 11. Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages (1991) 12. Franz Koglmann: Cantos I-IV (1993)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 15 September 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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He's the current trumpet player for the R3birth Brass Band and pretty much my favorite musician ever, but back then he was about 15 and poised to be the next Wynton/Nicholas Payton/Terrence Blanchard etc. (i.e., New Orleans-born trumpet player cum modern jazz star). Things didn't work out like that, but this record is the perfect mix between funky-ass "modern trad" New Orleans jazz and rough & tumble swing. Mark Turner & Herlin Riley (as well as some drummers who I've never heard from again) sound like Branford & Tain on some cuts, and they themselves show up for some ballads. Oh, and Quincy Jones is on production!
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait a sec...are the TOP FOUR records in this poll out of print?? That's horrible.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joel (aquabahn), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link