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

reallllly enjoying destination out, dudes, thanks.

hurrah, must have been one of the cd's i got when i first got into jazz.

19    Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (1971) 2466 Points, 17 votes, One #1 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oG9GEI0LKEY/TMVAfsxBrwI/AAAAAAAABZc/kvblgnDH1u4/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz

19 Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (1971) 2466 Points, 17 votes, One #1
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oG9GEI0LKEY/TMVAfsxBrwI/AAAAAAAABZc/kvblgnDH1u4/s1600/cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz

Charlie Parker Story will still place but having doubts about birds of fire and hot rats if they dont show up in the next 5 places. This isnt going to be a jazz canon poll is it?

Alice needs a hat

spiritual robe

her finest moment btw imho

also I listened to Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy last night and I don't really get what sets it apart from any of the other mid-60s Saturn releases. I mean it's great but it doesn't particularly stand out to me...? I forgot about the track with the phone repeatedly ringing in the background, that was funny.

eesh, what an album (JIS). just those opening moments, the bells, the bass, the harp...i like almost all of alice's records, but this one is the ONE.

digging Unit Structures thx guys

Somehow I didn't vote for this...scratching my spiritual head here. Great album.

Alice needs a hat

Nah, her aura is adequate. I do love this album, aside maybe from the oud, because the oud just falls a bit flat compared to what I'm used to it sounding like.

started listening to machine gun, but it's not quite what i'm in the frame of mind right now. herbie hancock seems to be doing the trick though, as usual.

Wow, Ayler as an intro to jazz, that's intense. One of the things I picked up at Amoeba was a used Japanese import of Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling. I've never heard him before, and for some reason expected some funk, but it's more cosmic. Very nice.

I'll try to guess the next entry - Headhunters (I guessed Alice too but saw it's just posted)

Here's 16 albums we haven't had yet:

Ascension
Blue Train
A Love Supreme
My Favourite Things
Giant Steps
Mingus Ah Um
Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Out To Lunch
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew
Kind Of Blue
Sextant
Headhunters
Karma
The Shape Of Jazz To Come
The Real McCoy

The last one might be iffy, but it deserves to be right up there.

I'm glad we reached the stage where no-one shouts too low and are just happy the album has placed.

I'd say all of Nick's are locks, but yeah dunno about that Tyner album

i voted for it! so ... maybe? it's great, but anything with tyner/elvin jones is pretty great.

Seandalai did you mean that there is no more Sun Ra? I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

18    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) 2554 Points, 17 votes TWO #1's 
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http://open.spotify.com/album/1wVO8nHzgcim0IBzbXnYX0

curious that everyone loves miles but no one fucks with dude who he "gets all his inspiration from" ie ahmad jamal

Tempted to shout TOO LOW! but I'll leave it be. My favourite Miles album.

I've only picked through this thread (not sure I'll ever make it through all of it:), but I'm interested in what deej is saying about Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders. Maybe you've done this already, but could you post your ballot deej?

I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

why?

because Yo La Tengo covered it?

deej didn't vote matt

i missed the deadline & im at work & my rough ballot is on my home comp but i can post it when i get back

curious that everyone loves miles but no one fucks with dude who he "gets all his inspiration from" ie ahmad jamal

thought you were gonna say Betty there for a minute lol

I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.

Is this generally seen as one of Ra's more significant records? I listen to it less than any other Ra.

hmm yeah, was jamal even on the ballot?
he's a big missing piece of this poll.

id say that based on these results the biases seem to be basically 'large figures w/ extensive discographies' (depth as opposed to breadth) + the mystical hat club of spiritual outsider jazz discussed earlier

it is what it is

Which Jamal album would have been expected to place?

Surely Jamal's "The Awakening" will make it?

Maybe only if this were the hip-hop heads jazz poll.

yeah def not complaining about the results, which would be silly. it's a list of a certain group of people's favorite jazz records. but anyone reading and interesting in exploring jazz should def check out all the artists I listed above (and I'll continue checking out some who did make the list that I'm not familiar with)

xp yeah The Awakening or Ahmad's Blues or Live at Pershing

would've thought at the pershing.
don't think the awakening would be top 20, but i could be wrong.

hip hop heads jazz poll=top 20 nothing but david axelrod and bob james

And "The Awakening"

i don think theres anything wrong w/ critiquing the results, it explains why they ended up the way they did

if Real McCoy doesn't make it then FUCK Y'ALLL

did you vote?

no

17    Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (1958) 2602 Points, 17 votes, One #1 
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http://open.spotify.com/album/38ERGmBgDAsCTb4KNeopsX

this is the album I'm most pleased about going top 20

Wow, never heard it, and surprised at its high placement. Lineup looks stellar, though.

i like that record. dont love it but its nice.

its a fucking fantastic album

love the album cover, record i dont remember standing out

man i know what i'm missing from this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Blowin%27_Session

^^^^soooo effin good

okay wasn't expecting that one