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?
― BlindWillyPuller, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Alice needs a hat
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
spiritual robe
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
digging Unit Structures thx guys
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow I didn't vote for this...scratching my spiritual head here. Great album.
― dubplates and monster munch (seandalai), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Here's 16 albums we haven't had yet:
AscensionBlue TrainA Love SupremeMy Favourite ThingsGiant StepsMingus Ah UmBlack Saint & the Sinner LadyOut To LunchIn A Silent WayBitches BrewKind Of BlueSextantHeadhuntersKarmaThe Shape Of Jazz To ComeThe Real McCoy
The last one might be iffy, but it deserves to be right up there.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad we reached the stage where no-one shouts too low and are just happy the album has placed.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say all of Nick's are locks, but yeah dunno about that Tyner album
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
i voted for it! so ... maybe? it's great, but anything with tyner/elvin jones is pretty great.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Seandalai did you mean that there is no more Sun Ra? I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.
― BlindWillyPuller, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
18 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) 2554 Points, 17 votes TWO #1's http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EfH7QQM5cK8/TJ50O3qTt_I/AAAAAAAAGRE/gF6kJ4v1Ds8/s1600/%5BAllCDCovers%5D_miles_davis_bitches_brew_1991_retail_cd-front.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1wVO8nHzgcim0IBzbXnYX0
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
curious that everyone loves miles but no one fucks with dude who he "gets all his inspiration from" ie ahmad jamal
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Tempted to shout TOO LOW! but I'll leave it be. My favourite Miles album.
― dubplates and monster munch (seandalai), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― matt2, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I was sure Nuclear War would go top twenty.
why?
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
because Yo La Tengo covered it?
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
thought you were gonna say Betty there for a minute lol
Is this generally seen as one of Ra's more significant records? I listen to it less than any other Ra.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
hmm yeah, was jamal even on the ballot? he's a big missing piece of this poll.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Which Jamal album would have been expected to place?
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Surely Jamal's "The Awakening" will make it?
― matt2, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
would've thought at the pershing. don't think the awakening would be top 20, but i could be wrong.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
hip hop heads jazz poll=top 20 nothing but david axelrod and bob james
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
And "The Awakening"
― matt2, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
i don think theres anything wrong w/ critiquing the results, it explains why they ended up the way they did
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
if Real McCoy doesn't make it then FUCK Y'ALLL
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
did you vote?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
no
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Friday, 2 September 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
17 Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (1958) 2602 Points, 17 votes, One #1 http://cestsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/305281b9.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/38ERGmBgDAsCTb4KNeopsX
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
i like that record. dont love it but its nice.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
its a fucking fantastic album
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
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
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^soooo effin good
okay wasn't expecting that one
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
told ya
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa. Nice gams, though!
― broom air, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
Worldly shoes jazz.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
16 John Coltrane - My Favourite Things (1961) 2651 Points, 21 voteshttp://blog-imgs-21.fc2.com/d/o/c/dochizame/20080403105232.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/7lfxr5IrZ7cH69ATCJv4Go
spotify doesn't seem to have the proper album and instead has a few comps of the same name, but if anyone has the time to scroll through all the coltrane albums and finds it please post it here and I'll add it
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link