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

I hope you like it. Pretty life changing thing for me when I first heard it.

oh i know these albums well , as i said i had copies for years. It just took me this long to finally own them.

blame bobby gillespie for me liking om. Hearing an interview on radio scotland with him about Om and it playing in the background turned me on to it and i had already got ascension from the library. Wish i could have bought the cds/lps i ordered in to the library as they probably sat in the stores for years and if they haven't been sold off they're prob in a dusty storeroom.

3 mingus albums in a 2xCD set for £3.93. Bit of a bargain guys

In many people's eyes, Mingus merited the title of genius, his writing for both small and large ensembles being compared to that of Duke Ellington - the ultimate accoloade. His bass playing, honed in the company of major players like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie was out of the top drawer. On this release we bring together three of Mingus' albums, two of which are regarded as modern jazz classics: 'Mingus Ah Um' and 'The Clown', as well as the relatively neglected 'Pithecanthropus Erectus', which even all these years down the line is worthy of re-appraisal.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mingus-Ah-Um-Charles/dp/B003143FYK/ref=lh_ni_t

bought Mwandishi forgot i hadnt bought that (yes another i had a copy off in the 90s from the library so never got round to buying despite having crossings and sextant and all the funky albums from that era).

Ordered a bunch of Coltrane cds cheap from ebay. Spent about £20 in all + the £10 for major worksof Damn that idiot who came up with the idea of a jazz poll.

I wonder how many ilxor will buy from this poll (assuming he still is interested in jazz)

Anyone who has the blue note covers book how is it?

just ordered just ordered The Complete Africa / Brass Sessions for £9 on amazon.co.uk im skint now but im sure it's worth it

Totally worth it for three versions of "Africa", let alone all the other songs (two versions of "Greensleeves", "Song of the Underground Railroad", "Blues Minor - all amazing). Probably my favorite Coltrane studio recordings (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings I rank above all else. I love the open interplay of Dolphy & Coltrane and wish they had decades to work together).

those impulse coltrane boxes w/ the original albums are great -- much better imo than listening to the chronological classic quintet box (which is good too, but...). It made me appreciate how those albums were put together -- very nice flow and sequencing for the most part.

& i agree w/ EZ the complete village vanguard is a thing of beauty -- the versions of "spritual" on there are monumental, incomparable. same goes for "india".

"Live" At The Village Vanguard was my first Coltrane, and I listened to my dubbed copy so much that I could probably hum the entire record from memory. I'd never heard -- or heard of -- Eric Dolphy before, and his solo on "Spiritual" knocked me for a loop from which I have yet to recover (some 20 years on).

I have a great memory of coming to my parents house with two really good college friends, getting extremely high out back and then coming in and listening to the Village Vanguard boxed set for the first time (I had probably just gotten it as a gift). Just thinking about it made me want to put it on -- only have disc 3 for some reason on my itunes. But man, the way they just hit right off with Chasin The Trane. An opener blues could be such a throwaway but the way they play it they're such a force.

Really enjoying reading these poll threads even tho I haven't voted in any yet & probably won't...well done everybody!

cheers glad you enjoyed it. Did you discover anything new?

I've never heard this John Coltrane 5 star album http://allmusic.com/album/the-cats-r165664/review
Anyone heard it?

I heard it back when I used to own the Complete Prestige set. Don't recall it as hugely better than any of the other Prestige works; but then again, I sold the set because I realized I have little use for Coltrane's pre-Atlantic recordings (the Monk works excepted).

see that herbie hancock live bootlegs blog link that was posted? Just thought you all might like to know that rapidshare has no limits now. So just wire in
http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-enough-live-herbie-hancock.html

Although I didn't consider myself well-versed enough in jazz to vote in this poll, a big thanks to all that did since I've been looking to expand my collection and even amongst the top 20 finishers there are several I've never heard. Lots of essential stuff to seek out.

That said, I'm disappointed that the Groove Collective (Spotify link) didn't place....

the real question is did anyone buy a spiritual hat because of the poll?

not yet. but you never know what will happen once i get back into my normal routine.

the real question is did anyone buy a spiritual hat because of the poll?

I think my halo is sufficient.

I've never heard this John Coltrane 5 star album http://allmusic.com/album/the-cats-r165664/review
Anyone heard it?
i've got it as part of the side steps prestige box set, i think. probably one of the least essential coltrane-related records ... but! i said it on other threads, but I think that period is worth hearing -- especially the red garland records that trane is on. maybe coltrane at his most relaxed?

i didn't purchase any new spiritual hats, but i did retrieve some from the closet for future wearing. as it appears, i have a lot of hats.
i also made two non-jazz-listening friends listen to IaSW last night and they liked it.

and did they wear spiritual hats or feel the urge to go buy any?

going over this thread and listening to nothing but jazz in the last couple days - I've realized I have very little understanding/conception of the jazz audience of the 60s. I kind of assume jazz reached its commercial/popular peak much earlier (I know Miles' best-selling albums were in the 60s, but the ubiquity of jazz as a dominant style seems undeniable for earlier eras like the 20s-40s than it does for the 60s, what with r'n'r in the picture), but as a genre the general consensus represented here is that the aesthetic/artistic peak was in the late 50s through the 60s. This is when a lot of the essential ingredients of jazz - swing, improvisation, acoustic ensemble playing - became really intensely refined. But exactly how popular was, say, a giant like John Coltrane...? I have no idea. And who bought these records? Middle-class black people, white "intellectuals"...? I can't really see Hank Mobley and Grant Green appealling much to teenagers, the whole Blue Note vibe is one of adult sophistication, for example.

― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier),

my fave post on the thread. Did we ever agree on an answer?

they had a huge collegiate audience

although college then was more exclusive iirc

rich & privileged you mean?

maiden voyage=sailboat jazz obv

really digging the Lovin' Spoonful's brand of jazz on the Spotify list

huh?

are they on a soundtrack album by someone?

ahh blow-up soundtrack

one of the herbie's ive not heard. is it any cop?

sam never did come back to this thread did he? :(

Deej - as someone who just generally observes this shit, i'd like to say that i wish you would vote in more of these polls

never have checked out alice coltrane before. am diggin this mystical ~journey atm

:D

Which one are you listening to? "Journey in Satchidananda"?

Didn’t vote in this because, sadly, I didn’t have the time (a hundred albums? Takes time, you know), and I do feel a bit rueful about not voting, especially seeing Escalator just missing the 250 cut, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the countdown, the hilarious chat and in particular the repositioning of Grant Green at the centre of jazz history.

Given that, due to the voting demographic, the list was inevitably almost all-American, I wonder whether there’s a case for doing a “Rest of the World” poll, getting in everyone from Lars Gullin to the Necks.

Anyone who has the blue note covers book how is it?

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just ordered just ordered The Complete Africa / Brass Sessions for £9 on amazon.co.uk im skint now but im sure it's worth it

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annoyed real mccoy never made it but otoh great poll! ty sean and kerr. it has already made me buy 2 records and 1 book and make a large grunting noise at how shit my local hmv jazz section is. i'm sure over the coming months i'll be coming back here for buying recommendations.

new favorite jam thanks to this poll: Donald Byrd's Cristo Redentor. Been meaning to check out that album for awhile so i guess it was inevitable. Also a new fan of Electric Byrd and some Mingus stuff, so thanks dudes.

also need to see what Archie Schepp is all about. Major blind spot.

oh and kinda surprised not a single vote for Fat Albert Rotunda.

uh Shepp xp

yeah please do check out Archie Shepp

marcello do you approve of any high placings or discover anything you haven't heard? Glad you enjoyed the poll. Wish you had voted.

is cosmo marcello? wow i am behind in figuring out new usernames.

Marcello posted before Cosmo, that's what Kerr is referring to.

oh, lol bookmarks

hah

i want my bluenote book. home delivery network are delivering it and some of my cds. hope this free amazon prime trial is worth it!