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

Granny Dainger, you should really give Ptah, the El Daoud a go if you dug Journey.

are there harps?!!?? i would so have a harp if it wasn't so bulky.

Yes. :D

I would gladly embrace a harp in my life. Have always wanted to start a gay harp punk band.

Blue Note book and 5 cds came just now. woohoo

Sam have a look on amazon, there's tons of albums from this list £5 or under. I bought a bunch of cd's for £3.99 each.

Blue Note cd's under £5 ignore the norah jones etc though obviously

i will, in good time

haha the first few pages have used the word 'hipster' 3 times already and 'preppy' and 'ivy league' in the blue note book. I think this answers shakey's question from earlier

it's weird how many covers have the artists smoking ciggies on them. Never really noticed it until now.

thank you Armand for doing this, beautiful list. great work everyone.

I hoped Dancing In Your Head would get more support. And I always thought Genius of Modern Music is the greatest Monk album(s). Did it lose points for being a compilation (is it?) or do you guys simply don't think it's as essential as Hot Fives and Hot Sevens?

cheers, glad you enjoyed it, but please don't forget seandalai did the hard work.

right. seems like seandalai is what makes ilm going. great job

he did a great job

amazon only have one of the blue note covers books left in stock. If you want one order now.
Still waiting on the rest of my order arriving.

lol we sold it out?

So far this poll has resulted in me buying...

Criss-Cross
Milestones
Attica Blues
Brown Rice
Coltrane Live at Birdland
Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Destination Out

...plus an Impulse! t-shirt. I'd forgotten just how cheap jazz CDs could be, clearly.

Attica Blues is such a bizarre record, even for Shepp

'milestones' is underrated in the miles canon imo

ive bookmarked another dozen cds on amazon at £3.99 . hope they dont sell out before i can afford them next month. I'm sure they said there was 9 bluenote books left when i ordered so did you all order it? We must really have a crazy amount of lurkers. play.com are now sold out too it says.

i mean, mildly -- obv a lot of people think its classic

Yeah Attica Blues was the only one of my purchases I'd already heard (I voted for it too), I just realised I could really do with owning a copy (xp).

the blazing funk-pop opening track, the narrations from William Kunstler, some strings + warbling, oh look here's a little kid singing

xp

did we ever determine who appeared on the most placing albums without placing an album of their own...? (Ron Carter?)

gavin, thats the same with all the cd's i bought. I needed to finally own them

did we ever determine who appeared on the most placing albums without placing an album of their own...? (Ron Carter?)

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

i dont think we did

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zLI1BYoUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

^ is this in yr book?

Hot Rollins on Rollins action.

I'm a little surprised that Rollins didn't pick any Cecil.

Hank on Hank

haha

I had a list of over a dozen top 100 entries I didn't have and Amoeba surprisingly had only a couple of them. I got lucky at Rasputin in Berkeley though, and listened to some of these while driving to wine country and then today in Santa Cruz, but not whole albums as my friends aren't big jazz fans.

17 Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
23 Jackie McLean - Destination Out
28 Joe Henderson - Page One
31 Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
34 Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
53 Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
60 Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
68 Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling

all awesome albums, think you will enjoy them all.

I had a list of over a dozen top 100 entries I didn't have and Amoeba surprisingly had only a couple of them. I got lucky at Rasputin in Berkeley though

a lot of canonical jazz stuff is hard to find physical copies of - at least ime

You guys need to buy from amazon or get a Fopp like chain. (Tho Fopp is shit now for Jazz cds, 10 years ago it was awesome. Rows and rows of jazz cds under a fiver. )

www.dustygroove.com is a good place for cheapish jazz CDs (and some pricey LPs if that's your thing).

my store!
also jazz record mart http://jazzmart.com/

(not mine as in i own it or work there, just that i like to go there)

you own it and are loaded, admit it!

how cheap is amazon.com compared to amazon.co.uk ?

pretty cheap if you order from 3rd party sellers. I've recently bought these new:
Page One $2.85
Mwandishi $5
Brilliant Corners and Monk's Dream $7 each

(wasn't familiar with Page One, the rest I was but want hard copies)

oh man you got a bargain for page one.

just got a £3.75 refund from paypal for a coltrane cd i bought on ebay, but no email or anything from ebay. but i assume it's not a mistake or cancelled,but i dont want to buy it off another seller until i have proper confirmation.

speaking of jazz dealzz http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LR5JZO
i just ordered this, the complete miles/coltrane columbia box for $20.
i have most of it already (don't have jazz at the plaza), but i am a sucker!

i ordered another cd from the same seller at the same time so i hope that doesn't get cancelled too

tyler did you get your free mp3 too? :)

i did, yes. just suckering me into buying more things ...

i dont think i've ever had a free mp3 from amazon. Anyone ever got that from amazon uk?

I've been buying a bunch of stuff cos of this thread too, mostly whatever Blue Note stuff that I hadn't heard that I can pick-up cheaply. Enjoyed Page One a lot on the one listen so far, mostly for some of the lovely purplish hues that McCoy's playing brings to the music. Which was a nice surprise anyhow cos he's not given a credit on the front cover (sleeve notes say 'contractual reasons').

i really need to read sleevenotes more often, haha

Just picked up vol. 4 of the Coltrane impulse reissues. All I can do is look at it - the movers took away all my cd playing devices this morning. It'll just be staring at me for weeks, taunting and mocking me.