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

222  Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963)  436 Points,  4 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/dolphy_eric_ironman~~_102b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0qqoAq1kzfSXEkX2b3SSrr

LOVE that grant green album. the title track is one of my favorite standards, frank sinatra's vocal version kills.

expecting to see more bobby hutcherson - san francisco is only the tip of the iceberg

221  Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 Points, 5 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Album-Ornette-Coleman-Ornette.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7BxOi2aKqOyAcOXo6EpIFl

Last one for the night up next

220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440points, 3 votes
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/OFPCD00Z/posters/bacon-paul-bill-evans-trio-portrait-in-jazz.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7l1aeOeJMvkxnlpd5byUbn

Recap

250    Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross  359    4
249    Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up    364    3 
248    gil evans - out of the cool    365    3
247    Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street    367    3
246    Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots    369    4
245    Sun Ra - Strange Strings    373    4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar    376    2
243(tie)243    Milford Graves - Babi    376    2
242    Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks    377    3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples    377    4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C.    377    4
239    Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata    380    2
238    Sun Ra - Other Planes of There    381    3
237    John Coltrane - Live at Birdland    384    4
236    Herbie Hancock - Thrust    386    3
235    Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement    387    3 
234    Derek Bailey - Ballads    387    5 
233    Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite    394    4
232    Roland Kirk - Blacknuss    398    4 
231    Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia    402
230    Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent    412    4 
229    Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco    413    3 
228    Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet    415    4 
227    Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet    415    5 
226    Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants    417    4 
225    Grant Green - Street Of Dreams    422    4 
224    Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar    431    4 
223    Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman    432    4 
222    Eric Dolphy - Iron Man    436    4 
221    Ornette Coleman - Ornette!    436    5  
220    Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz    440    3  

the trane record placement is prob the craziest to me still

and thrust and wes ...

you should see what missed out

a) were you expecting ppl to vote for 20 trane albums

b) the whole premise of this poll is insane, though props to kerr for trying; it is too huge and precious few voters (eg me) have heard enough of these enough times to constructively vote

c) very looking forward to checking out some new stuff, but i don't think bitching about the rankings is gonna get us anywhere

d) sorry i hate jazz guitar (should try again) so wes/grant's placements are partially my fault

d) sorry i hate jazz guitar (should try again) so wes/grant's placements are partially my fault

If you haven't heard Sharrock's Guitar, let me recommend it with his quote in mind: "I consider myself a saxophonist with a very fucked-up axe."

Ha. Just put that on. I also like the regular, boring jazz guitar that mookieproof and hurting hate, but otherwise mookieproof otm.

tbf to deej he's not bitching, he knows what polls are like. but i dont blame him for being baffled at the low placement of the trane album.
but it's an ILM poll, you know these things happen!

Also i think 1 or 2 did vote for (nearly) all the miles or trane albums.

haha yes i have heard a bit of sharrock which seemed like not at all the same thing! but yeah

Anyone want to predict the top 10/20? Then we can compare the guesses when the poll is done and see who was closest.

As somebody already said, Kind of Blue is a strong favorite for number one

In the top 10 (or at least top 20): Love Supreme, Kind of Blue, Silent Way, Black Saint, Evans @ Village Vanguard, Brilliant Corners, Shape of Jazz to Come, Out to Lunch. Maybe Spiritual Unity? Anyway, I expect like most polls it'll get less interesting near the top. Already d/l'd that Clifford Brown from emusic, I can tell this list is going to give me a lot to dig into.

(So as someone who didn't vote, thanks to those who did.)

*bookmarks thread*

I love jazz so much and occasionally feel terrible for not listening to it that much anymore

didn't vote obv, but KoB is one of the few instrumental records out there that I can sing along to. every lick has been etched. thanks, high school band nerdery

Have ended up embracing the fool's errand white elephant nature of this poll and think ILX- centric voting can only help. I like jazz and that is the kind of music I go to see most often live but, for good or for bad, I never really listened to it, um, systematically, the way I did rock music way back in the day, when I spent an entire weekend listening to every minute I could of The Beatles A-Z on WNEW-FM or would read something like Stranded over and over and try to seek out every single record in there. As somebody already pointed out, it is relatively easy to have listened to the entire recorded output of one or many of the big sixties rock bands and have an opinion, whereas with jazz the career of even Miles Davis is hard to enough to keep track of, let alone, say, Duke Ellington or all the other hundreds of important musicians, so an ILX poll is as good as any angle to try to approach it.

I don't expect 20 trane records, just that particular one to do better than it did

219    McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/MT-SotNW.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1A67ghHDy13lBPPhAxUagR

i passed up the chance to see him once. My mate even offered to pay for the ticket

218    Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen    457 (Points) 5 votes
http://www.musicmookreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/baby-face-willette-stop-and-listen.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4zRa00V4pk2EfX25ivof8m

pleased to see this one make it!

didn't vote for it but i do recommend it.

and now..

217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/s/sander_phar_summunbuk_101b.jpg

next one is for deej :)

216  Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DNhzENDzgeU/TQ5hrsMURII/AAAAAAAAAAk/LepgXq9wtqw/s1600/Sun-Ra-Lanquidity.jpg

dunno that one, any cop?

215  Albert Ayler - Love Cry 461 Points, 6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z9Ea8FZ7OO8/S_VwhXJPb7I/AAAAAAAACcg/4j0XcO8-2EY/s1600/Albert%2BAyler%2B-%2BLove%2BCry%2B1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5pdwSWy9b4mCPs21luyUbi

Spotify playlist updated

haha thats one of my favorite ra records so i cant complain abt that one too much

Do you know the Baby Face Willette album?

214   Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970)  465 Points, 3 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418M4Cdo0GL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2dsmGxE74ufKZgSFpEMxel

213    Nina Simone - At Town Hall  (1959) 470 Points,  4 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Nina_Simone_At_Town_Hall.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4iqSDm2Exfy3beNaE4B7TZ

212    Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (19740  473 Points, 6 Votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/247/0000024724_350.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1zCeavwN7ZhPIGR5phKxJv

Really good album this, nice to see it place.

Great poll, there's already more than ten albums I need to check out for the first time. Can't believe I slept on that Dolphy album. I'm thinking this early part is the most interesting because later we'll get to the more widely known/canon stuff.

211    Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs    474 Points, 3 Votes
http://newsodrome.com/jazz_news/1970-evan-parker-derek-bailey-han-bennink-the-topography-of-the-lungs-20828587.jpg

Never heard that one no mult xps

The bobbi humphrey stuff is what I was wondering about earlier re fusion

I'm thinking this early part is the most interesting because later we'll get to the more widely known/canon stuff.

Fastnbulbous,that is exactly why i go for big rollouts, thanks! But the other end of the poll is great too!

210    John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/images/12331.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6DVFU5Hn53Yk5YSLljR29J

who is going to say it?

209    Jimmy Smith - Root Down    477 Points, 4 votes
http://www.krlx.org/uploads/Jimmy_Smith-Root_Down_b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Osp1w3F3BkqxbYMuy9Hsm

awesome album

and that album is beastie boys approved

Interesting results so far. Glad Summun Bukmun Umyun placed at all. :)

208    Albert Ayler - New grass  (1969)  478 Points, 4  votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NQ6ZKX7HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7zMrveb8rim4pdPBZ238W9

Always thought of this as ILM's fave Ayler