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

really recommend this album

127    Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (1957) 694 Points 8 votes
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/NFPCD00Z/posters/bacon-paul-thelonious-monk-monk-s-music.jpg

I need a poster of that cover. Isn't it great?

126    Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight    695 Points, 7 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hLY9DmXXlH4/TCX-vxi_-0I/AAAAAAAAB7U/PonlzKOp4bw/s1600/b449ad7bfd6e3867b2010405262.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3qr5zSyMn6r7chKsSMZRag

that's from 1966

just ordered the blue note covers book. half tempted to spend all the money i own on all these records.

i bought live at the lighthouse the other day! £3 in a charity bin. cover is ratty as shit but it still sounds crisp.

sorry for not voting, never noticed this was going on until now. but its ok deej, i wouldnt have voted for sun ra.

125    Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968) 698 Points, 8 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JbqURizlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3PNdqbnqRHlHqfV2O93M7m

Hey winston! Thought the jazz world had lost you!

124    Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess (1958) 702 Points,  6 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Porgy_and_Bess_(Miles_Davis).jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5TZUz4IkdUZY8i1cnbaAHz

guess who is next up?

Kevin Eubanks!

kenny g?

I should limit my snark to Tonight Show-era Kevin Eubanks. I've heard he was actually not bad before that?

123    Miles Davis - Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957) 703 Points, 9 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NXNFKPYHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1h7NtOd5fdBQEjJbB9Wk2B

haha miles dominating the list is ok w me i suppose

porgy & bess too low imo but thats a personal fav of mine

Will take it through to 120 tonight

Would have thought Getz / Gilberto would be much much higher.

Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) 714 Points 8 votes
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2me8OInA1qbqs44o1_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Rdz45YhjBSLIt3pTlpwM9

#122

2 more tonight

121    Big John Patton - Along Came John (1963) 718 Points, 7 votes
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/4015072177_a7f56c201c.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0EjZrppt6J0Y24HcZhwQzC

Superb album

want to guess who is the last one for tonight?

120    Sun Ra - Nothing Is (1966) 723 Points, 7 votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Sun-Ra-Nothing-Is-447125.jpg

Recap 250-120

250 Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross (1963) 359 4
249 Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up (1966) 364 3
248 gil evans - out of the cool (1960) 365 3
247 Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956) 367 3
246 Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots (1959) 369 4
245 Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1966) 373 4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (1986) 376 2
243(tie)243 Milford Graves - Babi (1977) 376 2
242 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks (1969) 377 3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples (1969) 377 4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C. (1965) 377 4
239 Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971) 380 2
238 Sun Ra - Other Planes of There (1966) 381 3
237 John Coltrane - Live at Birdland (1963) 384 4
236 Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974) 386 3
235 Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) 387 3
234 Derek Bailey - Ballads (2002) 387 5
233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
231 Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia (1966) 402
230 Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent (1963) 412 4
229 Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (1970) 413 3
228 Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet (1954) 415 4
227 Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet (19670 415 5
226 Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954-56) 417 4
225 Grant Green - Street Of Dreams (1964) 422 4
224 Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) 431 4
223 Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman (1969) 432 4
222 Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963) 436 4
221 Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 5
220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440 3
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
218 Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (1961) 457 (Points) 5 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
216 Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
215 Albert Ayler - Love Cry (1967) 461 Points, 6 votes
214 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970) 465 Points, 3 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
212 Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (1974) 473 Points, 6 Votes
211 Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs (1970) 474 Points, 3 Votes
210 John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
209 Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972) 477 Points, 4 votes
208 Albert Ayler - New grass (1969) 478 Points, 4 votes
207 Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (1969) 478 Points, 5 Votes
206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes
205 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957) 501 Points, 4 votes
204 Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye (1965) 501 Points, 6 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
202 Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (1962) 505 Points, 4 votes
201 Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1990) 507 Points, 5 Votes

200 John Coltrane - Ballads (1962) 510 Points, 5 Votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
198 Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974) 512 Points, 6 Votes
197 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (1958) 513 points, 4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
195 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) 515 Points, 5 votes
194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
192 Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (1961) 521 Points, 4 Votes
191 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (1962) 523 points, 5 votes
190 Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do (1964) 525 Points, 5 votes
TIE
188 John Coltrane - Traneing In (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
188 John Coltrane - Lush Life (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
187 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (1958) 528 points, 3 votes
186 Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) 529 Points, 6 votes
185 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (1957) 530 Points, 5 votes
184 Archie Shepp - On This Night (1966) 530 Points, 6 votes
183 Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967) 534 Points, 6 votes
TIE
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
181 Albert Ayler - Bells (1965) 535 Points, 5 votes
180 Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962) 537 Points, 7 votes
179 Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (1965) 539 Points, 5 votes
178 Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969) 540 Points, 5 votes
177 Tony Williams - Lifetime (1964) 542 Points, 7 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
175 Curtis Fuller - the opener (1957) 548 Points, 4 votes, One #1 vote
174 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958) 548 Points, 5 votes
173 Donald Byrd - places and spaces (1975) 550 Points, 5 votes
172 Charles Mingus - The Clown (1957) 550 Points, 7 votes
TIE
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
170 Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points, 5 votes
169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
168 Noah Howard - The Black Ark 558 6 votes
167 Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
165 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points 5 votes
164 Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points 6 votes
163 Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
162 Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes
160 Herbie Mann - Memphis underground (1969) 586 Points, 5 votes
Tie
158 Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping (1968) 592 Points, 6 votes
158 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (1961) 592 Points, 6 votes
157 Miles Davis - Dark Magus (1974) 595 Points, 6 votes
156 Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy! (1966) 597 Points, 4 votes One #1
155 Miles Davis - Pangaea (1975) 598 Points, 6 votes
154 Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) 600 points, 7 votes
153 Hank Mobley - Workout (1961) 604 Points, 6 votes
152 stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto (1964) 607 Points, 5 votes
151 Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) 612 Points, 7 votes

TIE
149 Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973 618 Points, 6 votes
149 Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music (1947?) 618 points, 6 votes
148 j.j. johnson - proof positive (1964) 619 Points, 7 votes
147 Miles Davis - Workin' (1959) 620 Points, 7 votes
TIE
145 Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958) 621 Points, 5 votes
145 Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands (1980) 621 Points, 5 votes
144 Grant Green - Matador (1964) 624 Points, 6 votes
143 Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy (1971) 625 Points, 6 votes
142 Joe Henderson - In 'N Out (1964) 629 Points, 6 votes
141 Don Cherry - Brown Rice (1975) 633 Points, 6 votes
140 Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods (1957) 635 points, 5
139 Herbie Hancock - Man-child 635 Points, 7 votes
138 Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought (1969) 637 Points, 6 votes
137 Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll (1965) 646 Points, 7 votes
136 Sonny Rollins - Way Out West (1957) 656 Points, 6 votes
135 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2 (1966) 659 Points, 8 votes
134 Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse (1972) 662 Points, 7 votes
133 Miles Davis - Sorcerer (1967) 667 Points, 6 votes
132 Theolonious Monk Quartet and John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall (1957) 673 Points
131 Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (1970) 674 Points, 8 votes
130 Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) 684 (points) 7 votes
129 John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (1965) 687 Points, 7 votes
128 Bobby Hutcherson - Components (1965) 693 Points, 6 votes
127 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (1957) 694 Points 8 votes
126 Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight 695 Points, 7 votes
125 Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968) 698 Points, 8 votes
124 Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess (1958) 702 Points, 6 votes
123 Miles Davis - Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957) 703 Points, 9 votes
122 Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) 714 Points 8 votes
121 Big John Patton - Along Came John (1963) 718 Points, 7 votes
120 Sun Ra - Nothing Is (1966) 723 Points, 7 votes

Good thing I didn't guess

Quite a lot of albums you thought would be higher then?

119    Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin' (1961) 728 Points, 7 votes
http://community2.metalreview.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/7/4456.163756_5F00_1_5F00_f.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5XUa3oXCc66bO8yGlWqbLO

When I first started collecting jazz in the early 90s, I picked up a used copy of Len Lyons' The 101 Best Jazz Albums (1980) as a reference. I knew it was just scratching the surface, but even after 20 years, several hundred albums and many other references, I had still not encountered some of the artists that are popular here, like Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson and Big John Patton. This is a great way to discover new stuff -- I think my top 100 will be transformed after this poll is completed. I leave for vacation Wed, and will be packing a lot of jazz on my player, and plenty to look forward to catching up on the next week!

118    Miles Davis - Milestones (1958) 731 Points, 8 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gUi2%2BSc8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/56I4vUYWQ4aXLiyfo8XuZv

117    Kenny Dorham - Matador (1962) 737 Points, 7 votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Matador_(Kenny_Dorham_album).jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0X0CjMhSUs8trANtrSCbrQ

115    Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah (1962) 739 points, 6 votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r9BHjNdFgbI/TCfBpYZYIsI/AAAAAAAAHpY/jd_agDsO9GI/s400/Charles+Mingus+1962+Oh+Yeah+b%5B444%5D.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4tj38XID2vHZmlYxOVR9v4

its a tie with:

That Kenny Dorham cover is rad.

TIE
115    Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up (1966) 739 Points 6 votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/486/0000148654_350.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/66CAtljsOdCUxSiEtiNy9h

good album that

114    John Coltrane - First Meditations (1965) 747    7 votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MkvR9RYpWvw/R7NdXxIECHI/AAAAAAAAALk/jAHqI5yjlhQ/s320/First+Meditations.jpg

What the fuck is that cover?

I'm sure I've seen that with a normal tasteful Impulse cover.

Maybe not, sorry. Maybe that's just Meditations.

That picture doesn't even look like Trane (or is it supposed to be someone else?)

That was my 13th. Wonder if I'm the only one to rate it a bit higher than Meditations. This was the third after Oh Yeah and Sarah Vaughan in my top 40 to appear.

well there's this one
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41V2819P8DL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
which is a later recording of most of the same material.
the "first" meditations (quartet version) was released posthumously, i believe. trying to get psychedelic...or something.

First Meditations was released in 1978, I believe. Hence the crappy cover. Great record, though; fascinating to hear Meditations with just the unaugmented quartet.

http://allmusic.com/album/first-meditations-r136916

The difference is that First Meditations was recorded 9/2/65, and Meditations was recorded 11/23/65 with Pharoah Sanders and Rashid Ali.

113    Miles Davis - Miles Ahead (1957) 751 Points, 9 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4OaDr9HgD6s/TVqj5AIFLTI/AAAAAAAADZM/OPE3UQycJmU/s1600/album-miles-ahead.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6WOddaa5Vqp8gQZic8ZUw9

Never heard First Meditations despite ranking Meditations proper um, quite highly on my ballot. That cover stopped me from ever picking it up in record stores tbh.