who carescan't we just celebrate how great he is? it's OVERWHELMINGLY TRUE that he is greati can feel it in my spiritual hat
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone know where that cover photo was taken? for some reason i feel like i've been there, but it is probably somewhere in China.
Those rocks look like New Jersey shore to me, but I don't know.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Kind wishing I had voted now, to piss deej off more.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
69 Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) 1035 Points, 9 voteshttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5uhOn1UDIXg/TdViVRyVXCI/AAAAAAAACUI/8UXgsTz6ihs/s1600/oliver.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5eYXXVTYehJrV1caDN4pmd
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
xxp the new jersey shore, home of the most spiritual jazz
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
don't know this one but I certainly will be checking it out
title track alone is really the standout -- amazing dolphy flute solo. rest of it is pleasant enough, but the title track is one of the greats.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:10 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
idg whats so bad about pointing out that a sci-fi cover & cult cachet are more likely to give an album a spot on this list frankly
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
'blues & the abstract truth,' tho -- that ones a gem
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
dude has blue skin in that cover shot, though -- alien?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
that would explain why its finished so high
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
eh it just seems like theres a lot of focus on outsider record collector ish at the expense of, for lack of a better word, regular jazz
Calling this "record collector jazz" is pretty weird, but ILM certainly seems to favour a certain era and certain more avant-garde style(s) of jazz; this includes me too, btw. On the other hand, this being an albums poll (with no compilations allowed) certainly is gonna favour the era between when jazz became truly album-oriented (exemplified by Pharoah's extended songs, which only work in an album context) and when jazz's final age of innovation was over (roughly in the mid-seventies), and it became a genre mostly known for rehashing its past. So people are probably most likely to vote for records that most feel like albums in an albums poll, and trad jazz will suffer because of that. I hope there'll be a jazz singles/songs poll after this one, surely more traditional/regular forms of jazz would fare better in that one?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
xxp but for real, that record is just a classic -- look who's playing on it! even if they were just phoning it in, it'd still be brilliant.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
ez snappin volunteered in the nominations thread to do a pre-1945 tracks poll but who knows if he will be up for it still (previous experience tells me they deny volunteering or wriggle out of it). If not and no-one else wants to, if seandalai agrees to help then I guess i could run it. but i have pretty much zero knowledge of pre-1945 jazz so if that disqualifies me then fair enough
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
maybe he didn't volunteer, it was his suggestion. you up for it ez snappin? Show us all how to run a poll?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
68 Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling (1973) 1048 Points, 11 voteshttp://losslessjazz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Lonnie-Liston-Smith-The-Cosmic-Echoes-Astral-Traveling-1973-FLAC.jpeghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4H9dvIFBlaTY8LbBmSTFjX
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oliver Nelson, same guy who wrote the theme to The Six Million Dollar Man.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oliver Nelson was one of my top picks. I'm off to catch a plane, have fun!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
yay for lonnie liston smith making it
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, that's one I am completely clueless about. The name sounds kind of familiar, but just pseudo-familiar since I have zero associations with it.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
haw, more spiritual hats. that one is good, pretty groovy vibe, spacey keys.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
id be surprised if he doesnt make it again
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
I know Lonnie Smith from various soul/jazz sorta things, but this is a different dude iirc
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he played on thembi and karma
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
on the corner too
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
"Expansions" will make it i'd imagine
― Number None, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah thats what i was thinking. although once again i think of that as more a disco / pop album than a jazz one
― D-40, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
67 Hank Mobley - Roll Call (1960) 1049 (Points) 10 votes, One #1http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kurtmkGQja1qaq8flo1_500.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/2wXfYEZKGQlfy2hKZbwtU7
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
hoped that would be much higher
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
really guys, check it out
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
66 John Coltrane - Meditations (1965) 1069 Points, 9 votes, One #1 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IyDZgXq8QH0/SdBzSe3CMPI/AAAAAAAACkg/HNOUFFyAqVs/s400/John+Coltrane+-+Meditations.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/3suMuCIVtRVI6quioihY23
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
Seconding the 'The Blues and the Abstract Truth' love. Amazing title track. Really hoping Search for the New Land (Lee Morgan) makes this list.
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
never paid much attention to Mobley, listening to this now... pretty nice
― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oliver Nelson, same guy who wrote the theme to The Six Million Dollar Man. --Geirge Hongriot (NickB)
― Hipster Shake Boogie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Is Sonny Sharrock the only post-1980 album on the list so far? (Not that I expect there'll be many to come. A post-'80 poll would be interesting, but I guess would get a lot fewer votes.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Or guess I should say albums, forgot that was the second Sharrock on here.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Meditations was my #1. That record had a profound effect on me when I was in my teens, listening to that was such a great physical and emotional experience.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Think he got burned out working in Tinseltown, at least that's the story I heard
Yeah, he died shortly afterwards of a heart attack at the age of 43.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
im not sure, but pretty funny if it is considering everyone said to do an all-time instead of 1950-75 poll as i had intended
xps
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
and now for the 3rd album in a row with a #1
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
65 Cecil Taylor - Conquistador (1966) 1071 Points, 10 votes, ON.E # 1 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JI310rDTx90/S8S1-GMH-OI/AAAAAAAAAuA/lLht3FmSwe8/s320/booklet-outside-foldedkicsi.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/69OZHsomLpQigZdQuTWHqx
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
That's... not one of my Cecil Taylor favorites.
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
the cool thing about jazz is how it all connects on some (higher) plane, don't forget sun ra played w/fletcher henderson's big band
i envy anybody who hasn't heard blues & the abstract truth - you're in for a treat
― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
haha yes
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of oliver nelson arrangements i wonder if sonny rollins' alfie will place?
― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone noticed that there's only been 1 Sun Ra album today?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
but guess what?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
he's not up next
64 Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century (1960) 1083 points, 10 voteshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HmvaR5cGW80/TIqDVgCNUEI/AAAAAAAAAXM/om0QJ92U2Co/s1600/change.jpeghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0ME2xPIm65f5cJve3ALqdi